Daily Archives: December 10, 2010

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WPL Mobile site in beta



Via the library website…they’ve just launched a new mobile Web site – wplmobile.  If you’re interested, take a look and send any feedback along.

To access the Library Mobile site, point your mobile device’s web browser to the library home page at http://www.worcpublib.org.

The following devices will be detected from the library home page and routed automatically to the mobile site:

  • Androids
  • iPhones
  • Other web-enabled mobile devices

 

What you can do from the new mobile site:

  • Ask a librarian
  • Find library locations and hours
  • Search the library catalog
  • Login to your library account
  • Suggest a title for purchase
  • View upcoming library events
  • Send us your feedback
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In Other Reading…

I tend to read nearly everything in the Worcester blogroll, and I know that many of you do as well.

I’d like to take a (short) opportunity to mention a few other outlets you might also want to start following:

Mike, Tracy, and I have been contributing to the group blog wrcstr.com.  This is included in the Worcester blogroll, but I wanted to let folks know that we’re always looking for suggestions and contributions.  If you don’t have a blog of your own, but you’d like to write a guest post (or three), please let us know.  We’d love to hear more voices from the city.

Eric has a really great blog called The Image of Worcester and would appreciate feedback.  I dare you to visit that site and not get excited.  Seriously, leave him a comment or three.

There’s a relatively new blog called WorcesterPolitics.com that’s a touch Q-centric at the moment, but which is (as far as I can tell) always looking for new contributors.

The American Antiquarian Society has (at least) two blogs of interest: PastIsPresent and A Day in the Life of a Schoolmarm.  The latter is made up of short diary entries from a young schoolteacher living in Granville, MA, in the 1870s;  more about her and the project here.

Sally Gore lives in Worcester and writes a blog.

The Worcester Fellowship blog; here’s a short description of what they are: Worcester Fellowship is an outdoor church that meets behind City Hall in Worcester, MA every Sunday, rain, snow, sleet, or burning sun, at 1pm. Lunch, donated by area churches, is served as we finish, around 1:45.

There’s a blog called Da Tech Guy; I think he lives in North County.  He recently got a show on WCRN’s Saturday lineup, but doesn’t often write about local stuff.  Here’s the rare exception.

The WCCA video feed: come to feed your Tom Colletta obsession, stay for the hot dogs.

A Note on Twitter

I had a feed reader that I was in love with, and it unfortunately met an untimely end.  (But not before they retooled it and took away everything that was great about it, and I sent an extremely detailed email of complaint, and got a very responsive email from my favorite (at the time) Web 2.0 entrepreneur.  So that was pretty cool.) 

Right now, for reading blogs and anything else RSSy, I use Google Reader. 

Before I became an active Twitter user, I put a number of Twitter feeds into my Google Reader account (so that I could follow them without having to engage in Twitter).  So, for instance, I could just paste the address for WorcesterScene as a subscription in my Google Reader and follow it from there.

You can do the same with certain Facebook walls; that’s how I keep up with MassMoments.

(The problem is that if you’re not a user of FB or Twitter, you might miss out on excellent items like this Worcester Scene summary of restaurant comings and goings.  That’s why I tend to just dump a million feeds into Google Reader and put them in an appropriate category.)

If you are on Twitter, Tracy has a great aggregation of Worcesterites you should follow; Carrie has a slightly more targeted list of those who are active in blogging.