Archive | November, 2007

30 November 2007 ~ 2 Comments

New Addition to Google

It looks like Google is experimenting with a Digg-like search over at Google Labs (info found via TechCrunch) The new search would let logged in users sort/rate their search results: This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue [...]

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30 November 2007 ~ 2 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-11-29

Paglo – The Search Engine for ITSimply put, Paglo is the world’s first search engine for IT. Think Google? for IT. Use the open source crawler and discover everything about your computers, network and users. GenfaviconFree Online Favicon Generator. Icon Generator. MarkMailMarkMail is a free service for searching mailing list archives, with huge advantages over [...]

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29 November 2007 ~ 4 Comments

Metadata Tools

I just read on a few quotes from the the report of the RLG Programs metadata practice survey on Lorcan Dempsey’s blog (I haven’t read the whole report yet) and wanted to add to his comments. The report says: … RLG Programs surveyed 18 Partner institutions1 in July and August 2007 to obtain a baseline [...]

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29 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Genius of Cataloging

Via AutoCat (by J. McRee (Mac) Elrod) & Cataloging Futures: Brian Campbell called my attention to this recorded lecture by Francis Miksa. It’s well worth the hour and a half it takes to listen to it (and I probably kept Hal awake doing so). http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/2007/11/essential-liste.html. After a fascinating detailed history (which establishes that nothing is [...]

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29 November 2007 ~ 2 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-11-28

VoxVox is a new personal blogging service. It’s all about ease of use, privacy control, playing well with other web services, and staying connected to the people you care about. GliffyWith a tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams, Gliffy users can communicate more clearly, boost [...]

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28 November 2007 ~ 7 Comments

Social Networking – Good or Bad?

There was an interesting article in InformationWeek about how social networks are built to self destruct. Then over at CrunchGear there was a funny comic strip and some additional comments on the topic. Cory writes: Emails from Facebook aren’t helpful messages, they’re eyeball bait, intended to send you off to the Facebook site, only to [...]

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28 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Thankful Anytime

While Thanksgiving has passed, I can be thankful anytime and I want to repeat Michael’s thanks to LISNews & Blake Carver. I’m also thankful for LISNews and the hosting services that Blake Carver provides. He puts up with the mountains of spam comments TTW gets as well as all my strange requests. If you are [...]

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27 November 2007 ~ 6 Comments

Students Required to Buy Cell Phone

Now, I’m all for campus safety and for colleges using the technology that our students are using – but this is a bit much! Students at Montclair State University in Dirty Jersey now must purchase, out of their own pocket, a Sprint cellphone, dubbed the "School Phone" by students. Ostensibly, the plan is designed to [...]

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25 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-11-24

BookSurge, part of the Amazon group of companiesBookSurge offers complete publishing, inventory-free fulfillment and online distribution services for independent publishing. More of my links

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24 November 2007 ~ 0 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-11-23

web 2.0 & Online generators [100+]Some of the more popular web 2.0 generators. these make it easy to add stuff like badges, stripes, loading gifs, rounded corners and more to your site KompoZer – Easy web authoringNvu’s unofficial bug-fix release More of my links

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