http://www.andymorton.org Life, Libraries, Tech... Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:01:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Being a space buff, I'm blown away by this Nasa video, (picked up by the BadAstronomy blog). This is the first recording of this event from "the other side." http://www.andymorton.org/2008/07/18/lunar-transit-of-earth-from-31-million-miles/ My director, Jim Rettig, is currently the President-elect of the American Library Association. I had the idea of creating a mashup of his travel itinerary for the year to help the library community visualize where he'll be appearing over the course of the next year. The result is below. View Larger ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/05/21/jim-rettigs-travel-schedule-for-20082009/ This week's tip that I've sent out to our staff focuses on digital photo management. Now that warm weather is here, I'm sure more people will be breaking out their digital camera for vacations, cookouts, family gatherings, etc. Check it out at my *other* blog. :-) - Friday TechTips http://www.andymorton.org/2008/05/02/friday-techtip-digital-photo-rodeo-pt-1/ I participated in a focus group tonight for a local radio station and based on the song selection, I'm 100% sure it's our classic rock station. The songs ranged from 80s hair metal to 60s protest songs, with singer/songwriters from the 70s, Southern Rock and New Wave all thrown in ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/04/30/mainstream-music/ So a few weeks ago, I began distributing tech tips every Friday afternoon to our library staff via our internal mailing list. My goal in doing this is to share some of the more helpful web services and tools that I come across on a regular basis. Recently ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/04/25/techtips-blog/ The following scenario has recently happened to me on multiple occasions on different WinXP systems: I visit weather.com Type in my zip code for local weather I switch to radar view to see how close the weather system du jour is ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/04/14/microsoft-virtual-earth-maps-crashes-my-ie/ Use wikis for internal library communication, collaborative tools for larger organizations (and reach out to users). Must define a purpose for the wiki or a problem it can solve. Built a reference wiki to maintain internal docs; using Biz Wiki for business subject guide. Pick the right solution - see http://wikimatrix.org to choose ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/04/08/highlights-from-wikis-managing-marketing-and-making-them-work/ There have been massive changes in web consumption since 2000 - 75% of adults now use internet, 54% have broadband at home, 78% own cell phones. Wireless access is brining back email back in vogue (really?). Cloud computing changing everything, much more reliance on web for data storage, scheduling, etc. ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/04/07/highlights-from-lee-rainies-keynote-at-cil2008/ I left early this morning from home in Richmond, VA and drove to Arlington/Crystal City to attend Computers in Libraries 2008. I came up early (conference offically starts tomorrow) to attend a preconference, Web Manager's Academy. It was an all day session with lots of good content and ... http://www.andymorton.org/2008/04/06/attending-cil2008/ A new online storage service, http://drop.io, launched recently and allows users to store up to 100mb of files.  Yeah, it's stingy storage, but great for office docs, a few images, an occasional audio file, etc.   The benefits: no registration so you're privacy is intact (as much as you want to ... http://www.andymorton.org/2007/11/14/need-online-storage-for-library-users-try-dropio/