Oct 02 2008
I think it’d be super cool if goodreads integrated worldcat links to their book listings so you could find them at your local library online. Or for me, even cooler if it would tell me when the book was available for checkout/if it was available in ebook form. Hmm.
Sep 29 2008
Not that I like OCR or anything, but I came across reCAPTCHA while fixing up another website that has apparently gotten noticed by spammers (boo trashing a wiki!). It’s a verification plugin that has you type in verifying words that come from OCR’d media from, say, Archive.org, so when you verify you’re not a spammer you’re also helping scan in a digital text accurately. A useful two seconds spent killing two birds with one stone, and there are plugins and extensions for various languages and software. Here’s a list of their plugins; I used the MediaWiki one, and I’m going to put the WordPress one on here after this post.
