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April 16th, 2006I have a small post on the PLA Blog about a trip I made to Homer Glen, Illinois.
BusinessWeek has an article on finding, obtaining, and keeping users for your online business…without the old style PR. Libraries, take note.
Jeff Jarvis liked Will Richardson’s book on social software in the classroom. 
Side Note: I just got a royalty check for the book I wrote in 2003. It’s still selling (53 units in the past 6 months)!
Exploring the Academic Invisible Web - A paper uploaded to E-LIS: “Purpose: To provide a critical review of Bergman?s 2001 study on the Deep Web. In addition, we bring a new concept into the discussion, the Academic Invisible Web (AIW). We define the Academic Invisible Web as consisting of all databases and collections relevant to academia but not searchable by the general-purpose internet search engines. Indexing this part of the Invisible Web is central to scientific search engines. We provide an overview of approaches followed thus far.”
Oh, how I wish I could go to BloggerCon IV. I had dinner with Dave Winer the other night in Queens and he mentioned to me that this was hopefully in the works. With the new baby coming, this just won’t happen for me. (via)
A new book to add to my reading list for our book. The author is making the book freely available and is using a wiki for input from readership. Very cool!
Amanda Etches Johnson has turned her list of blogging libraries into a wiki.
One of the reasons why I believe we need to rethink creating a full out 2.0 ethic in our libraries. From an article in the Berkeley Daily Planet: “What a sad day. I returned my library book at my local branch, picked up the book I had reserved, and checked it out?all without speaking to a soul, much less a wise librarian.” (via)
From Eschool News, iPods on Campus: “Though campuses across the nation have begun transforming iPods into educational tools, few schools have embraced the technology as much as Georgia College & State University, where faculty are using the devices for everything from screening movies to podcasting answers to frequently asked questions.” (via) - No mention of libraries working with the departments. Why not?
CNet on blog comment spam: “Keeping out unwanted messages costs bloggers time and bother, at the very least. If it’s a commercial blog, it may also cost money for a filtering service. And beyond that, there’s a cost to the blog services, which have to develop spam-blocking technology.” - Blog spam getting into blog and RSS search services is getting worse as well. (via)