Archive for November, 2005
Open Q&A Sessions On the Web
November 7th, 2005In June 2003, I mentioned a resource called Wondir, where anyone can ask a question in the hope that anybody who reads it will answer. No logins necessary. In July of this year, I took a quick look at Just Curious, another open Q&A service.
Today, Aggie sent me two more that are similar [...]
Multiminding
November 7th, 2005I was at the doctor with Barbie today and picked up a publication called PINK Magazine. Towards the back, I came to an advertisement for Ketchum, where I learned about multiminding. They don’t display it on the site, but they did provide a definition in the ad, which I jotted down on the [...]
RSS Fun Time
November 7th, 2005
RSSfuntime
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
I have no idea what RSS Fun Time is, but it wins the Library Stuff award for funniest URL and least amount of information. It could be a gag, but worth a look for a quick giggle.
It’s title tag says, “Use the magic [...]
Library Thing Adds Tag Info Pages
November 7th, 2005To celebrate their 1 Millionth tag (yes, you read that correctly), Tim at Library Thing has added a neat feature, called tag info pages, which shows informative pieces about the tag, including which books have been tagged with that keyword and who else tagged their books similarly. To show a good exmaple [...]
PubSub Community Lists
November 7th, 2005
PubSub Community Lists
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
Many colleagues ask what I do at PubSub and most of the time I can’t answer, because most of the work I do has to stay private until it’s…well…public. Today is one of my favorite and most stressful days, because we’re releasing [...]
Digg Dugged for 5 Hours
November 6th, 2005
Digg
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
According to Cnet, Digg was shut down for 5 hours on Firday because the site was going to hit 6 million pageviews. I showed of Digg at Internet Librarian (It’ll be a while before we stop talking about that show!) and heard many [...]
The Carnival Comes to Library Stuff
November 6th, 2005I’m so excited to be hosting the 16th installment of the Carnival of the Infosciences. I’ve been a lurker up to this point, but wanted to give it a try. More on the 15th…
Library 2.0 Profiled
November 6th, 2005I had to ask Jenny Levine what the heck Library 2.0 was all about (I understand it now, it’s exactly what I thought it was, just didn’t realize it was named already!) at Internet Librarian a few weeks ago. Well, it seems that Jason Boog, a journalist for Publish.com was excited as well, because [...]
MeasureMap
November 6th, 2005
MeasureMap
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
MeasureMap is not out yet (one of those “send us an e-mail and we’ll maybe invite you in” services), but it looks interesting enough for me to sign up for an invitation. I’m not exactly sure what it will do, but it looks like [...]
ClipShack and Your Library
November 6th, 2005ClipShack is the video version of Flickr. Librarians, take a video tour of your library and upload it to your library blog/webpage. Instant (and hip) outreach.
The Happy Couple
November 5th, 2005
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Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
Barbie and I at my brother’s wedding (last year)
SuprGlu to the Rescue?
November 5th, 2005These “collect a bunch of feeds and display them on page” tools are all the rage these days (see KickRSS, etc). Aggie sent me SuprGlu the other day. Sign up for free (of course), throw in as many feeds as you want (it helps out a bit by asking usernames for popular services) [...]
Interview With the Library Thinger
November 5th, 2005Emily Chang interviewed Tim Spalding, the proprietor of Library Thing. So, why did Tim start Library Thing?
“I’d been thinking about it for a few years. I’m the sort of person who cataloged his books in Filemaker before the web. When I’m at a party I gravitate to my hosts’ bookshelves, and I like it [...]
More on Kick RSS
November 4th, 2005I wrote about KickRSS recently and wondered why they didn’t include OPML import. I was told by Kevin (who runs the site) that OPML import and export has since been implemeted. I’m still kvelling over the librarians page that I created.
MoMB
November 4th, 2005Greatest site title ever.
MoMB stands for the Museum of Modern Betas. The sense of humor gets better when you check out the “about” page:
“The MoMB is a site dedicated to listing webbased applications on a beta trip. This site is in early alpha, I still need to figure a few things out.”
There’s a list, [...]
FeedsFeedsFeedsFeeds
November 4th, 2005Trying out new aggregators is fun (although I still haven’t found one that beats out Feed on Feeds), especially when they have that fresh AJAX smell. Take a look at FeedFeeds and you’ll see what I mean. Lots of neat options to play with (including a new option called FeedTV). The one [...]
How To Get Published
November 3rd, 2005Rachel Singer Gordon (quickly becoming one my library heros) has written an article about getting published (specifically books). If you have every thought about writing a trade book for the information professional, take a look at at what she has to say. Also see her book entitled, “The Librarians Guide to Writing for [...]
The Law Library 2006
November 3rd, 2005I’m thrilled to be presenting at The Law Library 2006 on March 15th of next year. PLI is a well respected continuing education provider in the legal field. They’re also hip to RSS. Chck out the shiny happy orange button on their upcoming programs page.
Happy Birthday LISNews!
November 2nd, 20056 years old and still running strong. Here’s to ya LISNews, hands down the best library blog out there.
Collaborative Document Sharing Tools
November 2nd, 2005I spent some time during my presentation last week on talking about collaboration resources. Today, an article in Intranet Journal points me to two more tools that can be used to collaborate on online documents. One of these days, I’ll write an extensive compare and contrast, but for now, I’ll just add them [...]
Psst. Steven. Isn’t This Del.icio.us?
November 2nd, 2005According to Will Richardson, who saw it from Jon Udell, you can send private bookmarks to anyone in del.icio.us. Just tag the query for:username. So, if you want to send something to me, just tag it for:librarystuff. In order to look at the private bookmarks sent to you, go to http://del.icio.us/for/yourusernamehere. Make [...]
C&I Trumps Boyle
November 1st, 2005I’m doing the big ol’ “File….Print” on the latest Cites and Insights. In it, Walt has written an essay entitled, “Life Trumps Blogging”, which I skimmed and will read in full on the train to work in the AM. The other essays looked interesting enough for this issue to trump the latest [...]
Can’t Make This Stuff Up
November 1st, 2005Does anyone else see the irony of the copy on this new student-based social software tool? Hint: Look at the arrow.