Archive for May, 2007
LOC in Hacker Code Debate
May 7th, 2007The Beltway Blogroll has a wrap-up.
Update: An interesting article from John C. Dvorak on the role the lawyers took in the whole Digg/DVD craziness.
Twitter and Firefox - Perfect Together
May 7th, 2007Mashabe has an annotated list of Twitter plugins for Firefox that I’m going to have to play with at some point. BTW, I’m really enjoying Twitter Mobile although I wish I could click on the links that people post.
Keeping Up in a 2.0 World
May 7th, 2007Stephen Bell (an expert on the topic) says it’s a matter of picking and choosing.
Update: I’m not sure why I keep misspelling Steven Bell’s name. Sorry buddy and thanks Greg for bringing it to my attention.
Zines
May 7th, 2007Take a look at this piece in the Boston Globe on ‘zines and how they get cataloged. I found it fascinating.
Love
May 6th, 2007Inspired by Meredith’s post on balance. Here are three reasons why I wake up every morning. Thanks for the reminder Meredith.
Museum 2.0
May 6th, 2007I subscribed to Museum 2.0 a few weeks ago and the posts are incredible. Take a look at the latest post on a service called ExhibitFiles (”A community site for exhibit designers and developers”), which may be of interest to archivists. There is even an interview with the creators of ExhibitFiles.
Linky Dinky
May 5th, 2007Lots of link posts today over at I Tumbld…, including a great picture of Hilary Duff…and, oh yeah, “important” stuff too. :-).
Vote for Sanjaya!
May 5th, 2007Looks like a Texas thing.
“Librarian Idol contestants from public schools and public libraries will have their pictures uploaded to the www.savehalfonbooks.com web site. The librarian that garners the most votes by September 15, 2007 will be named the “Librarian Idol” and will win $1,000 in FREE books for their library. The Independent School District or [...]
Taggin It
May 5th, 2007More on tags in library catalogs from Safety Neal:
“We recently added a widget from AddThis to our beta catalog design that allows users to add links to bibliographic records to a variety of social bookmarking sites, including del.icio.us. I’m attaching an image of how it looks in our beta catalog.”
Wow!
Library Revolution
May 5th, 2007I’ve just subscribed to this blog:
“Let’s discuss the ways in which we can take what we do well in libraries… and do it better!”
It’s written by Emily Clasper (she’s on Twitter too), who works in Suffolk County, NY. Hip Hip Hooray for fellow Long Island librarians.
Wikipedia Search on Exalead
May 4th, 2007Gary Price introduced me to Exalead a while back as the only engine that will do proximity searches. I showed it off last week during a presentation and the audience seemed to like it. Exalead has saved my butt a few times.
I learn from Google Blogoscoped that Exalead now has a Wikipedia-specific search. [...]
Let’s Start the Conversation
May 3rd, 2007“Twitter is the conversation” — Read the whole thing. Wow!! (via)
See also: Twitter Nation: Nobody cares what you’re doing — “Twitter is always on, always looked at, and at a 140 character limit, doesn’t have the capacity to be either deep or meaningful.”
What’s SLA?
May 3rd, 2007Jessica Baumgart’s credit card company didn’t believe that SLA was a real organization and flagged it. Precious.
Twitter from Wordpress…Wordpress from Twitter…You say Potato…
May 3rd, 2007Jason Griffey points out a really cool tool that I might try out. At the expense of losing most of my Twitter friends of course.
More on Andrew Keen
May 3rd, 2007Cnet has a post up on the Tech News Blog. Some great fodder.
“MySpace is creating cultural narcissism in our young,” Keen told the audience. “Teenage kids don’t have much to say.”
Japanese man runs library on a bicycle
May 2nd, 2007And you thought you were committed to your profession.
Here’s to Dissenting Opinions
May 2nd, 2007I watch Fox News to learn the opinions of those I disagree with (and why they think that way - keep your friends close and your enemies closer…) I love dissenting opinions. Better that than everyone agreeing on everything. How boring.
Web 2.0 has a dissenter in Andrew Keen. I’ll be reading [...]
Twitter For Research
May 2nd, 2007Stephen Francoeur on using Twitter for reference work. Lots to think about…
Grading Wikipedia
May 1st, 2007The Denver Post hired 5 experts to check out Wikipedia for accuracy. The results:
“Four out of five agreed their relevant Wikipedia entries are accurate, informative, comprehensive and a great resource for students or the merely curious. The fifth scholar called his chosen entry “not very good,” found some details to be inaccurate by omission, [...]
I Tumbld on Your PDA
May 1st, 2007Tumblr added a new feature that makes it easier to view their pages on mobile devices. You can view mine here. I’ve also stopped the linkblog posts to Twitter as it was getting a bit out of hand.