Stripe GeneratorDiagonal stripes background tiles web 2.0 webdesign
One Picture, 1,000 Tags - New York Times

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WorldCat.org citation feature helps students and researchers [OCLC]
calcoolate.com: The Coolest Online Calculator
Public Library Geeks Take Web 2.0 to the StacksWired article about Learning 2.0

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Thanks Sarah for pointing this out to me!!
There’s a tool called RSStalker that lets you track price changes on Amazon by RSS. You can have feeds for your entire wishlist or a specific item.
Also, from the RSStalker site:
Amazon.com doesn’t advertise it, but they have a 30 day price drop policy. If you bought [...]

Thanks Paul for pointing out that you can run Meebo as a Firefox sidebar. Neat!

WOW! It’s right around the corner. Are you going? Have you posted your info on the CIL Wiki? Make sure you do, it’s a great way to meet new people. If you’re curious you can see my info & schedule here.
This will be my first year presenting at CIL. My presentation will be [...]

32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 3 by Stephen Abram, M.L.S., Sirsi vice president of Innovation
32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 2 by Stephen Abram, M.L.S., Sirsi vice president of Innovation
32 Tips to Inspire Innovation for You and Your Library: Part 1 by Stephen Abram, [...]

Not very library-related - but it is what I learned today. Today I learned that the cover to Harry Potter is out!! Check it out if you’re a fan.
[update] See the Today Show unveiling of the cover. [/update]

I found this video via The Shifted Librarian. It’s an illustration of what users at PSU have to go through in order to find a copy of Time Magazine.

Yikes! Why do we put our users through this???

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines
ResourceShelf » Plenty of Interesting Reading: Papers from the International Conference on Weblogs and Social MediaSome very interesting papers, posters, and demos being presented at this conference.
Feeds That Matter: A Study of Bloglines Subscriptions
Watching the Blogosphere: Knowledge Sharing in the Web 2.0
Discovering Weblog Communities: A content- and topology-based approach
Looking at [...]

Dave Pattern is asking us to answer a quick survey:
I’m giving a short presentation about OPACs at the Library and Information Show in April and I’d love to know what you think about the subject. I’m planning to include results from this quick survey in my presentation and I’ll post the full results on my [...]

urlTeaCreate a shortened version of any URL.
ScribdScribd is a free online library where anyone can upload. Use our embeddable PDF player to publish and view documents right in your web browser.
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I just read this funny dialog between a board officer and a web developer.
US/Canada Border Officer: "Are you coming for business or pleasure sir?"
Me: "Business"
Officer: "What is the nature of your stay?"
Me: "I'm a web developer and I'm meeting with a client in Oregon to discuss a project."
Border Officer: "What's the name of the client?"
Me: [...]

I’m not sure how to summarize what I just read on lis.dom - but what I do know is that it touched me! Laura writes about the biblioblogsphere as a group - or non-group is it may be.
Though we're [the biblioblogosphere] often in agreement (let's hear it one more time-just how badly [...]

In a bit of books business news, Borders is dropping Amazon.com in favor of their own e-commerce site. I’m not sure how I feel about this - I don’t usually shop on Borders.com because Amazon has better deals (and I’m an associate) - but I am curious to see what Borders comes up with [...]

I just realized that my pictures has been turned into a book mosaic by Dave Pattern! Somehow I missed this. Check it out - and see the rest of the set on Flickr.

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Originally uploaded by Dave & Bry.

I just found this article via OPL Plus (one of my favorite blogs) which gives tips on managing technology change the right way.
My favorite tips are #2 & 3:
2. Don't get emotionally attached to a particular technology.
Once we've been using something for a while, we tend to get comfortable with it. It's easy to look [...]

I just found this via The Liminal Librarian - watch this video - it’s way cool!!
I can see the benefit of a keyboard you can scale to your hand - but I love the clicking of the physical keyboard. I guess that comes from the electric typewriter my mother gave me when [...]

I was tagged by Darlene in a meme started by The Liminal Librarian.
Here are five non-library blogs that I read:

The Daily PuppyNot much reading here - just a lot of oooing and ahhhing. Now go ahead over and oo & ahhh at my baby.
LifehackerTons of great tips for using technology.
KimbooktuGadgets for book lovers.
Gamecrafters’ GuildAll kinds [...]

symfony Web PHP frameworkBased on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
MediaBerkmanBerkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast
20 must-see Greasemonkey Addons
Top 10 Firefox Add-ons for Researchers
Find [...]

I just finished hunting for the best price options for my textbooks for next term and I still spent way too much money! Books for education should be cheaper - it just doesn’t seem fair that they make the poor students pay the most for books.
Anyway, I’m all set for next term which starts on [...]

Via The Stingy Scholar:
Zamzar is a free online file conversion tool that allows you to convert Document, Image, Music and Video Formats without having to download any software.
Sounds handy - so I went and looked at what types of files I could convert - it’s long list! Check it out - and bookmark this [...]

PictoBrowser
Pew Internet & American Life Project Presentation: Social Media and LibrariesThis presentation highlights recent Pew Internet Project research with a special focus on the adoption of social media applications among teenagers and adults in the U.S.
WordPress: Extend ? Plugins
Technology Review: A Fresh Start for the InternetStanford University researchers aren’t just dreaming of a new [...]

I first read about this on Lifehacker. Google now lets you choose a theme for your Google homepage. The neat thing is that I picked the Tea House theme which has a skyline in the background. When I chose the theme, it asked me for where I lived so it could make the [...]

I found this via the Web4Lib Mailing List. The New York Times is offering it’s TimesSelect service free for students and faculty who register with a .edu domain. This from the site:
We are pleased to offer a complimentary subscription to TimesSelect. You must be a student or faculty member with a valid college [...]

WinMergeWinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

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