Information Tyrannosaur

We use Pidgin at the reference desk to monitor our meebo widgets and IM accounts, so I was glad to see that the latest version fixed a number of bugs.  Pidgin tended to crash once or twice a day which wasn’t devastating, but it was still pretty annoying.  I guess nothing is perfect.  Anyway, I [...]

Today an instant messaging reference system was born at Edgewood College. What I had been planning and working on for about three months finally came to fruition and I am really eager to see how it turns out. We are not doing any advertising yet for the new service. That will come [...]

I am finishing up a practicum at Capital Newspapers, publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times. For one of my final projects there, I again implemented instant messaging. This time I implemented it into the news library’s intranet: “The Library Files.” I was comfortable enough with it from my [...]