Archive | August, 2006

31 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Signals

Now – these aren’t for me – I like reading my feeds in an aggregator – but you might be interested. Original Signal offers two pages one for Transmitting Web 2.0 and one for Transmitting Gadgets. They’re each a page full of feeds from popular Web 2.0 and Gadget blogs – pretty handy if you [...]

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31 August 2006 ~ 2 Comments

BlogDay

Today is BlogDay 2006. BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. In this way, all Blog web surfers will find themselves leaping around [...]

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30 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Wiki Comic

A funny comic to end your day.

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30 August 2006 ~ 7 Comments

Wanna Chat?

I worked from home on Monday and had IM open so I could talk to my teammate (who was in the office). I used to be an IM junky when I was in college – but that died down pretty quick once I got a “real” job Anyway, while I was on IM I got [...]

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30 August 2006 ~ 1 Comment

A Blog’s Life

I finally finished reading A Blog’s Life an article by Mary Whisner in the Law Library Journal (AALL). What a great article! Mary walks us through the process of setting up her first blog and it’s successes (and failures) along the way. I like stories like this because it shows people that while a blog [...]

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29 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Neat File Sharing Extension

I just learned about AllPeers – another Firefox extension. This lets you create a list of contacts who you can then share files, webpages, photos, and any other files you have on your computer – or you find on the web. My husband and I are installing it so that we can play – but [...]

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29 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Info Career Trends

In case you didn’t already know the newest issue of Lisjobs’ Professional Development Newsletter – Info Career Trends is out. This issue covers writing for publication.

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Another Nifty Firefox Extension

Are you reading Download Squad? If you’re not, you’re missing out on all kinds of neat tools. I just read about Link Alert – a Firefox Extension that changes your cursor based on the type of link you’re about to click. So if you’re about to click a PDF link it will add the PDF [...]

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29 August 2006 ~ 2 Comments

Geotag Your Flickr Photos

The FlickrBlog has announced that you can now geotag your photos, browse photos by location – and view them on a map! This looks like fun, I’m going to have to go play with it.

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29 August 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Google Webmaster Central

I don’t know why this sounds familiar – but I just read about Google Webmaster Central (possibly for the second time) on Download Squad. From here you can use any of the following tools: Site status wizard Find out whether your site is currently being indexed by Google. Google’s blog for webmasters The latest news [...]

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