LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Blogging interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:50:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/11/discussions-about-using-twitter-and-wikipedia-included-in-reuters-social-media-guidelines-for-reporters/ While this document is intended for journalists and others working at Reuters, we think info pros will find it interesting and potentially useful. From WebNewser: Reuters published its guidelines for reporting via the Internet and using social media, stressing transparency in using social media, including mentioning affiliation with Reuters and stating that opinions expressed are personal, as well as clearing the use of social-media sites with managers, and breaking news via the wire rather than via Twitter or other sites. The WebNewser article goes on to provide a thorough overview of what the guidelines contain. You Can Access the Reuters Document Here Section 1.5 (it’s just a few sentences) Offers a Few Ideas to Determine if a Report is a Hoax. Do a reality check. Does this information fit within the bounds of what was expected? Any wild divergences are a clue you may be viewing information in the wrong context. Do a reality check. Does this information fit within the bounds of what was expected? Any wild divergences are a clue you may be viewing information in the wrong context. Sounds very similar to what an info pro would say. Section 2.1 Basic Principles The distinction between the private and the professional has largely broken down online and you should assume that your professional and personal social media activity will be treated as one no matter how hard you try to keep them separate. You should also be aware that even if you make use of privacy settings, anything you post on a social media site may be made public. Section 2.3 Twitter Policy The document spends a large chunk of time discussing Twitter. For example: Section 2.3.6 Can I Break News via Twitter? As with blogging within Reuters News, you should make sure that if you have hard news content that it is broken first via the wire. Don’t scoop the wire. NB this does not apply if you are ‘retweeting’ (re-publishing) someone else’s scoop. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:31:16 +0100 825625 http://mulford.utoledo.edu/mblog/?p=2064 by Janice Flahiff Thinking of using blogs, Twitter, texting, or other social media to educate, inform, or promote health topics, programs, or services? CDC Social Media Guidlines may help with tips on these and other topics * Button and Badge Requirements *Micro-blogging Guidelines *Text Messaging Guidelines Need assistance with your research or have a pesky information need? Please do not hesitate to contact a Mulford Librarian. (Source: Mulford Library Blog) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:45:15 +0100 825522 http://lisnews.org/library_blog_contest_salem_press Hey, LISNews has company...Salem Press (they publish literary and history reference libraries in a variety of formats) is looking for the coolest library/librarian blogs around. Here's their contest announcement: As you are probably aware, blogs about libraries have spread across the web. There are (literally) hundreds of people writing about books, libraries, librarians and related subjects. If you count the blogs that come from specific institutions, spreading local news, there are thousands of the things. Some are funny. Some are brilliant. Others, aren't. Salem Press' staff includes many fans of library blogs. We're entertained and enlightened by them. So, we've decided to recognize the best efforts in the field. Not only to praise the praise-worthy but also to publicize the good stuff. To that end, we're hosting something we call the Library Blog Awards. We think there should be a well-organized directory of library blogs and a "peoples' awards" program of some kind to let folks know what blogs are best-liked and most widely read. Go for it bloggers!! Thanks to the Effing Librarian for the tip! (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:23:32 +0100 825207 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html News from OmekaThe Omeka team is reaching for the clouds. After more than a year of planning and development, we are very pleased to announce the impending arrival of Omeka.net, a hosted web service that will bring standards-based online collections and exhibitions to the internet cloud. Be first in line for an invitation to try the free Omeka.net Alpha, including a special bundle of plugins, themes, and storage, when it launches in April.Omeka.net will expand Omeka’s current offerings with a completely web-based service. No server or programming experience required. Similar to services offered by WordPress, the popular open-source blogging software, with the launch of Omeka.net users will be able to sign up for a free hosted Omeka site. Just create a username and password, and your online collection or exhibition is up and running.This new hosted web service will further the Omeka project’s mission to make collections-based online publishing more accessible to small cultural heritage institutions, individual scholars, enthusiasts, educators, and students.With Omeka.net, your online exhibit is one click away. (Source: New) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:33 +0100 825519 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/omeka-in-cloud.html Exciting news from OmekaThe Omeka team is reaching for the clouds. After more than a year of planning and development, we are very pleased to announce the impending arrival of Omeka.net, a hosted web service that will bring standards-based online collections and exhibitions to the internet cloud. Be first in line for an invitation to try the free Omeka.net Alpha, including a special bundle of plugins, themes, and storage, when it launches in April.Omeka.net will expand Omeka’s current offerings with a completely web-based service. No server or programming experience required. Similar to services offered by WordPress, the popular open-source blogging software, with the launch of Omeka.net users will be able to sign up for a free hosted Omeka site. Just create a username and password, and your online collection or exhibition is up and running.This new hosted web service will further the Omeka project’s mission to make collections-based online publishing more accessible to small cultural heritage institutions, individual scholars, enthusiasts, educators, and students.With Omeka.net, your online exhibit is one click away. (Source: Catalogablog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825372 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-ipl2-institute-march-15-and-march-16/ Join the ipl2 (Internet Public Library) in Celebration of 15 Years of Innovation, Service, and Research In 1995, it took 35 students 70 days to develop what would become the world’s largest and most recognized free, online collection and reference service in the world: the Internet Public Library. This month, 91,982 reference questions and 40,000 vetted, searchable electronic resource items later, the Internet Public Library celebrates its 15th anniversary. In conjunction with this event, The iSchool at Drexel will be hosting the Institute on the Future of Reference and its Impact on Library and Information Science Education March 15 -16, 2010. The institute is part of the IMLS grant Transforming the IPL into a Virtual Learning Laboratory. Faculty, students and staff from Drexel University , Florida State University, The University of Washington, The University of Illinois, The University of North Carolina, Syracuse University, and the Free Library of Philadelphia are among those participating in the institute. Additionally, two special open presentations have been planned in honor of this moment in the ipl2’s history. You can join the celebration as we reflect on the future of reference and its impact on the future of library and information science education. These presentations will be streamed live on video, with information also reported live on the ipl2 blog, Second Life, and Twitter. [Instructions below the agenda for accessing the conversation on our social networks.] ipl2 – Celebrating 15 years! Monday, March 15, 2010 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. EST Speakers: Mick Khoo: ipl2 Merger Surprises Joyce Valenza: Web 2.0 Reference on the Ground K-12 Special Guest Speaker and IPL Founder Joe Janes: IPL to ipl2: The Past, Present and Future Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:42:54 +0100 824644 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/3EAycbPKbwM/michelangelo-durer-print-books The internet may be taking over from the printing press, just as Dürer's timeless engraving Melencolia I spelled the end for medieval scriptoria, but let us remember that print is beautifulIn the exhibition Michelangelo's Dream currently at the Courtauld Gallery in London, the beauty of print is exemplified by Albrecht Dürer's timeless engraving Melencolia I. The curator was not content to use just any copy of this great print: that selected is one of the finest that exist, and in its microscopically refined use of black ink you can see how majestically artists were able to exploit what was still a new invention in the early-1500s to create beautiful objects.A book, too, is a beautiful object – and I write with my own just back from the printers. For just as artists were quick to discover the aesthetic possibilities of printing, so were the makers of books. Some might say the advent of the printed book brought a devastating loss of beauty in the culture of the word: for centuries, medieval monasteries had created the spectacular visual treasures that are illuminated books. And yet, the printed book rapidly found its own standards of elegance and authority through the labours of great publishers such as the Aldine Press in Venice and Frobenius in Basel.Printing was as revolutionary as the internet is now when Dürer created his Melencolia I, and it too had victims. Those medieval scriptoria were doomed, and those who clung to the handwrittern and painted word would be eclipsed. Critics of today's new communications see the aggression of bloggers as a vice of the digital age, but what about the aggression unleashed by the printing press? The resources of new technology that let Dürer create Melencolia I were soon being exploited to create vicious religious prints portraying the Pope as antichrist. The printing press democratised knowledge, and with democracy came spite, libel, destruction and violence. