Posted by: scottmccord on: October 29, 2008
So far it does, anyway. I’m hoping to have better luck in the future. But I have frustrations so far that equal those of some of my fellow mac users, such as Jeffra Bussman. There are not a lot of free applications out there for us. I have been trying two of them, and so [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 22, 2008
I have been using iTunes, both on PC’s and Macs, for podcast subscription and organization for a couple of years. My regular list has included several regularly updated entries from NPR such as To The Best of Our Knowledge, This American Life and It’s All Politics. Also included: CBC’s The Best of Ideas, The Yale [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 21, 2008
Okay, so I’m getting pushy. I’m not going to say too much about this one. I gave up on using GarageBand pretty quickly to create my second podcast. And I explain why within the podcast. I have not made many changes to the process except for a change in the player settings. I want to [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 21, 2008
First things first: I want to express my gratitude to fellow 246 student Israel Yanez, both for suggesting the podpress plugin and for being willing to talk about its usage on his own time. As plugins go, this is one of the easier to activate. There is generally no need to edit theme or plugin [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 15, 2008
I had never chatted with a librarian online before. And now that I think about it, I wonder if “chatting” is sometimes a rather unfortunate description for such an activity. The term de facto for it is indeed “online chat.” But this is a wide category that contains variations on user experience and sometimes stretches [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 10, 2008
After many failed attempts to get the Meebo Me widget properly embedded in my old sidebar – first the old WP-Andreas theme did not include a dynamic left sidebar, then its right sidebar was too narrow to accommodate even a medium-sized IM widget – I finally settled on a new blog theme. So far, I [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 7, 2008
It doesn’t belong in the blogroll. I need to create another link category. The Nietzsche Family Circus is hosted online by some L.A. based publication called Losanjealous; the site generates random quotes from the telegraphic nineteenth-century German philosopher as captions for Bil Keane’s charming single-circle comic family. Every time the page is refreshed a new [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 5, 2008
I spoke a little last week about the virtues of LibraryThing as a social network site for librarians. But the hook is vanity, pure vanity. I joined in January this year, just for the sake of cataloguing my own little library. And to me it is not so little. We are talking hundreds of books [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 1, 2008
I have been whining latelyabout the scramble for popularity on Facebook. Of course this really is whining, and it lends short shrift to the possibilities involved with networking (I hereby resolve to stop calling it “social networking” as I find that particular phrase redundant). My colleague in LIBR 246, Michael Nack, recently posted this article [...]
Posted by: scottmccord on: October 1, 2008
A great thing is Libraything. This site, dedicated mostly to individual library catalogs (much as Flickr is dedicated to individual photo catalogs) also offers a networking environment, a form of Web 2.0. Like Flickr, MySpaceand Facebook, interest groups are encouraged to emerge. The relevant group for this post is Libraians Who Librarything. The home page [...]
