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Actually, I'd call it funny and scary...If Google Was Your Roommate–The Web Series: "Funny web series about two guys living with Google as a roommate. After you watch episode one above, move onto episode two and three. [via Asian Angel]

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Penn State Live - Did You Know? Musical Notes from the Penn State LaureateThis article about musical performers is completely off-topic, but it wins my vote for the best subtitle:Whoops, I broke my “G” String … and other hazards of playing concerts.

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Really? - The Claim - Daylight Saving Time Can Affect Your Health - Question - NYTimes.comI have a sudden urge to sleep in...

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The Centered Librarian: Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year

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Lick a Librarian | Library Stuff

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FOXNews.com - Women Use More of Their Brain Than Men - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology NewsNo comment needed.

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Most bloggers think that quoting part of an article they are recommending/linking is fair use. Since clicks are often tied to advertising revenue, some content providers are taking issue.We need to keep an eye on this litigation. Copyright Holders Challenge Sites That Scrape Content - NYTimes.com

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Have you seen the latest culprit for the economic breakdown? viaInfocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education: The world catastrophe formulaBrrrr. That's more than I wanted to know...

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via LibraryBytes: How big is your social circle?Apparently the average Facebook user has 120 friends - I thought I was doing well when I broke 50... :0(

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Cow Transportation Fail � FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail MomentsI know we're supposed to downsize our vehicles to be green, but this is ridiculous!

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Web 3.0 - The Semantic Web Cometh | 21st Century ConnectionsFor anyone just starting to think about the semantic web, this is a good overview...

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LibraryThing: Flash-Mob Cataloging Party: Rhode Island Audubon SocietyI had to post this for the title alone. I never thought I'd hear cataloging and flash-mob in the same sentence. It reminds me of one of my favorite NancyButtons: Librarian Terrorist--get out of my way or I'll catalog you

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How to predict gadget success | Business Tech - CNET NewsI think the reasoning here also applies to our library catalogs...

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This is just plain nuts.Author's Guild Claims Kindle 2 Copyright Infringement | LISNews

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Early Reviewers | LibraryThingThis is a wild example of crowdsourcing! LibraryThing users are signing up for the chance to receive early copies of books and post their reviews on LibraryThing. The publishers typically provide LibraryThing with about 30 copies of a new book. For each title there can be anywhere from 100 to over 1,200 interested LibraryThing reviewers!

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HotStuff 2.0Dave Pattern has taken a really cool approach to analyzing library buzz. He's taken feeds from over 800 library blogs and crunched words in them to uncover new/hot topics. He also includes a word wheel graphic to show how the new topic links to other keywords.For a more detail explanation of how he's doing it, check here.

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AltSearchEngines � Blog Archive � The Search Race is over! And the winner is….Dang. How did I miss iSeek ? This faceted search tool is awesome. Check out the rest of the list too!

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What a hoot! This is the year I graduated from high school. I hadn't even touched my first computer back then!You Need To See This Video (1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News)

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Fortunately I was wearing a belt when I tested this site...Pipl.com: People Search Engine So Good, It Will Scare Your Pants Off

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I was simultaneously fascinated and creeped out by this article. I know the composite information is anonymous, but still...The Economy According To Mint

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Brittanica with user updates? Wikipedia must really have them against the wall...Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0 - BizTech - Technology

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Strangely enough, this lecture about lecture capture systems wasn't captured. Just the PowerPoint is posted! Should we take that to mean that the answer was no? :-)Lecture Capture Systems: Are They Worth It? | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

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The New Atlantis � People of the ScreenA very thoughtful essay about the possible societal impacts of moving from print reading to digital reading.

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7 Things You Should Know About Alternate Reality Games | EDUCAUSE CONNECTCreating an ARG for our Information Literacy class would be an interesting idea, but wow, how much work....

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A Digital Humanities Manifesto � A Digital Humanities ManifestoHmm. What would we put in a Library Manifesto? Worth pondering.

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Copyright Balance and Fair Use in Networked Learning: Lessons from Creators' Codes of Best Practices | EDUCAUSE CONNECTI've only had a chance to look at the PowerPoint so far, but I'm planning to go back and listen to the recording. Fair use is always a sticky area.

