Archive for February, 2007
Floating library
February 21st, 2007
Floating library
Originally uploaded by King Kieran.
Whoa!!
Bloggity-Blog-Blog-Blog - Bloglines v. Google Reader
February 21st, 2007Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag does a stream of consciousness review of Google Reader while comparing it to Bloglines. Do take a look. I like this quote, which I was thinking too as I fell madly in love with Google Reader:
"Here’s my thoughts, as I go through the new Google Reader… First off, before I even open [...]
Chicago Librarian Does “Web Site of the Month” Posts
February 20th, 2007Leo Klein, who has commented twice today, has a neat looking blog (I thought I was looking at the NYT site for a second there). Better yet, he’s started to do a "Web Site of the Month" post, with fantastic commentary. This month he tackles the Queensborough Public Library, right here in NY.
Introducing the Technorati Support Forum!
February 20th, 2007Technorati just released a support forum. This is something I wish we did at PubSub. Our users didn’t even know each other on that level
Speaking of which, I hope this is true. Jon Mandell and Salim Ismail deserve the highest success.
No Sympathy For Internet Addict
February 20th, 2007Great stuff from Uncle Larry:
"In the you-can’t-make-this-up category of news, there’s the guy from upstate New York who is suing IBM for $5 million for improperly firing him for visiting an adult chat room on the Internet at work. You see, he’s a long-time sex addict and, more recently, an Internet addict. He visits chat [...]
E-mail Notifications From Flickr
February 20th, 2007From the "It’s about time" department. E-mail notifications of comments on Flickr. Thanks guys.
Congrats John!
February 20th, 2007Go John Blyberg! Get Busy! It’s Your Birthday.
Alan, how did you pull this off? I’m impressed.
John, welcome to the east coast. NYC is only a quick drive away. Let’s do lunch! Bring Alan.
New Site for Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library
February 20th, 2007
screen shot: new Website front page
Originally uploaded by Health Sciences Library, Stony Brook University.
I’ve been following the development of the new HSL web site for the University of Stony Brook, my alma mater (well, not HS, but the school’sundergrad psych department).
They’ve posted a screenshot [...]
DCPLive
February 20th, 2007
DCPLive
Originally uploaded by Dublin City Public Libraries.
This is v. cool, maybe without meaning to be.
“DCPLive is the Dublin City Public Libraries staff newsletter. Comes out quarterly. 12 pages of quality articles in a quality publication about events, happenings, people and much more. A [...]
Google Reader! Bloglines is Kaput!
February 20th, 2007I’ve been having a go at Google Reader and all I have to say is…
OMG!!
Google may not have the best search engine these days (I’m a Yahooer), but they have some kick butt products. Gmail is the best in e-mail and Google Reader is so very slick. First, it had no issues importing 750 feeds [...]
Camel Book Drive
February 20th, 2007Some of the best book/lit information comes from litblogs (although nothing beats the NYT book review [in print please, thank you very much]). Today, The Elegant Variation, led me to The Camel Book Drive
"Though The Camel Bookmobile (HarperCollins, April 2007) is a novel, the camel-borne library actually exists. It operates in Kenya’s isolated Northeastern Province [...]
Ari Michael
February 19th, 2007
img074.jpg
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
Tell me he (the one on the right) isn’t the cutest baby ever?
Dislaimer: He’s my son.
Assessing the value of cooperation in Wikipedia
February 19th, 2007From the abstract:
"Since its inception six years ago, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has accumulated 6.40 million articles and 250 million edits contributed in a predominantly undirected and haphazard fashion by 5.77 million unvetted contributors. Since it is not obvious that this kind of large-scale, voluntary effort can produce good results, we measured the correlation between [...]
Using RSS Feeds for New Book Titles - Calling All Publishers
February 19th, 2007From Connie Crosby, a no-brainer for publishers.
