Olin Library at Cornell University has created some short videos to help patrons. Might we eventually do something similar?

Here's a nice simple explanation of podcasting. Unfortunately, it doesn't explain how to podcast, but it helped me understand what it is a little better.

In case any of you want to know a little more about how to navigate Facebook, here's a Facebook 101 guide.

Whaddaya know...that HTML class came just in time for me. I recently began cataloging Daniel Webster's library on LibraryThing as part of the Legacy Libraries project (catalogs of famous dead folks' books), and anyone beginning a new project must write a brief note about the person and his/her catalog and include links to fuller information. Well...LibraryThing doesn't have a handy-dandy "Add Link" button, so I referred to Lynette's HTML reference sheet, typed in some code, and voila!...my very own HTML link! I added some boldface type for fun, and I'm pleased with the results. Thanks Lynette!

This tool isn't particularly fun, but I found it helpful this week: free software that allows you to fill out PDF forms that aren't set up to be filled out by the computer. The annoying thing about it is that it leaves puts an unremovable advertisement at the top of the form, but what can you expect with free software?

I've been playing around with Technorati, and so far I don't care for it much. Maybe I'll need to use it some more before I get any use out of it, but at the moment, I don't really want to discover more blogs to clog up my Bloglines account.

The Five Weeks to a Social Library project is similar to our 23 Things--it explores the same tools but explains more deeply how these tools can be used in a library setting. The only caveat is that the project is two years old, so some of the articles are out of date, but that's no different from the problems we're having with the 23 Things.