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While I'm on a roll, I'd also like to recommend Why Science? by James Trefil. Trefil focuses on the current state of scientific (il-)literacy in the U.S. and makes recommendations for reforming science education.Trefil defines scientific literacy as "the matrix of knowledge neede to understand enough about the phyusical univers to deal with issues that come across our horizon, in the news or

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It takes me a while to get to things on pulp rather than in bytes, but I finally had a chance to read Randall Stross' Planet Google. It provides some fascinating insights - did you know that they taught Google's machine translator by feeding it pairs of documents prepared by the UN for training its human translators? (p. 82) By allowing the machine to analyze larger patterns rather than

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eLearn: Predictions for 2009This is a series of brief predictions from eLearning experts. It will be of interested to anyone involved in higher education.

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Information visualization is a trend that I watch.  Here's an interesting application...     Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Capitol Words: What Your Congress Person Really Talks About via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on 12/19/08 The Sunlight Foundation's mashup site Capitol Words relaunched this week and now offers a very handy way to see what keywords are being

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I went back and looked at my library's policy.   Not as bad as many below, but still could use a second look...     Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Ask-a-Librarian Services Need a Reboot via David Lee King by davidleeking on 1/6/09 What would you say if I told you that some libraries discriminate against a certain type of customer? That some customers, because of the way

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For some reason this video reminds me of web design by committee. ;-)     Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Death by Committee via The Shifted Librarian by jenny on 1/3/09 What would happen if the STOP sign was invented in 2008? Tell a friend - Watch more free videos [via Public Sector Marketing 2.0] No Tags     Things you can do from here: Subscribe to The Shifted Librarian

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I have to watch out for #1 and #6. Which ones are hampering you?     Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating in 2009 via Stephen's Lighthouse by stephen on 1/7/09 At the Heart of Innovation blog: The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating in 2009 1. I don't have the time. 2. I can't get the funding. 3. My boss will never go for it. 4. Were

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Stephen Abram posted a great blast from the past...    Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Telephones will hurt churches via Stephen's Lighthouse by stephen on 1/9/09 OMG, Don't you just love this?: Source: The Sky is Falling! Yep, the telephone will destroy churches and concert halls - but no worries - it'll lose out to phonographs! Why do predictions never foresee peaceful

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The thought of having a lifetime archive of keystrokes is both horrifying and fascinating. It reminds me of the Robin William's movie Final Cut. Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader: LifestreamBackup: Keeping a Copy of Your Posts, Tweets, Photos, and Morevia ReadWriteWeb by Rick Turoczy on 1/16/09Anyone who has ever crashed a computer without a backup knows the painful and arduous

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Another article from the back log. This opinion piece and the one it cites from the New York Times are must reads for anyone involved in general education and the undergraduate experience. Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader: “Oh, and You Have a Degree, Too?” via Weblogg-ed by Will Richardson on 12/29/08 I know I've been on this "do my kids really have to go to college?" bender

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Somehow I missed this the first time around. It might be an interesting exercise for an information literacy class.     Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Teaching by Lying: Professor Unveils 'Last Pirate' Hoax via Chronicle.com - Today's News on 12/19/08 A history professor at George Mason University asked his students to develop a fake story online to show them how to do

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Somehow I don't think our furniture budget line would cover this...     Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Emperor Workstation Priced at $40,000 [Workstation] via Gizmodo by Sean Fallon on 1/15/09 It's has been quite a while since we last heard about the Emperor Workstation, and everyone had to wonder how much this thing was going to cost. Well, try $40,000. If that figure sent a

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At risk of sounding catty, I think someone's been fishing without a pole:PETA's Latest - Fish Shall Now Be Called "Sea Kittens" - Slashfood

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Digging through the back files...Dec 22, 2008 Project Gutenberg Release Mobile Edition eBooks from ResourceShelf by resourceshelf From the blog post: PG Mobile is going to be a new addition to gutenberg.org, which will allow mobile/cell phone users to download and read eBooks. The files will be available on the normal download page of any PG eBook. Source: Project Gutenberg News (via

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Folks don't talk about this threat as much. Think about the online systems involved in every aspect of your life - banking, health care, stocks, etc. Brrr.'Cybergeddon' fear stalks US: FBIvia KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 1/6/09Computer attacks pose the biggest risk "from a national security perspective, other than a weapon of mass destruction or a bomb in one of our major

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Lorcan Dempsey has this article in the latest issue of First Monday:Always On: Libraries in a World of Continuous ConnectivitySet aside some time to digest this article thoroughly - it's an excellent overview of where our libraries should be moving.

