Tag Archive | websites
New website for SLA Europe
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have seen I spent most of my day tweeting about this shiny new website. I hope you’ll forgive me for putting another plug for it here, just in case anyone hasn’t seen it yet! I have my own reasons for wanting to promote the new site – as […]
So long, and thanks for all the spinning GIFs
The sad demise of Geocities a few days ago has got me thinking about the problems with using free services to host your data. The first I’d heard of Geocities shutting down was xkcd‘s commemorative redesign on Monday (screenshot), and I have to admit it did give me a twinge of nostalgia – I’m fairly […]
Wikipedia to Colour Code Untrustworthy Text
Now this looks interesting: apparently Wikipedia are introducing a new gadget to colour-code text according to how long it’s remained unedited, and how reliable the editor is (based on how long their edits persist). Obviously it won’t be perfect: the developers admit that “If 20 people are all biased in one way, our tool does […]
Mashed Libraries 2009: Mash Oop North!
Note: I actually wrote most of this on the train on the way home from Huddersfield last Tuesday, but due to my insanely busy week have only just managed to get it finished off! Will be blogging my last two days at CILIP Umbrella next, will try and get that up a little quicker… Just […]
Access Denied!
I have mentioned previously about the rather restrictive IT and communications policy at my new work place. Having actually started there now, I thought I might comment on how it works in practice. The first point to note is that an awful lot of sites are actually blocked. There doesn’t seem to be a particularly […]
SLA 2009: 60 sites in 60 minutes
Next up, I spent a very entertaining hour with John DiGilio (Reed Smith) and Gayle Lynn-Nelson (LexisNexis), going through “60 sites in 60 minutes” (although we did overrun a little – but I doubt anyone minded!). The sites were divided into 10 categories: Blogs, Resources, Research & Reference, Travel, Technology, Search, News & Info, Consumer, […]
