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I had the pleasure of presenting today at the Minnesota Library Association’s annual conference in Mankato. My presentation was called “Podcasts, Screencasts, and Social Media”, and it was sponsored by MLA’s Academic and Research Libraries Division and the Public Libraries Division.
My slides are available here, and here are relevant links.
Screencast links:
Camtasia – http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Captivate – http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/
Jing [...]

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Rosenfeld and Morville’s Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd ed. remains the most canonical text for the study of information architecture. I intended to use it as the centerpiece of my independent study, as I’ve regularly skimmed it and used it as a reference, but have never made a systematic effort to read [...]

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Oof. I’ve been very remiss in my updates. Look for more posts in the next few days. First things first, though, here’s an update on 12-in-12.
In February, I read Just for Fun, by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond. Overall, I really enjoyed it. Readers who are expecting a line-by-monospaced line breakdown of the birth of [...]

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