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[Insert your own joke here...]Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Possible from Science Daily via KurzweilAI.net

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According to the 01/01/2009 issue of Information Today,  Google  paired with the CDC  to see if search patterns could be correlated with regional flu outbreaks.Read the background here:http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.htmlI'm going to keep a watch on the site this winter

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I'm trying to imagine teaching information literacy on a smart phone.Mobile Learning in Classrooms of the Future via Converge

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This parody is doubly funny since I'm interested in usability.YouTube - Digital Cable PSA via GizmodoMakes me think of the IRS forms!

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I wouldn't de-friend anyone in Facebook for a Whopper, but an amazon.com gift certificate might be a different story!   :-)Hobomodo: Sacrifice 10 Friends for a Free Whopper

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Next time I think I'm having a bad day, I'm going to remember this:Nsfw: Guy Gets Trapped on Ski Lift via GizmodoOh my.

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Human testing in shopping malls is next. ;-)Researchers Test Whether Sharks Enjoy Christmas Songsfrom Slashdot by samzenpusScientists plan to test whether sharks enjoy listening to Christmas pop songs, after US research showed fish could recognize melody. Chris Brown, senior marine biologist at the Loch Lomond aquarium, said seasonal music would be played through walkthrough underwater tunnels

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Here's one from the "How have I missed this?" corner.Flashcards: Ace Your Finals with Flashcards from Study Stackvia Lifehacker.The collection of flashcards is much bigger than I would have expected...

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I've seen a rash of "Nearest Book Meme" posts recently - here's how it works:Rules: * Get the book nearest to you. Right now. * Go to page 56. * Find the 5th sentence. * Write this sentence - either here or on your blog. * Copy these instructions as commentary of your sentence. * Don't look for your favorite book or your coolest but really the nearest."Cirrostratus is often a precursor

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This slideshow discusses Google's success from a different perspective...All about GoogleView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google strategy)

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Picture from http://icanhascheezburger.com/

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This is better than the Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint!***But can we send a vampire to Jane Austen?from Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education by Bryan AlexanderWeb 2.0 storytelling/Facebook satire continues, with Austenbook: For a previous instance of this sort of thing, there's Facebook Hamlet. (via MetaFilter)

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Talk about a practical search engine! Name is a bit inelegant, though!*******Sit or Squat Provides GPS Directions to the Nearest Bathroom [Quit Holding It]from Lifehacker by Jason FitzpatrickSitOrSquat is a web based index of public bathrooms. In addition to providing the basic map-mashup and rating system that other services like Diaroogle provide, Sit or Squat users can provide and browse

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I was a bit perplexed the first time I saw journal articles as results in a Google Book search.Here's why they showed up...Browse the PopSci and PopMech Archives On Google Books' New Magazine Search [The Good 'ol Days]from Gizmodo by John MahoneyGoogle has added the complete archives of several magazines, including Popular Science (est. 1872) and Popular Mechanics (est. 1905), to its books

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This is another catch-up post. Interesting article about companies who use Twitter rather than email for quick communications.Now, Brevity Is the Soul of Office Interaction via NYT > Technology on 11/22/08 Microblogging is gaining ground at work, becoming popular for both internal and external exchanges.

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This article discusses an experimental search tool called SearchTogether. I've been ruminating on this for a bit. Would it be useful to teach searching techniques in an information literacy class? Only downside is that it isn't entirely web-based. Requires a download...Novelties: The Online Search Party: A Way to Share the Load via NYT > Technology on 11/24/08 New tools are being

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Not that I advocate trying this at work, mind you.Napsounds Generates Daily Power Nap Soundtracks [Sleep]from Lifehacker by Jason FitzpatrickNapsounds is a repository of relaxing audio files designed for power napping. Every day a unique 20-minute track is generated in the electronic, classic, and nature sounds category. You can listen directly from the web site, download the track as an MP3,

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I met Michael Stephens at an Internet Librarian conference a number of years ago. Great ideas.Washington District Libraries: Future (Part II): Michael Stephens

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I like Thomas Frey's self description as an "idea junkie."Washington District Libraries: Future of Libraries: Thomas Frey

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I love this, but it wouldn't help me unless I could get my walls to expand too!    :-)REK bookcase folds out for expanding collections via Boing Boing Gadgets by John Brownlee on 12/4/08 I loved the Platzhalter bookcase we posted the other day, which split apart to reveal a nether layer of shelves for the more shameful reading you might not want prominently on display. But if I could have just