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:10:00 +0100 824508 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/VbFVnOL5bgE/2604-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-march-7.html Here is our weekly wrap-up of Internet search and search engine industry oriented headlines. Google Buys Online Collaboration Operator DocVerse Something good is about to happen with Google’s cloud computing service – that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files (SE Journal March 3 2010) The five-minute guide to Google Squared Arrange data from the web in a neat spreadsheet (techradar March 6 2010) Google Launches Gesture Search for Android To use the search, you write a letter across the screen. (SE Watch March 5 2010) Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results The ability to re-order, remove, and comment on search results has been replaced by a scaled-down version (SE Land March 3 1010) SMX West 2010 Live Blogging Recap Keri Morgret of Strike Models and Brian Ussery of Beu Blog spent a tremendous amount of time and energy live blogging the event. (March 5 2010) Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag At SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right now. (SE Land March 5 2010) YouTube adds automatic subtitles for the deaf Latest speech recognition breakthrough for the hard of hearing (techradar march 5 2010) Peter Norvig offers an insider’s look at Google Research during SMX West A list of new products from Google (SE Watch March 3 2010) Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped Speaking at SMX WestGoogle’s Director of Research said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs a new name (SE Land March 3 2010) Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live The documentation is live on Google Code (SE Land March 3 2010) Yahoo CEO Bartz Says Would Have Sold Yahoo, Mocks Facebook Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz stated she would have sold Yahoo at $36 when Microsoft was offering (SE Watch March 2 2010) Google Italy ruling might very well turn out to be a blessing Its time to finally get the law straightened out. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:55:22 +0100 824920 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/03/culture-documentaire-et-folksonomies.html Article "de commande", pour la revue "Documentaliste, sciences de l'information", à paraître fin Février 2010. La version ci-dessous est celle de soumission, non encore revue et corrigée pour publication définitive. La version définitive sera déposée en archives ouvertes au moment de sa parution.Culture documentaire et folksonomies. L’indexation à l’ère industrielle et collaborative. Des folksonomies aux hashtags, quelles cultures informationnelles ? A L’INDEX. Il a déposé des photos de ses vacances sur FlickR ; recherché une vidéo d’un extrait de colloque sur YouTube ; partagé des signets sur Delicious ; publié un article sur son blog ; bavardé sur Twitter à propos d’un événement récent ; consulté des photos ou des profils de ses amis sur Facebook. Dans chacun de ces cas de figure et dans bien d’autres encore, l’usager a, en sus de son activité de dépôt, de recherche, de publication, de consultation ou de simple conversation, été invité à pratiquer une indexation libre. Une indexation sur ses propres traces informationnelles ou sur celles produites par d’autres. Une indexation qui traverse nos espaces numériques publics, privés et intimes, désormais réunis en une même sphère d’indexabilité. Une indexation à l’unisson de la cinétique des traces auxquelles elle s’attache : synchrone, instantanée, fragmentaire, plurielle. Enfin, une indexation parfois collaborative et le plus souvent, transparente aux autres, à tous les autres. C’EST EN FORGEANT QU’ON DEVIENT FORGERON ET C’EST EN INDEXANT ... QU’ON FINIT SUR TWITTER.Communauté. Wikipédia définit la « folksonomie » comme : « un processus de classification collaborative par des mots-clés librement choisis, ou le résultat de cette classification. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824977 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/5Wnd515EN6g/ I have been flat out like a lizard drinking  since VALA2010, preparing presentations for a forthcoming seminar and finally looking at my thesis for the first time since October… Normal blogging will return here after June, but until then, you’ll read posts like this – either a shameless plug or derivative text stolen shared from other bloggers. This one is both…. <begin text from Michelle’s post> < begin shameless plug> It is with great delight that I will be presenting “Libraries 2.0: using Web 2.0 and new media to revolutionise your library or information centre“, with my Libraries Interact co-blogger, colleague and friend, Michelle McLean from Connecting Librarian . So, if you: have a good-sized training budget (which many of you I know don’t) are wanting to learn more about using Web 2.0 in your library would like to see a couple of engaging library presenters at work can attend a two day seminar at the end of March and either live in Melbourne or could get the package deal to get here for two days, then we would love to have you join us and other attendees, for what we are planning will be a learning, collaborating, questioning, informative and hopefully also a bit entertaining two days. </end of shameless plug> </end of text copied almost word-for-word from Michelle’s post > Here is the brochure about the event, which even includes an hour by hour outline of what we will cover. We have included 12 different exercises for participants during the two days, some involving moving and one with the chance to pretend to be your boss or maybe a teenager… Using Web 2.0 and new media to revolutionise your library or information centre (Source: Librarians matter) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:42:28 +0100 825202 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/373 Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc — LeBlanc spent a decade hanging out with two young women in the Bronx and the many people who came in and out of their lives — boyfriends, husbands, children, friends, and other family. It’s a long book, and one that took a long time to write, and one that took me a long time to read, but I am still stunned at how she managed to make me go from a sort of revulsion to a real love of these people in the course of a few hundred pages. The History of Love by Nicole Kraus — January’s book discussion book. Meh. Not a bad book in any way, just not one I got very excited about. [listen] That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo — While I love all of Russo’s books (and I’ve read most of them), I kind of keep hoping that someday he will write Straight Man again. That Old Cape Magic comes closest, as it also deals largely with academics. It’s not as funny (but few things could be), but it’s quite good, and the narrator did a decent, if not inspired, job. Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinskey — Delinskey’s novel about high school girls who form a pregnancy pact and its effects on them and their mothers (who are all best friends, too!) is just as melodramatic and terrible as you might suspect. Melodrama is my favorite indulgence, though, so it worked for me. [reread] A House Like a Lotus by Madeleine L’Engle — I had forgotten, or perhaps I never knew, how very preachy L’Engle can sound at times. I was rereading bits of A Wrinkle in Time because I was thinking about using it for a set of booktalks, and I was thinking about how I always think of that book as a sort of touchstone for smart kids who grow up feeling isolated and as though no one understands them. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:31:20 +0100 823932 http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/how-to-talk-about-your-blog-in-public/ A basic Google search will turn up all kinds of blogging and podcasting advice.   How to get bonus Google Traffic using SEO tips.    How to write great content.   How to monetize.   How not to become a viral ad for social media marketing douchebags.   What to Tweet and What Not to Tweet. What seems to be missing is what happens when you talk about your blog or podcast in actual public.    But, the way that Twitter and Foursquare seem to encourage ‘meet-ups’ and the popularity of large-scale unconferences such as Podcamp Toronto make it more necessary to remind bloggers that the people who read your blog are also the people who are going to try and meet with you in public.   They may never ever tell you that they read your blog or listen to your podcast, but that does not mean they do not have a dialogue in their head about what they like or do not like about your web presence. Enter case study #1 – I’m at a bar mingling with a whole group of people with common interests in social media.    I’m excited to meet so may new faces.    I join in to a conversation half-way through and a woman is talking about her blog or podcast.   She’s bragging about the huge response she gets from her readers claiming , somewhat disingenuously, that she does not know why they bother to follow her.    Then comes the punch line:   “Maybe they only read my blog because I’m a girl.” I couldn’t help it – it’s part of my east coast blood to knock anyone just a little off their high horse.   I mean no malice nor do I wish to give an air of arrogance, but I reply: “Actually, I am almost convinced that everyone reads my blog because I’m a boy.” What followed was a pre-rehearsed tirade of insults for my ’sarcasm’ that I wasn’t able to hear because the music in the bar was too loud. