Here’s your chance to provide feedback on the new American Library Association website design. They’ll take you through about ten screenshots of the new design and then ask you to fill out a survey. It should take between 10-15 minutes.
If you have time, be sure to check it out!
[from LITA Blog]
If you’re not sure why photo sharing sites like Flickr are so big or how they work, here’s a brief video that explains it “in Plain English.”
[from Tame the Web]
If you’re like me, I was upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 and am still trying to remember where some common commands are. Microsoft has an interactive guide. It opens a screenshot of Word 2003; you click on the function you need to find in Word 2007; it opens a screenshot of Word 2007 and shows [...]
More and more people are starting to blog conferences. This is great for those of us that can’t get to all the conferences. Since this is relatively new, some are better at it than others. Giussani and Zuckerman created a document that will be a great help — Tips for Conference Bloggers. It’s only 6 [...]
At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Conference, the Library and Information Technology Association is again hosting its “Top Technology Trends” panel. In the last few years, the panelists have begun posting their trends on their blogs before the session. This is wonderful for two reasons:
If you’re attending the meeting, you can think about [...]
Alienware has brought together four monitors to create one, long curved monitor. Geared toward gamers, it is very fast and provides an immersive experience. It’s a prototype right now, but should be available later this year.
[from Gizmodo]
The Environmental Protection Agency will be starting a public education campaign — called “Recycle Your Cellphone. It’s An Easy Call” — asking us to recycle our old cell phones. Current partners include AT&T, Best Buy, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Office Depot, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Sprint, Staples, and T-Mobile.
Some of these companies already have recycling programs [...]
Both Google and Yahoo provide a year-end summary of the types of searches done throughout the year. Most of the summaries provide little new, but bringing it all together allows you to consider the year as a whole.
Google’s 2007 Zeitgeist is divided into five major parts:
Overall — fastest rising and fastest falling searches
Newsmakers –most popular, [...]
According to Wired:
Tom Drapeau, AOL’s director of the Netscape brand, announced in a blog post Friday that AOL will cease development on all Netscape web browsers on February 1, 2008. The company will continue to support the current version of the browser, Netscape 9, by releasing patches or security fixes until that date. After February [...]
Ellyssa Kroski has culled the 2,000 extensions for Firefox and provided three lists that can be helpful for librarians and within libraries:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
There are 40 extensions in each list and they run the gamut — have fun!
[from LibrarianInBlack]
