I’ve had a serial number for MarsEdit hanging around since early 2006.
MarsEdit just got an upgrade to version 2 and I’ve been slacking on the blogging front lately so maybe using MarsEdit will give me a jumpstart.
It’s getting chilly around here
Safari 3 beta for Windows. I’ll applaud any alternative to Internet Explorer. But with this and Apple’s website makeover, I feel like I’m in an alternate universe.
OS X Software – Web Design
Cleaning out some of my bookmarks. Here’s some software I find useful.
Lynx Text Web Browser 2.8.6.1
Are your pages really usable? Try using them in Lynx.
Parallels Desktop
The best of both worlds
Saft
Nice extension for Safari
CSSEdit
The Best CSS editor for the Mac, at least that’s my opinion 🙂
Library Podcast… file extension issues
I’ve been working on putting a podcast up for The Commons at work. Which is a little harder than it sounds. First I had to figure out podcast RSS feeds. The University of Washington has a good site for that.
Then there was an issue with the .m4a file that GarageBand saves podcasts as. .m4a is not an official MIME media type, which means it’s probably not going to be in the Apache mime types. At least it wasn’t for the library web server. And it might not hurt to add .m4v as well.
AddType video/mp4 .m4v
AddType audio/mp4 .m4a
MPEG 4 has various (and mostly interchangeable) file extensions, although .mp4 is the only official extension. But Apple has popularized .m4a and .m4v into what appear to be defacto standards.
A List Apart Web Design Survey
Tennessee Library Association Conference
Just got back from the TLA Conference in Chattanooga. I had a good time, saw several people that I hadn’t seen in a few years. The presentations were good, Loriene Roy, ALA President-Elect was the keynote speaker. Sadly I didn’t get to hear her speak since the room was standing-room only by the time I got there. I attened sessions on IM reference, wikis, and library website redesign among other things. I also toured UT Chattanooga’s Lupton Library.
Gaming, Web 2.0 and Libraries
Gaming & Libraries: Intersection of Services
by Jenny Levine
Jenny’s blog is always a good read and the upcoming Gaming, Learning, and Libraries Symposium sounds like a lot of fun. It’s a good time to be a librarian. 🙂
LibraryChange.com
Saw over at Michael Casey’s blog that his and Laura Savastinuk’s book has a website.
Companion website to Library 2.0, the book – LibraryChange
Social Libraries: The Books
Two of these aren’t published yet and at the moment my book budget is zero so I can only dream. But here’s the list.
Library 2.0: A Guide to Participatory Library Service
Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk – not yet published, Information Today, Inc. (May 21, 2007)
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change
Walt Crawford
Library 2.0 and Beyond: Innovative Technologies and Tomorrow’s User
Nancy Courtney (Editor) – not yet published, Libraries Unlimited (June 30, 2007)
Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online
Meredith G. Farkas
More on Social Libraries
Today appears to be Social Libraries Friday here at Library Monk. It may signal the beginning of a trend, you’ll just have to wait until next Friday to find out. 🙂
First we have 23 Things from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, which is described as:
23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.
Most of these I’ve already done or know about, but it’s a nice intro to things 2.0.
Then there is Five Weeks to a Social Library which is a course I wish I had known about while it was going on. But the content is still there, looks like there’s lots of good info to peruse.
We’ve been blogging at UTK Libraries for a while now. Recently (along with the rest of UTK) we’ve been experimenting with podcasting , although it’s called Volcasting here, naturally.
There has been some talk of the library doing something with Second Life, but nothing concrete at this point. You might find me on Second Life as Librarymonk Merlin, but I don’t get the time to hang out there much.