Archive for November, 2004
The Journal of Community Informatics
November 18th, 2004I just spotted a great resource over at the Social Software Weblog. The Journal of Community Informatics:
“Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the [...]
Shane at IL 2004
November 16th, 2004I’m thrilled to have Shane Nackerud discuss his UThink project
- He created a templates directory and inputted it into Movable Type. He absolutely rocks. Hands down, the neatest thing I’ve seen at this conference so far.
- He created a weblog in 2 minutes right in front of our eyes. “Cool, right?”, [...]
Bloglines Tips, Tricks and Secrets
November 16th, 2004About.com has a listing of articles on Bloglines Tips, Tricks and Secrets. Very useful. (link via Furl)
Blogging track at Internet Librarian
November 16th, 2004We just started the blogging track.
- Jenny tried to post to her blog but it didn’t work (so much for the INTERNET librarian conference).
- She tried to get people to chat with their vendors about weblogs and RSS. She’s right.
- Michael is blogging the track as well.
- Cool. Greg mentioned [...]
Scrap Book
November 16th, 2004I’m going to have to try out this neat looking Mozilla extension:
“ScrapBook is a Mozilla/Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Major features are,
* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web [...]
International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC)
November 16th, 2004James Farmer mentions a new journal called, “International Journal of Web Based Communities”. All of their articles are free and there is an RSS Feed for all of the new articles published by Inderscience Publishers.
There are some interesting articles to look at in the first issue:
+ Designing and evaluating online communities: research speaks [...]
Librarian slams blogs/wikis - Here we go again
November 16th, 2004An article entitled, Farther-reaching, faster ignorance thanks to Web, written by Greg Hill, director of Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries, has some choice words about wikis and blogs. A few quotes:
“The reach and power of telecommunications and computers have enabled everyone to spread evidence of their ignorance farther and faster than ever before. For [...]
Social Networks and P2P
November 15th, 2004From an article in the The Harvard Crimson Online:
“With the release of Wirehog—for both Mac and PC—Zuckerberg is betting on the appeal of a uniquely personal approach to file-sharing.”
“Unlike popular programs such as Kazaa and Morpheus, which allow users to search and download among a worldwide network of computers, Wirehog only allows the exchange of [...]
Internet Librarian Monday Morning Session Congrunt
November 15th, 2004Just over 1,000 atendees are attending the conference.
Thomas Hogan
Jane Dysart
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Have to blog offline for the keynote because there is NO WIFI in the keynote room. Very sad. Oh well (last time I checked, this was an INTERNET librarian conference). I’ll probably get online at the sessions today in the “Portabella” hotel. [...]
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County - RSS Feeds!!
November 15th, 2004I was walking back to the hotel tonight with Greg Schwartz and he mentioned that the The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County now provides RSS Feeds. So, we went to the business center at the Marriott and he showed me the site.
Wow!! We’re not sure how they are generated (I think [...]
Look Out Monterey
November 14th, 2004We’re here. We’re techie. And we’re librarians.
RSS Overload Strategies
November 14th, 2004Roland Tanglao has some pointers for dealing with what he calls RSS Overload.
“For what it’s worth, here’s how I plan on eliminating my RSS information overload:
1. Subscribe only to 150 blogs at the most. These 150 will be people not search feeds from PubSub, Feedster, etc. and I will read them every day or at [...]
The Power of Many
November 14th, 2004This is going on my short-list of books to get through by the end of the year:
“A nonfiction book that explores how ordinary people are using online social networking to locate others who share their interests and kindle face-to-face communication.”
“The development of social networks on the Web touches countless aspects of our everyday lives. [...]
Follow Me, Follow You
November 14th, 2004If you happen to want to follow along with what is happening at the Internet Librarian conference this week, you might want to subscribe to this Feedster feed. If you happen to be attending and blogging the conference, you might want to put the phrase “Internet Librarian” in your posts, so that people can follow [...]
Internet Librarian Preconference Presentations
November 14th, 2004Here are the links for the preconference workshop that Jenny Levine and I are doing on Sunday (the PDF link won’t work until Monday afternoon, the PPT and HTM will be up sometime tomorrow).
+ Weblogs/RSS 101 [PDF][HTM][PPT]
+ Weblogs/RSS 201 [PDF][HTM][PPT]
Hello from Monterey
November 13th, 2004The second leg of the Cohen West Coast tour has completed and we have arrived in Monterey, CA. I love this town. I already ran into a few colleagues for the Internet Librarian conference. Tonight, I had an impromptu Drink with Michael Stephens. I’m looking forward to an exciting week of learning, [...]
