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Here is a list of things I found on the web this week that maybe of interest, or at least entertaining.

Kairosnews reports on a new peer reviewed open access journal, which is aptly called Open Access and is about open access.
FREE DevonNote, just take the survey and if you are not already on the Devon […]

Perhaps the best way to speed up your internet experience, aside from dropping dial-up in favor of cable, is learning to use keyboard shortcuts. Watching a computer professional work, you would be surprised at how little they reach for the mouse. The reason: Its inefficient. Instead of clicking three different times to […]

Dan Cohen (of Zotero and Digital History fame) writes on his blog about the increasing privatization of the public archive. I ordered on Interlibrary Loan Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, a book about the issues related to letting google have control over digitizing the archive. But, a bigger concern to me, […]

Okay, finally, without too much further ado, and two plane rides of writing later, I am going to outline all the steps I go through to “build” a presentation. Let me say a few things up front though. First, this again is not an expert thing, this is simply what I have developed […]

Seeing as the semester is starting and I have had several people ask me about this already I thought I would link back to the posts I wrote at the beginning of last semester. This is a five part series (rather elaborate write-up) I did that explained how I handle email.

Part I
Part II
Part III
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Hawkwings has a post about controlling HTML in email. This is one of those things that tends to annoy me, people who send emails with lots of HTML formatting just to make them look nice. So, you get emails in your inbox that are huge (in size) but only contain […]

Blackboard released their version of del.icio.us, rather arrogantly named scholar. And as Dan Cohen notes they should have just kept it hidden. First it is poorly laid out, and the aesthetics harken back to the early 90’s web design (how many colors can you get on a page) mixed in with bad CSS […]

The Balcony has another Devon video tutorial posted. This is the first in a series that is geared towards using Devon for research purposes. There is nothing much new in this first video, although it is still worth a look. (I had not realized that you could import the OPML format from MindMap […]

Teaching Hacks a blog dedicated to outlining . . .well hacks for teaching . . .ergo the name, has just added a wiki to the site. Right now there is not much content there, but this then is sort of the point I guess. Wiki’s are supposed to be collaborative efforts. Teaching […]

One of the more interesting things that happened to me at the MLA, aside from bumping into a student I had not seen in four years but who was now in grad. school (okay, this is not all that interesting but when you spend the day in hotel rooms just about anything impresses), was meeting […]