Archive for February, 2005
Everything I Need To Know I Learned Online
February 20th, 2005I actually stood up and clapped after reading this article by Christine Chrystie R. Hill, who is the community manager at WebJunction.
“The spirit of sharing more quickly and efficiently, across all kinds of boundaries, online, is reminding us that we can and should be doing better librarianship. All of this, and I don’t even get [...]
What Librarians Can Learn From The Gates
February 20th, 2005While The Gates is sweeping the nation, I couldn’t help but notice the community interaction inherent in the weblog put together by Andy Carvin. He’s made it into an open weblog, inviting anybody to post via e-mail or phone (via audioblogger). How exciting!
One thing to take from this experience is that there can [...]
Boogie Play Makes a Return
February 20th, 2005I’ve mentioned Boogie Play in the past and didn’t really know what to think of it. Well, it looks like it’s undergone a huge redesign and is using Blogdigger as a backend. LS friend Greg Gershman (and the man behind Blogdigger) has the skinny:
“Besides the fact that this is a quick, easy and [...]
Me? A Librarian? (You’ve Got to be Joking!)
February 20th, 2005Did anyone attend the Me? A Librarian? (You’ve Got to be Joking!) luncheon in Stamford, sponsored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Assocation – Connecticut chapter? The title intrigued me.
Populicious
February 20th, 2005It’s not “officially” named Populicious, but the name fits. It works within Delicious and provides four sections:
1) New popular sites added within the last 24 hours.
2) New popular sites added within the last 48 hours.
3) Most popualar sites (new and old) within the last 24 hours.
4) Most popular sites of all time.
Each one has [...]
mefeedia
February 19th, 2005mefeedia “is an RSS aggregator for videobloggers. Sign up, choose the videobloggers you like and watch videos! Mefeedia is an experimental videoblogging community side project by Peter Van Dijck.”
Oooh. Neat. Plus tags with customized feeds built in. (link via del.icio.us)
It’s All Worth It
February 19th, 2005Doug Mason from The Buena Park Library District writes in:
“I just wanted to alert you to some changes I have made to our library’s website in order to incorporate blogging and RSS. I know this is a rudimentary use of the technology (particularly since I am not yet an adequate programmer) due to my use [...]
Infoshare
February 17th, 2005I totally forgot to mention Infoshare (which I promised to pimp last week – Sorry John).
Infoshare is the weblog of the Information Sharing Subcommittee of the Reference and Public Services Committee of the Music Library Association. They are blogging the MLA conference this week and have over 10 contributors. Suweeet! Looking at the [...]
University of Alberta Libraries Does RSS – 285 of ‘em
February 17th, 2005Hip Hip Hooray. Geoff Harder posts the huge news! There are now 285 feeds. Check this out:
Their new books section is broken into specific libraries and subjects. I clicked on Social Sciences and there is a feed for every Cutter code. Wowza!! I have always wanted to see something [...]
Furl Unfurled
February 17th, 2005Will Richardson links to a primer [PDF] on everything that you’ve ever wanted to know about Furl, but were afraid to ask. It was written by Jim Wenzloff. Impressive. File….Print.
Questions About Wikis
February 17th, 2005An LS commenter asks:
“I’m am very curious about others’ “library” experiences with wikis. I would like to know how and what people are using. I’ve been using XWiki for a number of projects I am working on. I also want to know about what people think about having a library’s public involved in wiki-ing.”
The comment [...]
More on the CLA Blog
February 17th, 2005The Librarian in Black provides an update on the California Library Association blog initiative:
“The California Library Association’s new blog now has its feeds posted…The site is also now named “News/Weblog” instead of just “News.” Oh, and will you look at that? Some nice librarian has posted something on the blog about what RSS [...]
Yet Another Vendor Adds RSS Capability
February 16th, 2005Christina IM’d me this afternoon with a link to her blog. Exciting news.
Engineering Village 2 is “the premier web-based discovery platform meeting the information needs of the engineering community. By coupling powerful search tools, an intuitive user interface and essential content sources, Engineering Village 2 has become the globally accepted source of choice for [...]
Help With RSS Question
February 16th, 2005I received this query a few days ago and I’m posting it here for the person who asked.
“We are in the midst of a library web site redesign project and I have the golden opportunity to request that our announcements page have an RSS feed. I know RSS feeds need to be generated [...]
See, I Told You To Read Library Clips, Didn’t I?
