Jun
12
2008
So, despite frustrations with getting submitted URLs to appear, Geospatial Reddit is still puttering along. Not exactly a vibrant community yet but there are currently 133 subscribers. If you’re subscribed, take a minute to submit your favorite URLs. If you haven’t subscribed, check it out.
I thought 133 subscribers was a decent number until I found that the Bacon subreddit has over 500. Apparently the world would rather discuss their greasy breakfast food than maps.
Jun
08
2008
For those of you that use EndNote to keep track of your bibliographies/references , there is an alternative. JabRef. I find the UI to be very intuitive and it has a range of customizable import/export formats. JabRef uses the BibTex format as it’s native file format so, of course, it integrates very well with LaTeX.
One of the neat features is the ability to create custom bibliographies in HTML, complete with javascript-based search capabilities. Here’s my reference list which I’ll be slowly adding to as I convert all my old text-based and EndNote reference lists over.
