Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Internet Librarian 2007: I’m *not* blogging this

// October 29th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Conferences, Libraries

With apologies to David Lee King… :)

I have seen a dozen or so library bloggers at Internet Librarian thus far, and I’m not even done with the first day. Because I have seen so many stellar bloggers here, I’m not going to be writing up the sessions that I attend. It would be redundant, and frankly, I think “live blogging” is pretty pointless. If I am particularly moved to write a summary or if I’m struck by an original thought inspired by my fellow attendees or speakers, you’ll hear more from me. And doesn’t that make you feel great?

One moment I do want to share occurred in today’s Q&A session after the “Integrating Libraries & Communities Online” panel. When asked how to respond to the inevitable question about whether to filter naughty or nasty comments posted to a library log, John Blyberg replied: “Is your library really going to be held hostage by something that somebody *might* do?” He later suggested waiving fines if a patron writes 10 reviews as an incentive to them to participate. As they say on twitter, @jblyberg FTW!

How addicted are you?

// August 27th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Web Stuff

I was surprised at my score…
82%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?

Found via TTW via Library Garden. eep.

Lots in the to_blog folder to write about… Uh, is that a symptom?

Embedding Podcasts from Archive.org

// July 3rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Libraries, Web Stuff

I posted yesterday about the launch of Learning 2.0 here @ EKU Libraries. One hitch that I had was that the podcast I had created at Odeo would selectively play in Internet Explorer. Rather than figure out how to make Internet Explorer play nicely with others, I decided to look for a better solution. I didn’t readily find a post about this on the web, so I feel compelled to share. This post presumes you are using archive.org to host your mp3 files, but I’m sure this could be adapted for other sites. Don’t hold me to that.

Step 1: Find the location of your mp3 file on archive.org

: Upload your audio file to archive.org and view its web page.

: View the source of this page.

: Locate the <embed> tag and copy the entire string after src= (minus the quotaiton marks).

Step 2: Alter this code

<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0″ width=”400″ height=”15″ id=”xspf_player” align=”middle”><param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”sameDomain” /><param name=”movie” value=”YOUR STRING FROM ARCHIVE.ORG GOES HERE /><param name=”quality” value=”high” /><param name=”bgcolor” value=”#e6e6e6″ /><embed src=”YOUR STRING FROM ARCHIVE.ORG GOES HERE” quality=”high” bgcolor=”#e6e6e6″ width=”400″ height=”15″ name=”xspf_player” align=”middle” allowScriptAccess=”sameDomain” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” /></embed></object>

: Paste your string in two places as illustrated above: in the “value” string in the “param name=’movie’” section and in the “src” string in the <embed> tag.

: Add http://archive.org before both pasted strings, since the strings in the code from that web site were relative links. Without the http: string, your browser will look on the current web server for these files, rather than at archive.org.

Step 2A: remove line breaks in the code you just copied

Blogger seems to have trouble sometimes with pasted code. It apparently has to do with its interpreting line breaks as end-of-lines, or perhaps it’s the opposite. To fix this, I pasted the code into a text editor (Windows: notepad; Mac: Textedit or BBedit) and removed all line breaks, making this one long line of text.

Step 3: paste your altered code into your blog post or web page. This works for blogger; haven’t tried it for anything else.

Pages used in this codilicious hackdown:

oddities of web searching, or, my popularity really is a freak accident

// May 23rd, 2007 // No Comments » // Web Stuff

Warning: serious navel-gazing to follow.

A colleague of mine turned me on to MyBlogLog yesterday, and I am immediately addicted. Entries from this blog turn up in the weirdest places! Today’s artifacts:

1. My post lamenting the “return” of Andy Kaufman is hit #2 (second to the Wikipedia entry) when searching Google for “andy kaufman god.” God is the title of a play that he wrote. My post has nothing to do with the play. [ftr: "dipship" is an obvious typo that I'm choosing not to correct :) ]

2. My post linking to Eric Faden’s short film “A Fair(y) Use Tale” is the first hit in a Google search for “fairy use stanford.” Above Youtube! How strange is that??

Getting under the hood

// May 20th, 2007 // No Comments » // Web Stuff

As RSS and blogging services have grown and changed, I have not kept up. I am still using the original Blogger template from (*gasp*) 2003. I tried (and really loved) MovableType, but I don’t have access to it anymore. So, I’m going to roll up my sleeves and tinker with the innards of this yere blog over the next couple of days.

I’m warning you because I’m liable to break things. I’m good at breaking things. Luckily, I’m pretty good at fixing them, though I do seem to be plagued with the generally-male, have-a-screw-leftover-and-don’t-know-where-it-goes syndrome. So if you see weird things happening here, please apply a liberal amount of patience and come back later.

Step 1. Sign up for Feedburner account. (done)
Step 2. Optimize template for Feedburnerdom. (working…)
Step 3. Identify Step 3. (suggestions welcome)

(NB: this entry was written while this blog was hosted on blogspot.com)