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- TinEye allows reverse image searching - it's a bit different to any other image search I've seen in that you enter an image and it will then find where the same image (or close edits, crops or photoshops of that image) appear on the web. It uses image mapping rather than metadata for the search comparison (each image is given a "fingerprint" based on the pixels it contains which is then compared to the fingerprint of every other image in the database). There's a quick video that explains it better than I can at: http://www.tineye.com/about. I think stock image firms might be interested in this technology for checking who's infringing their copyright - but also useful for the rest of us...
- Beer traps for slug really do work (quickly as well within minutes of putting them in our veg patch we had 4 sozzled slugs!). They seem to quite go for Asda smart price lager at 97p for 4 cans (which leaves the Stella for me!).
- There's a whole bunch of EndNote training resources (including free posters and promo stuff) available at http://www.endnote.com/training/. Scroll to the bottom for the trainning stuff.
- If you're looking for adventure in book form you could do worse than Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner.
- @ is now on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/UKLibraryJobs/133478490013914
- Big companies are starting to monitor their brands on Social Media. If you complain about a company on Twitter they may start to follow you and may even offer you some advice about accessing their services. Is this a way to by-pass those awful automated telephone helplines? Maybe, but I don't think for long... Answering questions takes time and when the number of people communicating with businesses on social media reaches the number of people contacting them using traditional methods the level of service will drop. The key to making this work long term is harvesting the network effect of giving advice (more on that later).
- You can harvest potatoes at this time of year but they will vary in size.
- It is impossible to avoid hearing the football score in the hope of watching the game later. Now that I know the score I can't motivate myself to watch the game.
- Facebook pages are really worth looking at seriously. I've had issues with Facebook in the past (which stems from what I see on there in terms of my personal use and how "serious" I consider it to be) but pages seem to offer an alternative. Very interesting talk form Stuart Johnson today on use of Facebook by Student Development at University of Leicester. Also, interesting use of powerpoint to illustrate differences between broadcasting, personal communication and social media but in the context of what's been done at Leicester.
- If you tailgate through the security barrier to the car park there
is a fairly good chance it will come down on the top of your car.
Fortunately this didn't quite happen but I know now to be careful. In
my defence I have a simple nature and need to be told these things
(rather than have them barked at me after the event). - You can find a URL for an individual tweet by hovering over the when and where link under the tweet.
