Archive for March, 2005
More on Blogging Guidelines
March 31st, 2005At CIL this year, I spent a considerable amount of time on guidelines and policies for library weblogs. I showed a few examples from the corporate environment. Yesterday, my aggregator pointed me to Venture Blog, which posted a link to a Howard Rice Alert on corporate blogging risks.
The guidelines posted seem [...]
I Say Folksonomies, You Say Freetagging
March 31st, 2005A wonderful post from Dan Brown titled On Freetagging where he discusses the difference between the term folksonomies and freetagging:
“Freetagging – applying freely-chosen words as labels to objects – is the activity that leads to a folksonomy. When you type tags into del.icio.us, you’re freetagging. My preference for freetagging comes from looking at what makes [...]
trendalicious!
March 30th, 2005If you want a quick glance at what people are tagging at del.icio.us today, bookmark trendalicious!. Soon (if not now), del.icio.us will be seen as a tool for current online trends, news, and more. It may give Daypop, Blogsnow, and Popdex a run for their money, depending on one thing. WIll more [...]
New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog
March 30th, 2005Cindy L. Chick points to a blog run by the NY Supreme Court Criminal Term Library:
“This web log serves as an information gateway to web based services provided by the New York State Supreme Court Criminal Term Library in New York County. It includes the following features: 1. Direct access to the Library home page [...]
Weblog Initiative at the University of British Columbia
March 30th, 2005Yet another university working on a weblog program. Weblogs@UBC has a ton of useful information, including this statement:
“Our aim with weblogs@UBC is not to get everyone to start blogging - blogs are not for everyone. However, we do think they have tremendous potential in higher education, not only from technical and managerial perspectives, but [...]
Michael McGrorty on Competitive Intelligence
March 30th, 2005Michael always has a way with words (You do read his blog, right?) In one of his latest posts, those words struck me as more important as usual. His honesty should be applauded:
“Because it is the place where the money is. Knowing what a competitor is doing can mean billions in profit—or [...]
A Day Full of Drafts
March 29th, 2005Sorry about the lack of posts today. Blogger was misbehaving (again) and I was greeted with lots of 404s and other lovely error messages (I miss Blogger Pro and would gladly pay $20-40 per year to be on a different server).
The outage at Blogger didn’t phase this librarian. I must have put up [...]
2005 ASCD Annual Conference…Blogged
March 29th, 2005The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development is blogging their annual conference. They also have a link to their feed and, more importantly, a “what’s this” link, describing what a feed is.
More Feeds From Peter Scott
March 29th, 2005He’s on a roll this week, pointing to an important one:
The International Herald Tribune now has a bunch of feeds. 18 of ‘em. Some strange topics…
Web4Lib in Your Aggregator
March 29th, 2005I will still not subscribe to Web4Lib, even though I can get an RSS feed for it and post directly from their new site. It’s not the way the content is displayed, it’s the content. Listservs are just not my thing. But I’m just the messenger here… (link via‘rarin)
Libraries and Weblogs - A Nice Writeup
March 28th, 2005From an article titled, Weblogs Connect People Through Journals About Everything from Book Clubs to Bands:
“A blog takes me only about a minute to update and I can do that either from home or on campus,” Bluefield State College librarian Robin Shapiro said. “I think blogs are today where the World Wide Web was when [...]
Wikicities
March 28th, 2005Wikicities is Wikipedia, but stepped up about 10 notches. Anyone can create a “wikicity” and anyone can contribute to one. It’s just starting out, so the content is sparse, but I can imagine what can become of it. There are 193 wikicities out there so far (including one on libraries with [...]
Multipost Bookmarklet Tool Updated
March 28th, 2005Alan Levine has updated his cool Multipost Bookmarklet Tool to include de.lerio.us. Now, my tags will go into Furl, del.icio.us and de.lerio.us in one click. Suweeeeeet. Thanks Alan.
Government of Nova Scotia - RSS Feeds
March 28th, 2005Peter Scott links to a bunch of RSS Feeds from the Novia Scotia government. They have over 20 of them. Thanks Peter.
…Where Scoble Left Off
March 27th, 2005Last week, Robert Scoble gave up the daily grind of posting to his linkblog, declaring that the time spent wasn’t worth the effort. I can’t say I blame the guy.
Since I’ve been playing with de.lirio.us, I decided that I would try to continue where Robert left off. I usually have about 15 items [...]
