Archive for March, 2006
Steven 2.0 – An Apology
March 30th, 2006I would like to apologize to Michael Stephens for being a jealous jerk. Not to get too personal, but I haven’t been myself for a while and I thought I had my anxiety and depression under control. Far from it. I dealt with my personal issues by striking out against one of [...]
West Coast Trip!
March 28th, 2006I just found out that I will be in Seattle next week from Thurs => Saturday. More info when I get it. Any Seattle librarians want to hang?
A Few Quickies
March 28th, 2006+ Peter Scott mentions that Dialog now has a bunch of RSS feeds. Ah, but not for keywords, right?
+ A bunch of RSS Feeds from the Society of International Affairs. OPML enhanced!
+ Fidelity Investments has a new blogging tool for Real Estate agents. RSS’d and all. And free.
Some Reaction
March 28th, 2006The Red Haired Librarian read my post on not defaulting to Google and commented on each point. She agreed with most of what I said, but had issues with two of them. She’s makes a good point about #6, but I’m not sure that librarians who are hip to social software are “fairly accomplished” at [...]
New from NLJ
March 28th, 2006The National Law Journal has launched a new design and features for their site:
“The site’s new home page now offers expanded content, including Web-only stories, daily updates and advance postings of stories scheduled for release in the following week’s print edition. An enhanced navigation bar and added links and tools allow users to scan, search [...]
Connie Crosby…
March 28th, 2006…has been very busy. One of the neat initiatives that she’s working on is being the administrator of the new blog for CALL (Canadian Association of Law Libraries) with one of my favorite bloggers, Steve Matthews.
Gary on Tagging
March 27th, 2006Gary Price and I don’t agree on everything and tagging is always a hot topic when we hang out. I like to get his thoughts on tagging every so often to ascertain if he has changed his views. Well, apparently, he hasn’t. Take a look:
“Yes, tagging can be very powerful and useful [...]
Distant Librarian Scoops Us All
March 27th, 2006Well, and I thought that I was on the ball with my post about EBSCO and RSS. It looks like the Distant Librarian was all over this news like white on rice. I’m always into giving credit where it is due, so props to Paul Rival.
EBSCO Does RSS
March 26th, 2006
EBSCO Does RSS
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
I remember that this was supposed to be coming in Q1, but I forgot. I’m a big EBSCO Academic Universe user (my county has a subscription) and have been getting alerts sent via e-mail for 3 months for book research.
This [...]
Back To Boolean? A Call to…Goodness Sake!
March 26th, 2006Note: One reader sent me a note asking that I mention that I work for PubSub on this post. So, here I go. I work for PubSub.
I’ve had this post brewing in my head all day. This morning, after waking Hallie up (it’s been a week since we had seen each [...]
Tag Quotes!
March 24th, 2006Quotation books are a major player for ready-reference work. Everyone is always looking for a good quote to use for toasts, speeches, or an article starter. A del.icio.us clone for quotes was bound to arrive sooner or later, so say hello to Big Cite. Why is this so great (if it catches [...]
Borrow Me – Are Libraries Not The Only Ones in the Lending Business?
March 23rd, 2006Here’s an interesting concept. A central place where people from all over the world can borrow stuff from other people, based on any parameters (Trust networks, neighborhood affiliations, etc) that the individual user wants. This is what BorrowMe wants to do. The funny thing is that we already do this. We [...]
CI and Podcasts
March 20th, 2006I was trying out the new video search from Podzinger this afternoon and I had one of those “duh” moments. After running a search for PubSub, I realized that this is a new form of competitive intellgence that librarians should be using when tracking trends, companies, and competitors for their users. Throw your [...]
Access Remote Documents with Maxthon
March 20th, 2006If you’re a Maxthon junkie like me (there are so many cool options with this browser that I am in customization heaven), you’ll be thrilled to note a new feature called Maxthon Access, which allows one to access any computer remotely through Maxthon:
“Imagine having every file on any of your computers available to you at [...]
The Laughing Librarian on L2
March 18th, 2006As I get ready for 8 days of professional travel, 2 presentations, and PLA Blogging, Brian Smith provides us with his thoughts on L2:
“Our take is that the time/effort/energy/bandwidth devoted to talking about what “Library 2.0″ is or isn’t could be better used on something, uh, useful. “Library 2.0″ is just a marketing buzzword. And, [...]
Tags, Emotions, and Music
March 17th, 2006Edith Speller is a “library geek” who is working on a dissertation on tagging and mood in music. The working title is, “Affective indexing of pop music: examining user tagging of moods and emotions.” I’m going to subscribe to her blog to keep up with her studies. What an interesting topic.
