Nifty! Zookoda is an email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your vistors inbox. Oh…did we mention – it's all FREE! This might be handy for us at the library – we send out a monthly email [...]

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 [...]

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 before – [...]

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 – the [...]

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 only a virtual [...]

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 Wpopac [...]

CIL Presentations are being posted all over the place. Be sure to check the official ITI page for a full listing. Technorati Tags: cil2006, cil06

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 all is [...]

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. [...]