Citizenry Involvement…Blog Style
March 27th, 2005Man meets blog software. Man starts a blog about his local government, wanting to get citizens involved. Newspaper writes story on man. Popularity of blog should increase.
Is your library blogging? Does anyone know about it? A common theme that came up at CIL during my talks was one of marketing. [...]
United We Find
March 27th, 2005If you are at all into collaborative work, take a look at an article in The Economist on collaborative filtering. It discusses the high points and downsides of using such systems and what the future holds for them:
“A search-engine user hunts alone; the user of a collaborative-filtering system is part of a crowd.”
Collaborative filtering [...]
Interface Changes for Del.icio.us?
March 27th, 2005A new interface for Del.icio.us? Take a sneak peek (you can do this for any Del.icio.us page - just add /new/ in the url). Not much of a change, except a links bar on the left hand side which shows others who have linked to that entry. The most “radical” change? [...]
IU Library School Get’s RSSified
March 25th, 2005The library school at Indiana University has incorporated feeds into two parts of their site: News and Working Papers. Suweeet! (links via Newsisfree and longtime LS contributor Pete Weiss)
Orbiscope Observer
March 25th, 2005Orbiscope Observer:
“[E]nables you to track changes in web pages and RSS feeds. It highlight the changes, using a built-in browser display and also allows you to view previous versions of the page, which is useful to catch up with changes that occurred over several days. In addition, you can watch for certain keywords to [...]
ITI Newsbreaks via RSS
March 25th, 2005What’s that I see on top of the Information Today web page? Why, it’s an RSS feed for their Newsbreaks, of course. Subscribed!
Congrats to Bill Spence and the IT crew over at ITI on their second set of feeds (Econtent Magazine was their first).
Librarian Intern Blogging
March 25th, 2005Say hello to Thomas Pease, a library school student at Indiana University. He’s interning this semester and blogging away. His blog will consist of:
“A forum for posting my journal articles, activities, and musings generated by two internships during Spring Semester, 2005. My first internship is at the IU Music Library, learning Sound Recordings [...]
Score One for the Seattle Public Library
March 25th, 2005Laura Lemay tells a story:
“Well it so happened that there had been a particular book I had read when I was a kid that had deeply freaked me out. I had been looking for this one book ever since but I had forgotten the author, the title, and most of the plot. Others had [...]
More Conference Blogging
March 25th, 2005Bill Drew wants to organize some conference blogging at SUNYLA and wants some advice:
“Can those of you that have acted as official and unofficial bloggers at conference make any recommendations? I read the blogging going on from Computers in Libraries and found it quite interesting. Any suggestions on best practices or how to coordinate such [...]
Aggregato - Another ‘Taggregator’
March 25th, 2005In yet another push towards ‘taggregation’ Aggregato was released to the public today. I took it for a spin and was impressed. A very clean interface. Here’s a screenshot.
One thing to notice is the similarity to Bloglines (in this case, tags = folders). In order for this tagging aggregation system to work, [...]
Tea Sipping…
March 25th, 2005I pay my dues
(Thanks Andrea)
Consumerpedia
March 24th, 2005Take a look at Consumerpedia and you’ll understand why I feel that communities should be more involved in the ILS systems that our libraries use:
“Consumerpedia has no built in category hierarchy, but rather uses a unique user-driven hierarchical tagging system. This lets users create and define the relationships between different topics, helping others easily [...]
“Blog People” Fight Back, Creatively
March 24th, 2005A short piece from Library Journal about Gormangate:
“Several library bloggers, including Karen Schneider, a member of the ALA council, have encouraged fellow bloggers to adopt a BlogPerson logo, and the logo designer also offers a BlogPeople version. And the “Curmudgeony Librarian” has even begun to offer “Blog Person” merchandise, including t-shirts, mousepads, and [...]
PubSub Matches on the Road
March 24th, 2005Obvious Disclaimer: I work for PubSub.
So, you can now get keyword matches from PubSub in your mobile device via Feedbeep. Yowza! Check out the press release:
“Santa Cruz Tech, the provider of unique information solutions and PubSub, the essential tool for anyone tracking what people are saying about the topics they care about, today [...]
So, How Was Etech?
March 23rd, 2005Annalee Newitz writes:
“ETech was like hanging out with cyber-librarians on acid - really, really good acid that makes you want to change the world.”
I knew there was something missing from our dine-arounds last week.