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:20:19 +0100 824369 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/03/meeting-other-bloggersand-not-work.html A little know fact about me is I am an Avid Arsenal FC fan. I have been a fan for nearly thirty years, when I watched my first game (and defeat) on television. I am an avid reader of Arsenal soccer blogs, and often read an American blogger on the subject. He is presently here (in London) for a couple of ghames and therefore i'm meeting him for a pre-match drink. But do we talk blogging or football.......choices,choices (Source: librarytwopointzero) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825158 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/oh7_uytFCXg/005142.php Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a one-off reference in an earlier post - but not much earlier, as the "DBoI" post, as I call it, was just the sixty-third post of my then-early blogging career. (This is the 5,142nd, by comparison...) I had, in fact, been ruminating on this concept for over a year, driven by an Holy Sh*t moment in late 2001 when Google introduced its first ever Zeitgeist round up of trending search terms. Scanning the lists of rising and declining terms, I realized that Google - not to mention every other search engine, ISP, and most likely every government - had in their grasp a datastream that, were they to just pay attention, could quite possibly be the most potent signal of human intentions in the history of the world. Zeitgeist, it struck me, was proof that Google was indeed paying attention. I went on to write The Search, and Google went on to become, well, Google. My study of Google also led me to start Web 2, with Tim O'Reilly, and Federated Media, which I positioned as a media company that leveraged the impact of The Database of Intentions. But over the past few years, as I've labored in the fields of digital media and marketing - mostly through my work at FM - I've come to revise my concept of what The Database of Intentions truly is. In my initial description, I limited the concept to web search and web search alone: The Database of Intentions is simply this: The aggregate results of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result. At the time, that certainly seemed like a big enough idea. No such artifact had ever existed, and its implications were massive. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823815 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/sPKclHleTBE/ The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has made Peter Suber on the Future of Open Access available on YouTube. Related Posts Peter Suber on "Ten Challenges for Open-Access Journals" Video Presentations from Open Access to Science Publications—Policy Perspective, Opportunities and Challenges Conference Peter Suber to “Step Back” from Blogging on Open Access News Peter Suber Receives Joint Fellowship at Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and the Harvard Law School Library Peter Suber: “A Field Guide to Misunderstandings about Open Access” (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:05:31 +0100 824231 http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i4.pdf New from Walt Crawford – always a good read   *Cites & Insights* 10:4 (April 2010)<http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i4.pdf>is now available at http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i4.pdf   The 30-page issue is a PDF print-over-the-web publication, as usual, although three of the four essays are also available in HTML form (the article titles are links). As always, My Back Pages is a PDF-only bonus.   This issue includes: Perspective: On Disconnecting and Reconnecting (pp. 1-9)<http://citesandinsights.info/v10i4a.htm>   Can you turn off all your "connecting" devices for an hour, a day, a week? Should you? A number of librarians and others discuss the virtues of disconnecting from virtual life once in a while--and maybe reconnecting with ourselves, nature and our real-world friends.   Trends & Quick Takes (pp. 9-16) <http://citesandinsights.info/v4i10b.htm>   The good old days that never were, blaming the user for bad survey design, the difference between production tools and creative talent, checklists for writing and publishing--and ten quicker takes on an even wider range of topics.   Making it Work: Thinking about Blogging 5: Closing the Loo<http://citesandinsights.info/v10i4c.htm> p   The close of this four-part series (there was no Thinking about Blogging 3), on how we should blog--and notes on some impressive blog research, miscellaneous issues, and a brief threnody on a dead blog.   My Back Pages   Nine little essays on topics as diverse as crackpot physics, how to get diners to spend more, stretching "obsolete" past its limits--and powering a 600-watt device with a 2.5-watt source!   (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:23:00 +0100 823652 http://www.lisnews.org/cites_amp_insights_104_april_2010_now_available Cites & Insights 10:4 (April 2010) is now available at http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i4.pdf The 30-page issue is a PDF print-over-the-web publication, as usual, although three of the four essays are also available in HTML form (the article titles are links). As always, My Back Pages is a PDF-only bonus. This issue includes: Perspective: On Disconnecting and Reconnecting (pp. 1-9) Can you turn off all your "connecting" devices for an hour, a day, a week? Should you? A number of librarians and others discuss the virtues of disconnecting from virtual life once in a while--and maybe reconnecting with ourselves, nature and our real-world friends. Trends & Quick Takes (pp. 9-16) The good old days that never were, blaming the user for bad survey design, the difference between production tools and creative talent, checklists for writing and publishing--and ten quicker takes on an even wider range of topics. Making it Work: Thinking about Blogging 5: Closing the Loop The close of this four-part series (there was no Thinking about Blogging 3), on how we should blog--and notes on some impressive blog research, miscellaneous issues, and a brief threnody on a dead blog. My Back Pages Nine little essays on topics as diverse as crackpot physics, how to get diners to spend more, stretching "obsolete" past its limits--and powering a 600-watt device with a 2.5-watt source! (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:08:43 +0100 823772 http://lisnews.org/cites_amp_insights_104_april_2010_now_available Cites & Insights 10:4 (April 2010) is now available at http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i4.pdf The 30-page issue is a PDF print-over-the-web publication, as usual, although three of the four essays are also available in HTML form (the article titles are links). As always, My Back Pages is a PDF-only bonus. This issue includes: Perspective: On Disconnecting and Reconnecting (pp. 1-9) Can you turn off all your "connecting" devices for an hour, a day, a week? Should you? A number of librarians and others discuss the virtues of disconnecting from virtual life once in a while--and maybe reconnecting with ourselves, nature and our real-world friends. Trends & Quick Takes (pp. 9-16) The good old days that never were, blaming the user for bad survey design, the difference between production tools and creative talent, checklists for writing and publishing--and ten quicker takes on an even wider range of topics. Making it Work: Thinking about Blogging 5: Closing the Loop The close of this four-part series (there was no Thinking about Blogging 3), on how we should blog--and notes on some impressive blog research, miscellaneous issues, and a brief threnody on a dead blog. My Back Pages Nine little essays on topics as diverse as crackpot physics, how to get diners to spend more, stretching "obsolete" past its limits--and powering a 600-watt device with a 2.5-watt source! (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:08:43 +0100 823447 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/gee-guys.html I've noticed that if I miss one day of blogging, my subscription numbers fall by about 6-10 people. I try to post every day, but sometimes I'm tired or otherwise occupied. Last night, for example, I had a lot of news feeds to catch up on but didn't find anything earth-shattering to write about, and by the time I made my way through hundreds of news stories, I was tired and went on to bed. Anyway, just hang on, and if there's a lull I'll post soon, or at least tell you if I'm having Internet issues, etc. (I am set up to blog from my phone, for example. Of course, those posts have to be very short due to limits of text messaging.) (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825091 http://cical.blogspot.com/2010/03/cites-insights-104-april-2010-now.html Cites & Insights 10:4 (April 2010) is now available at http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i4.pdfThe 30-page issue is a PDF print-over-the-web publication, as usual, although three of the four essays are also available in HTML form (the article titles are links). As always, My Back Pages is a PDF-only bonus.This issue includes:Perspective: On Disconnecting and Reconnecting (pp. 1-9)Can you turn off all your "connecting" devices for an hour, a day, a week? Should you? A number of librarians and others discuss the virtues of disconnecting from virtual life once in a while--and maybe reconnecting with ourselves, nature and our real-world friends.Trends & Quick Takes (pp. 9-16)The good old days that never were, blaming the user for bad survey design, the difference between production tools and creative talent, checklists for writing and publishing--and ten quicker takes on an even wider range of topics.Making it Work: Thinking about Blogging 5: Closing the LoopThe close of this four-part series (there was no Thinking about Blogging 3), on how we should blog--and notes on some impressive blog research, miscellaneous issues, and a brief threnody on a dead blog.My Back PagesNine little essays on topics as diverse as