From Lin’s Bin on WXRT in Chicago, here’s Lin’s thoughts and rememberances of librarians. (Mp3) On a personal note, I’ve worked in the stacks at the New York State Library and they’re exactly as he describes.
Archive for » December 15th, 2005«
San antonio – Radical Reference Wiki
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Dec 2005
Some of the folks at the Barnard College Library have started a Wiki for ALA midwinter in San Antonio.
Category: wikis
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Nature Podcast
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Dec 2005
The journal Nature has a Podcast. The 15 December 2005 episode is on the Wikipedia/Britannica match-up.
Category: wikipedia
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Google Safe Browsing for Firefox
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Dec 2005
Well, I installed the extension and waited to receive a phishing scam. I clicked on the link and this is what I got. The “Get me out of here” link sent me to my homepage. I’d say this extension is a success.
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Restart Firefox
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Dec 2005
Speaking of Firefox extensions, there’s an extension which adds “Restart Firefox” to the File menu, simplifying the shutdown and restart process necessary to get recently installed extensions and themes to work.
Category: firefox
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New Firefox extensions from Google
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Dec 2005
The two new extensions are deisnged to assist with blogging (image) and block phishing sites (image).
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Wikipedia just a good as Britannica
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Dec 2005
Despite the recent bad press for Wikipedia, the journal Nature has confirmed that “Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries”.
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The Penguin Podcast
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Dec 2005
Penguin Books has a podcast of A Christmas Carol available in five parts starting today.
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Playaway
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Dec 2005
I found a display of these in Borders yesterday. They’re self-contained digital audio books from a company named Playaway. At $39.95 they seemd a bit pricy considering you can’t do anything but play them. According to the company you can “enjoy digital sound from a lightweight player with eight simple buttons. Wear it around your neck or stick it in your pocket. From novels to biographies, languages to business best sellers, Playaway comes already loaded with your favorite content.” Are there any libraries circ’ing these or at least thinking about it? (There are a few more photos available by clicking on the image to the right.)
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