Twitter Search In Plain English from Common Craft

Common Craft has posted another great video on how to use some of the more popular web 2.0 services — this one on Twitter Search.

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Planning for Success Cookbook

If you haven’t yet seen it, MaintainIT has posted their third cookbook for technology in libraries — Planning for Success.  This time they are focusing on maintaining and sustaining the technology in your library.  Major sections include:

Planning and Decision-Making
Communication and Partnerships
Buying and Deploying Technology
Maintaining and Sustaining Technology
Networking and Security
Innovation, e.g., free/open source tools, gaming, Web [...]

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Library APIs

Thanks to Roy Tennant!  He’s created a list of library APIs – a great place to start!
[from Catalogablog]

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More Tech Words Into the Dictionary

Merriam-Webster has added a few more technical terms to their dictionary.  You can now find:

webinar
malware
netroots
pretexting
fanboy

The key for including new words:
M-W says it picks the new dictionary entries only after it starts to see the words used over time without explanation or translation.
Good to know that these words are starting to become part of our vocabulary. [...]

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Museums are Tagging!

For some time, 8 museums have been asking museum-goers to tag their collections in an attempt to see if tagging improves access to their collections.  The answer was a definite “yes”, so the museum community is continuing down this road.
The project, called “steve,” is also a set of open-source tagging tools.  ”Steve” is not an [...]

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Adding Functionality to Your Website

Engagedpatrons.org was created for public libraries to add functionality to their websites that will encourage community interaction.  Each service is meant to be easily added to your website – no programming necessary.  Currently, they are offering:

Library Events — also includes searching, online registration, email alerts for patrons, RSS feeds
Library Blogs — basic blog functionality, but [...]

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Proposals Over Twitter

Twitter, a service that allows you to send very short messages to one another, now has at been part of at least two marriage proposals.
March 2
@stefsull – “ok. for the rest of the twitter-universe (and this is a first, folks) – WILL YOU MARRY ME?”
@garazi – OMG – Ummmmm… I guess in front of the [...]

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“In Plain English” Videos

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 [...]

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100 Cheat Sheets

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]

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Scriblio

Some of you may remember WPopac, a proof of concept project from Casey Bisson.  He wanted to see if it would be possible to run the public access catalog through blogging software, e.g., WordPress, thereby bringing some of the blogging functionality to the catalog.
Since then, he has been working with a few others to create [...]

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