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This might be handy for us at the library - we send out a monthly email newsletter and [...]

Okay I found out about this from Stephen Abram’s site (who read about it on Gizmodo) - Library 2.0 commentary aside - this is way cool & and a little funny.
Ipfini offers the ability to program your soda with up to 32 different combinations. The patent-pending bottle design has aroma, flavor and color buttons on [...]

There is a lively discussion going on over at Walt at Random - and I have to share my favorite response with you all. John Blyberg posted this “Let's just settle this the old fashion way once and for all. :)” How funny is that? You know I’ve heard the term Google fight [...]

A lot of you expressed an interest in our Intranet redesign project when I posted about it in January - well you can soon read about it in ONLINE magazine. Marydee actually mentions it in a post on her blog - it’s a tiny mention - but it’s there.
Now don’t start screaming [...]

At CIL last week one of the presenters (I can’t remember which) mentioned Second Life. Don’t know what that is? Well it’s a massively multi-player online role-playing game - but it’s not like the others. There are no adventures, there are no dragons to slay or ogres to fight - there is [...]

Okay I have a meeting in 6 minutes, so I have to type fast. Rory at Library Juice has an interesting post about Questioning the Techie Mission.
In short he sees that most librarian bloggers are fans of technology and talk about little else on their blogs - of course there is a lot more [...]

A member of the Web4Lib list asked this question:
I and a colleague are interested in alternative web OPAC front end systems such as the aquabrowser (http://aquabrowser2.kcls.org/aquabrowser/ ). We’d like to write an article on the topic, exploring the pros and cons. So far, I know about Aquabrowser, endeca (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/endeca/ ) and Casy Bissons [...]

CIL Presentations are being posted all over the place. Be sure to check the official ITI page for a full listing.
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Next week is National Library Week and at Jenkins we offer a week packed with CLE (Continuing Legal Education) classes - and one class by me on web design. This year we’re offering a Blog & RSS course for the first time - YIPPPEEE! But the real reason I’m sharing this with you [...]

Paul Miller has posted a follow up to his presentation at CIL last week. He commented on our (the biblioblogosphere’s) doubts that vendors will ever live up to the dream he presented to us.
Change is hard. Change can hurt. Given where we are now, and where the wider world is going, change is essential. We [...]

Answers.com has a bunch of fun little RSS feeds available like Word of the Day and Birthdays Today. If you have the time to read one more feed give them a try.

After our experiences in Washington at CIL a bunch of bloggers are wondering what next year will be like at a new hotel. Well Lifehacker has a post about the Best and worst hotels for WiFi. I haven’t read the reports yet, but I’m sure they’re handy.

It’s hosted at Open Stacks this week.

I was reflecting on what I learned last week at the conference and I thought I should share with you all one way that we’re trying to create Tech Savvy Staff - and it’s free!
We (meaning I) look for free webinars offered through places like OPAL, SirsiDynix and KM World and invite the entire staff [...]

It makes me sad. Well it makes me angry first, but then when that passes I’m sad. I was debating whether to say anything or not - considering how upset my last (seemingly innocent) post made people, but no one is in the library yet - so I only have you guys to [...]

Unlike Writely or ZohoWriter, ajaxWrite does not allow for collaboration, but it does look just like Word. There is no online storage, but you can save the file to your computer as PDF, DOC, or other popular formats. You need Firefox 1.5 or higher to give this little tool a whirl.

This is the first year I was a blogger at CIL - it’s my first year as a blogger at all - what’s the point? Well I was reading everyone else’s summaries (now that mine are finished) and I saw this bullet point from Amanda Etches-Johnson and I just had to share it here [...]

A lot of people have been adding their CIL pictures to Flickr - but only one has sketches from the sessions! Derik Badman sketched what he saw while in sessions and around the conference.
Very cool! And fun if you were in the same session because you know exactly what part he was [...]

Back in December there was a lot of news coverage regarding an article in Nature magazine that stated that both Wikipedia and Britannica had a similar number of errors. Well Britannica has replied with a 20 page report (which I have not read all of - for reasons already stated - I’m way behind)
In its [...]

I mentioned that Darlene Fichter had great props for the DigiTech Forum - well Nancy Garmen from Info Today got a great picture. Make sure you check it out.
PS. I’m catching up on my reading so I’ll probably have more CIL summaries to share with you from the other bloggers.
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Due to my limited internet access last week and my busy writing this weekend I have over 1500 posts to read in Bloglines - Yikes! I’m hoping a lot of those are conference summaries of sessions I attended Anyway … I’m off to read and catch up.

Meredith says in her CIL: Impressions post - “I feel like I've been run over by a train.” Great way to explain it Meredith! I was so wiped yesterday that I wrote up some of my summaries and then took a nap - and I wrote some more and went to bed early [...]

Dave Hook has a good post over on his site about the controversy around the name “Library 2.0″.
If we’re going to come up with a name for these ideas, I’d prefer a name along the lines of ‘The Library 2.0 Movement’ or something else that implies continous improvement.
I think that’s a great idea - when [...]

I know that you’ve been wondering since I posted about the Future of Catalogs what my favorite session was at CIL this year - well, here it is!
Paul Miller is the Technology Evangelist for Talis - how fun does that sound?? Paul said “One day I’ll have a normal job” but why would you [...]

I think my pup (Coda) is tired of me sitting on the couch with this laptop - when I sat down this morning she jumped up and sat on my notes
But that’s not the point of this post - I want to share with you the OSS options that Glen Horton shared with [...]