"Why do the publishers not just each have their new titles in an RSS feed, which I could read in my aggregator (feed reader) like I do a number of the blogs and news feeds I follow? And why could those feeds not be taken together into one [...]
Social Software in Libraries
February 19th, 2007
Social Software in Libraries cover
Originally uploaded by librarianmer.
Congrats Meredith!!!!
“Here is the first book to explore the growing phenomenon of social software and how these technologies can be applied in libraries. Social software lets libraries show a human face online, helping them communicate, educate, and interact [...]
Other “scrotum” Books
February 19th, 2007Via Bookslut, a list of more children’s books that contain the word scrotum, courtesy of Gelf Magazine.
Web 2.0 Lunch
February 19th, 2007What happens when the top 2.0 tools go to lunch? Hilariousness ensues.
Library posters an ethical gray area
February 19th, 2007The New York Library Association may have hit a snag in their efforts to use legislators in READ posters.
"The proposed new law, which legislative leaders worked out with Gov. Eliot Spitzer, bans all lobbying gifts except those of nominal value. Also, public officials will not be allowed to appear in any ads paid for [...]
Books….In….Spaaaaaace!
February 19th, 2007Cute quote at the end of this article:
"As for why he should bring along heavy hard copies of the works in a age when nearly all things are virtually and weightlessly available, Simonyi insisted the books would be more practical, since special permission would be needed to use the computers inside the International Space [...]
The four principles of community management
February 18th, 2007I’ve recently subscribed to The Future of Communities and have been going over some past blog posts. Great stuff, if you are at all interested in community building, social networks and the like. Take for example, this post:
"Partick Duparcq, professor at the Kellogg School of Management at NorthWestern University was kind enough to share one [...]
PDFescape
February 18th, 2007"PDFescape is a new way to open PDF files. It allows you to open your PDF files right here on the web without downloading or installing any software. With PDFescape, you can fill in PDF forms, add text and graphics, add links, and even add new form fields to a PDF file. Best of [...]
Worldcat Identities
February 18th, 2007Tim O’Reilly on Worldcat Identities:
"A lot of people think that there’s a single big identity play out there, and focus on technology solutions, but it seems to me that in true bottom-up internet style, we may eventually build our online identities out of a mashup of all the tracks we already leave in cyberspace. (Seth [...]
Caption This Photo
February 18th, 2007
library
Originally uploaded by iontphotos.
“What will happen to newspapers once they are no longer useful”
Weblogg-ed Sunday Caption Contest
February 18th, 2007Will Richardson is having a Caption Contest.
Second Life vs. Pat Conroy, the e-book Long Tail, and good parenting
February 18th, 2007David Rothman (The e-book guy) has some harsh words about Second Life.
"[S]hould public libraries plan to splurge millions in tax money to reduce the number of hours that children spend with parents? Have SL boosters in the library world really thought this through sufficiently? And how about all the constructive questions that Rochelle Hartman, an [...]
The No-******* Rule
February 18th, 2007The only rule that is enforced on my blog is that I can’t curse. This is not normally an issue as I’m not a cusser. So, I can’t tell you the name of this article from Law.com, but do yourself a favor and read it. What a wonderful piece. If you like it, get the [...]
Children’s Book Stirs Battle With Single Word
February 17th, 2007Heh!
"The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky [...]
What Gen Y Wants At Work
February 17th, 2007Link
“Gen Y workers want more than an office and a paycheck- they want to be part of a collaborative network.”
Read the SelectMinds press release and/or fill out this web form to get an abstract of the report.
The L-Team
February 16th, 2007(via)
Connecting to Students: Launching Instant Messaging Reference at Binghamton University
February 16th, 2007Link
Binghamton University Libraries implemented an IM reference service using the Trillian client to monitor multiple IM accounts at two distinct reference service points. This paper addresses the process and practical considerations of implementing the service including selection of the appropriate software, creation of IM accounts for each service, development of a staffing schedule, and training [...]