Archive for October, 2005
Thinking about the Future
October 31st, 2005I’m not sure how I missed the Thinking about the Future blog, written by Paul Miller (he works at Talis). Check out the description of his blog:
“Personal perspectives on information science, the evolving Internet, delivery of public services online, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, communities, folksonomies and more. With an emphasis upon convergence between some [...]
Social Software Apps
October 31st, 2005A few social software tools that Aggie sent me today, from various sources:
+ Tudu Lists: “Tudu Lists is an on-line application for managing todo lists.”
+ Clipmarks - “Basically, what bookmarks do for entire web pages, Clipmarks do for specific content on those pages. When you find information on the web that you want to retain, [...]
More on Large Calcluators
October 31st, 2005Yes, you’ve seen the pictures, but have you read the Haiku? (Thanks Amanda)
KickRSS
October 30th, 2005It took me less than 2 minutes to create a nice-looking page called A Few Librarians at KickRSS. One word.
Suweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
Run a search. I dare ya.
I do wonder why they don’t provide the user with OPML upload ability and I’m not sure why they don’t display the full content from the feeds they [...]
The Great Wiki Raid of ‘05
October 30th, 2005This should be fun to watch. An organized “assault” on a specific Wikipedia entry. From the press release:
“The Great Wiki Raid of ’05 begins at 12:01 A.M. 31 October. For 24 hours futurists from around the world will mount a “knowledge assault” on Wikipedia.org, the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia. Their goal is [...]
Ask a Librarian Pumpkin
October 30th, 2005
Ask a librarian pumpkin
Originally uploaded by OrrinJCL.
If I was into Halloween, I’d totally copy this and put it in front of my home.
David Bigwood is Podcasting
October 28th, 2005Not for his blog, but for his day job at the Lunar and Planetary Institute Library. Great use of a “What’s New” page.
The Pleasures and Perils of PowerPoint
October 28th, 2005An interesting thought on the use of PowerPoint (PP) in teaching, from Wendy’s Journal:
“I think PowerPoint has become a proxy for talking about the kinds of lectures that are, shall we say content rich. That is not necessarily the best way to teach, and as a tool, powerpoint supports it. But is that saying [...]
Libraries Build Communities…and Vice Versa
October 28th, 2005I’m in total “libraries and communities” mode after hearing many sessions on the topic at Internet Librarian as well as numerous self-brainstorms (plus, I’m getting ready for my two talks on the subject next month). Today, Michael Stephens posted about the Clio Institute blog, which has “inspiring libraries to inspire communities” as the description [...]
Riya
October 27th, 2005Whoa! TechCrunch has the word (Michael Arrington is the best reporter of new online social tools) on Rija (it’d in pre-alpha - you’ll snicker if you were part of the communities and collaboration track at Internet Librarian), an automatic face recognition photo service helps people gain more perspective about these shots, especially those that [...]
Internet to ask, ‘How may I serve you?’
October 27th, 2005Great article on the next generation Web:
“The interactions Web is the next rung up from the familiar point-and-click Internet, industry executives say. For the past decade on the Net, you’d click and get a Web page. If you wanted more information, or to order something, you’d click again. The user has had to do a [...]
Heading Home
October 26th, 2005I’m in total debrief mode after a great conference. I will write up a full report on the plane back to NY.
Until then, take a look at this movie (7 mgs) that I shot at the end of the collaboration track yesterday. 10KWizard gave out pens that light up, so we closed [...]
Big Head
October 24th, 2005
Internet Librarian 2005: Dine-Arounds
October 23rd, 2005Check out all of the dine-arounds that you can attend this week.
I’ll be hosting one on Monday night at Isabella’s on the topic of libraries and online communities. I hope you can join me.
Welcome to Monterey
October 23rd, 2005“I’m so glad that you librarians are in town”, said the cab driver to my colleague and I on the way to the hotel last night.
Why?
“Because this town could use some culture, and better grammar”, he replied.
This was how my conference experience started. After landing in an almost fogged-in airport (We almost [...]
PowerPoint Revisited
October 21st, 2005So, I took some flack (well, some good discussion ensued) for my comments yesterday on PowerPoint (PP).
