With the gracious help of Mr. Blake Carver at the amazing LISHost (The librarian’s Web hosting service) and an assist by Emily at the Nebraska Library Association this blog & site is powered by WordPress. Yes, I’ll provide details as to the whole process of moving from Blogger to WordPress in a later post.
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Welcome to WordPress
03
Feb 2010
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Bye bye Blogger. It was fun while it lasted.
25
Jan 2010
I’ve been using Blogger since before Google owned it. This blog has been published using Blogger since day one. Yesterday I found out the the geniuses at Google have decided to abandon the .5% of their user base that knows what they’re doing and using FTP to publish to their own domain. Guess what? This blog is part of that .5%.
So, with the help of Blake and Karen, this blog should be moving to WordPress in the next few weeks. How will you know when it happens, well, I’m sure I’ll announce it for those of you reading the feed, and the few of you that actually visit this site will see a completely new template. (Just using a new WP template is much easier on the conversion than to try and convert the Blogger template.) So, if you’ve got any template suggestions feel free to leave them in the comments.
(If you’re interested in the gory details as to why, start with this article from Quick Online Tips and follow the links for even more details.)
Oh, and this completely fracks up the Blogger chapter of the 2nd edition of my Blogging & RSS book which is currently with my editor. This should be fun to fix this late in the process.
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Apologies for repeats
20
Jul 2007
For those of you reading this blog via the feed you’ve probably received a bunch of old posts this morning. This is a result of fixing some invalid code in my template forcing a republication of the whole blog. These republished posts are then considered “new” by your aggregator. I believe this mini-project is done. You may now resume your regular feed reading.
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Blogging from Scottsbluff
12
Jun 2007
This morning I’m in Scottsbluff, NE teaching 11 area librarians how to blog. Of course, nine of them are sitting in the back row. Only two brave souls are sitting in the front row.
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Blogger weirdness
05
Jun 2007
I’ve noticed lately that when I publish a new post sometimes the publishing happens quickly, sometimes very slowly. The difference seemed to be in whether I included labels (categories) with the post. (For example, when creating a post with BlogThis! you can’t add labels so posts are published quickly. When posting via Blogger, I add labels and things publish slowly.) Well, the image at the right (shrunk since it’s huge,) “explains” the problem. Whenever you publish a new post with a label, whether one label or a dozen, Blogger republishes every page for every label you’ve ever used. So, in this example, I wrote a new post with one label, “blogosphere”, yet several hundred files were created, and SFTP’d to my server. All that should have been published are the four files: the post’s page, the main page, the archive page, and the page for the one label I used.
I’ll be submitting this to Blogger and will follow up here with any response I receive.
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Blogging in the afternoon
24
May 2007
Hello from blogging session #2 at the Omaha Public Library.
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Blogging in the morning
24
May 2007
Hello from the Omaha Public Library where I’m teaching my blogging workshop.
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In-service Day
30
Apr 2007
On Friday I was honored to attend and present at the Lincoln City Library’s In-Service day. I haven’t had a faster or more fun Arbor Day in my life. I was great to meet so many librarians from my new home town and to see how excited you were about all the new technologies I was presenting. At one point during my Flickr presentation someone asked for more specific examples of how to use Flickr in a library. Well, here’s one. Use Flickr to post a slideshow of an event on the library’s blog/Web site.
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Blogging 101, take 3
25
Apr 2007
And this morning 13 more Nebraska librarians are writing their first posts to their new Blogger blogs. No mutiny in sight.
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Megan Fox, Simmons College, (fox@simmons.edu) web.simmons.edu/~fox/mobile
- Patrons want and demand mobile on-demand services
- Mobile Market
- [I lost the stats I typed in...]
- Latest Devices
- iPods
- tablets
- PSP
- Blackberry
- m300 smart watch
- Treo
- Samsung B470
- Nokia N93
- HTC S710
- iPhone
- MyOrigo
- HTC Advantage and Shift
- Ultra Mobile PC – Q1 Ultra
- Mobile Web / Transcoded Web
- .mobi
- mobilelearn
- winksite
- volantis
- roundpoint
- mobiSiteGalore
- Freemont PL has a .mobi version
- zinadoo
- NYT
- National Weather Services
- Digg
- PubMed
- Hoovers
- Ball State University (Looks like Gopher)
- Mobile Optimized OPACs
- III AirPac
- LibraryThing
- Ready Reference On the Go
- Tucors
- handango
- dictionaries
- almanac
- Mobile Answers
- eBooks & eAudio
- Transcoding
- Optimizing for the mobile environment on the fly
- May remove content so somewhat controversial
- Blogger on the Go
- mobilicio.us
- Databases on the Run
- Factiva
- LexisNexis
- Mobilize your content
- via RSS then to SMS
- MobiFeeds
- xFruits
- feedbeep
- hubdog
- GoogleReader
- Text onto the iPod
- Mobile Search
- 4info
- Yahoo!
- AOLMobile
- Ask
- [Presented on this earlier in the conference]
- SMS for content
- GoogleSMS
- Yahoo
- AskMeNow
- Biblioteche di Roma (answer w/in 48 hours, ugh!)
- 411
- Meriam Webster
- Life’s a Pitch – 1st chap via SMS
- Harper Teen
- Citysearch
- SMS for communication
- Simmons College Reference Services
- Altrama (SMS Virtual Reference)
- teleflip
- gizmoSMS
- MagicMessage
- MobileU
- AIRBaruch
- Class in Hand
- Text Feedback Link
- Feedback Meter Link
- Mobile audio & multimedia
- downloadable audio
- mobile tours – guide by cell
- instruction
- story hours
- video tours
- mobile tv
- mobile YouTube
- mobile Second Life
- Ball State University training videos & promotional videos
- Video downlaods
- Applications for staff
- Stats – bar code readers
- Sirsi PocketCirc
- Wireless Workstation
- What’s Next?
- txt & video ads (you must approve & get a discount on your bill for viewing)
- MasterCard & Visa via your phone
- Hardware displays
- glasses
- eink/epaper
- project to wall
- ZenZui
- Microsoft Live Labs Deepfish
- Photo2Search
- Thrrum
- mobile visual interactions – qipit
- spoken interactions – GotVoice
- GPS Location Interaction
- [showing pics from my Library Signage flickr pool!]
