random musings from a serialist
“Google Sightseeing takes you to the best tourist spots in the world via Google Maps’ satellite imagery.” I am continually amazed at what can and is being done with free stuff online. I guess when you’re stuck behind a computer screen all day, “Why bother seeing the world for real?” [thanks emily]
“Google Sightseeing takes you to the best tourist spots in the world via Google Maps’ satellite imagery.”
I am continually amazed at what can and is being done with free stuff online. I guess when you’re stuck behind a computer screen all day, “Why bother seeing the world for real?” [thanks emily]
In case you haven’t heard, indie rock label Sub Pop offers a variety of RSS feeds: multimedia downloads, label news, and artist/band tour dates (including feeds for specific states/countries and artists/bands). The multimedia downloads are a mix of Quicktime and mp3 files, and I don’t know what that might do to your iPod or other … Continue reading “feeds for indie rock fans”
In case you haven’t heard, indie rock label Sub Pop offers a variety of RSS feeds: multimedia downloads, label news, and artist/band tour dates (including feeds for specific states/countries and artists/bands). The multimedia downloads are a mix of Quicktime and mp3 files, and I don’t know what that might do to your iPod or other portable digital audio music player.
(This just reminded me that I had a dream last night about owning an iPod. Hm.)
Jessamyn asks, “Man, is everyone using WordPress nowadays?” Nope. I thought about it briefly when MT 3.0D came out and there was a big to-do over the license pricing tiers, but now that MT allows one author with three blogs under the free license, I’m covered for all I need. I have this blog, my … Continue reading “wordpress”
Jessamyn asks, “Man, is everyone using WordPress nowadays?”
Nope. I thought about it briefly when MT 3.0D came out and there was a big to-do over the license pricing tiers, but now that MT allows one author with three blogs under the free license, I’m covered for all I need. I have this blog, my blog of playlists from when I did college radio, and a test blog that I hardly use as I find that test index pages for this blog works just as well. Though, if I ever need more than one author or a bunch of blogs, I’ll probably switch to WordPress.
Attention systems administrators for libraries that use III’s Millenium or INNOPAC! If you haven’t heard about it already, there is a way to create a Firefox/Mozilla plugin that will make your catalog an option within the browser’s search box. Corey Seeman has the instructions posted on his website, as well as a slideshow-turned PDF graphical … Continue reading “search your opac with firefox”
Attention systems administrators for libraries that use III’s Millenium or INNOPAC! If you haven’t heard about it already, there is a way to create a Firefox/Mozilla plugin that will make your catalog an option within the browser’s search box. Corey Seeman has the instructions posted on his website, as well as a slideshow-turned PDF graphical overview.
Cool! I just noticed that I can grab an Atom feed for my Gmail inbox. After doing a quick search on this, it seems that I’m about four months behind on this news. I probably won’t use this, since I hit my feed aggregator once or twice a day. I much prefer the Gmail Notifier … Continue reading “gmail atom feed”
Cool! I just noticed that I can grab an Atom feed for my Gmail inbox. After doing a quick search on this, it seems that I’m about four months behind on this news.
I probably won’t use this, since I hit my feed aggregator once or twice a day. I much prefer the Gmail Notifier sitting my systems tray.
The upgrade from MT 2.661 to MT 3.15 was fairly painless.
The upgrade from MT 2.661 to MT 3.15 was fairly painless. The only problem I’ve run into is with my main index template. I tried to clean up the code and put in the MT 3.5 stuff, but the result is not playing nice-nice with my style sheet. Any suggestions?
I must say, it sure is nice to have the style editing buttons available in Firefox!
I’ve been thinking that with all of the recent improvements and bug fixes for MovableType, I should at least consider upgrading.
I’ve been thinking that with all of the recent improvements and bug fixes for MovableType, I should at least consider upgrading. So I went to the website to see what it would cost me. Lo and behold, they’ve changed the pricing and I missed the memo! For a personal user with up to three weblogs, it doesn’t cost a cent. Of course, if you want more authors and unlimited weblogs, it’s going to cost some. I went ahead and downloaded the full version of MT 3.15, and eventually I’ll get it installed.
I have more Gmail invitations to give away. I seem to have a never-ending supply of Gmail invites now, and all of my friends who want one have them, so from now on, they will be put in the isnoop.net’s gmail invite spooler.
I have more Gmail invitations to give away. If you would like a Gmail account, send me an email. You can also post a comment on this entry, but comments get closed after a while.
Update 1/25/05: I seem to have a never-ending supply of Gmail invites now, and all of my friends who want one have them, so from now on, they will be put in the isnoop.net’s gmail invite spooler.
Do all the cool techie librarians already have one of these and I’m just the last one to hear about them?
Do all the cool techie librarians already have one of these and I’m just the last one to hear about them? I really need to catch up on my blog reading.
Peter Brinkley of the University of Alberta Libraries has developed a Firefox extension that adds an OpenURL button to Google Scholar search results.[web4lib] “The purpose is to enable users at an institution that has an OpenURL link-resolver to use that resolver to locate the full text of articles found in Google Scholar, instead of relying … Continue reading “openurl, firefox, and google scholar”
Peter Brinkley of the University of Alberta Libraries has developed a Firefox extension that adds an OpenURL button to Google Scholar search results.[web4lib]
“The purpose is to enable users at an institution that has an OpenURL link-resolver to use that resolver to locate the full text of articles found in Google Scholar, instead of relying on the links to publishers’ websites provided by Google. This is important because it solves the “appropriate copy problem”: the link to a publisher’s site is useless if you don’t have a subscription that lets you into that site, and your library may provide access to the same article in an aggregator’s package or elsewhere.”
From all appearances, this is a fantastic tool that embraces Google while still providing even more of that useful service that librarians do. If you have an OpenURL link resolver that you are able to tweak like SFX, go for it! (Next step, educate your users about Firefox….)
Update: One of the library coding gods, Art Rhyno, has developed a bookmarklet that prepends your library’s proxy server URL string to the links in the Google Scholar results. That’s another work-around if you don’t have an OpenURL link resolver. If it’s something your library gets, then you’ll get passed through authenticated to the full-text content. If not, then you can obtain access or the content some other way.
One snag I seen in all of this is that depending on how your proxy server is set up, this may not work. Some libraries *cough*UofKY*cough* use a proxy server that requires the user to make modifications to their web browser before authenticating them. I’m not sure whether or not this would cause confusion for the users who haven’t done that modification.
