Archive for March, 2006
Who’s Like Me?
March 8th, 2006Want to know who’s blog is similar to yours? Do you like a blog and want to read others like it? Take a look at similicio.us, which uses del.icio.us and easyutil.com to provide a list of similar sites. I took a look at mine and it wasn’t bad…not great, but not bad.
Lulu Blooker Prize
March 8th, 2006This is odd. You know all of those blogs that become books? Not the ones that you can create yourselves, but those that publishers buy and then the blogger writes a book? Well, there is now an official prize for such books. The short list is here.
I’m still waiting for the [...]
Reading Listing
March 7th, 2006There’s a post on the ACRL blog on Reading Lists. I suspect that OPML and, to a lesser extent, Resading Lists will be a major point of discussion over the next year or so as the spec gets finalized and developers create some amazing and useful tools. I was thinking about OPML this [...]
How “Un” Of Us
March 7th, 2006I have to hand it to Edward Vielmetti (Superpatron - Faster than a speed reader…). Here’s a technology guru who loves libraries, believes in their fundamental democratic ideals, and is taking it to a new level. A non-librarian!Today, he blogs about “Library Camp, a Library 2.0 Unconference”. A bunch have signed up [...]
Library Thing Hires a Real Live Librarian
March 7th, 2006Tim Spalding has a goldmine in Library Thing (I’ve said it many times) and he has just scored more points by hiring a part-time librarian to help out. Welcome Abigail Blachly, who writes:
“Anyway, here I am, ready and willing to talk LibraryThing meets library science. I’ve never worked as a professional cataloger or technical [...]
Splogs Serve Up Spam
March 6th, 2006EContent has an article on Splogs, those ugly machine-created blogs that show up in PubSub results. We’re trying to fight it (and we’re doing a good job - haven’t you seen less splog content in your PubSub subscriptions? - I have) but it’s an uphill battle. Sites like Splogspot help…
The Lit List
March 6th, 2006With all of the discussion about our libraries becoming user-centered and user-focused, I wonder when/if the time will come when we start “storing” and “carrying” their stories. Take a look at The Lit List:
“The Lit List is a site where readers submit links to online fiction—including short stories, eBooks and podcasts—and vote for their [...]
La Carvinal
March 5th, 2006Step right up for the latest Carnival of the Infosciences. First, we’ll get to the submissions (there were a bunch this week - thanks guys!), then I have a few for your perusal.
+ David King (A carnival submisison virgin) sends word that his new blog is live and that he has a new feed. [...]
The Motherload
March 3rd, 2006I’m into Web 2.0 lists as they help me add to mine. Take a look at this huge list from econsultant.
The page looks very “spammy”, but the content is amazing. I’m giving this one a Booyah! and a Huzzah! (link via del.icio.us)
Lifehacker and Libraries
March 3rd, 2006Lifehacker is on a roll with posts about libraries. The first post spawned many comments. The second, about Library Elf, is doing the same. Very intruiging…
From one commenter: - ““My library system (Wood County, OH) has this feature as a standard service. They got a pretty nice setup. Search through books [...]
Optimal And OPML - Huzzah!
March 2nd, 2006Remember when all the cool RSS tools came out 4-5 years ago? Now is the time for OPML to shine (even though Dave Winer told me the other day that OPML has been aorund just as long as RSS!). Take a look at this. It’s my Web 2.0 Company Blog list as [...]
Intelligent Agent Blog
March 1st, 2006There’s a new blog in teh ITI network. Robert Berkman, no stranger to the information industry, has started The Intelligent Agent Blog:
“Welcome to Intelligent Agent—a brand new blog with news, conversation and analysis about business research on the Web, with a special focus on the intersection of business research and Web 2.0.”
“I’ll regularly be [...]
Butt of AI Jokes or Real Pop Star
March 1st, 2006
No, this isn’t a picture of me from last year. This is one Kevin Covais, from Levittown, Long Island, who happens to be one of 20 finalists for American Idol. Kevin and I have a lot in common. We both look like geeks. We are both short, skinny, wear [...]
OPML Camp
March 1st, 2006OK, I’m an official OPML junkie. I’ve been e-mailing back and forth today with Adam Green who is helping to start up OPML Camp in Boston. I asked about participating and he said, “sure”.
So, I’ll be in Boston on April 26th-27th discussing OPML and PubSub’s Community Lists. There will be 30 people [...]
Our Favorite Libraries
March 1st, 2006Edward Vielmetti has created an OPML for his favorite libraries and wants your OPML so he can add it to his. I’m going to make mine tonight.
OPML 2.0
March 1st, 2006Dave Winer released the public review of a new OPML spec today. I’m not a coder/programmer/engineer (and I don’t play one on T.V.), but I know that this is big news. I’m really learning alot about OPML these days. Do you supersize your Big Mac meal? Well, OPML is RSS supersized [...]
Rrrrrico…
March 1st, 2006Thank you Carlton for sharing your thoughts on community building. Subscribe to that man’s blog.
lib.rario.us
March 1st, 2006Someone finally combined the words library and delicious.
U. of Michigan Offers Free Blogs
March 1st, 2006Great news from Library Journal:
“Recognizing the popularity—and potential—of blogs, the University of Michigan has launched mBlog, a program offering free blogs to UM students and employees. The program is a collaboration of the University Library, Information Technology Central Services (ITCS), and the university’s Bentley Historical Library. Library officials said the project had been incubating for [...]
LibraryThing Buttons
March 1st, 2006Buttons! Buttons! Getcher red hot LibraryThing buttons here!