No. 10 (Image Generators)

Here’s a button I’ve made:
Not too inspiring, is it? I really wanted to make myself a Simpsons avatar, but it got too time-consuming.
(If anybody’s interested, I’m not actually a Linux Dork — I only have pretensions to be one.)
As I see it, the image-generators or the images themselves don’t have a bunch of educational value, [...]

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No. 9 (Library-related blogs)

So far, I’ve tried finding library blogs with Bloglines and Feedster, and they both stink. The key to finding a host of good blogs is not getting them from some silly blog search, but is finding one or two good blogs to begin with. (Maybe you have to use the blog search for that.) [...]

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No. 8 (MyUA Portal)

My first experience of the MyUA Portal portal (since starting Learning 2.0) is that it is unfriendly to my browser. I’m using Konqueror, a browser and file-manager for the K Desktop Environment (KDE) on Linux operating systems. MyUA tells me, “The browser you are using is not supported.” It kindly adds, “You [...]

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No. 7 (RSS Feeds): Great uses for Bloglines

I’ve had a Bloglines account for a few years now — and I get a tremendous mileage out of it, at least as much as I have time for. There are scads of good uses for it, including:

Article alerts. Once you’ve perfected your search in EBSCOhost, click on the “Search history/Alerts” tab, create a [...]

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