Archive for January, 2009
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Thing 6: Flickr mashups
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
Thing 5: Flickr
Option C: a bit of both.
I’m a big fan of Flickr’s interesting photos from the last 7 days (in spite of its tendency to, after several reloads, threaten to reduce beauty to cliché: sunrises, snowy landscapes, raindrops in spiderwebs, cities at night, all vividly colored) and two of the ones featured were of raindrops.
“Across the [...]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Thing 4: RSS and newsreaders
RSS feeds and feedreaders are useful for their convenience: rather than checking dozens of sites to see if they have been updated, you can visit one place alone, where the updates are pulled and compiled automatically.
I’ve been using site feeds for years, and I think they offer a lot of possibility for libraries in keeping [...]
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Thing 3: Blog Search Tools
I tried my first search on Technorati, Google Blog Search, BlogPulse, and Bloglines.
Unfortunately I was underwhelmed by all four, most likely because of the search terms (”inauguration booklist”).
Technorati returned three results, all of them irrelevant. Google Blog Search returned 3,737 results, and of the first 10 only one was relevant. BlogPulse returned 13 results, but [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Thing 2: What is Web 2.0?
I typically have some desk time where I’m not helping patrons; I can use that spare time to work on drafting 23 Things posts until they’re ready to publish.
I’m fond of Web 2.0 tools, esp. Flickr and Youtube but also blogs and wikis, so I wanted to familiarize myself with more of the tools available. [...]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Thing 1 — Set up a blog
So this is my 23 things blog, set up.
This makes something like the tenth blog I’ve had now … the last time I tried LiveJournal they wanted to charge a yearly fee to allow customizable CSS; Blogger is surprisingly weak given that it’s owned by Google (its newer & faster layouts are all invalid XHTML, [...]
