Technorati’s latest quarterly State of the Blogosphere is out and findings show that the blogosphere is continuing to expand at an amazing rate. Some of the more interesting stats: The blogosphere is doubling in size …
Month: February 2006
Library Patron "Borrows" Way into Prison
From the Baltimore Sun (free registration required): If you’re two weeks late in returning a book to the Baltimore County library, you’re likely to get a phone call. If your book is four weeks overdue, …
Send a Voice Recording via Outlook
From inter allia: Have a long message to send to someone, and just don’t feel like typing it? Enter WaxMail, a program that records your message in MP3 format and then attaches it to an …
Chat Comes to Gmail
Some Gmail (Google email) users now have access to nifty new tool – an embedded chat client. Unfortunately, it hasn’t made its way to my Gmail account just yet. But, according to SearchEngineWatch, it’s pretty …
Brush Up Your Searching Skills
Do your searches often yield too many or too few search results? Or would you just like to brush up on your search strategies? If so, help has arrived. The UW-Madison campus librarians have created …
Transforming Your PowerPoint Presentation Web Seminar & Highlights
From Bad to Great: Transforming Your PowerPoint Presentations is the title of a free Web Cafe seminar from Office Depot. Although the live semimar was offered in January, you may replay it at any time. …
AOL & Yahoo to Charge for Bypassing Spam Filters
From the New York Times: America Online and Yahoo, two of the world’s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay …
Law Libraries According to Law Student Bloggers
“I’m finding it hard to imagine that there’s 45 minutes of stuff to see in the library. Unless they’re going to have us shelve books, or complete a short research assignment while we’re there,” wrote …
Caseload Stats, Judicial Compensation & Dane Cty Courthouse
The Winter 2006 edition of The Third Branch is now available. The Third Branch is a quarterly publication providing news of interest to the Wisconsin Court System. Highlights include: – Evaluation of caseload statistics – …
Diplomatic Papers Added to Foreign Relations of the U.S. Collection
Tthe University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group has announced the addition of Diplomatic Papers, 1944-1945 to its Foreign Relations of the United States Collection. The Foreign Relations series is the official documentary historical record of …