Monthly Archives: November 2007

1511, 2007

tagging the art world

robinna/ November 15, 2007/ Cataloging/ 0 comments

A couple of interesting tagging (folksonomies, not graffiti!) projects from the arts/museum world: Steve MuseumSteve Museum is a largescale tagging project which is supported by an ILMS grant. Partners include the Met and the Guggenheim. Article about the Steve Museum project and tagging:http://www.archimuse.com/mw2006/papers/wyman/wyman.html Steve Musuem (tagging also links to research, working papers, etc.)http://www.steve.museum/ development site:http://trac.steve.museum/ The Cleveland Museum of Art

1311, 2007

For you widgets fiends…

robinna/ November 13, 2007/ Technology/ 0 comments

What a great list of widget resources including instructions for wordpress widgets from supercrazylibrarianguy > Widgets, Widgetbox Great! Now, I don’t have to write any. ;-D

1211, 2007

Best web authoring tools for new web editors

robinna/ November 12, 2007/ software, Design, CMS, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS/ 0 comments

Occasionally, I answer a question and I think, hmmm… maybe I should turn that into a blog post… In response to a question on the best web authoring tool for someone just getting started — under consideration – a content management system (CMS) such as drupal as well as creating individual webpages. To CMS or not?I think it depends on

1111, 2007

a better notepad.

robinna/ November 11, 2007/ software, webdesign/ 0 comments

wow, a much better notepad than notepad! this thing rocks.

1011, 2007

What happened to the personal webpage?

robinna/ November 10, 2007/ Design/ 0 comments

Interesting post in ACRL’s blog about the personal webpage vs. blog. The sample of prominent (legacy) academic librarians I chose suggests that traditional web site content may be a bit more commonplace among that crowd, but certainly blogs are quite limited. While I found more of the blogging academic librarians less likely to have well-developed web sites, I found more

0611, 2007

more blog fun

robinna/ November 6, 2007/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

okay, even more silly things for your blog: customizable images, logos, etc. are located over at image chef

0511, 2007

google vs. yahoo (interesting little visual)

robinna/ November 5, 2007/ tools/tips, web 2.0+, yahoo/ 0 comments

Sometimes I find the most interesting things on the internet… A cliché true, but I found this little google vs. yahoo comparison today. I’ve no idea of its accuracy (but I would think it probably is), but a very neat little tool to compare results ranking for a particular term in yahoo vs. google.

0311, 2007

Just silly

robinna/ November 3, 2007/ Technology/ 0 comments

Well, if you’re in need of something silly to post to your blog, or perhaps, you wish you lived in the days of the Charleston, check out this.

0211, 2007

digital identity

robinna/ November 2, 2007/ life 2.0+/ 0 comments

One of the things that I think will become even more important in the future, is developing and controlling your personal digital identity. In googling my name, I mostly find stuff that I have put out there at the top (I own my domain namesake), but then there are other things which are not me, too. A couple of doctors,