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a survey and a carnival

A couple of quick reminders:

if you haven’t already done so, hop on over and fill in the Libraries Build Communities survey put together by Steven Cohen and Chrystie Hill in preparation for their book.
I have a few submissions, but it’s not too late to send me your blog posts for the Carnival! Send submissions [...]

RSS2S5

If you’re looking to turn your blog into a web-based slideshow presentation, Pascal Van Hecke has a nice little script that will make it happen for you (this was published last Fall, just found it). Simply input your RSS feed and the script converts your last 10 posts into a slideshow using S5, which is [...]

the carnival grounds…

This week’s Carnival of the Infosciences is up at Library Stuff. I’m hosting next week’s installment (my very first time as ring leader!), so send your submissions to amanda AT blogwithoutalibrary.net. Early and often!

what a difference a week makes

It was 7 days ago that I put up the Blogging Libraries Wiki and in that time there have been 80 edits (not by me) — new blogs added (the majority), dead blogs removed, typos fixed, links fixed, recategorization where necessary. I can honestly say that in the two and a half years I have [...]

wikified

Over the past few months, I’ve been debating the future of the list of blogging libraries I maintain on this site. For me, the two crucial questions that needed answering were: is the list still valuable and are people using it? Just as I was about to pose those questions here, I received a small [...]