Image via Wikipedia Doomsday for 2009 is … Saturday. Mary Ellen Bates says goodbye to several Google apps, and ponders Microsoft’s persistent relevance. I’ll miss Google Notebook, myself. Better ways to run a workshop. And some damn fine YouTube examples of Patrick McGoohan at work. Chris Blattman summarizes Rapture indicators from The Rapture Index site: [...]
Tagged calendar, Doomsday, information retrieval, Orange Crate Art, searching, workshopsEconomic downturn hitting public libraries. Also, library fines. Another popularly focused article on the digital dark age; it proposes using open-source rather than proprietary file formats. The best suit for your body type. Proto-scholar learns the hard way to ask the right people for process advice. No one would blame her for feeling angry and [...]
Tagged digitization, libraries, Marginal Revolution, Proto-scholarHere’s the regular daily ‘scope: People are more impressed by your efficiency than by your eagerness to please. You need to back up your smiles with an authentic performance. Additional diplomacy must be carried in your toolbox. Here’s usually the most interesting thing. Let’s make a date to check it next year, shall we? If [...]
Tagged LibraAndProudOfItVery few people walking about, but I noticed a few folks standing at the base of the flagpole near the quad. Before today, I could not have told you that a flagpole stood there. I looked up and saw the flag at half-mast. And then, of course, it clicked. I walked on a bit to [...]
Tagged CampusLifeCreate accounts on my MacBook and really get a handle on securing it. Create a custom search engine in Google that would search the sites I tend to read the most: Lifehacker, Marginal Revolution, Kevin Kelly’s sites, 43Folders, Web Worker Daily, my delicious bookmarks, Ask Metafilter, etc. I created a custom engine of usability sites [...]
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