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word clouds

I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading into social bookmarking, tagging and folksonomies for an article I’m working on, so imagine my delight when I came upon SnapShirts. Enter your URL and it generates a word cloud, which you can then have printed on a T-shirt. Brilliant! The image at left is [...]

course update

As a follow-up to the intro to blogs/RSS course I taught last Fall through the Education Institute, I’m teaching another 6-weeker this Spring called Getting the Most Out of Blogs, RSS and Other Web 2.0 Technologies. This time, I’m focusing on:

blog design, usability, content
creating content and style guidelines for library blogs (especially multi-author blogs)
marketing [...]

bwal.net feed

Thanks to Greg for letting me know that my feed redirect wasn’t working (the one I changed about a year ago!). It looks like it’s redirecting properly now, but for anyone still subscribed to the old feed (feed.xml), the new one is at http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/wp-rss2.php. I plan to keep the redirect going for a while, [...]

blogsearch for library love

One of the ways I’m using Google’s Blog Search is to find blogs with the word “library” in post titles (via feed, of course). Why? A couple of reasons: (1) it helps find new library blogs for the list; and (2) it brings up posts about libraries from random bloggers. Posts that [...]