No More Kicking
David Lee King gets a kick out of OCLC customer service.
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Archive | February, 2008
History Survey Stumps U.S. Teens
New 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.”
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The Encyclopedia of Life, No Bookshelf Required – New York Times
New York Times – “Imagine the Book of All Species: a single volume made up of one-page descriptions of every species known to science.”
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Unshelved, Creative Commons, and blog editing
Michael 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 the Net ever actually gets deleted.”
Great advice and detective work!
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Library School- Not Web 2.0 enough?
Kendra 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.”
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Make plants talk!
MAKE: Blog – “They’ll Twitter you when they need to be watered.” (via)
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New search powers lead Firefox 3
BBC – “The latest version of web browser Firefox will make changes to the way people search for information online, says its developer”
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RSS Everywhere
WorldCat 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 value” of RSS. Whatever the application, RSS is about keeping up, either with a reader or a personal portal. Different strokes.
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