crackpot physics, how to get diners to spend more, stretching "obsolete" past its limits--and powering a 600-watt device with a 2.5-watt source! (Source: C&I Updates) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825037 http://www.tangognat.com/2010/03/03/over-on-manga-views-3/ I continue my march through the Manga Views review database, adding new review links! Take a look at the recent reviews for Karakuri Odette and Ikagami the Ultimate Limit. Also, there’s a new blogger profile up for Dave “Manga Monday” Ferraro of Comics and More. Check it out! (Source: TangognaT) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:02:47 +0100 823240 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/article-note-on-assessing-promotion-of.html Citation for the article:Sobel, Karen, "Promoting Library Reference Services to First-Year Undergraduate Students: What Works?" Reference and User Services Quarterly 48.4 (2009): 362-371.Read via Academic Search Complete (EBSCO).I continue my look at some articles on reference assessment that I started over here and continues here. This one seemed relevant to me given the work I do as an outreach librarian where a good part of my job is promoting the library. When it comes to promotion for undergraduates, it is something I try to do in collaboration with our instruction librarian when it is feasible. Sobel's article explores three things. First, it looks at how aware are undergraduate students when it comes to reference services. Second, it asks what percentage of those students seek help from reference librarians. Third, the author asks about what online media the students find comfortable to use in communicating with the reference librarians. I think that last question could have been explored a bit further. It certainly can be explored further now given the ubiquity of services like Facebook and Twitter. That would be something I would be interested in especially since we do have a Facebook page for the library, and we use Meebo chat widgets in our subject guides. I know the study took place in 2007, according to the article, when things like Facebook (it opened to everyone in 2006) and Twitter (also founded in 2006) were still gaining ground, but I guess the fact I can ask the question just shows how quickly things have changed. By the way, Meebo was launched in 2005, and the widgets we use in 2006. I guess I am just saying if I was expanding this type of assessment, I would want more on how social networking is used by the library to reach students.The article opens with a brief summary of promotional techniques that libraries commonly use such as flyers and online links to chat services, things that I will note we do her as well. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0100 824192 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/MBfARFlLwZY/ My last couple of posts have been about how important context is in KM. Without connecting to people, conversing and re-contextualising we are not really doing KM. In my mind knowledge doesn’t come in packets off a shelf; it’s a dance. My last posts are: KM in context : sense-making and connectedness It’s not about knowledge sharing, it’s about engagment and context! Informal information management and knowledge management are not the same I want to harp on about context for a final installement, and I do this by reviewing a section of a paper by Patrick Lambe called “The Autism of Knowledge Management”. I read this paper a long time ago and was blown away, and never got round to blogging about it. Mark Gould has got me in the mood as he recently blogged about the same paper. My previous post also linked to Marks post. Like Mark I will share this same excerpt: “There is a profound and dangerous autism in the way we describe knowledge management and e-learning. At its root is an obsessive fascination with the idea of knowledge as content, as object, and as manipulable artefact. It is accompanied by an almost psychotic blindness to the human experiences of knowing, learning, communicating, formulating, recognising, adapting, miscommunicating, forgetting, noticing, ignoring, choosing, liking, disliking, remembering and misremembering.” Marks favourite part was the Myth of Completeness, the part that resonated for me at this point in time are the Myth of Reusablity and the Myth of Universality. I really encourage you to read this whole paper as it once and for all describes the importance of context and the fallacy of knowledge objects. Here’s a starter: “Disengaging a piece of knowledge from its context is a remarkably difficult thing to do, even when you’re trying to do it. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:42:38 +0100 823177 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/yDsfOqz8f8U/ Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009. Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5. The evolving Web is an open and social place. The Web has changed everything. Its impact on every facet of our lives — home, work and school — would be difficult to measure but the ‘always on, always available’ Internet is certainly a game changer. Can you recall the first time you realised that the Internet would change your job? Your school? Your students? Dr Laurel Anne Clyde recognised the power and potential for emerging technologies in schools and spent time exploring the implications. As technology evolved, so did her research. Her work examining weblogs was one of the first scholarly endeavours with emerging Web 2.0 tools. Now many of us study and move in a world of hyperconnected spaces: Facebook, WordPress Multi- User Blog communities (WordPress MU), Flickr and any number of socially enabled sites. What a world Dr. Clyde would see today! Sadly, this world includes the fact that many libraries are suffering financial setbacks. The recent news that Australian school libraries are in dire need of support all too well illustrates that changes are needed. The press release from the Australian School Library Association (ASLA 2009) detailed the findings of a 2007 study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including: That means ensuring there are enough qualified teacher librarians as well as maintaining and improving infrastructure. Having a new or refurbished school library is important, but the full potential of these resources cannot be realised without a qualified teacher librarian in place as well. This fact cannot be ignored. Schools need qualified librarians. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:09:41 +0100 822933 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/03/02/bitacoras-com-ahora-detecta-los-posts-automaticamente/ Hasta ahora, había que hacer ping a Bitacoras.com para notificar las actualizaciones de un blog y que la plataforma pudiese tenerlo en cuenta. En WordPress se puede realizar notificaciones al publicar un post pero otros sistemas, como Blogger, carecen de esa posibilidad. Eso supone un engorro pues obliga a realizar ping manualmente cada vez que se publica un post. Para solventar el problema, Bitacoras.com acaba de implementar la notificación automática sin más que añadir los botones de promoción. En su página de Botones del agregador de Bitacoras.com se encuentra la forma de añadir el widget en cualquier plataforma. En el caso de Blogger, como se indica en Pon un botón de Bitacoras.com en tu blog y sal ganando, hay una buena explicación en Oloblogger: Bitacoras.com. Agregar votaciones en Blogger. En El arriero va hemos incluido el siguiente código: <div style=”float: left; margin-right: 15px;”> <a expr:href=’"http://bitacoras.com/anotaciones/" + data:post.url’><img expr:src=’"http://widgets.bitacoras.com/votar/normal/" + data:post.url’ alt=’votar’ title=’Votar esta anotación en Bitacoras.com’ style=’vertical-align:middle;border:0′ /></a> </div> justo después de la instrucción: <h3 class=’post-title entry-title’> y antes de: <b:if cond=’data:post.link’> <a expr:href=’data:post.link’><data:post.title/></a> que es justo donde se escribe el título del post. El cambio de la plantilla se realiza en la pestaña Diseño > Edición de HTML. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:54:41 +0100 824331 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seealso/~3/YvOpK9UReGI/library_shenanigans.html My friend Jessy has been keeping track of library shenanigans–tomfoolery, pranks, silliness, and so on–for a few years now on a static webpage. Recently she took the plunge and started the Library Shenanigans blog. If you like Tetris or dominoes, or sexy librarians, or yetis you will love Library Shenanigans, I assure you. (Source: See Also... a library weblog by Steve Lawson) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:25:17 +0100 823369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/bYBI38EGmo8/ This is part 5 of a 5 part interview with  84 year old Ohio author Jack Matthews. See also: Part 1 ,Part 2 , Part 3, Part4. Also: Jack Matthews (an introduction),  Jack Matthews: The Art and Sport of Book Collecting and On Choosing the Right Name for a story character by Jack Matthews.  The mobile phone is emerging as an important way for people to read; indeed, in Asian countries, authors are already writing specifically for phone owners. The challenge is writing in smaller chunks — so the reader is not required to read for extended periods on a smaller screen and can easily resume where he/she left off. For poetry, this isn’t a problem, but what about fiction? Does limiting chapter length to (for example) 400 or 500 words reduce the dramatic or literary potential for the story writer?  I don’t know — I like the rhetorical short jab (Obama mastered it by dropping his voice to briefly pause after every 5 to 15 words, suggesting conclusiveness, authority & mastery of the material, & this unfortunately got him elected). As for the technical modifications: I’m at a loss. I like to tell people that I’m still getting used to electric lights. A touch of hyperbole there, but I also collect antiquarian books. Do you think the ideas that led to your stories (and novels) could have been repurposed into bite-sized chunks for a cell phone? Only in the sense that a story’s or novel’s key situation can sometimes be contracted into one or two sentences. I once wrote a condensed version of Petronius‘ Widow of Ephesus in 200 words (see below). This works beautifully for what it is; for what it is not (i.e., a fully textured narrative), it doesn’t. Sound like double talk? Yes & no. THE WIDOW OF EPHESUS (From the SATYRICON, as retold by Jack Matthews. Read the original version by Petronius). ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:44:55 +0100 822829 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/03/02/tuesdays-32-berkman-lunch-karrie-karahalios-on-text-and-tie-strength/ Karrie Karahalios addresses Text and Tie Strength at today’s Berkman Center lunch. I attended a talk she gave a MIT a few weeks ago, but it appears I did not blog my notes from that event. Being able to hear a different presentation about her research is fortunate. Using tools, she creates visualizations of conversations and interactions, breaking everything down into colored bars, sometimes with words. In some cases, looking at these kinds of images of meetings often helps people remember more than reading notes. Karrie’s work centers on how people use communication technology, particularly differences in Internet use between people in rural and urban environments. She introduced us to her early experience with the telephone: the village where she lived as a young girl and one phone in the local pub where she would go each Sunday to take a call from her father. American rural people were more likely to have telephones than urban folks before 1920 and more likely to have a party lin—a shared phone line. Since people in these two environments use technology slightly differently, is it worth developing different tools for people based on whether they’re rural or urban? She showed a visualization of her Facebook connections which looks like a question mark with several tight clusters throughout and one disconnected triangle at the bottom. That triangle represents her three Greek relatives with computers, who are not connected to anyone else in her network. By discussing this picture, she moves into talking about Granovetter’s strong and weak ties. She observes how Facebook doesn’t adequately allow people to show the strength of ties. A woman she’s met once in real life and communicates with sporadically appears the same on her friend’s list as her husband. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:33:12 +0100 822758 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6957 State: South Carolina www.myrcpl.com Vacancy # 10IS-0215 Location: Information Services Department, Main Library, 1431 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29201. Schedule: Full-time; 37.5 hours/week, including one evening per week and every third weekend. Essential Functions of the Job: Answers reference questions for library patrons in the library, over the telephone, by e-mail, by instant messaging, by videoconferencing, and by other electronic means, utilizing print and online resources in Business/Science/Technology Reference, as well as in all other Information Services Departments (General Reference, Periodicals, and Local History). Provides readers advisory services and bibliographic instruction. Compiles subject listings and usage guidelines for print and non-print sources. Conducts interlibrary loan activities. Assists with training of professional and non-professional staff. Assists Information Services department managers in planning for and operation of the departments. Communicates and interprets general library policies and procedures to patrons. May provide assistance for patrons’ career and workforce skills development via the library’s “Job Center” and other library resources. Other Important Responsibilities: Assists patrons in locating and using materials and in use of a variety of library equipment, e.g. microfilm equipment, assistive technology equipment. Assists with collecting and reporting transaction statistics. May assist with the organization and maintenance of department collections, files and databases. May assist with planning, developing materials for, and conducting library research skills workshops. Serves on departmental and library-wide committees. May represent the library at community group meetings. Keeps informed of professional developments; attends professional meetings and training. May conduct tours of the Departments. May serve as night or weekend supervisor of the department. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:50:02 +0100 822590 http://lisnews.org/subconscious_shelf_or_what_your_books_say_about_you The New Yorker débuts a new photo feature on it's blog today... you submit a photograph of your bookshelf, and we (The New Yorker) tell you what it says about you. Less than 50 minutes and no charge, if you're picked. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:04:39 +0100 822567 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/Cl7WLJHM80w/ I love it when after having had a rather difficult week at work for multiple various reasons last week, where a total amount of 30 hours of meetings and conference calls made it even worse, you finally catch up with your breath, raise your social periscope up again (After a few days’ absence), and you bump into a couple of rather interesting video clips that surely keep you entertained for a short few minutes to remind you what being a Social Software Evangelist is all about: making a difference in this world! Or, at least, trying to! So today I thought I would share the links to both of those video links, so you could have a look at them yourself, sit back, get yourself a cup of coffee, or tea, and enjoy them. If you are into Internet and Social Media statistics and interesting facts, both of them would be your thing, to say the least. The first one comes from Phil Bradley’s blog, which I bumped into from a recent tweet from my good friend David Gurteen, and that reads "State of the Internet 2010". The clip lasts for a little bit less than 4 minutes and it shows plenty of really interesting statistics and facts about our own use of both email and social networking tools up to 2010. If you folks have been following with interest my initiative of living "A World Without Email", you will enjoy it… I am sure (hehe): JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo. The second video clip is a YouTube one from VisibleTechnologies that tries to follow up along the lines of that series of clips explaining "What Is Social Media?" and which surely presents some interesting facts as well on our use of such social tools; some of which would probably need updating a bit, since the video is over a month old and things surely have improved since that time. But still worth while going through it. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:59:30 +0100 823201 http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/itbloggingsection/2010/02/mobile-multitouch-uis-and-the-library.html The latest gadget people are frothing over/poo-pooing is Apple's iPad, a 9.7" screen tablet device which is not available for purchase yet. Regardless of what you think of that specific tablet, a number of vendors are coming out with multi-touch tablet devices and Windows 7 does support multi-touch.The D.C Public Library has already developed a free iPhone app in early 2009 which lets users search their catalog, and they've made the code available for other libraries to use, so libraries do have some experience dealing with multi-touch interface on a smaller screen. But a larger screen means more real estate for gestures as opposed to controls taking up space - what will this mean for developing mobile apps for the library? And a low-cost device might be an easier pitch than something like a Microsoft Surface - even though libraries are doing cool things with those as well. (Source: Blogging Section of SLA-IT) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:45:10 +0100 824316 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/wow.html If you use the tool on this page: Blogger profiles: How to Search Blogger that allows you to search geographically, and choose United States of America: Kentucky: Lexington I am the first profile to pop up. I guess because I've been blogging for almost eight years. But there are over 6,000 blogs in that results set. Surely I wasn't the first in Lexington to blog and fill out my profile? PS I was searching for Brandon's new blog. Brandon, e-mail me (link to left) with your blog address (I haven't been able to find it.) PPS My 'D' key on the keyboard is sticking. Do you realise how many words have 'D' in them???? Argh! (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823302 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryGarden/~3/6kSqLkqsRAs/ Mercier on Learning Author:  John LeMasney. As a supporter and fan of libraries and librarians, I find it a privilege and honor to be able to post on Library Garden. I also sometimes find it just the slightest bit intimidating. I’m always just a little bit reluctant to post something that I think might be too far outside of the librarian’s perspective. At the same time, I’ve been  working closely with libraries in New Jersey and elsewhere for the last 3 or 4 years as a presenter, trainer  and consultant, and I love the topics that I’ve been able to put into my personal Venn diagram with Libland. Topics such as technology, design, blogging, open source, outreach, and learning all have been focus points for my work with libraries, but my favorite by far has been design. As a result, for the posts I’ve created here at LG, I’ve made them about design. In order to increase and maintain my posting numbers here, I’ve decided that I’m going to not only write about design, but to actually do relevant designs for this blog. As inspiration, I’ve discovered many pages of quotes about libraries, learning, media, and librarians that I thought would be the perfect muse for illustration. This is the first of what I hope will be well received posts in this vein. Mercier’s quote here about indelibly learning that which is pleasurable rings very true in my experience, and I thought you, dear reader, might agree, so I’m sharing the thought with you. This was made in the open source illustration package called Inkscape. I typed out the quote in several single word blocks in order to have the most flexibility with their placement and manipulation. I kerned each word very tightly, as to add some speed to the reading. The font, one of my all time favorites, is Gill Sans. ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:00:35 +0100 822967 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/cAF1N2IWrA8/005136.php ...it's driven by the same old media love affair with distribution lock in. I've been on about this ever since I studied Google in 2001: Media traditionally has gained its profits by owning distribution. Cable carriage, network airwaves, newsstand distribution and printing presses: all very expensive, so once you employ enough capital to gain them, it's damn hard to get knocked out.   The web changed all that and promised that economics in the media business would be driven by content and intent: the best content will win, driven by the declared intent of consumers who find it and share it. Search+Social was the biggest wave to hit media since the printing press. And the open technology to make better and better experiences has been on a ten year tear: blogging software, Flash, Ajax, HTML 5, Android, and more and more coming. But the iPad, just like the iPhone, is designed for vertical integration and distribution lock in. Apple is building its own distribution channel, just as it did with iTunes, and media companies are falling over themselves to make an app for that. Why? Well sure, for once, it's sexy and cool and hip. That's why everyone loved the Wired demo. But the real reason media companies love the iPad is the same reason I don't: It's an old school, locked in distribution channel that doesn't want to play by the new rules of search+social. Sure, you can watch a movie on it. Sure, you can read a book on it. And sure, you can read a publication on it. But if you want to use the web natively, with all the promise that the web brings to media? Not so much. Apple will include a browser, of course. But will media you find through that browser be able to interact with the iPad platform so as to bring full value to you, the consumer? Nope. Not unless that same media is approved by Apple and makes it into the iPad app store. And that's why I don't like the iPad. ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822135 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/live-blogging-dr-paraluman-giron.html This is not my first time to listen to Dr. Paraluman Giron of the DepEd, Director of Region 4-B. I have sat in one of her speeches way back in college at the PNU. She was dynamic, engaging and charming. Her content was relevant and tuned to the times. The last time I saw her was in one training workshop for public school teachers. Her message to them was truly inspirational. She has not changed (Source: School Librarian in Action) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821957 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/tM0XN1T9j6A/ Molly Knapp will be at the helm of this year’s conference blog and she has put out the official call for medical librarian bloggers.  (reprinted from the MLA’10 blog) Do you like to write? Do you like technology? Do you yearn for a public outlet from which you can espouse the glories of the MLA conference 2010 in Washington DC? Then why not apply to be an official blogger for MLA ‘10? Official conference bloggers earn 3 AHIP points and may have access to free wireless services for the duration of the conference. More information Application The application will be open until April 20th, 2010. Official bloggers will be announced April 30th, 2010. Because how else are you going to share your Obama photo with the world’s premier league of  health sciences information professionals? Last year we had a wonderful group of bloggers and as the BIC (Blogger in Charge) of the 2009 conference blog I can say that it was great experience.  It was a great opportunity to meet other MLA members and stay in touch with what was going on at the conference.  I also did a survey of the official bloggers, and they all had such positive responses about blogging the conference.  So, I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed the experience, the bloggers did too. Not a blog author?  Don’t worry! You don’t need to be current author of a blog to be an official blogger, you just to have some experience with blogging software such as WordPress.  Have laptop but don’t have wifi?  Don’t worry, apply to be an official “wireless” blogger and MLA will provide you with a wireless card.  You don’t have a laptop or you aren’t bringing a laptop?  Don’t worry, you can still be an official blogger. If you are going to the meeting in D.C. and you are interested in blogging apply and submit it by Tuesday, April 20, 2010. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:58:31 +0100 821849 http://www.tangognat.com/2010/02/26/happy-10th-neilalien/ Happy Anniversary to the first comics blogger, Neilalien. He discloses some Secret Origins of his blog today. (Source: TangognaT) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:52:59 +0100 821836 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/PgKbULC_K-M/3594 storytlrStorytlr is an open source lifestreaming and micro blogging platform. You can use it for a single user or it can act as a host for many people all from the same installation. More of my links (Source: What I Learned Today...) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:02:02 +0100 821680 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2010/02/while-i-was-away.html I'm pleased to say that I arrived home this past Monday night from a 10-day break in Maui! I'd tell you it wasn't 1:00 AM before we got into Vancouver, but I'm doubting anyone will feel sorry for me. ;)That said, it was the first extended break I've taken since I started Stem back in August 2007. It was also totally needed & I appreciate our clients patience. I'd also like to thank the people that made it possible: Laurel, Emma & Jordan.Case in point, this week's Blawg Review (#252) was researched, drafted, and published sans Steve. Full credit to Mr. Furlong for crafting such a beast [As an aside, that concept alone confirms JF is geeky enough to work at our company. Just saying ...]; but also full credit to my friends in the trenches: Emma & Laurel.I'm also proud of some great projects we got out this month. These were summarized nicely in our Feb. client roundup that went up a few hours ago. Law librarians who have an interest in the connection between information collections and marketing can check out this new site on Nursing Home Injury Laws.And finally, I have a new column up this week at Slaw on domain names & law firms. Please drop by if you can.I'm looking forward to blogging more regularly in March, and have a great new client project based in the BC market that I hope to announce very soon.Aloha! (Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822110 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/02/access-to-knowledge.html Stuart Hamilton has been blogging the IFLA Presidential Meeting, Stellenbosch, South Africa (theme: Access to Knowledge), with informative reports about the sessions. I found the ones discussing indigenous and traditional knowledge particularly interesting, since when knowledge and information take different forms and are transmitted by different channels (e.g. predominently orally; using music and pictures etc.) then the form that information literacy takes will also be different. Stuart is Senior Policy Advisor at IFLA, and his blog is at http://blogs.ifla.org/stuart/ If you are reading this a while on, you need to look at the February 2010 entries. Additionally the papers from this conference are already online at https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/369/browse?type=titlePhoto by Sheila Webber: on campus: a poster from a student wanting to be elected to a student union post next week (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821655 http://www.lisnews.org/behind_wheel_bookmobile From Book Patrol: It started innocently enough. Over dinner a friend mentioned that he saw a used bookmobile for sale on Craigslist and wished he could by it. That was all the impetus Tom Corwin needed. He was soon off to suburban Chicago to buy the decommissioned bookmobile. He paid $7500 for it. Corwin has already garnered the support of the National Book Foundation, the Association of American Publishers and the American Library Association for the project and has signed a deal with Whitewater Films in Los Angeles for the documentary which will be titled "Behind the Wheel of the Bookmobile." The film will also include information on the history of bookmobiles. Authors that have already signed up in support include Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Junot Diaz, Tom Robbins and Scott Turow, with many of them to take a turn at the wheel...here they are. Follow the tour on the website and on Twitter. