Amanda just pointed me to two handy tools I hadn’t known about before. First S5 which allows you to create a presentation using XHTML, CSS, and JS. Next a handy script that lets you use and RSS feed to create a S5 presentation.
I read throught the documentation - but haven’t had a chance [...]

Have a melody stuck in your head and don’t know where it’s from? Enter Musipedia.
[A] searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes.
Every entry can be edited by anybody. An entry can contain a bit of sheet music, a MIDI file, textual information about the work and the composer, and last [...]

Carol is still looking for writers (so the deadline isn’t quite right) - if you’re interested contact her to see what topics haven’t been written about yet.
Dear Librarian:
Would you like to be included in Librarians Beyond the Circ Desk: Innovative Librarianship on how you became a blogger, book reviewer, software developer, web administrator or other [...]

Yipppeee!!
I just found this handy PHP Class today. It’s called WriteExcel (originally for Perl). I have had some fun with this script on our Intranet - it’s so much easier to generate reports in excel versus csv (which is what I was doing).
Give it a whirl. While you’re [...]

Do you belong to a book club or reading group? If so, I stumbled upon a very useful site for you. ReadingGroupGuides has over 1800 guides for your book club or reading group.
ReadingGroupGuides.com is the first website built especially for reading groups, providing them with all they need to make their book club [...]

Wow! What a handy resource. The Office 2.0 Database lists all (or at least most) of the web-based office applications. Browse through catagories like: calendar, bookmarks, database, email, fax, spreadsheet, and more.

Check out this week’s carnival at Library Stuff.

Okay - I upgraded to 2.0.2 last week and since then I haven’t been getting any ping back comments - you know when someone links to my post from their blog it shows up as a comment on my blog? I know it has to be a setting, but I can’t seem to find [...]

From Blyberg.net:
We talked about the notion of “paying it forward” at some length during one of the sessions at Library Camp. One individual, Sean Robinson, has put together a wiki where willing parties can sign up, offering their expertise and services to other libraries. The caveat is that if you take advantage of another person's [...]

Well, I’m back at work. I had planned on doing all of this library related reading while I was home, but I was much busier than I had planned. So now I’m catching up on my reading. I just read an article by Rachel Singer Gordon in American Libraries (March 2006) titled [...]

Okay I know this is late - I wanted to read through the list and share some opinions - so it has been sitting in my email for almost a month - but with the way things are I may never read the list - so I’ll share it with all of you who may [...]

I mentioned Plum when I was reading the article in Newsweek about Web 2.0 - now TechCrunch has some more detail.

Library Juice has an interesting comparison between these 2 types of people (Nerds & Geeks).
Well there is a definite difference; in fact there is little overlap between the two groups, although there are a few characteristics in common.
I find the list of characteristics that follow this comment very interesting - and would like to know [...]

A little while ago I posted about how I wasn’t sure how Second Life could be used by libraries - apparently OPAL and the Alliance Library System have come up with a way:
Alliance Library System and OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) are pleased to announce that selected OPAL programs will soon be offered in [...]

I guess you could do this with any wiki package - but JotSpot is marketing pages just for your family. With JotSpot Family Site you can:

Share a family calendar

See your family on a map!

Build your family tree

Create a secure site for your family

Put all your family recipes in one place

Plan your family reunion!

What a [...]

Why would patrons pay for copies at our libraries if they can use scanR? With scanR, you can take a picture of a book page or whiteboard with your cell phone and then send it to scanR to have it cleaned up and sent back to you. Right now this service is free (I [...]

While this idea sounds very promising - I think there are a few flaws. Maybe I should tell you the idea
Last month, UD struck a deal with Ruckus, a music downloading service that now gives the university’s 20,000 students access to 1.5 million tracks, allowing them to download as much as they [...]

Yahoo!’s blog mentions their travel site FareChase.
Yahoo! FareChase (which is now in general availability) is a travel search engine that searches across many airline sites like AA.com, hotel sites like Sheraton.com, and on-line travel agency websites such as Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com, to give searchers a comprehensive set of prices and availability for flights and [...]

Okay - this is nifty! Will I use it? Probably for a week or so
I just finished playing with Google Calendar and it offers a couple of neat little features - like allowing you to share your calendar with others or have your event reminders sent to your cell phone. Cool right? [...]

I mentioned that this report (The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools) would be coming in my post on the future of catalogs - well it’s here and I have one more week at home to read all 52 pages. I’ll have a report for you once I [...]

O’Reilly has a handy page with a list of free hacks from their Hacks series of books. Pretty handy little page.

I was playing with StumbleUpon and it dropped me onto the LIS Webcasting page from the University of Missouri - Columbia.
Welcome to LISRadio. This is a new and exciting series of interactive webcasts brought to you by the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Our aim with [...]

My husband just sent me this comic.

I’m a terrible artist! I am lucky enough to have someone at work who’s great at it - so she does all of the artsy stuff for me But sometimes I’m working on a project that’s not for work and I need to find some stock photos - there’s a new site EveryStockPhoto that [...]

First, let me say - I love Lifehacker - I just wish it wasn’t so hard to keep up with - I’m out of commission for 2 days and I have 95 new things to read about
Now what I’m really writing about.
View Rendered Source Chart is a Firefox plugin that lets your view [...]