Archive for March, 2007
Time to Move On
March 31st, 2007Well folks, after 6 and a half years of blogging, it’s time to day goodbye. This was a tough decision, but one that just had to be made. I’ve been trying to find my niche lately, but I just can’t find my way amongst the 2.0, Second Life, My Space, and Facebook stuff. I should [...]
Caption This Photo
March 27th, 2007
Okay, I will!
Originally uploaded by sillyishrose.
Oh please let there be no overdues on my card.
OR
If I concentrate hard enough, my term paper will write itself.
No More Books
March 27th, 2007I totally forgot that April Fools Day is approaching. The University of Michigan-Dearborn is celebrating early:
“Students visiting UM-D’s newly-renovated Mardigian Library will find plenty of room to study and hang out, now that the books are gone.
Library administrators undertook the renovations in response to a Student Government petition, removing all books and shelving and [...]
Run Meebo on in Firefox Sidebar
March 27th, 2007Paul R. Pival has the info. Suuuuulick!
I Tumbld…
March 27th, 2007Wanna follow along?
Harold and Kumar go to the library
March 27th, 2007I love celebrity gossip. This one tickled me.
"You may remember him fondly as Kumar, the hungry stoner from Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle,* and you’ve likely seen him pop up on this season’s 24, as "villainous" teen, Ahmed Ahmar. In fact, Penn, currently starring in Mira Nair’s The Namesake, is even slated to [...]
How to use Web 2.0 in your library
March 26th, 2007
How to use Web 2.0 in your library
Originally uploaded by Philipbradley.
Yet another Web 2.0 for libraries book. This one by Phil Bradley, who always finds cool Web tools for me to play with. Congrats Phil!!
Revish
March 26th, 2007I recieved word of a new social book review site called Revish which is set to launch on March 30th.
They sent a press release via e-mail. Here’s an excerpt:
"The Revish site is a book review social network where people can keep track of the books they and their friends are reading. They can read [...]
“a degree in MySpace?”
March 25th, 2007Heidi Go Seek on the new University of Michigan SI specialization:
"I hate to be cynical…but the truth is that since I’m less pessimistic than I used to be, I’m now forced to be cynical. What kind of job would I be able to get with a degree in MySpace?"
Not that the concept isn’t cool…a [...]
Wikiality in My Classroom
March 25th, 2007The Washington Post has a piece today about the use of Wikipedia in the classroom. Nothing new here, but the conversation should continue:
"In the online world in which teachers and students navigate, ambiguity of this kind is daily fare. For young people who have grown up with instant access to information, it seems like no [...]
RSS to Twitter
March 24th, 2007If you’re a bog Twitter user, you may be interested in having your favorite feeds go right into your Twitter account. With RSS toTwitter, you now can. This could get a bit annoying for those that follow your Twitter posts.
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See also: Mail2Twitter
University of Michigan School of Information Launches Nation’s First Master’s Degree Specialization in Social Computing
March 24th, 2007Catching up and thrilled to see this:
"Facebook. YouTube. Wikipedia. Flickr. They’re the user-created stuff of Web 2.0 — also known as social computing — that have changed the way people interact with computers and each other.
Developing a formal understanding of the underlying dynamics at play and the critical technology choices has required a patchwork of [...]
Careful Twittering
March 24th, 2007A few examples of what shouldn’t be Twittered.
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Library Book Cards
March 24th, 2007Someone is scanning old library checkout cards and Flickring them.
Netflix Grows in Brooklyn?
March 23rd, 2007Great news today:
"In what would be a first in the United States, the Brooklyn Public Library hopes to team up with Netflix to deliver DVDs and videos to anyone in the borough with a library card, The Post has learned. The price would be unbeatable - free."
But, keep reading and you’ll see….
"Netflix spokesman Steve Swasey [...]
Oh Amazon…
March 23rd, 2007Hey, does anybody out there want a number 9? It’s going to cost ya over $250,000. I always wonder why librarians want their catalogs to be like Amazon.com. So much grat material in there. ;-). (via)
Social Networking Technologies: A “Poke” for Campus Services
March 23rd, 2007The latest issue of Educause has a doosie of an article that peobably needs more than a quick perusal (which is what I gave it):
"[H]ow can campus professionals, especially those in student and academic services, learn to use these technologies to think differently about communicating with students and about facilitating learning? What aspects of Facebook, [...]
Online Communities…Some Data
March 22nd, 2007Marketing Pilgrim led me to MediaPost which led me to Communispace and this new study. Lots of interesting stats, some of which are no brainers, but I’m glad that they are being studied. From the press release:
In this new era of "conversational marketing", the measure for engagement in a community isn’t the number of people [...]
Walt Crawford Publishes New Book
March 22nd, 2007I read everything that Walt Crawford writes. He is one of the reasons why I became a librarian (so blame him - heh).
Anyway, Walt’s out with a new book that I can’t wait to read:
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continunity and Change
"A library system that stands still is unbalanced and headed for trouble. A library staff [...]
Judge Blocks COPA
March 22nd, 2007This just in from the NYT:
"A federal judge in Philadelphia struck down a 1998 law today that made it a crime for commercial Web site operators to allow children under 17 to gain access to “harmful” material.
In the ruling, the judge said that software filters installed on home computers, and other less restrictive means, [...]
Are You Smart Enough
March 19th, 2007And you thought Twitter was addicting…
Take a look at this 3,000 question puzzle, all of which are riddles. If I had time I’d play more….got the first one right anyway. C’mon librarians, show your stuff!!
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Celebrating my B-day
March 18th, 2007
Celebrating my B-day
Originally uploaded by stevenmcohen.
I am never home on my birthday and this year was no exception. I did eat at a wonderful restaurant near Carlsbad with my boss and two amazing ILS salespeople.
I was served my second margarita before getting a chance [...]
WSJ on Libraries
March 18th, 2007Jim Walsh sent me this article from the. Some very interesting points. Thanks Jim.
"For parents and grandparents, it’s hard to accept that young people today often feel little connection to the local library. We recall the libraries of our childhoods as magical places; getting our first library card was a rite of passage. It saddens [...]
Stripped of Their Books
March 17th, 2007
Oh, that kind of library
Originally uploaded by Purrlene.
(Couldn’t think of a funny title - Sorry).
This is way funny and nostalgic. If you see me at CIL, remind me to tell you the story of this club in Las Vegas. It’s [...]
Round-Up of SN Book Sites
March 17th, 2007Newsweek has a quick round-up:
"You just finished John Grisham’s latest, and you can’t wait to talk about it … but your book club doesn’t meet until next Sunday. Now you don’t have to hold your thoughts. A new crop of literary social-networking sites let you compare notes with other bookworms at all hours of the [...]
Paper on Information Overload
March 17th, 2007Library Boy links to a study on information overload. I downloaded the paper and put it, ironically, on my "to do" list.
So far, the title, "Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and he is Us" is intriguing, because I believe this to be true. I still believe that IO doesn’t exist because [...]
Caption This Photo
March 16th, 2007
woman and clock at Roskilde University Library
Originally uploaded by nikolajnewyork.
“Excuse me, what time do you close?”
OR
“Janet needed to finish her paper in an hour and didn’t need the reminder”
Sluts R Us
March 16th, 2007John Blyberg on Twitter:
"I say Twitter is the Paris Hilton of the social web. Slutty and unfortunate. The basest manifestation of the culture and systems it represents.
I’ve received no less than 14 Twitter invitations from people whom I respect deeply and I have to wonder, why the **** are they using this? Who cares if [...]
Wiki-OED
March 15th, 2007OK, terrible post title. Sorry. Read all about it here:
"If you think "wiki" doesn’t sound like English, you are right. But it’s English now. This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary (OED) along with 287 other new words."
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He’s a Brick….House!!
March 15th, 2007Salim Ismail, my ex-boss and all around nice guy has announced that he has been hired by Yahoo! It couldn’t have happened to a better person. He’ll be heading up something called Brickhouse, of which Yahoo Pipes was an initial product. Congrats to Salim and Yahoo. (via)