Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Falling in Love with an Author
This comic is from the Unshelved series at OverdueMedia.com. Very funny comics–something that EVERY librarian should have in their RSS feeds. And be sure to visit their online store, which has books of comics, shirts, hats, and more!
No Comments » - Posted in Humor, Libraries by pfitz
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Roller Coaster Home Prices
Here’s a TERRIFIC use of available technologies to illustrate a concept. Someone has take the housing prices from 1890 to the present, adjusted them for inflation, plotted the chart, and then used Rollercoaster Tycoon to make a rollercoaster ride version of the chart. GREAT idea. And kinda scary to see how much it fluctuates [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Technology by pfitz
Friday, April 20th, 2007
La Vida Google
Here’s a great article from Wired Magazine (online). The writer chronicles his test of using ONLY Google applications for all office functions (email, calendar, docs, spreadsheets, IM, RSS, notebook, etc.). The point was not only to see how good Google’s products had become, but also to test whether an office could work well using only [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Technology by pfitz
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Google Purchases OCLC
Here’s a great post that I read YESTERDAY at ALA TechSource. Who’d have thought it would finally happen?
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