Nice little tutorial.Getting Started with Flickrhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=getting-started-with-flickr-39020-6929&stripped_title=getting-started-with-flickrView SlideShare presentation or

Uh-oh, I sometimes take the easy way out (i.e., use whatever format is supported by the software I have in front of me)...Text & Clipart -- GIF or PNG formatScreenshots from Window -- PNG formatVideo & Photographs screenshots -- JPG formatThe article explains it more and also includes images comparing quality.http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/best-file-format-for-screensho…

Kind of old news at this point, but it has been floating around in my inbox./begin---The Library of Congress is pleased to announce "LCCN Permalink" -- a new persistent URL service for creating links to bibliographic records in the Library of Congress Online Catalog using the Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN).LCCN Permalink is a convenient way to cite items from the Library's collection in your bibliographies, reference guides, emails, blogs, databases, web pages, etc.

If you've not seen the tutorial from the Univ. of Auckland before, it is kind of an interesting (and different!) approach to teaching users about Voyager -- very video gamesque, in as much as a tutorial probably can be.

Well, I just finished up my first facebook app, a simple rss feed for moonshine arts magazine. You can check it out here. In theory, it should have been much easier than it was, but as with any new venture, there is always a little bit of learning curve.so, here are my pointers:

• PHP: If you are using php, doublecheck the version of php you have loaded before you start coding. I thought I had php5, but I didn't. So, that was a bit of a waste of time.

A friend of mine who is a k-12 art teacher asked about getting started with social networking. She does a little blogging here and there, but she is knee deep in teaching at the moment, which limits her time online. I thought for a bit about how to respond to her question.