Useful To Know Before We Study Youtube

There's a site called keepvid - http://keepvid.com/ - that automates the process of downloading video from youtube to your computer. It's much easier than the old technique, which involved locating address info inside the html code of the page your video was on. All you have to do is go to the video you want to download, copy the URL from the address bar, go to keepvid, paste the URL where it tells you to and click download. Then you choose which file format you prefer and where you want to save it on your computer. Easy - and it solves all the issues associated with trying to stream video directly from youtube. I use this trick to download music videos of rare editions of songs, then convert them into straight audio files to put on my ipod.

The Wiki I'm Interested in

https://wiki.nla.gov.au/display/LABS/Home;jsessionid=9E7708E6241651907A95CBB1D199BC9F

It's called Library Labs and it's a library wiki project being run by the National Library of Australia as a kind of ongoing study in the best ways to integrate all their discovery services.

Looks interesting.

Linking Flickr To Your Blog

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If you click on one of the pictures you've uploaded to your flickr account to view it individually you'll see a range of options offered along the top of the picture (in annoyingly small icons done in pale grey - they're easy to miss). One of them will say 'Blog This' when you run your cursor over it. If you click on it you'll be walked through a simple series of steps that will link your flickr account to your blog in such a way that you can post directly to your blog from flickr. Once you've done that, clicking on the same 'Blog This' icon will take you to a page that allows you to post to your blog. Note that in the list of blogs flickr can link you to automatically blogspot and blogger are the same thing. Also, once you've made the post through flickr you can go back and edit it through your blog. Even better, if you post in this way, clicking on the picture when it appears in your blog will take you to it on flickr.

Interesting blog found on Technorati

So this guy is entertaining:

http://technorati.com/blogs/librarychronicles.blogspot.com

The name is a little misleading, because Jeffrey (the guy who writes the blog) rants about all sorts of things connected to New Orleans, particularly city politics. You have to look to find the posts that are specifically about the New Orleans Public Library, but they're worth reading. He's good about linking to all his sources which based on my 15-minute perusal mostly link to reputable news sites and check out the list of links down the side of his blog - there are some real gems.

Big Fat Stinking Blog Plagiarist Gets Caught!

As you can see, I feel pretty strongly about the subject of this post. New York Times journalist Zachary Kouwe recently got caught swiping stuff from various bloggers without acknowledging them. Even worse, when he got caught he tried to pass it off as a big 'misunderstanding'.

Read about it here:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/nyt-business-reporter-resigns-over-charges-of-plagiarism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+(Mediaite)

And here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07pubed.html

And why it just shouldn't have happened here:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/does-the-new-york-times-think-its-above-linking-to-the-blogosphere/

And here, where professional blogger Kate Harding explains her simple, foolproof, step-by-step process for crediting internet sources:

http://kateharding.net/2010/03/09/a-handy-guide-to-not-plagiarizing/

Turns out not plagiarising stuff is really easy! Who'd have thought!



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