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3 reasons failure is awesome


Failure is awesome.  It often gets a bad rap, but I like to sing its praises whenever I can. There are at least three reasons I can see why failure is a good thing. First, failure is funny. I know I have wasted my fair share of time over at the Fail Blog. It’s amusing [...]

Digsby for Reference


A couple weeks ago I wrote a post about using Pidgin and Meebo for our IM Reference service.  They have worked fairly well and the service gets a lot of use, but there have been a few problems.  Pidgin would crash unexpectedly which was mildly annoying. The biggest problem though, was that users could leave [...]

Video about doing research


A couple weeks ago I completed a video that I made using Captivate by Adobe.  It is the second in depth video I have created, and it turned out pretty well.  I was able to get a little creative utilizing a variety of creative commons pictures on it.  It is kind of personalized towards some [...]