Congrats to Mike and John
March 16th, 2006I love being part of the Web 2.0 Workgroup. There are so many members doing some amazing things. Today, news from Mike Arrington and John Furrier.
1) Arrington has started yet another blog to add to his network of “crunches”. TalkCrunch is exactly what is sounds. A blog with a podcast. [...]
LIS Radio
March 15th, 2006Wow! Beyond the Job linked to LIS Radio, brought to you by the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia:
“Our aim with these webcasts is to help in “…creating and exploring the intersection of information and learning.” We hope to present interesting and stimulating conversations with movers, shakers, and [...]
Social Software in the Enterprise
March 15th, 2006There’s a mini-essay in EContent by David Meerman Scott about blogs and wikis in the enterprise that is worth a few minutes of your time. From the piece:
“On one side of the corporate fence, the legal eagles are worried about secrets being revealed by their employees as they create content on blogs and wikis. [...]
OPML Camp Date Changed
March 15th, 2006Today, I heard from Adam Green who mentioned that OPML Camp has been postposned to May 20th-21st. The good news is that it will now be held at the Berkman Center! Huzzah! I can’t wait. Are there any more librarians going?
More Big Companies Are Blogging
March 15th, 2006Have I mentioned how much I love the keyword based full-text press release delivery from PubSub? I get about 15 releases per day that pertain to exactly what I want. It’s a beautiful thing. Have you tried it out yet?
For examples, this morning I was notified that Wells Fargo now has a blog. [...]
Feed the Man
March 14th, 2006In a comment on my UPenn tags in the catalog post, Michael Winkler, the guy behind the tags, writes:
“Now all of this is very very very early in development. The technology is solid. But what I’m interested in is what folks could imagine doing with the ability to embed contextual content into the catalog? Folksonomy, [...]
Are Your Reading…?
March 14th, 2006John Tropea has been an OPML freak for a long time. I’ve been an avid fan for a while now and felt the need to show him more link love this evening. If you are at all interested in OPML and other work centered around RSS technology, Library Clips is a must read. [...]
Like, OMG! Did You Hear?
March 14th, 2006I don’t like many material things. In fact, I can name just three: American Idol, BMWs, and celebrity gossip.
So, in honor of my birthday, Gabe Riviera launched We Smirch, the memeorandum for celebrity gossip. I’ve subscribed and am now more up to date than many gossip columnists. Also, I’ve subscribed to two [...]
Throwin’ Some Numbers Atcha
March 14th, 2006Ready?
32 – Today is/was my birthday. I turn(ed) 32. It’s also Pi day!
16 – Barbie reminded me that we’ve known each other for half our lives. We wmet when we were 16. Wow!
9,309- the number of “sessions” counted for Library Stuff on March 1st. I’ve been hovering around the 9,000 mark [...]
Let’s Bring Back The Powerpoint Discussions
March 13th, 2006The talk about Library 2.0 and it’s magical powers of bringing the library profession back to life (Were we dead?) has finally flatulated itself into, well, nothingness (typical Library 2.0 stuff I’m afraid). Thank goodness.
Last week, the DIY Librarian had an interesting post about using Powerpoint even though she hates it. [...]
The Price We Pay…
March 13th, 2006Those who don’t deal with the world outside fo librarianship on a professional level usually don’t hear comments like this often. For those of us that blog about and work beyond the four walls (virtual or otherwise), we are constantly ridiculed. Most of it is comical, but sometimes it can be brutal. [...]
UPenn Catalog Tagging
March 11th, 2006
While we’re not sure how they are doing it, the UPenn library is now allowing users to create their own personalized classification systems by enabling item tagging in the catalog.
I learned about this from the ever resourceful ACRL Blog, which is blogging year round (like we do at the PLA Blog) and not [...]
Jotspot Creating “Skeleton” Wikis
March 11th, 2006News from Jotspot this past week that they have released two application features to their fabulous wiki software. Basically, they realized that some of their users want “skeleton” tools already in place for specific wiki uses. The two that they released are Bug Reporter and Class Reunion Planner.
Bug Reporter allows companies to easy [...]
BibSonomy – Not Your Fathers Bookmarks
March 8th, 2006Here’s an interesting tool. BibSonomy is a bookmarking tool for sites and lists of literature based on BibTeX. Slick! What a great way to share lists. Hmmm. How can we incorporate Reading Lists into bookmark/tag sharing? Would that be useful?
