CNI Project Briefing, Monday December 10th at 3:15 pm by Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard of the State and University Library Aarhus, Denmark How should I position my talk? How many in the room are technical, how many are in management? Exploring integrated search. Trying to change the way that we are serving the information to our users.... Continue Reading →
miro: the populist media player
Miro is a rad new open-source, non-proprietary desktop media player with tons of functionality - it plays any video file format, allows video feed subscriptions, features 1,500 free channels, and has a built-in BitTorrent feature. I've been messing with it for about five minutes and am completely sold. The best part? Miro is nonprofit-run and... Continue Reading →
problems with pidgin
My colleague Chad Boeninger over at Library Voice recently wrote an excellent how-to post on Pidgin, an open-source multiprotocol IM client that has the useful feature of allowing Meebo widget monitoring in addition to IM logins, something most multiprotocol apps aren't able to do: The ostensible promise of Pidgin is that it could reduce virtual... Continue Reading →
info-mational 