The In Season Christian Librarian said:
“I must take issue with the article in Library Stuff about the much maligned Powerpoint. It isn’t the technology which is at fault but the presenter’s skills. After all, a part of Information Literacy [...]
Blogs, Wikis, and RSS for Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development
October 20th, 2005Neat. A presentation on Blogs, Wikis, etc in Wiki format. Some very useful links to follow as well.
Everytime I have a presentation and mention to the audience that I don’t use PowerPoint, I get a round of applause. Let’s move beyond PowerPoint. I wonder how many speakers at Internet [...]
Libraries Introducing Public to New Technology
October 20th, 2005Another report library researchers might want to get their hands on. Agian, a small sample of subjects, but I’m just the messenger. From the article:
“A recent study has been released by Research and Markets on library best practices. The report is based on interviews with information technology directors and other critical staff involved [...]
Bookshelf
October 20th, 2005With Ning, developers can create their own social software tools. Marrow Planet mentioned Bookshelf, another in the line of new book tagging tools that have come around.
Here’s what I like about Bookshelf. It can show how many people are currently reading a specific book. The permanent link for each book also shows [...]
OCLC’s Top 1000
October 20th, 2005This is new to me, but maybe not new to you. OCLC has a “top 1000” list incorporating the most popular books in WorldCat. The list is updated every year. I’d love to see this list updated in real-time, or, at the very least, updated every day.
Singer Gordon and ITI - Perfect Together
October 20th, 2005Congrats to Rachel Singer Gordon who has become a consulting editor for the Information Today book division. Great pick-up ITI.
They’re My Spacin’ in Bakersfield
October 20th, 2005Quite literally, the library being used as an online commons:
“At last count, there are more than 2,000 profiles on the Web site for people who list themselves as current students of Bakersfield College, and the library’s computer commons area seems to have been overtaken by people who are using the site.”
“In an informal survey of [...]
Welcome to my Lib
October 19th, 2005Oh the fun stuff one finds at Flickr
More on MPOW
October 19th, 2005Thanks for all the commentary on my post on MPOW and what the heck it means and why some bloggers use it. Exploded Library has more thoughts on the issue…
Jessa Crispin on Library Thing
October 19th, 2005Jessa Crispin has a funny commentary on Library Thing:
“It’s the social aspect that becomes addictive, lasting long after the fade of the novelty of digging into the backs of bookshelves to discover two copies of a book you didn’t even like. ‘The whole thing is fascinating as hell,’ says LibraryThing user Laura Carroll. ‘Two anonymous [...]
Social Software, Libraries, and the Communities that (could) Sustain Them
October 19th, 2005I’m thrilled to be speaking at another event at MIT for NEASIS&T. It will be on Friday night, November 18th. Here’s the description:
“While Wiki- or Blog-ified pages, recommender/commenting systems, Web 2.0, RSS, portals, structured blogging all indicate customized services—these technologies and concepts are not normally associated with the library systems, until now. “Reader’s [...]
Elsevier Engineering Information Uses Blogs For Committee Work
October 18th, 2005I rarely post press releases that are sent to me by companies, but this one was too good to ignore. The amazing folks at Engineering Information are now using blogs for internal communication within committees. From the press release:
“‘By utilizing blog technology as a project management tool, the Compendex Scope and Coverage blog [...]
Me A Librarian? - Sure, Why Not?
October 18th, 2005I have many PubSub subscriptions (surprised?), but my favorite one is for the keyword librarian (only in the title [for those that do advanced queries on PubSub, that would be TITLE:librarian] as this way, I don’t get inundated with content). I love reading what personal bloggers say about our profession. Sometimes it’s funny, [...]
In the Bookroom
October 18th, 2005One of my favorite “jobs” is continuing to populate LISFeeds with great new library-related blogs (we’re up to 272…and counting, send yours in today) and I get to see the new entries. Today, Ann from Library Journal sent in In the Bookroom, a collaborative blog about books. Aggie will now gather content from this [...]
American Institute of Physics RSS Feeds
October 18th, 2005I just noticed that the American Institute of Physics has added a bunch of feeds to their list. They used to have 3, but now they have a lot more, most of which come from their journals. What’s even cooler than that? They’ve broken down each journal into topics as well, each [...]