Monthly Archives: December 2007

new things for 2008… crystal ball gazing with opensource, social networking, digital identity, and more aka the predictions.

robinna/ December 31, 2007/ social media, semantic web, opensource, that's cool, twitter, XHTML/XML/CSS, networking, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

I was poking around trying to find a better video editor, when I stumbled across an opensource project called, Jahshaka. Jahshaka is positioning itself as being a fullbodied product that can compete with such software as finalcut pro (wow!). Not sure about that, because I could never (ever, ever) get the windows installer to work properly. Maybe if I had

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Blogs you should read

robinna/ December 20, 2007/ Design/ 0 comments

On one library list, there is an ongoing discussion about library related or librarian blogs that librarians should be reading. I’m sure everyone has their favorites.  I read a lot of nonlibrary tech blogs that I find interesting and I participate in a couple of lists that do not have blogs. Anyhow here is my library related reading list: Catalogablog, http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/

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Google takes on about.com? wikipedia?

robinna/ December 16, 2007/ web 2.0+/ 0 comments

Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. from Google Blog, athttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html more athttp://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html Sounds interesting. I’ve contributed sporatically to wikipedia,

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laptop woes

robinna/ December 12, 2007/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

HP has identified a hardware issue with certain HP Pavilion dv6000, HP Pavilion dv9000 and Compaq Presario V6000 series notebook PCs. If you own an HP Pavilion dv6000, HP Pavilion dv9000 or Compaq Presario V6000 series computer that meets the product criteria listed below and experiences one or more of the symptoms listed below, contact HP to determine whether you

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Various web bits – Firefox3.0, image editing online, and make your own comix

robinna/ December 5, 2007/ social media, webdesign, tools/tips, my art, Search engines/browsers/ 0 comments

Good overview of Firefox3.0 in terms of web editing is located here I uploaded a rather large (and upside down) photo to pixenate, a free online web editing tool that even works with facebook.Pixenate tools include zoom, crop, resize, rotate, red eye, whiten, saturation, a few other features. Pretty nifty and easy to use. When you’ve finished, you can import

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