Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
I have a love/hate relationship with Rojo. I’ve always loved the fact that I can tag feeds and news items. I hate the fact that is quirky and doesn’t always update my feeds. In particular the fact it doesn’t read some of my favorite feeds drives me up the wall. So I’ve taken the plunge [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Dec 14th, 2006 1 Comment »
As part of implementing ETD-db, I needed to password-protect several folders that are part of the ETD-db system. The installation instructions for ETD-db suggest you do this using an .htpasswd file that contains several users and give different users different rights. Reading this I realized that probably one user will serve for several people, unless [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries on Dec 13th, 2006 No Comments »
I’ve spent a lot of time the last month working to get ETD-db up and running. One frustration I’m having with this process is the lack of documentation concerning how to customize the system. So I’m going to post some of my notes from my install and customization process.
Installation
The installation instruction for ETD-db while complete [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Yes, I know I’ve been terrible about posting of late. I’ve been bogged down with piles of stuff at work and haven’t been able to find the time to post. Some of this is due to some personnel shake ups at work, the fact that I keep taking more on my plate, and that I [...]
Posted in Social Software on Nov 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
I had a chance to skim Hacking del.icio.us this week. Overall, I’m really impressed with this book. It covers a wide range of topics which start at a beginner level and move up to more advanced topics. One of the best chapters is on del.icio.us APIs and data. It talks about some extensions and code [...]
Posted in RSS on Nov 14th, 2006 3 Comments »
Since Internet Librarian I’ve been playing with several different news aggregators. I’ve started to use Flock for new reading particularly since I’ve made Flock my regular browser at home because it is really good for offline blog posting. The problem with Flock for news reading is the fact that it has to reside on your [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 13th, 2006 No Comments »
After being gone to Internet Librarian for over a week, I came back to a huge pile for work. I’ve been digging myself out since then. Some of that has involved doing some more playing with WordpressMu. I’m trying to get the LDAP plugin to work securely with no success yet. Since I’ve had issues [...]
Posted in Nifty Tools on Oct 30th, 2006 2 Comments »
I found this interesting reference to Flowser a graphical browser to Amazon on the Amazon Web Services Blog. With all the discussions of graphical search tools I thought that this would be worth checking out. It is pretty cool, but a bit busy when you “open” up a item. Still it is an interesting way [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 25th, 2006 No Comments »
A - AJAX
B - Beta, Browster (pop-up browser)
C - CoComment (keep track of all blog posts you’ve commented on)
D - Digg (search blogs
E - Econsultant
F - Flickr
G - Gmail, Gmail Space (from the audience, Firefox extension to use Gmail as hard drive space), Gliffy
H - Hype (many of these tools is all hype)
I [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Michael Porter, OCLC Western (LibraryMan weblog)
Brenda Hough, Northeast Kansas Library System
Dale Musselman, WebJunction
Presentation available at http://blog.webjunctionworks.org
How technology has changed
Originally 1 hour classes on how to user the Internet or email, or intro to PCs and lots of one on one on the fly training
How does tech trianing look in this new environment
Encourage independence
Encourage exploration
Stop trying [...]
