Replacing Google Reader With Ifttt and Pocket

A couple of days ago Google announced they were getting rid of Google Reader, which was a bit of a blow for me, as I use it as a main source of news for sharing to a broad range of social network accounts and sites semi-automatically. I used it in conjunction with ifttt, so that […]

Twitter Archives And IFTTT

Twitter, Google Drive and IFTTT made my day about a week ago. I found out that a new Google Drive channel had been added to IFTTT that enabled me to archive tweets via a spreadsheet – I was specifically looking for something that replaced the service Twapperkeeper used to provide. This was a perfect and straight forward […]

Pulling Photo Storage Together With ifttt

I set up another group of tasks with ifttt.com today, so that I don’t have to dither about: (1) Where I upload a photo or image to, based on who I want to share it with – Flickr, Facebook, Twitpic, my personal blog. (2) Which of my photos/images from these various places should be stored […]

Using ifttt For Productivity And More

I’m busy exploring a useful way of feeding information from one application to another at the moment. It’s called “If This Then That” (ifttt) , is based on a simple idea and is really straightforward to use. You set up a trigger from one web application (eg A Google News search for “libraries”), so that it triggers […]

Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com

I know some people abandoned the social bookmarking site delicious.com when it looked like it was shutting down a couple of years ago. At the time I transferred my links to Pinboard like others did, but I kept my delicious.com account. Then AVOS announced they were taking it over. Three cheers for AVOS. I did […]

One Week In My Librarian Life #libday8

This is a blog post for the “Library Day In The Life” Project. This project is a semi-annual event where librarians, library staff and library students from all over the globe share a day (or week) in their life through blog posts, photos, video and Twitter updates. As a bit of a background, I’m a Technical Librarian […]

Thoughts From Internet Librarian International 2011 Conference #ILI2011

I attended Internet Librarian International 2011 a couple of weeks ago. It was a great event. Below are the tweets I sent out during the conference, just to give you a feel for the event. Below them, I’ve also included some thoughts on the event itself. How the Future Internet will Shape Libraries (Klaus Tochtermann, Leibniz Information […]

It’s Raining – Twitter Says Get To The Library

One of the inputs of “If This Then That” (ifttt) is a weather feed. It allows you to create an action based on the current weather or tomorrow’s weather. I was wondering how this could be tied in with libraries, to see if it’s of any use. I suppose if it’s not upbeat weather people […]