For those who have become overwhelmed by the technical jargon of 22Things, a widget is just a thingie that you can add to an on-line presence (blog, website, whatever). There, that helped a lot, I'm sure.
I tried the three award winning widget sites, and my winner is SpringWidgets. How did I judge? I typed the word literature into the search box and this is the only site that had any literature widgets. I have added a wonderful quote site as a widget Check out "The Downer's Blog"
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
18 Zoho and web based word processing
This is written in Zoho which seems to be a full featured online word processor. Does the world need one more editor, I don't know but this is a very decent one.
This is written by editing the post after publishing as I was not sure how successful this would be.
We are having fun now
This is written by editing the post after publishing as I was not sure how successful this would be.
We are having fun now
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
16 Wikis - Why I love Wikipedia
Need a list of the Midsomer Murders in Episode order - see Wikipedia. Need a list of just about every book series, TV series, Film a patron -- yes yes customer --- asks about -- there it is. Just like every other source the more you already know about the subject the less a wiki is for you, but for getting up and running someone has something out there --
Library Instruction Wiki - Stop reinventing the wheel
I really like the openness of this site, makes it handy as a reference. And the idea of 2.0 in 15 minutes a day is good for a laugh -- OK it was my choice to spend 45 minutes investigating Squidoo
but I'm just saying .....
Library Instruction Wiki - Stop reinventing the wheel
I really like the openness of this site, makes it handy as a reference. And the idea of 2.0 in 15 minutes a day is good for a laugh -- OK it was my choice to spend 45 minutes investigating Squidoo
but I'm just saying .....
15 The Future of Libraries
Does this sound pretentious to anyone else? Pleeze.
Away from the Icebergs
Rick Anderson's problem of a 55% drop in circulation over the past 12 years is not just about the Web. If so the trend would be more widespread. His point on making things intuitive enough that users don't require special education to use the library is good, but hey ... its a University - isn't the idea of education built in there.
Is there any other profession that spends so much time agonizing over whether there is a future for that profession? More concentration on shaping the future we want to see, less hand wringing please. Reminds me of that Monty Python scene...
Away from the Icebergs
Rick Anderson's problem of a 55% drop in circulation over the past 12 years is not just about the Web. If so the trend would be more widespread. His point on making things intuitive enough that users don't require special education to use the library is good, but hey ... its a University - isn't the idea of education built in there.
Is there any other profession that spends so much time agonizing over whether there is a future for that profession? More concentration on shaping the future we want to see, less hand wringing please. Reminds me of that Monty Python scene...
14 Technorati
OK Have a Technorati button, claimed my blog, and my own favorite (gotta test that button!) For those still looking for the Italy pictures they are coming.
Tags work like MARC records, only a lot less thought is put into them. Grumble for the day :)
Tags work like MARC records, only a lot less thought is put into them. Grumble for the day :)
13 del.icio.us
Earlier in our story I complained about using 5 different computers on a regular basis, and what a hassle to deal with different OSes, softwares, and oh yeah ... where's my bookmark. Thank goodness for del.icio.us where I have been stockpiling most of my work related bookmarks and just for fun sites. Not yet ready to store all of those Billpayer sites etc. as privacy is still a relative concept on the web. TTFN
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