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…
Day: December 15, 2005
Some of the folks at the Barnard College Library have started a Wiki for ALA midwinter in San Antonio.
The journal Nature has a Podcast. The 15 December 2005 episode is on the Wikipedia/Britannica match-up.
Political Cartoon Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian.
Google Safe Browsing for Firefox Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian. Well, I installed the extension and waited to receive a phishing scam. I clicked on the…
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…
The two new extensions are deisnged to assist with blogging (image) and block phishing sites (image).
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…
Penguin Books has a podcast of A Christmas Carol available in five parts starting today.
Playaway Originally uploaded by travelinlibrarian. I found a display of these in Borders yesterday. They’re self-contained digital audio books from a company named Playaway. At…