CrossTech

OK, after a number of delays due to everything from indexing slowness to router problems, I'm happy to say that the first public beta of our WordPress citation plugin is available for download via SourceForge. A Movable Type version is in the works.

And congratulations to Trey at OpenHelix who became laudably impatient, found the SourceForge entry for the plugin back on February 8th and seems to have been testing it since. He has a nice description of how it works (along with screenshots), so I won't repeat the effort here.

Having said that, I do include the text of the README after the jump. Please have a look at it before you install, because it might save you some mystification.

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Posted by Geoffrey Bilder at 12:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Somebody is both reading (and recommending) this blog - see Lorcan's post here. Just my opinion but would be really good to see more librarians following this in order to arrive at better consensus.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 05:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Steve Rubel has a reponse here to Lexis-Nexis' survey on consumers preferred outlets for breaking news and their rubbishing of blogs as a credible publishing forum. It's something called, er, the Long Tail by Chris Anderson at Wired Magazine.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 05:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)