Check out how Frank McPherson used technology at his local library last night. Can your patrons do this in your library?

Note, too, that: 1) your staff could do this as well, and 2) the pic is from his PocketPC.

VSFW – Very Safe for Work; in fact, show it to your director!

10 Ways to Use Blogs for Managing Projects

“Blogs aren’t just for marketing - there are many areas of the business where they can help improve information flow, reduce clutter and avoid the dreaded ‘but I didn’t know about that’ situation. Here’s ten ways that we’ve used blogs for managing projects - both internally and with our clients.

1. Communication with Project Stakeholders
2. Replacing Paper
3. Building Issue Logs
4. Capturing Information Snippets
5. Publicising the Project Progress
6. Reducing Email Overload
7. Capturing Requirements
8. Circulating Screenshots
9. Keeping Team Members Up-to-date
10. Provide an Automatic Audit Trail” [Cutting Through]

Add the word “library” in front of “projects” in the title and you’ll have a great overview of ten ways in which blogging can help libraries.

It’s finally time. I’m ready to part with my Treo 600 now that I’m set up on the new Treo 650. My first 600 had problems that caused it to frequently reset itself. I didn’t realize this until I got the replacement 600, which is much more stable. So I’m selling the Treo 600 (for Sprint’s network), a case, and a keyboard for $250. If you’re interested in owning the device that started the infamous What’s on My Treo 600 page, email or IM me (cybrarygal on AIM).

Interesting tangent: I thought Kate’s 19–year old daughter Clare would want it for Christmas, but she says no. Even though she’s all about messaging (which is why I thought the keyboard and full IM capability would be a no-brainer for her), she says it’s too big. She’d rather have something she can easily fold over clamshell-style and fit in her pocket. She truly would rather text message using a phone dialpad than carry a larger phone. Go figure.

It's Like Google Suggest, Only As A Dictionary

“There's been a lot of discussion about Google Suggest, which provides potential words and phrases depending on what you type into the query box. There's a similar tool available using a couple of dictionaries instead of the Web. It's called ObjectGraph Dictionary and it's available at http://www.objectgraph.com/dictionary .

There are two dictionaries being used here; a regular dictionary and FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing.) The default is regular. I started typing in esuriant and ObjectGraph began cycling through suggestions. the cool thing is that in addition to word listings, the suggestion box also contains definitions. So when you've gotten as far as esuri you'll have four relevant words and their dictionary definitions right there.” [ResearchBuzz]

This kind of feature would be nice in a library catalog, especially for phrase title searches.