ITS Coffee Break: WordCamp, Mars Rover Blog, Twitter Lists

On this episode of the ITS Coffee Break, hosts Ken Newquist and Courtney Bentley discuss upcoming virtual Moodle brown bags being hosted by CLAMP and take a look at WordCamp NYU.

They then delve into Tech News with headlines about the Unofficial Mars Rover Diary, Twitter’s introduction of a list tool, the social-network measuring tool Klout, Shazam‘s decision to charge for its music-identifying iPhone app, and a unique problem with the Droid smartphone’s autofocus feature.

In Help News, they take a look at the NextGEN photo gallery plugin for WordPress, and announce the ITS workshop schedule for December.

Getting the Podcast

ITS News

Tech News

Help News

  • WordPress at a Glance: NextGEN Gallery
    • A popular plugin for publishing photo galleries in WordPress.
    • Supports slideshow and thumbnail displays, both of which can be inserted into web pages.
    • Allows for bulk uploading through ZIP files.
    • Instructions on how to use NextGEN Gallery are available on Sites.
      • Two potential gotchas:
        • Disable the Flash file uploader; it doesn’t work with our secure admin setup.
        • Make sure you specify the location of the Image Rotator help app if you want to use the slide show option.
  • Workshops
    • Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.: WordPress for academic and administrative Web sites
    • Monday, December 14, 2009, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. WordPress for personal and organizational Web sites
    • Register for the workshops.

Contacting the Show

  • We’re always looking for feedback. You can send a comment to itsblog@lafayette.edu or post a comment below.

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