CAPTCHAs are a test that is supposed to identify you as a real person as opposed to a computer program. Here’s an example from Google’s Blogger:
Until lately, this seemed to be working. However, some of these CAPTCHAs have been cracked — those from Windows Live Hotmail and Gmail. Websense Security Labs also states that there [...]
Ever want to know if your friends and colleagues actually click on the links you send them? LinkBlip will let you know.
This could be really helpful. You give the service your email address and the address of the web page. LinkBlip gives you a new URL to use in your email, blog, website, etc. When [...]
Walt Crawford has analyzed hundreds of public and academic library blogs. He then provides metrics in two separate reports based on the active blogs he’s found. Both reports are quite interesting. See where you fit in!
Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples — $20 for download; $29.50 for paperback
Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples — [...]
It’s coming! In other countries, television programs and videos are already streamed to cell phones. However, here in the United States, it’s a little different.
NBC Universal and News Corp. have banded together to provide Hulu, a free Internet service which provides television shows and movies over the web. Some of their partners [...]
If you’ve seen one of the “In Plain English” videos created by Common Craft, you’ll remember it. Using basic tools like paper, scissors, drawings and a creative mind, they create videos that explain complex ideas.
If you’re wondering what these topics are and have a few minutes to spare, you will be rewarded:
Twitter
Online Photo Sharing
Blogs
Social [...]
The Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet: Everthing from HTML and CSS to MySQL and Perl to Blogger and WordPress to general web technology. Definitely worth a look.
[from TechEssence.info]
If you’re familiar with blogs and blogging, you’ve probably heard of permalinks. This service creates a permanent URL for each post in a blog.
The Library of Congress now has created a permanent URL for each record that contains a Library of Congress Control Number — an LCCN Permalink. This should make it much easier to [...]
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 [...]
Ken Varnum has started a list of websites in which libraries are experimenting with technologies, similar to Google Labs. The Directory of Experimental Library Tools includes 14 libraries which have a domain or sub-domain set aside just for experimentation. For some, you can subscribe to a feed to keep up with what they are doing.
If [...]
Nielsen Media Research issued their Top Ten Lists for 2007. Within it, they cited a study of the number of adults who read or contributed to a blog in a 30-day period of time. The top cities were:
Austin, TX: 15%
Portland, OR: 14%
San Francisco Bay area, CA: 13%
Seattle, WA: 13%
Honolulu, HI: 12%
San Diego, CA: [...]