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Since my brain usually feels like Playdoh on Monday mornings, this article offers a ray of hope...Making an Old Brain Young via KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News on 11/30/08 New ways to manipulate neural plasticity--the brain's ability to rewire itself--could make adult brains as facile as young ones, at least in part. Drugs that target these mechanisms might eventually help treat

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At least once a week,  I see a site that makes me think, "How did I miss this?"     Wikimedia Commons is that site today...    Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Das Bundesarchiv and Wikimedia Commons via Lorcan Dempsey's weblog on 12/6/08 An announcement from Das Bundesarchiv (German National Archive) and Wikimedia Commons: Starting on Thursday Dec 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons will

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It's interesting to look at the top 100 sites and see how many you've visited...    Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     ://URLFAN - Perhaps The Best Influence Index on The Web via ReadWriteWeb by Richard MacManus on 11/30/08 ://URLFAN is an indexing service which ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. It's been around for a while, but we think it's reached the point

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I'm convinced that the only way to have privacy is to be relentlessly boring...You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? via NYT > Technology on 12/1/08 An emerging field called collective intelligence could create an Orwellian future on a level Big Brother could only dream of.

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I'm going to ponder the idea of improbable sources. Sometimes it's difficult to tell if you're dealing with an improbable source or a failure in your research intuition...    Sent to you by verwirrung via Google Reader:     Notes on Sources and Library Instruction via Academic Librarian by Wayne Bivens-Tatum on 11/10/08 I wanted this post to be about "the space between the sources," but after

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A little levity never hurts...Humor in the Classroom, or Wherever - Academic Librarian

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Wikipedia received a $890,000 grant from the Stanton Foundation.   I'd say they are taking Wikipedia seriously.Wikipedia Getting Makeover For First-Time Editors -- Wikipedia -- InformationWeekI had students in my Information Literacy class research alternative forms of energy this semester.   Wikipedia's Energy Portal outperformed most of our traditional sources.

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I could have used this for some of my students in past semesters...How To: Pronounce Names CorrectlyVery useful!

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Librarians start dancing information literacy concepts?    It's only a matter of time...Dancing Scientists Invade YouTube -- Bohannon 2008 (1120): 2 -- ScienceNOW

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CNN has been rife with references to Twitter  tweets in the last few weeks.   Here's some interesting commentary:I Can’t Believe Some People Are Still Saying Twitter Isn’t A News Source

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gOS Cloud: Search as Interface - John Battelle's SearchblogA $199 notebook computer with an operating system based on Google?   I'm interested!

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This ethical issue has generated a lot of buzz on library blogs:An ethical question involving ebooks | Thoughts by TedIf you desperately wanted an obscure text, what would you do?

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AltSearchEngines � Blog Archive � SortFix - Improve your (Christmas) SearchI shared this with my students.   Some of them loved it.  Others thought it looked childish.

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Truncation humor - gotta love it!I love librar* button | Library Stuff

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This fall I switched my blog reading from Bloglines to Google Reader.    I love it for reading feeds.   But I hate it for sharing posts.   Despite the fact that  both Blogger and Google Reader are owned by Google, there is no Google Reader button that allows you to share specific posts in a Blogger blog.    All you can do is add a clip (box)  that lists the latest "shared" posts from Google

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Wired Campus: Web Royalty Fees Could Close Pandora's�Box - Chronicle.comThis August 19, 2008 article is discouraging news. I'm quite fond of Pandora - particularly since they've started including classical music.

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With the gaps in publishing, I'm beginning to think I should have named this blog the Cicada Librarian, rather than the Squirrelly Librarian. That way I could post every 17 years!:-)

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Twitter for Librarians: The Ultimate Guide | College@HomeI'm not sure that I'm ready to put Twitter at the top of my tool list, but this blogger has some interesting suggestions for libraries.

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WikipediaVision (beta)I was scanning through old issues of CR&L News and came across this FastFacts recommendation by Gary Pattillo. It's a mashup that shows (almost) real-time edits to Wikipedia.

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There isn't a clear winner in my investigation of free citation management tools. Since Zotero does a good job of capturing EBSCOhost citations, I'll probably use it when I need to create bibliographies for public consumption. If only it was web-based and easily shareable...For my own purposes, I may squirrel citations of interest in Connotea...