February 16th, 2005Check out this lengthy post on Furl and Del.icoi.us. I love this quote from the end:
“In the end I find folksomies of great value in providing me with my own searchable version of the web, and as an effective way to find relevant things of interest. Without del.icio.us or Furl I wouldn’t have come [...]
Statistics Foul, Mr. Crawford
February 16th, 2005If there is one thing that I am reading more about at the DEMO@15! conference and the new tools that are being displayed, it’s that people are just fed up with e-mail. For example, take the people from Jot, a company that has rocked my wiki world (thanks to Andrea). From an article [...]
More From Educause on Social Software and the Future of Conferences
February 16th, 2005Remember that article that excited me on social software and conferences? Well, they added some extra content. It must have been a popular article. Now, it’s now titled, “The Future of F2F”:
“This online-only, Web bonus adds scenarios, real-life vignettes, and links to resources describing in more detail how new social software technologies can [...]
The Ultra Gleeper
February 16th, 2005The Ultra Gleeper – From the site:
“The Ultra Gleeper takes your weblog subscription list and starts from there. It crawls the web for things you haven’t seen and shows you the pages it thinks you’ll like. Your feedback improves its ability to give accurate ratings. With the Ultra Gleeper can find new pages and new [...]
Personalized RSS For Your Patrons – Project Bluebird Launched!
February 15th, 2005Jenny blogged about Project Bluebird from Talis last month. Today, via their blog, they’ve officially announced a limited launch of the project, in cooperation with Northumbria University. More about the project:
“Libraries send many hundreds of thousands of notifications and communications to users a year. New technologies allow real-time (or near real-time) communication and [...]
Blogging Conferences – Just The Beginning
February 15th, 2005Richard Akerman comments on conferences:
“In my dream vision, you easily are able to get all of the info related to a conference: blogging about it, blogging of particular sessions, presentations from those sessions, photos, etc.”
“I think agreeing on a standard and unique tag for each conference will get most of the way there.”
I’m not too [...]
Library Clips – A Blog To Watch
February 15th, 2005I’ve been reading Library Clips for a few days now and have been duly impressed with the content. Lots and lots of material on folksonomies/blogs/etc. And I’m not just plugging it because LS is the only blog in the blogroll that is in bold .
Weblog Presentation Tool Reactions
February 15th, 2005I audioblogged my thoughts on my ride home from Yale on using a weblog as a presentation tool. Conclusion? Worthy of another shot.
Now Where Did I Leave That Bottle?
February 14th, 2005A precious picture of a little girl in the library, courtesy of Flickr.
A Presentation About Weblogs….in a Weblog
February 14th, 2005I’m trying something new for my presentation format. Normally, I would put together Powerpoint, slides but I’m getting bored of that method. Another problem that I was having with Powerpoint was the constant shifting back and forth between screens.
While taking a shower the other day (my best ideas come while in [...]
California Library Association Has a Weblog
February 14th, 2005Dr. Web mentions that the California Library Association has a weblog. It’s been active since January. Congrats (with caveats below)
Two issues that may need to be addressed (Dr. Web alludes to these as well):
1) The link to the weblog is listed under “news” on the main site. Why not “blog”?
2) [...]
How Did I Miss This?
February 14th, 2005Last Wednesday, the Feedster Feed of the Day was the LII. Hip Hip Hooray. Note to Karen: You may want to consider putting an orange XML button on the NTW page.
Distractions, RSS, and E-mail
February 13th, 2005Down the Avenue linked me over to an article from the NYT about distractions in the online world. Being a “keeping current” guy, it immediately caught my attentions. One of the many topics discussed is e-mail and since I’ve been on my twice yearly anti-e-mail kick lately, I figured I’d address it. [...]
The Daily Star joins the RSSosphere
February 13th, 2005John writes in with news that The Daily Star is now offering 9 RSS feeds for their content. Thanks John.
Playing Footsie With Bloglines
February 13th, 2005This tool has been floating around the blog world since Thursday. I drafted it (amongst 20 others), and finally was able to test it out today. It’s called Chameleon.
“Do you like Bloglines? I do. But the number of feeds I was trying to deal with quickly got away from me. I don’t think [...]
2005 Academy Awards – Blog Style
February 11th, 2005PubSub just went live with an Academy Awards page complete with subscriptions to the main categories as well as graphs (updated daily) comparing the number of weblog mentions for each of the nominations.
