Archive for February, 2006
New Meebo Stuff
February 16th, 2006For those that use Meebo (and I know of many librarians that do), you’ll notice something new when you access the site. First, they’ve implemented an account feature, which allows you to save your numerous IM acocunts and only have to log-in with one (Yay!).
Also new:
“Included in this new system is a new [...]
Add Digg to Your Blog
February 15th, 2006News from Digg today:
“You can now easily add digg news to your own website. When news is updated on digg, it will automatically be displayed right on your own site. You can add any of the main digg categories and stories you have dugg, submitted, commented on, even your stories that have made it to [...]
Alternative Teen Services Blog
February 15th, 2006You pro “L2″ folk will love this blog which has been around for a few months:
Alternative Teen Services Blog - “This Blog is updated by two librarians who work with teens. It includes viewpoints about serving teens, as well as day-to-day commentary on what the librarians are learning and experiencing.”
Today, they’ve listed libraries that have [...]
No Blogs…?
February 15th, 2006A few Web 2.0 sites that I want to add to my list but can’t because they don’t have a development/company blog:
+ newsgarbage - “Primarily, newsgarbage is a technology-based news site, moderated and controlled by you, the users. In this sense users can post news on the site, and then by ‘bagging’ or ‘binning’ specific [...]
The Shifted Librarian?
February 15th, 2006I miss The Shifted Librarian. Jenny, will you be blogging consistently again? I miss my daily “shifted” fix and ALA Techsource isn’t cutting it for this fan.
SLMS Conference Blog
February 15th, 2006Great news from Christopher Harris who mentions that the 2006 Conference of the School Library Media Section (SLMS) of the New York Library Association has a blog. They’re looking for volunteers to blog the conference. Go school librarians go!
I wonder why the blog isn’t linked on the conference site. (or here for that [...]
Vollman’s Editor Gets a Promotion
February 15th, 2006What great news. Paul Slovak, who edits William T. Vollman’s books (as well at T.C. Boyle, another of my favorite authors - I never miss any of his books) has been promooted. Congrats! (link via Edward Champion)
I just got WTV’s latest in the mail and can’t wait to get to it, but [...]
Topix.net Conversation Map
February 15th, 2006I’ve always been a big fan of Topix after being introduced to the service from Gary Price. Check out what they introduced today:
“[W]e plotted the local Topix discussions on a map of the US (actually rendered directly from our TIGER/Line article geo-categorization KB) and it looked pretty cool. You can click on a dot [...]
List of Lists of Web 2.0 Resources
February 15th, 2006I wonder how much more meta we can get. Digg tipped me off to this list of Web 2.0 lists. There was one that I didn’t know about before, which I’ve added to my aggregator.
Speaking of lists, I am going to start adding hierarchies to my list over the weekend (I [...]
Lens of The Day
February 14th, 2006Those eye-popping guys and gals at Squidoo have introduced a new blog, the Lens of the Day. From the inaugural post:
“This blog is dedicated to our Lensmasters. It’s a place for us to show off what they’ve been up to. It’s a place for you to discover something you didn’t know, to browse the [...]
Ch Ch Ch Ch Changes at Library Thing
February 14th, 2006Tim Spalding is working on some changes at Library Thing:
“The new system introduces a robust concept of ‘work.’ On the database side this means a special ‘works’ database, where each work has a title (the most common title of books belonging to the work). It is the way whereby most LibraryThing books can acquire [...]
Complete List of Web 2.0 Products and Services
February 14th, 2006While I’m working on building my list of Web 2.0 Company Blogs, I feel compelled to point out a similar resource being built on Listable.
This is a list of Web 2.0 products and services. My list concentrates on blogs from the companies that puts out these products. What a great resource for me [...]
Congrats Michael!
February 14th, 2006I am so excited for Michael Stephens as he has taken a full-time position at the Dominican University library school. The national rankings for the school should shoot up to the top of the list with this great addition to their staff.
LinkedFeed now with tabs!
February 14th, 2006If your into AJAX-based start pages, you’ll be interested in the new tabs feature available at LinkedFeed. From their blog:
“After days spent on code optimization to smoothen your LinkedFeed experience, we added today a much desired function: customizable tabs. You will now be able to organize your feeds by topics (or whatever) in various [...]
Ask For Cents
February 13th, 2006I just learned about Ask For Cents from the Amazon Web Services Blog. It uses the Mechanical Turk Workforce to put users in touch with experts who can help answer questions. During the alpha stage, the questions are free so, for kicks, I sent in this one.
