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Pidgin more stable?


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 [...]

Hologram Reference


Did anyone else see this last night on the election coverage? It was like Darth Vader talking to the Emperor on Star Wars.  I still think Will I Am should be wearing a dark cape.  I can’t wait for this to catch on.  Forget these ancient technologies like SMS reference and IM reference.  The wave [...]

We’re Getting Questions!!!


We have now gotten through the first few weeks of Instant Message Reference at Edgewood College.  We have not done any serious publicity for our site yet.  The only way people would know about it yet is if they went to the Ask a Librarian link on the libraries home page.  We are doing this [...]