Wiki goes to work
November 13th, 2004An interesting perspective on Wikis v. Blogs by Chad Dickerson:
“Because Wikis and blogs are often mentioned in the same breath, it’s important to point out a key distinction: Blogs are an excellent tool for knowledge management in IT, but in practice, blogs have shortcomings. One of the hallmarks of blog structure — a reverse chronological [...]
Library Elf offers RSS Feeds
November 13th, 2004Jenny noticed that Leland noticed that Library Elf, that awesome library catalog/books due reminder service, has started to provide RSS feeds. Hip Hip Hooray. They’ve also added a few more libraries to their service list. C’mon Smithtown (my home library), please get this service…
…Again, library vendors should be doing this already. Why [...]
Ed-Tech Insider
November 12th, 2004Today, eSchool News announced Ed-Tech Insider:
“Months in the making, this section of the eSchool News Online web site is all about community. We have brought together popular bloggers who know all about educational technology and want to share that knowledge with others in the field.”
“When people talk about the promise of technology in learning, [...]
SBC Communications Launches an RSS Reader
November 12th, 2004From the WSJ Article:
“The company in September quietly launched a Weblog portal located at www.projectdu.com and known as “Project D.U.” — the initials stand for “Digital Universe.” Surfers are greeted by links to such categories as “music” and “entertainment,” which in turn lead people to about 30 Weblogs, those quirky but burgeoning Web-based diaries of [...]
Creative Commons Licensed Library Launches - Delivering Mobile Editions Of Books To Phones
November 12th, 2004David Harper (creator of Winksite) just IM’d me this press release:
“The Creative Commons Library is the first in a series of works to be published on the WINKsite Mobile Publishing & Community Platform. WINKsite extends the power of publishing and distributing mobile books to the masses. The tools used are offered FREE of charge to [...]
Sample Corporate Blogging policy
November 11th, 2004Charlene Li has listed a sample corporate Blogging policy:
1) Make it clear that the views expressed in the blog are yours alone and do not necessarily represent the views of your employer.
2) Respect the company’s confidentiality and proprietary information.
3) Ask your manager if you have any questions about what is appropriate to include [...]
What is RSS and how can it serve libraries?
November 11th, 2004David Bigwood mentions a paper by Zeki Celikbas entitled, “What is RSS and how can it serve libraries?” [PDF]. There is a lengthy section on marketing as well as comments on how RSS can improve reference work, RSS book lists, and RSS Table of Contents for e-journals. Worth a perusal, especially the latter sections.
3 New-To-Me RSS Feeds
November 10th, 2004Tara sent along the news that the University of Washington now has 11 RSS Feeds for their news and information page.
Tara also mentioned that the University of Saskatchewan library has started a list of feeds that are available for eJournals in their collection. I love this!
Also, it seems that I failed to mention that [...]
If You’re Going to San Francisco …
November 10th, 2004We’ve arrived in the lovely city of San Francisco after a few fun days in Vegas. Broadband costs $12.95 per day at the Marriot, but they have free access in the “business office”. I had drinks with Scott Rafer tonight and had a quick visit to the Feedster office (pictures to follow) and got [...]
Mmmmmm….wireless
November 5th, 2004
Viva Las Vegas…and San Fransisco….and Monterey
November 4th, 2004Library Stuff will be on hiatus until at least Tuesday because I’ll be celebrating my brothers wedding, my dads 60th birthday, and a few well-needed days offline. If you send me an e-mail, I’ll get back to you as soon as I possibly can. I’ll probably pop my head back online after settling in [...]
USA Today RSS Feeds and customization
November 4th, 2004I think this is new. USA Today has a bunch of RSS Feeds. Great news. The only issue that keeps coming up in my brain is that the feeds can’t be customized.
I wonder though, if Feedster can help out with this. I have been bitching and moaning about providers not [...]
Librarians Rock?!
November 3rd, 2004Who knew that there was a band named Dewey Decimal and the Librarians? Is someone having fun with Photoshop here? Let’s get some more research on this…
A Little Help From My Friends
November 3rd, 2004Hey, can someone send me a copy an article (well it’s a column) from the latest Searcher? The one entitled “Ecommerce” - “Tara Calishain critiques RSS, an XML format for delivering Web content, to find out if it’s living up to its hype or just providing advertisers with another money-making venue.”
Thanks. It’s not on [...]