“Would you be able to tell me [...]
Libraries Turning to iPods and iTunes
February 13th, 2006Jessamyn West is quoted in an article in Playlist on libraries, iTunes, and DRM.
“There are a few notable differences [between traditional and digital collections] that are taking up a lot of librarians’ time lately,” said Jessamyn West, who runs the popular and long-running weblog Librarian.net. “There’s the copying thing, the copyright thing and the DRM [...]
Zooomr is Giving Away Free Pro Accounts
February 13th, 2006The guys at Zooomr have been “dug” and are now looking to get more people using the service:
“Starting immediately, any user is eligible for a free Professional Zooomr account. Yes, that’s right: 2GB/mo. upload cap., No Ads, your originals are kept nicely archived, and to top it all off, you even get unlimited storage — [...]
Quote of the Year - So far
February 12th, 2006Meredith Farkas is a goddess. Read this:
“We create blogs for populations that don’t want them. We develop programs that none of our patrons attend. We see what people are doing successfully at other libraries and we try to replicate those successes, not considering the fact that our population is not the same as [...]
Don’t Just Google It
February 12th, 2006In a post today about private investigator work, Michael McGrorty had this to say:
“If I could teach anything to librarians, it would be to adopt the private eye model of information seeking, whose basic tenet is not to approach information but to penetrate it. That, and I’d like to introduce the trade to [...]
Oy Vey!
February 12th, 2006Articles like this one, while well intentioned, really need to stop:
“Angela Dubinger is pretty cool, as librarians go.
She chats. She blogs. And she hangs out with teenagers.
It’s kind of a strange gig for a woman in her 30s. But Dubinger, the audio visual and teen services supervisor at New Castle-Henry County Public Library, is [...]
Is This A Blog?
February 12th, 2006I’m a huge fan of pbiki. I put all of my presentations on there, write draft articles, and some conference scheduling.
I really want to add their NewFeatures “wiki” page to my Web 2.0 Company Blog List, but I can’t get myself to do it because I don’t think that it’s a blog.
Cons: It doesn’t [...]
Web 2.0 Company Blog Update
February 11th, 2006It’s been an interesting week for me:
1) Many “old school” LS readers will be shocked to learn that I’ve actually joined a mailing list. At the advice of Dave Winer, I’m a member of the OPML Newbies group. I joined because I’m really getting into Dave’s OPML Editor and the concept of reading [...]
Web 2.0 Central
February 11th, 2006Wow! How did I miss subscribing to Web 2.0 Central (great URL, BTW). Done!
Props to David Bigwood
February 11th, 2006In a post from today, he writes:
“I’m excited about getting out of the library circle and spreading the message to other communities.”
I really like David. He attended our Libraries Build Communities dinner in San Antonio last month, providing very usfeul information about his library.
I challenge all librarian bloggers to either write for a non-librarian [...]
Jessica Baumgart Rocks!
February 11th, 2006It was a great week for librarian bloggers. First Gary Price is hired by Ask (ASK! I’m so thrilled for Gary) and now Jessica Baumgart becomes a Berkman Center affiliate. Congrats Jessica. Well deserved.
Two great examples of librarians who reach out to communities and businesses beyond librarianship. One of my goals [...]
New Qumana Release - v3.0
February 10th, 2006Qumana is a desktop blog publisher. Today, they released version 3.0 (in beta, of course). The major feature is Mac support. Other features include:
“+ A “blog manager” that locally stores your drafts and published posts.
+ Support for trackbacks and pinging.
+ Improved editor with valid XHTML, plus ability to view and edit code.
+ [...]
Book Publishers - Listen Up
February 10th, 2006A great post from The Krafty Librarian:
“I searched both Matthews Medical Books and Rittenhouse and I could not find anything on their site where they have email alert system or an RSS feed for newly published books. Both sites feature new books but only on their web site. Why do I have to go [...]
BubbleShare Releases New Beta Version
February 10th, 2006Well, since I’m building a list of Web 2.0 company blogs (OPML coming soon), I’m doing a lot of reading about new features.
Today, news from BubbleShare (a photosharing service that allows you to create stories - a really neat service) that they have released a new beta version:
“The new version keeps the exact same [...]
Congrats Gary!!
February 9th, 2006This couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more intelligent person than Gary Price.
Watch Those Edits
February 8th, 2006A little piece of advice that may go a long way.
If you publish something in error (it’s happened to all of us at some point) and someone points it out to you in your comments, don’t erase the error and fix it with the corrected information. This makes the commenter look a bit [...]