I just found out about Photoshop Express and had to sign right up. You can see my page at http://nengard.photoshop.com.
Upload, sort, polish, and store up to 2GB of photos. All for free. Resize, tint, distort, and more — add your mark to all your images. Then show them off on Adobe® Photoshop® Express or [...]

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Our team has a real affinity for free-spirited types, and so we spend a lot of time thinking up ways to make Google Docs friendlier even to people on the go. If you’re one of those, you already know how you can access your Google Docs from anywhere, [...]

I didn’t respond to Rachel Singer Gordon’s post about what makes a librarian - mostly because I’ve made it pretty clear what my opinion is in the past - but I just have to laugh at this comment and Rachel’s response:
Librarianship is a profession akin to medicine or law. You don’t see people without law [...]

Tim Spalding has a great post over at Thingology about self publishing sites (specifically LuLu):
Getting Real is an important book. It came along at exactly the right time, said something important. To the extent the greap web-app “explosion” of 2004-2007 had a book, this was it.
And it was successful. According to 37Signals the (paid) version [...]

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Open Source In Libraries

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biblio TEQOpen source catalog software & library management tool. BiblioteQ strives to be a complete and thorough library management tool.
Geek Speak Women | find technical women to speakWe help you find technical women to speak at your events.
QuotablyFollow Twitter Conversations

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Issue #2 of the Code4Lib Journal is now available online.

Code4Lib: More than a journal

Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides

Using Google Calendar to Manage Library Website Hours

Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Toward element-level interoperability in bibliographic metadata

Help! A simple method for getting back-up help to the reference desk

Googlizing a Digital Library

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If you’re around and want to join in a class I’m giving on open source, please join me at the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative on April 2, 2008. Learn more.

ThemebotWebsite Templates, Free Web Layouts and Open Source Web Design Themes

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After all of my work bug checking and writing the manual for Koha 3, the beta release has finally been announced. I’d love some help testing - so I can’t wait to see what you all have to say!!
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Button Maker - Blog Flux Blog ToolsMake 80×15 or 88×13 buttons with a few clicks.
File DropperThe Simplest File Hosting Website Ever.
15 Free Social Media White Papers and Ebooks

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Stopped by Mishawaka Penn Harris
Public Library to see for Myself
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I’m sure it’s not the first, but this picture from Michael Stephens is so sad. This is why I love that my job lets me go out to libraries and educate librarians.
Today I went to my new public library - [...]

Ping.fmA simple service that cuts out the middle man when it comes to posting to your social services such as Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr and Pownce
CayraCayra is a free desktop application that lets you represent tasks, ideas, concepts and other items in a graphic, well-structured way.
Plinkit Collaborative - Welcome! ? The Plinkit CollaborativePlinkit is based [...]

Earlier today I wrote that CIL is right around the corner - but what about PLA?? I think I’m blocking that one out because of the cold (bitterly cold) weather in Minnesota. Anyway, I’ll be attending PLA this year for the first time - but I won’t be in sessions with you all - [...]

WOW! This years Computers in Libraries conference is right around the corner! Have you added your schedule to the wiki yet? I did. See you all there!!
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ILF Technical Services Contract Cataloging Registry ListingsWe will post the information provided by individuals interested in contract cataloging.
Scholr 2.0This document was created to highlight opportunities and drive discussion for the OCUL consortium in both the short term through the launch of a new Scholars Portal server in 2008, and in the long term by incorporating [...]

You Suck at Photoshop, Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie Hoyle | Laughing Squid
Open Source Mac - Free, Open-Source software for OS XFree and open-source software is good for you and good for the world. This is the best Mac software that we know of.

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I posted about the new Library 2.0 Gang Podcast a little while ago only to find that I had jumped the gun. Now it is really really available - so check it out - subscribe - and listen often
You can listen to it via Library Journal or the new Library 2.0 Gang [...]

So I invited parents to throw tomatoes at my rant about the article by Dave Gibson in American Chronicle and my mother was the one to respond:
Mom: WOW!! What do I respond to first!!??
Nicole: hehe
Nicole: well for goodness sakes - who does he think we are???? do you damn job - you had the kids [...]

An article in the American Chronicle struck me the wrong way - that is your warning that a rant is to follow.
Author, Dave Gibson, writes:
A recent article in my local newspaper (Virginian-Pilot) about libraries “efforts to woo teens,” caught my eye. Apparently, the works of such luminaries as Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain have been [...]

I logged into Facebook this morning to see the following:
Now you can use friend lists to control exactly who can see what. We’ve also added the option to share information with “Friends of Friends”. For more details, check out the Privacy page.
Your Limited Profile is now a friend list on your Friends page. All of [...]

R&D: RDA in RDF or: Can Resource Description become Rigorous Data?By Karen Coyle for Code4Lib
BookLamp.orgBookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.

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Someone sent me a neat article from the New York Times today. The article talks about how Sports Illustrated is opening up it’s archives for anyone to search. The article implies that this is the way all print publications will probably go to keep their audiences. I’d rather it be that they’re [...]

Turns out that there is a new version of WordPress coming. Check out the 2.5 sneak peek - looks pretty neat!!
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