Archive for February, 2008
My Tweet Map
February 23rd, 2008My Tweet Map, shows where your friends are Tweeting from. (via)
Video Games for Video Games’ Sake
February 23rd, 2008From ParentDish - “While it’s not Moby Dick or War and Peace, it is getting kids into the library and perhaps, someday, they might return to check out one of those. In the meantime, it shows that libraries can evolve to meet the ever-changing needs of their community.” (via)
Using video games to get kids to [...]
‘Harry Potter’ Is Addictive, Study Concludes
February 23rd, 2008MTV Movie News - “Survey finds that 10 percent of participants showed signs of addiction, withdrawal after finishing ‘Deathly Hallows.’” (via)
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February 23rd, 2008t|w|i|t|t|e|r|m|e|t|e|r - “Twitter meter let’s you query an index of all the words that have been sent to twitter’s public timeline since I started gathering them on 11/6/2007 and plot the number of times that word was used over time.” (via)
Internet forum headed for Boston
February 23rd, 2008AP - “Internet users should be free to surf where they want and download what they please. But shouldn’t the owners of the networks that make the Internet possible also have rights?”
Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy
February 23rd, 2008Chris Wilson - “It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater.”
Twitter Lights
February 23rd, 2008Twitter Lights looks really suweeeeeet.
Quickscribe Launches BC Legislation Portal!
February 20th, 2008Reason number 165 why Steve Matthews rocks!
I Learn Something New Everyday
February 20th, 2008CNET - “To get stories on Google News, news sites have to have more than one staff member.”
Public Transportation Meets Public Library
February 20th, 2008LAist - “A marriage between public transportation and public libraries is tremendous, especially appearing in a major metropolitan area that’s choked with commute traffic.”
Worldcat blog
February 19th, 2008Worldcat is blogging.
Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
February 19th, 2008AP - “The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to civil rights and privacy advocates who oppose the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. The justices, without comment, turned down an appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union to let it pursue a lawsuit against the program that began shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.”
Oy! [...]
Open Minds, Open Books, Open Source
February 19th, 2008Library Stories points to an article from Inside Higher Ed.
Carl Malamud Takes on WestLaw
February 19th, 2008Tim O’Reilly - “Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be… well, public.”
I love this story. Challenging corporate America under any circumstances is a good thing. (Thanks David)
Resident complains about library movie showing
February 18th, 2008Whoops
“A mislabeled calendar item for a recent Monday Matinee showing at the Kenton County Library prompted several residents to voice concerns last week. The movie in question was “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.” Although the movie is rated PG-13, the library listed the event as appropriate for “Ages 7-12.” Instead, the movie was [...]
Marketers Salivate Over Lickable Ads
February 18th, 2008Remember scratch and sniff? How about, just lick.
Twitter at your library
February 18th, 2008Superpatron blogs that AADL is on Twitter.
ControlC
February 17th, 2008ControlC - “is an automated solution that will monitor your clipboard and store the data for you so you can later share or retrieve for yourself contents copied to your clipboard that otherwise would have been lost forever.”
Brilliant. (via)
Libraries Will Soon Move Into Bay Area BART Stations
February 17th, 2008KNTV - “It’s another sign of the future where computers and machines are taking the place of people. This time, we may be saying goodbye to our neighborhood librarian.”
2 Guys and a Chick Set Off Loudoun Library Dispute
February 16th, 2008More on human filtering
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe in crutches
February 15th, 2008Aw…. Poor JMS.
Teaching with Wikipedia
February 15th, 2008The Information Literacy Land of Confusion - “Wikipedia is not going to go away. Students will continue to use it. How can instructors find new and novel ways to teach about and with it?”
Local Public Library vs. University of Iowa Libraries
February 15th, 2008Distance Education - “So, what is the advantage of using the University of Iowa Libraries when your local library is just down the street?”
Is MySpace Good for Society?
February 15th, 2008Freakonomics - “Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective?”
The Law Library of Congress announces the availability of RSS feeds
February 15th, 2008Gary Price has the news.
Congrats to Donna and the gang!
Students and Copyright: Discipline and Punish?
February 15th, 2008Andy Carvin - “Microsoft has just come out with a new survey on student’s attitudes towards online copyright. The research suggests that very few students have a strong understanding of the issue, but it also makes me wonder just how they’re defining the nature of copyright, and whether it takes into account fair use as [...]
SHUSHER
February 15th, 2008A Flickr pic
Hand-wringing About American Culture
February 15th, 2008NYT - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
Vancouver Library Under Fire for Hosting Controversial Author Called Anti-Semitic
February 15th, 2008Library Journal has a round-up.
I’m torn. I’m all for free speech, but (obviously) not hate speech. Plus, I try to be Pro-Israel. Sigh.
“Porn”
February 15th, 2008Cambridge “Porn” Library Revealed