Bubblr by Pim Pam Pum

http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/

Pim Pam Pum is a company that's created several Flickr tools, one of which is Bubblr. With Bubblr, you take any flickr photo and make a comic strip by adding speech or thought bubbles. You can add additional photos if you want to.

This is the test I made: http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr/?id=9847


While it's very simplistic and doesn't do too much, the great thing is that it's so easy to use that you could make several comics in just a few minutes. Imagine having a weekly library comic strip....or introducing staff on your web site.....or sharing some captioned photos from a library event.

PBWiki

http://pbwiki.com/

Want to try your hand at making and editing a wiki? Hop on over to PBWiki.com and create your own. They will host your wiki for you, and it's free for storage up to 10 Mb.

Twitterverse

http://www.twitterverse.com/

Check out Twitterverse -
It's a visual interface of tags from recent twitter updates.

Social Networking for Arachnids

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/30/spider.web.ap/index.html

I know this isn't technology related, but the term "social cobweb spiders" just tickled my funny bone too much not to share. Social networking - it's all the rage, even with spiders!

Cool Tool of the day: StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/

StumbleUpon is a browser toolbar for Firefox or IE. It's almost like a cross between a social site, Digg, and Tivo. You specifiy what your interests are and click the StumbleUpon button and are presented with a random web site that it thinks you'll like. Like it? Click the thumbs up button. Hate it? Click the thumbs down button. It's that simple. Over time, you train the toolbar on what you like and don't like and it will gradually give you sites that you'll probably be interested in.
You can connect with friends, share sites with them, review sites, and recommend sites - and that's not all.
A time waster for sure, but a cool tool nonetheless.

Cool site of the day: Footnote.com

http://www.footnote.com/

Here's a neato site to share with our students - footnote.com. You'll find tons of original documents digitized as images. You can add notes to the image, scan and upload your own documents, add comments, etc. This could be another great resource for research!

Feedburner

http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/home

Feedburner lets you create a page where users can easily subscribe to your blog with a number of different RSS readers. It will also keep track of statistics for you - like how many folks have subscribed to your blog. Check out my feedburner page by clicking on the link over to the right under "Subscribe to this blog!"