Archive for April, 2007
The Best CIL Wrap-up…
April 22nd, 2007is from Jason Griffey. Jason is a great guy (and smart as all heck!!) and I can’t wait to hang with him at future conferences.
Suggestions for Political Blogs
April 22nd, 2007I’ve been getting into politics recently and have started reading political blogs. I’m trying to read all sides of the issues: right, center, and left (and everything in between). Here’s what’s in my aggregator:
Althouse
AmericaBlog
Crooks and Liars
DailyKos
Instapundit
Michelle Malkin
RedState
The Caucus
The Daily Dish
Volokh
Tim Blair
Any other suggestions are appreciated. Put them in the comments or Twitter [...]
Gary Price “Unplugged”…er….Plugged
April 22nd, 2007Via Researchbuzz.
This is so cute. Good for Ask.com for marketing librarians the way it should be done. With no pretenses (Google, take note and learn.).
One mistake though, which needs to be pointed out: Gary will be speaking at Internet Librarian in October, not “Computers in WEST”.
3000 Betas!
April 22nd, 2007Congrats to the Museum of Modern Betas on reaching 3000 Betas.
Digg Feed
April 22nd, 2007Links that I Digg now will automatically be added to my linkblog, and thus, my Twitter page.
Proposals for Internet Librarian
April 22nd, 2007What do you think of these? I sent them off to Jane Dysart while Ari napped.
Preconference Workshop - 3 Hours
130 Web Tips, Tricks, Tools, and Resources in 160 minutes
Get your coffee ready because you’ll need to be wide awake for 3 hours of Steven Cohen’s favorite online tips, tricks, tools, and resources. Cohen [...]
The Perfect Day
April 21st, 2007Today was the nicest day of the year and the perfect day to spend with my family. More pictures here.
And I’m finishing it up by having a great Twitter evening. Great discussions, very community oriented. I
Twittering Libraries
April 21st, 2007Jeff Scott:
“I did it! I was able to take all of the library’s notifications and put them into twitter.
I set up our twitter account at http://twitter.com/cglibrary
Then I dumped all of the library’s rss feeds into http://www.rss2twitter.com
Now everytime the library has an update, a library event, a new book or video, or new newsletter, it goes [...]
Missing Him
April 21st, 2007Steven Levy on Twitter:
“To those who think Twitter frivolous, Evan Williams has a response: “Whoever said that things have to be useful?” But Dorsey thinks that Twitter can develop into something not only useful but essential. “It’s what you put into it,” he says. People have announced births on Twitter. The John Edwards campaign updates [...]
LBC Rules!
April 21st, 2007Chrystie Hill on Twitter:
“It’s not about the tools we use, it’s about the connections we make with them - both to people and to information.”.
NYTwitter
April 21st, 2007The New York Times on Twitter:
“Twitter is best understood as a highly flexible messaging system that swiftly routes messages, composed on a variety of devices, to the people who have elected to receive them in the medium the recipients prefer. It is a technology that encourages a new mode of communication, he contends.”
Update
April 21st, 2007I’ve been trying to not be sleepy these days. I’m not sure if I’ve caught up from not sleeping much at CIL this year (what a great time I had, hanging out with friends, old and new).
Anyway, I’ve been crazily reading feeds and sharing them on my linkblog. Also, I’ve been Twittering like [...]
Foreign-Lobbyist Database to go Online
April 19th, 2007This one, from The Hill, will be useful to my fellow law librarians:
“The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) database is expected to go online soon. The Department of Justice database is an exhaustive list of lobbyists representing foreign governments and politicians. For the online project, over 80,000 documents detailing contracts, meetings with public officials, and [...]
Dapper Me This
April 18th, 2007Wowza! I showed off Page2RSS (Get an RSS feed created for any new content on any page) at CIL this week, which received alot of ooohs and ahhhs from the audience. Tonight, I learned about Dapper, which is like Page2RSS on crack.
It will not only translate into feeds, but widgets, icalendar, E-mail, Netvibes, [...]
Twitter for Museums
April 18th, 2007Great post (via Smart Mobs) over at Museum 2.0 on Twitter. I’m loving the last paragraph:
“It’s each person’s individual choice as to how much emotional investment he/she puts into experiences with tools, whether those tools be the web, cell phones, or anything else. I used to hate cell phones. Now I appreciate the utility [...]
Wikipedia on CD
April 18th, 20072,000 articles will be available on CD. The BBC has more.
Trying out Twitter for Event Coverage
April 17th, 2007Pointer has a post on Twittering live events. We’re doing this at Computers in Libraries and having a blast.
More here from Pointer.
5th “Tech is IT!” Day
April 16th, 2007I rarely accept speaking engagements these days. I do, however, speak at regional events. On May 23rd, I will be keynoting Infolink’s Tech Day 2007 at Rutgers. They have an amazing lineup and a great theme (”21st Century Online Community: Do you know what your users are doing?”) and I’m thrilled to [...]
McDonald’s Users Still Beats Library Visits
April 16th, 2007There are more libraries than McDonald’s in Canada. Not so in the U.S. I’m not sure what that means.
Anyway, ALA is out with new stats:
“Ten years after some experts predicted the demise of the nation’s system of libraries as a result of the Internet explosion, the most current national data on library use [...]
Happy National Library Week?
April 16th, 2007…Especially to the users of the Nashville Public Library, where hours are being reduced.
Look for your happy-go-lucky “libraries rule” articles all week (I’ll try to put as many as possible in my linkblog), but remember those that are closed, losing money, losing staff, and/or losing happy users.
Happy National Library Week.
Get off MySpace
April 15th, 2007Should schools have rules that disallow teachers the use social sites?
School officials in Scituate are proposing to direct teachers and staff about appropriate use of social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, raising questions about whether school systems should interfere with employees’ personal activities.
Praying for Twitter
April 15th, 2007Via Smart Mobs, we learn about how churches are using Twitter:
“We used the service a few weeks ago in conjunction with a three day fast that we did as a church. Over the three days…Chris Spadlin who taught a message about fasting the previous weekend sent out “updates” about the fast via the twitter service [...]
Sex novel writer is feeling the heat
April 15th, 2007Whenever I read articles like this, I always think…
…I gotta get me that book.
So, will your public library carry it? Mine does.
GSLIScast
April 15th, 2007GSLIScast - Audio Content from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Simmons is a very techie library school.
I Tumbld…
April 15th, 2007Just a reminder that I’ve been adding lots of stuff to my linkblog. For those that are following me on Twitter, you get these (and my blog posts) automatically.
Twitter is such a great way to share stuff.
Twitterati
April 14th, 2007A blog about Twitter. (via)
On the Web, attention spans shrink, the need for value rises
April 14th, 2007Chris Shipley writes:
“I was reminded of this after coming back from a near three-week holiday out of the country and off the grid. Folks were atwitter about Twitter.com, a site that hadn’t hit the radar before I left, and one that was fading from the screen by the time I’d returned.”
Twitter had faded? Really? [...]
Free speech is enhanced by civility
April 14th, 2007Andrew Sullivan points to this quote from this blog post:
“Free speech is enhanced by civility.” The revolution comes at the end of that sentence. Free speech we know about. Civility we have forgotten. Ask Don Imus. Subsets of civility would include courtesy, respect, politeness and deference. Civility is a public virtue. Like oil or wheat, [...]
OCLC to Pilot WorldCat Local
April 14th, 2007EContent has the dish.
Why should we have eight hours’ sleep?
April 13th, 2007How much to you get?
From the BBC via Digg
“We don’t need any set of amount of sleep - it’s all down to genes and whether we feel fresh and alert during the day”