Scriblio 2.3 v4 is out. See it. Download it. Install it. Join the mail list.
What’s new?

Lots of small bug fixes.
Implemented wp_cache support.
Revamped SQL query logic for better memory efficiency.
New widget options.
Search suggest/autocomplete support (implemented in the new theme).
New theme. New Theme! By Jon Link.

Posted December 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: announcement, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, opac, OPAC replacement, release, scriblio, software. 5 Comments.

I’ve been using DoubleTake to stitch panoramas for a while, but when I discovered p0ps Harlow’s photos and learned he was using Calico Panorama, I figured it was worth taking a look.
DoubleTake has done a great job for a number of my photos (Mt. Moriah, San Francisco Motorcycles, Mt. Mondadnock), and when the automatic [...]

Posted October 28, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: Calico Panorama, comparison, doubletake, panorama, photograpy, software, stitching. Be the first one.

Brian’s comment at RemainingRelevant should resonate with many of us:
Something to consider about why libraries end up with bad interfaces (at least as far as catalogs go) is that it might be that the people who use the interface (and help the public use it) are not the people who decide which interface to use.
When [...]

Posted May 7, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: compare, decision, decision making, market, market forces, process, software, suck, sucks, sucky, the pledge, training, usability, vendors. 5 Comments.

A: Because we compare them to the wrong things.
I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. It’s the second of three days of training and things aren’t going well. Some stuff doesn’t work, some things don’t work the first (second, third…ninth) time, and other things just don’t make sense. At [...]

Posted May 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bad answers, compare, comparison, competition, crap, developers, development, failure, future libraries, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, software, startups, suck, sucks, sucky, training, vendors. 14 Comments.

They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs.

tags: collaboration, collaboration technology, community needs, community, groupware, management needs, open source, oss, social software, [...]

Posted September 25, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: collaboration, collaboration technology, community, community needs, groupware, management needs, open source, oss, social software, software, zimbra, zimbra collaboration suite. 2 Comments.

I actually like the look of a broken panorama, where the borders of each photo are clearly visible — even emphasized. But last night I got the notion of doing a seamless pano and found DoubleTake, a $12 shareware app that makes the process pretty darn easy. The sunrise shot above (larger sizes) was my [...]

Posted September 23, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Technology. Tags: borders, doubletake, edges, mac os X, pano, panorama, panoramic, panoramic photos, photography, seamless, seamless panorama, seamless stitching, shareware, software, sunrise. 4 Comments.

I was never a very good graphic designer, but the part of me that thought I was still pays attention when I see software like Linotype’s free FontExplorer, described somewhere as “the iTunes for fonts.”

tags: design, font, fonts, graphic design, graphic designer, graphics, linotype, software, type, typefaces

Posted September 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: design, font, fonts, graphic design, graphic designer, graphics, linotype, software, type, typefaces. 2 Comments.

I’m off visiting the good folks at Pepper today. I’ll update this post with photos as soon as they’re available, then look for a pair of posts about how the hardware/software works and what I’d like to do with it later.
Until then, here are some related posts: Ultra Portable Computing, Pepper Pad 2, and [...]

Posted July 22, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: computer, computing platform, hardware, internet, pepper, software, ultra portable, web, web computing. 4 Comments.