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CiteULike is another web-based academic citation management system. My first impression is that the interface isn't quite as friendly as Connotea. It has several notable strengths. First, it is the most shareable tool. You can share your tags and collections and search those of other public collections. You can also see how many other people have linked to the same resources in one of

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Zotero is a Firefox plugin for citation management.It's main strength is its ability to extract citation information. I was able to extract it for EBSCOhost articles and web pages that had RDF information. It can't capture citation information most web pages or PDF files, but you can manually "Create a New Item from Current Page." When you create an item, it has fill-in templates for a

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I've been experimenting with free citation management tools for use with a sabbatical project. All of them have strengths and weaknesses.Connotea is a web-based service targeted at academics. Strengths include anywhere access, browser button for capture, ability to create multiple collections, private and public citations, and tagging. You can also import citations from other reference

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Wired Campus: Using Leisure Activities in Education Corrupts Learning Process, Paper�Argues - Chronicle.comWow. I'm never going to complain about my students' behavior again...

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This paper presented by Google scientists gives insight into the work they are doing to improving image searching.p307-jingA.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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Wired Campus: 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' Is Now Free to�Bloggers - Chronicle.comApparently Encyclopaedia Britannica is getting tired of everyone linking to Wikipedia articles. If you are a blogger, you can now get complimentary access to EB and an easy way to link to their articles instead. Direct link: britannicanet.com

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Tech Therapy - Episode 20: Professors and Technology: Helpless or Hopeless? - Chronicle.comInteresting discussion by Scott Carlson and Warren Arbogast about "learned helplessness." Gist is that faculty avoid new technology because they've learned to expect painful experiences.

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Support for Wikipedia comes from an unusual corner:Wired Campus: Publisher Compares Wikipedia to Oxford English�Dictionary - Chronicle.com

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The Internet Archive Keeps Book-Scanning FreeMuch as I love antiquarian books, here is a job I would not want to have long-term. It may have been the term "monastic" that got to me. :-)Vickie

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Pardon me while I go hide under my desk....Emerging Technology - Mobile and Wireless - The Most Dangerous New Technologies

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SXSW: The Psychology of Google Search - AppScoutJohn Wiley, Google's User Experience Designer, points to why our students may be reluctant to use library databases:"...a big part of a user's feeling toward a product stems from self esteem: When a UI is frustrating and users can't figure out how to use it correctly, they feel bad about themselves."(UI- User Interface)It doesn't get much simpler

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Wired Campus: Happy 'Rewire Your Life Day' - Chronicle.comToday is "Rewire Your Life Day" - celebrate it by staying off email. Slightly ironic -- I learned about this email avoidance day in a email!

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Google: No More Excuses for Not Doing Mobile WorkGoogle Gears API might be too technical for most of us to develop applications, but it's worth keeping an eye on. This blog posting from eWeek.com talks about creating code to use mobile device applications offline. This would allow cell phone and laptop users to continue doing some work, even without an Internet connection.

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Forget E-Mail: New Messaging Service Has Students and Professors Atwitter - Chronicle.comAre you ready to Twitter yet? I'm not sure I am. One of the things that is tough right now is figuring out which social networking sites to invest time in. I already have colleagues on Facebook, MySpace, Ning, and LinkedIn.

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Innovate: Online Teaching and Classroom Change: The Trans-Classroom Teacher in the Age of the InternetAs course management systems lead more of us to create hybrid classes (face-to-face plus online), our teaching styles are changing. This article surveys high school teachers, but the principles apply to higher education. The teachers described changes in their approaches to "class participation,

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Wired Campus: Clicker Devices Flunk Test by Giving Perfect�Scores - Chronicle.comHmm. Guess we don't want to use clickers for the November elections! :-)

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Wired Campus: A YouTube for�Documents? - Chronicle.comScribd is a site that I'll have to ponder a bit more. It's a document sharing social site complete with categories, most viewed, most popular, most commented, tag clouds, etc. A few preliminary thoughts:*Another place to check for plagiarized papers...sigh.*Class notes generated by professors at other institutions might be good study tools

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One of the dilemas for archiving journals is the valued-added content that appears on the journal web pages. Portico and various indexes mostly ignore it. I've subscribed to BBC Music Magazine for years. Recently they've started issuing a monthly digital version. Here's an example:http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1G47ab243fb1c0d012.cde(Flip back a few pages and look for "click to listen" and

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