Well, this looks kind of like a neat alternative to pull in feeds, pix, etc. pageflakes:http://www.pageflakes.com …and if that doesn’t look interesting, maybe netvibes will.http://www.netvibes.com/
Ok, I realize I haven’t done a project update here in a while. so here goes (in addition to managing staff, project management, resolving complex problems, etc. in other words the day to day): Continuing work with the CRDL (Civil Rights Digital Library) in the portal design. I think the metadata issues have been resolved which now means it’s time
a good and brief overview of what web 2.0 means and how the whole thing happened.what is web 2.0?
cool.
yahoo pipes (rss feed & aggregator)http://pipes.yahoo.com/ and 360 which seems set to take on umm. myspace(? facebook?)http://360.yahoo.com/ …and then there is new aol video website which also has taken the place of the wonderful multimedia search engine, singing fish. From what I’ve read elsewhere, singingfish was purchased by aol in 2003, but they have just recently taken down the whole
Here are a couple of swell ideas about tagging the library catalog. The first generates tags based upon subject headings from the catalog by using a particular table in the db. http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/127/ and then there are user contributed tags:http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ It seems that ajax is the magic.
dappithttp://www.dappit.com/extract content from websites google image namerhttp://images.google.com/imagelabeler/Basically, it’s a fun way for google to help improve their image search results. and of course, 43places.http://www.43places.com
So, I’m still investigating a CMS (Content Management System) for the libraries web editors. A CMS is just a easy way to get content onto the web, without having to do much in the way of design. Blogger in some senses is a very primitive (primitive because it is limited in what it can do) CMS. Unfortunately, my quick and
well, at least to yahoo, google, etc. http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb060717-1.shtml
Know it all: Can Wikipedia Conquor Expertise?’ http://tinyurl.com/gckod Excerpt:On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred