Library Stuff

If 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

Catching 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 academic courses at a select few institutions.

Now the University of Michigan School of Information (SI) offers students the nation’s first graduate-degree specialization in social computing through the Master of Science in Information.

SI faculty have been leaders in inventing and analyzing many of the underlying techniques that have powered the rise of social computing, including recommender systems, reputation systems, prediction markets, social network analysis, online communities, and computer-supported cooperative work."

See more here:

A few examples of what shouldn’t be Twittered. 

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Someone is scanning old library checkout cards and Flickring them.

Great 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 said he knew nothing about a possible partnership with the library and seemed surprised by the news."

Doh!  I hope that this deal doesn’t fall through and get the hopes up of the many library users in Brooklyn.  Fingers crossed.

Update:  Michael has more.