Archive for February, 2008
No More Kicking
February 26th, 2008David Lee King gets a kick out of OCLC customer service.
History Survey Stumps U.S. Teens
February 26th, 2008New York Times - “Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic questions about history and literature during a recent telephone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one-quarter thought that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World sometime after 1750, not in 1492.”
The Encyclopedia of Life, No Bookshelf Required - New York Times
February 26th, 2008New York Times - “Imagine the Book of All Species: a single volume made up of one-page descriptions of every species known to science.”
Unshelved, Creative Commons, and blog editing
February 26th, 2008Michael Sauers - “[A]s I warn my students in my blogging workshops, if you have second thoughts about something you wrote in a blog post, don’t go back and remove it like it never happened. Write a follow-up post and clarify your position. Otherwise someone’s going to notice and point it out since nothing on [...]
Library School- Not Web 2.0 enough?
February 26th, 2008Kendra K. Levine - “All in all, I guess I’m still uneasy about the future, but it didn’t take a report to tell me that. I guess I’m still trying to figure out the point of Web 2.0 in libraries for myself, and the library blogosphere isn’t helping.”
Make plants talk!
February 26th, 2008MAKE: Blog - “They’ll Twitter you when they need to be watered.” (via)
Famous Bookshelves
February 26th, 2008Well, famous in my mind anyway
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America by Hugh Laurie
February 26th, 2008Today’s video. Hugh Laurie at his best!
New search powers lead Firefox 3
February 26th, 2008BBC - “The latest version of web browser Firefox will make changes to the way people search for information online, says its developer”
RSS Everywhere
February 26th, 2008WorldCat Blog - “RSS Readers are great for getting content updates, but the real value of RSS comes in displaying your own content on other pages like your blog or a personal portal page like PageFlakes, NetVibes or iGoogle”
And this is worthy of a blog post? C’mon Worldcat bloggers…
Also, I disagree about the “real [...]
Recycled Paper Art Project on Flickr
February 25th, 2008on Flickr
`Wiki Moments` Lead to Better Collaboration
February 25th, 2008eWeek - “In the course of covering the evolution of collaboration software, some bloggers are tracking “wiki moments,” ideas that start as seeds and germinate into big bouquets of contemplation and collaboration.”
‘Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?’
February 25th, 2008From Ariadne - “Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered by Web 2.0 applications.”
(via)
Big Read or big waste?
February 25th, 2008Jim Henley - “Speeches and an $8-million program will not turn Americans into readers.” (via)
I Am Magic…
February 25th, 2008I can make books disappear.
The NY Times launches TimesMachine
February 25th, 2008Kottke has a link, but I’m getting a “Service Unavailable”. Sad.
I used the Proquest service last week and got an “OMG!!!” from an attorney. Pretty cool!
twit+
February 25th, 2008twit+ - “Exchange files, video and pictures with your twitter friends”
Pretty cool. I just tried it out and it worked perfectly (via)
Twitter Karma
February 24th, 2008Twitter Karma is a slick way to see who follows you, who you follow, and do bulk actions (such as follow everyone that follows you but who you don’t follow - you follow?)
Here’s what mine looks like. (via)
Happy ‘Belated’ Anniversary
February 24th, 2008To that Griffey guy
Is Obama Against Video Games?
February 24th, 2008GamePolitics.com has a semi-round up.
Obama has said stuff like this before. He mentioned something similar in his amazing speech the day before MLK Day.
It doesn’t mean that he is against VGs. One could also assume, based on the words, that he is against TV. I think he was trying to make a [...]
14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds
February 24th, 2008A nice annotated list.
Celebrating a New Library
February 24th, 2008on Flickr
After 30 years, librarian will be feted in a sendoff for the books
February 24th, 2008Take a shot of your favorite beverage for every librarian play on phrase in this piece
More on the Slate Piece
February 24th, 2008Phil Bradley - “The point really is that it’s not the wisdom of the crowds, it’s a gentle dictatorship of the chaper ones.”
Picture Books, Seriously
February 24th, 2008Kids Lit - “Children’s book illustrations are now being shown in museums, studied in art courses, and of course being purchased as investments.”
Reading and Technology
February 23rd, 2008Promoting reading, with technology.
Overheard
February 23rd, 2008Library Bitch overhears…
“Dude, they’re a public library, so they’re govment. Gov-ment. They’ve prob’ly read ev’ry email you ever writt’n.”
‘30 mostly spurious benefits of e-books’
February 23rd, 2008Celebrating Read an E-book week
2008 LITA/Brett Butler Entrepreneurship Award winner announced
February 23rd, 2008Congrats to Glenn Peterson (via)
Stabilo Erasable Pens
February 23rd, 2008Everyone makes mistakes