Archive for June, 2005
Photo’s From Calgary
June 18th, 2005I’ve posted a few shots from CLA to my Photo Blog (not updated often, but just a place for pictures). This is one of my favorite shots of all time. Is she not the cutest human on earth?
CLA Blog and Wiki
June 18th, 2005Now that I’m leaving in a few hours for NY, I see that there was a blog for CLA. I also see that there was an Unofficial Wiki as well. I hope that they can market this more next years conference in Ottawa (which I will hopefully attend).
Tag - You’re It
June 18th, 2005My presentation on tagging can be accessed at this url:
http://tagyoureitcla.blogspot.com/
The presentation doesn’t say much (just a bunch of ideas). You kinda had to be there…
RSS at SPL
June 17th, 2005Not easy to find, but Jenny has the scoop on the feeds available at the Seattle Public Library. Maybe they can learn a few things about marketing from Hennepin County Library…
Power to the People: Do it Yourself Content Distribution
June 17th, 2005From an an article in EContent:
“In his breakthrough book Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel, head of the Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, documents the impact of user input on product innovation. From extreme-sports equipment to library information systems, users are consistently ahead of the curve, von Hippel observes. [...]
Blogging at CLA
June 17th, 2005The Country Librarian was at our RSS/Blogging session today and took some notes.
Joyce Carol Oates
June 16th, 2005Today is Joyce Carol Oates’s birthday.
Canadian Library Association
June 16th, 2005Hi, we’re here at CLA and having fun
Government of Canada - Hurricane Feeds
June 16th, 2005I was preparing for my presentation this afternoon and came across two new (well, new to me) feeds from the Canadian Government:
+ Canadian Hurricane Watches / Warnings Bulletins
+ Canadian Hurricane Information Statements
LITA Blog
June 16th, 2005The LITA Blog launches. That makes 2 ALA divisions with blogs. Who will be next?
Blake is the New “Cranky Old Man”
June 15th, 2005Without realizing it, Walt has passed the “I’m old and cranky” baton over to Blake. In his post, Blake talks about his continued love/hate relationship with RSS:
“People seem really excited about the ability to read a billion blog posts on one page. This one I can understand. The urge to read what hundreds of [...]
Connect Via Books
June 15th, 2005Connect Via Books is a social network service for books and readers. Any use for libraries?
More from the press release.
RSS Live on PubMed!
June 15th, 2005RSS is now live at PubMed! Run a search and pull down the menu bar next to “sort by.” Here’s a screenshot.
After that, you’ll get the option to limit the number of items if they exceed a certain number as well as name the feed.
Then, grab the feed.
Research and Rescue
June 15th, 2005Save Library and Information Studies is a desparately needed organization. Goals include:
“+ To promote the virtues of a career in the library and information industry among American youth, particularly among ethnicities that are underrepresented in the field.
+ To advocate for independent learning, information literacy, and equal access to information as essentials in a democratic [...]
Librarians Aren’t Free
June 14th, 2005Michael McGrorty made some neat bumper stickers.
Work the Pond
June 14th, 2005A new book showed up in my aggregator today. It’s called Work the Pond: Use the Power of Positive Networking to Leap Forward in Work. Perfect timing for two huge library conferences (ALA and CLA). I saw the following acronym from the book excerpt:
“N: Never leave home without one’s business cards
E: Establish, exchange, [...]
Library Conference/Association Blogging Guidelines
June 14th, 2005Over at the PLA Blog, we have our guidelines on a password protected wiki and have since provided access to many interested librarians who wanted to start up blog initiatives for their associations. Today, I was chatting with Andrea (PLA Blog co-manager) and Sophie (a PLA blogger from ALA Midwinter) and we thought that [...]
CLA
June 14th, 2005Tomorrow, I’m heading off to the Canadian Library Association. How about a bloggers dinner Friday night? Comment on this post for RSVP and suggested places to eat.
Why Jenny Levine Should Be Cloned For the Good of Mankind
June 14th, 2005Because of stuff like this. Apparently, Newsgator is working on an RSS Enterprise type server. Take a look at who was mentioned in a blog post from Greg Reinacker about beta-testers:
“We’ve got quite a list of beta customers who have either installed Dino already, or will be soon…including Metropolitan Library System, InfoWorld, CGI [...]
Skype Me!
June 13th, 2005Neat. A book about Skype:
“In the first-ever book on Skype Markus Daehne, who is the forum moderator on the Skype Web site, takes you from the basics of getting Skype up and running on all platforms, through advanced features included in SkypeIn, SkypeOut, and Skype for Business. The book teaches you everything from installing [...]
Joining ALA/PLA
June 13th, 2005I’m joining ALA/PLA. More details as to why within the next few weeks.
U.S. District Attorney’s Office Using Blog
June 13th, 2005The public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri has a blog. From the page:
“Consider this an online press briefing, sort of a virtual courthouse steps, where reporters and editors can find more information they need to make coverage decisions.”
A great use of blog technology. Of course, [...]
Ask and I Shall Receive
June 13th, 2005I love how quickly the blog/RSS/tagging/search world works. This past hour, someone from Gataga commented on my post from yesterday:
“In principal, I agree with you, tagging is not about search, but social bookmarks are a more genuine source of links compared to a search engine. That’s the idea that gave birth to Gataga. We’ve [...]
Information Overload’s Bad Definition
June 13th, 2005I’ve been having an interesting e-mail conversation with Steve Matthews during the past few days. We’ve been chatting about Information Overload and how I believe that it doesn’t exist (which I’m contemplating about changing after speaking with Steve). Steve posted his thoughts on the topic:
“My take, and perhaps simply a difference in definition, [...]
Librbary Banch?
June 13th, 2005I’m heading off to the local banch librbary to get some books on how to use spell-check.
Bloggy Science Librarians
June 13th, 2005From a article titled, “Staying In the Know: Blogs of Science Librarians” [PDF] (page 7):
“I find reading blogs of fellow science librarians to be incredibly helpful - as practicing subject specialist librarians, these bloggers are aware of new developments in the worlds of science, research and technology, and are taking the time to share their [...]
More Event Blogging
June 13th, 2005Paul Ayers writes in:
“SOSIG will be running a week long virtual event as part of the ESRC Social Science Week (June 20th - 24th 2005). We have invited a number of social science specialists to consider how the Internet has altered their working practices and the impact this has had on their research and/or [...]
Wikitorials Coming to LA Times
June 12th, 2005At the end of an Editors note in the LA Times today, one reads this:
“Watch next week for the introduction of ‘wikitorials’ — an online feature that will empower you to rewrite Los Angeles Times editorials.”
As Joey used to say on Blossom…Whoa! (link via Ross Mayfield’s Blog)
Gataga
June 12th, 2005Tagging has nothing to do with search (IMO), but for those that think it does, you may want to take a look at Gataga, which will run searches on four tagging systems. They’re missing a few biggies (Furl, del.irio.us, and maybe Technorati come to mind) and a feed would be nice for the search [...]
ALA Chicago 2005 Attendance Poll
June 12th, 2005The Curmudgeony Librarian wants to know if you are attending ALA Annual, and if so, who’s paying for it.