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:20:57 +0100 821693 http://lisnews.org/behind_wheel_bookmobile From Book Patrol: It started innocently enough. Over dinner a friend mentioned that he saw a used bookmobile for sale on Craigslist and wished he could by it. That was all the impetus Tom Corwin needed. He was soon off to suburban Chicago to buy the decommissioned bookmobile. He paid $7500 for it. Corwin has already garnered the support of the National Book Foundation, the Association of American Publishers and the American Library Association for the project and has signed a deal with Whitewater Films in Los Angeles for the documentary which will be titled "Behind the Wheel of the Bookmobile." The film will also include information on the history of bookmobiles. Authors that have already signed up in support include Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Junot Diaz, Tom Robbins and Scott Turow, with many of them to take a turn at the wheel...here they are. Follow the tour on the website and on Twitter. (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:20:57 +0100 821388 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-library-20-dead.html With the closure today of Ning Library 2.0 happening today, the decrease in blog posts and increase in micro blogging, it seems that library 2.0 as a meme is on the demise. In some ways this is true.This maybe seen in the closure of the Ning site, in which Bill Drew said of its closure:-The network has not seen much traffic the last few months and most people requesting to join are posting profiles full of link spam. The return is no longer worth the work. I am not transferring it to anyone else......... It grew far beyond my wildest hopes. At one point it got over 50 posts a day but is now getting less than 4 posts a month.It seems that library 2.0 had lost its cadre of zest for many users. Although Bill points out many users and post joined at first this dropped. Without a conversation (and too much spam), people would disappear.Other area's where there seems a decline in what has been termed web 2.0 is a decline or at least change in blogging, especially with some of the early library 2.0 bloggers. Jenny Levine's Shifted Librarian has changed her blog into a lifestream rather than a blog. This she describes as:-lets me run a stripped-down version of my own personal Friend Feed (but without the comments on individual items). It totally rocks.Michael Casey's influential Librarycrunch has become the Michael Casey blog, therefore its become an individual blog, rather than a more group/borg blog.Brian Mathews blog the Ubiquitous librarian said recently:-However I’ve noticed a steady overall decline in post quantity in 2009. Walt probably has an algorithm to measure that. I think the probable cause is that many of us were moving past the newbie stage of librarianship and were really starting to sink our teeth into the profession. Now we’re just too busy for constant online reflection. Additionally, Facebook and Twitter have evolved to replace the long form narrative (blog posts) in favor of quick bursts of ideas. In many ways, the Library 2. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822980 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/23/blog-by-articling-student/ Remember what it was like? Articling, that is. If not — perhaps you wiped that difficult period of your life out of your memory, or perhaps you’re just getting old like me — you might like to revisit the period of indenture through the eyes of Lisa Hutch. Ms Hutch graduated from the University of Saskatchewan Faculty of Law and is now in articling rotation. And blogging it. She kind of went off line along about November of last year, but has recently re-emerged and looks to be back in the blogging biz again. Might be fun. (As an aside, way back in 2007 she thought she “loved” Slaw, but we never made it to her blogroll, alas. Does that mean we’re though, Lisa?) [via Wise Law Blog] (Source: Slaw) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:42:11 +0100 822325 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/hi-there.html Sorry I've been amiss in blogging. Sunday after the game I went on a mega-run to Kroger, with almost a whole cart devoted to fresh vegetables, plus another cart, and a bill that would nearly pay my rent. Fortunately I wasn't the one buying. Someone I know has a new stove with five burners and two ovens and is in a cooking mood. Last night he slaved for seven hours to produce a meal of acorn squash soup, vegetable lasagna, and endive-egg-avocado salad. Bless his heart, we ate well, but he was too tired to eat. I washed dishes throughout the whole night to help out. He tends to cook from books by Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette, a Benedictine monk. The food is wonderful, but everything is from scratch, using fresh produce and interesting cheeses. You can really taste the difference though--especially in the pasta sauce for the lasagna. So last night we ate at 1 am and I was out till 3, taking a taxi home. I was dragging this morning. Today I found out that I had a good performance review at the hospital (all satisfactory or above) but unfortunately we will not be getting a raise this year. I can't say I'm surprised. But I did get both a regular raise and market raise last year and am doing much better financially, so I can't really complain. Tonight was truck night at the store, and it went well. Brandon was able to give me a ride home tonight, so I didn't have to dodge cars. One tried to run over me this morning. It blew through a red light to turn right just as I started crossing with the light. I really wish I had a sci-fi disintegrator sometimes. So that's what I'm up to. I'll go check the news. The most memorable story I read earlier today was the woman from Louisiana who sold two children for a $1500 cockatoo (yes, you read that right) and $175. She has been sentenced to 15 months hard labour (she could have gotten 20 years). Good Lord. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821597 http://www.tangognat.com/2010/02/22/bureau-chiefs-site-is-alive/ So things have been busy around here! I’m pleased to announce that the many-headed (just like a hydra, except we write on the internet) group of authors behind FakeAPStylebook known as the Bureau Chiefs has their own web site to showcase their writings at The Bureau Chiefs. I set up the web site with drupal [...] (Source: TangognaT) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:23:26 +0100 820567 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/csu9iKkk7aY/google-buzz.html Google Buzz, the Big G's newest and shiniest tool, launched last week to a huge amount of sturm und drang. What is Buzz? It's a lot of things, all shoved neatly into Gmail and leveraged with every ounce of power that Google could give it. If you've logged into your Gmail account in the last week, you've see a pop-up announcing Buzz, and asking if you were interested. Want to know what you're in for? Here's the very, very general idea. Buzz is a combination of a few different existing ideas. The first is the concept of the "status update" or microblogging service, a la Twitter or Facebook. The second is the idea of conversation, as Buzz threads your discussions, instead of isolating replies like Twitter. This means that posts and replies are presented as a single thread, similar (very, very similar) to FriendFeed. The third thing that Buzz gives you is that these posts and replies are all geolocated, tied to a specific place in the world. If you access Buzz from your mobile phone, it will use the built in GPS to locate you and geotag any updates you might send from your phone. It also aggregates the Buzzes for a given location, allowing you to see what people are talking about by literally clicking around on a Google Map. This put it firmly in the realm of both geolocated communication services like Foursquare and Gowalla and location-based review services like Yelp. In launching Buzz, Google did several very smart things, and one very, very dumb thing. The smart thing was that they tied it to Gmail, their most popular service next to search, and they used the information they already had about your email habits to pre-populate Buzz with contacts. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:20:31 +0100 821240 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/5QJuqzuW2hI/ Richard Curtis on E-Reads has an interesting post which talks about the potential of e-books to solve a problem that has been known to haunt certain books, particularly ones that are intended to be factual: the dreaded false information that comes to light only after the book has gone to press. In this case, the book is one about the bombing of Hiroshima during World War II, and is based in part on comments from someone who turned out afterward to be lying. The hardcover book has already gone to press, and the author is talking about making revisions for paperback and international editions. As Curtis points out, had the book been released as an e-book, it would be relatively simple to issue a new, corrected version. (Even simpler on the Kindle, where Amazon could seamlessly replace the flawed version with a new one—assuming that didn’t fall under the “things they promised not to do anymore” from the 1984 debacle, of course.) In fact, Baen issues a lot of its books as “electronic Advance Reader Copies,” or “e-ARCs,” months before the printed versions come out. Although the purpose of these e-ARCs is nominally to give rabid fans a sneak-peak at their author’s latest masterpiece, I seem to recall hearing that a lot of early-bird fans point out errors for fixing too. But most publishers don’t put out electronic versions first. The e-version of the Hiroshima book is not even out at all yet. Of course, even if it had been issued as an e-book simultaneously with the print edition, only the electronic version could be fixed. It doesn’t seem likely that e-books are going to replace print books any time soon, so whatever happens those faulty print books would still be around. And I’m going to go out on a limb and wonder whether it would really be a good thing to be able to correct errors electronically right away like that. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:30:00 +0100 820442 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/22/como-promocionar-posts/ Herramientas básicas para promocionar posts: mi post más reciente en Weblog Magazine. Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:15:05 +0100 822234 http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/reading_flash_drupal_free_download_chapter_10_user_management I started to revive urlgreyhot for occasional blogging. I've discovered in the past few months that although I primarily have posts to share on UX, there is still the occasional post that is of topic for Konigi, so I'm now posting again here to discuss working with Drupal once again. I started reading Travis Tidwell's Flash with Drupal book this month to learn what I can about delivering content from Drupal Views into Flash and will post a short summary in a few days. Packt makes the introduction and Chapter 10 on User Management available as a free download for anyone who wants a taste. What I've been most interested in the past are really modest solutions to things, e.g. creating interactive blocks or widgets of content that I can put in a sidebar. But, my skimming of the book has also gotten me interested in how to deliver more complete Flash widgets in larger portions of the page, e.g. creating dynamically rendered visualizations of content using stats from views and ratings. Will be posting more as I make it through. (Source: urlgreyhot blogs) Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:27:39 +0100 821103 http://feistylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/library-with-heart.html Over a year ago, I stopped blogging. I felt like I had nothing to say. Maybe I got my mojo back in July. It happened at ALA in Chicago. Lot's of people go for inspiration and I was with them. There were many meaningful moments and sessions. I made some new friends, contacts and learned so much. One session that I keep coming back to was Michael Stephen's Libraries and the Heart. Shortly after I returned to my community a new door opened so to speak. And now I spend a good amount of time trying to get and keep the heart in our libraries. This is a heart with our digital natives in mind. (Source: Feistylibrarian) Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820892 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/ZB8umS0VHOo/waarheen-nu-zb-digitaal.html In functioneringsgesprekken die in de afgelopen maanden plaatsvonden evalueerde ik met mijn leidinggevenden het jaar 2009 en keken we vooruit naar 2010. We concludeerden al snel dat het niet zo eenvoudig is om alles goed in kaart te brengen. Enerzijds is er een overzichtelijk pakket van structurele taken, anderzijds ben ik ad hoc betrokken bij allerlei projecten rondom de digitale en experimentele bibliotheek. Dat dit zou gaan gebeuren werd een paar jaar geleden al duidelijk maar tot 2009 werd ik vooral ingezet bij bestaande projecten en activiteiten, daarna vooral bij nieuwe. Dat is een logische ontwikkeling als je het Beleidsplan 2009-2013 bekijkt: de digitale bibliotheek is daarin de rode draad, terwijl het aantal formatieplaatsen dat zich geheel op die ontwikkelingen richt beperkt is. Ik beschouw dat laatste als onvermijdelijke gevolg van een organisatie in transformatie. Er wordt hard aan gewerkt maar nog lang niet alle ontwikkelingen zijn echt verankerd in de organisatie. Sommige ontwikkelingen laten zich ook niet goed vangen of verankeren. Dit weblog is zo'n ontwikkeling, maar dan eentje die al meer dan vier jaar geleden in gang werd gezet. Ik denk dat ik een van de eerste medewerkers in bibliotheekland was die structureel '8 uur per week kreeg' om te bloggen. Tijdens de nieuwjaarstoespraak 2010 was de directeur bijzonder lovend over het bereik en de statistieken van ZB Digitaal. Daar spreekt veel waardering uit. Het is ook zo dat de cijfers uit de Blognotitie van de zomer van 2007 er alleen maar beter op zijn geworden, veel beter zelfs, maar ondanks dat, en ondanks de waardering, raakt het blog 'in de vaart der volkeren' toch een beetje in de verdrukking. Het bloggen is gelukkig nog steeds geïntegreerd in mijn werkzaamheden maar het is ook nog steeds zo dat ik het grootste deel ervan thuis doe. 's Avonds, 's ochtends voor het werk, gisteren op mijn vrije dag of zoals nu, in het weekend. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:09:00 +0100 819830 http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/speaking-at-young-writers-seminar-2010.html It's 2.30am as I post this.In about seven hours time, I'll be at The Arts House. Scheduled to speak, with my friend Lucian, at one of the concurrent session titled "The Age Of Blogging - "Why We Write: The Future of Content-Creation".Originally, we were to take 45mins each. But serendipitously, Lucian contacted me via IM Chat about a week ago. Asked if I'd be interested in a combined talk, since our topics had some overlapping points. Sure!It gave us a good excuse to seriously try out the collaborative capabilities of Google Wave, heh.It was fitting that we were collaborating on this. The gist of our talk was on how writing has evolved beyond plain text, how communication has evolved and how that would relate to "writers", writing in the context of creativity and collaboration (here's where I'll talk about Creative Commons), an introduction/ exploration of Transmedia (Lucian's pet topic).And we intend to provoke the audience with this basic question: "Why do you write"?The organisers say 160 participants have signed up; mainly students from polytechnics, junior colleges and the local universities. Up till a few hours ago, Lucian and I were still working and discussing on our presentation, typing away on our laptops, at our own homes, connected over the Internet. We were still debating (amicably) whether collaborative story-writing would work in reality. Lucian felt that "the crafting of an individual story is always best achieved alone" and that "the storyline needs to originate from a single source".I agreed with the part about writing being an essentially solitary process (writing by committee doesn't work, in my experience). But I argued that collaboration could also be about editing, proof-reading, feedback.Also, collaboration doesn't simply mean "only writers collaborate". ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819885 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/7HGEglNkuF8/reality-hunger-david-shields-review Blake Morrison stands up for the continuing relevance of the novelMost readers will know the feeling. You've been through an experience so consuming that you've no room in your head for made-up stories – or the recent choices at your book club have been dire. Either way, novels seem pointless. Why devote precious time to contrived plots and imagined scenarios? Why waste energy on invented characters? Only the real excites you: life writing, memoir, confessional poetry, witness statements from the front line.There's a name for this condition: fiction fatigue. Readers who've experienced it will also know that it usually passes: time heals, the world opens up again and your faith in the novel is restored. David Shields hasn't been cured. He doesn't want to be cured. He thinks of "reality hunger" not as a sickness but as the defining spirit of our age, with its yearning for the music of what happens. His book is a spirited polemic on behalf of non-fiction – a manifesto in 618 soundbites.The book comes laden with praise. Jonathan Lethem, Geoff Dyer, Fred­erick Barthelme, Rick Moody and Jonathan Raban are among the 20-plus authors whose endorsements dominate the cover and end-pages (though intriguingly JM Coetzee's name, prominent on the proof copy, has disappeared). Some of the acclaim comes from writers whose work Shields cites to support his argument. Still, they're right to call Reality Hunger an important book. The fiction vs non-fiction debate has become intense in recent years, and Shields cranks it up a notch.Every artistic movement is a bid to get closer to reality, he argues, and it's in lyric essays, prose poems and collage novels (as well as performance art, stand-up comedy, documentary film, hip-hop, rap and graffiti) that such impetus is to be found today. Key components include randomness, spontaneity, emotional urgency, literalism, rawness and self-reflexivity. A loosely defined genre, then: in fact, a genre committed to genre-busting. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:10:13 +0100 819783 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Parents_in_Florida_object_to_Judy_Blume39s_ldquoForeverrdquo_%AB_Blogging_--- By Blog of the National Coalition Against Censorship. NCAC, with a little help from our friends, sent a letter urging Sugarloaf School in Summerland (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:00:36 +0100 819540 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/19/el-proyecto-e-blogs-de-wikio/ Mi más reciente post en Weblog Magazine: Wikio te invita a convertirte en bloguer europeo. Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:39:22 +0100 820165 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/RtFwt7pBc5A/ In a little more than a week, on March 2nd, I’ll be doing an online webinar for ACRL entitled Wave upon Wave: Navigating the New Communication. The goal is to explore and explain Google Wave, and look at use cases for libraries. Wave lost a lot of luster immediately after the launch, but I still think there’s a ton of promise and potential there. Here’s the learning outcomes that we’ll be trying to get to: Participants in this webcast will come away with an understanding of the basic functionality of Google Wave. As well, they should be able to envision multiple communicative uses for Wave within their library, including both internal and external communications. We’ll probably also talk a bit about Buzz, and the ways in which the various Google properties relate to one another. I hope to see you there!Similar Posts: Google Wave and Igor Catching the Wave 5 Weeks Google Voice Mobile Browser edition Structured Blogging (Source: Pattern Recognition) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:42:39 +0100 821051 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/18/new-post-worldcat-org-for-genealogists/ From the Blog Post: Editor’s note [Alice Sneary]: this is a special guest post in a new occasional series to highlight how WorldCat.org helps specialized searchers find what they’re looking for. Taneya Koonce is both a librarian and a genealogy researcher, making her an especially interesting guest blogger. If YOU’RE interested in submitting a guest post about specific searchers for the WorldCat blog, please leave a comment and we will follow up with you. Taneya writes: As an information professional who pursues genealogy as a hobby, I am always interested in utilizing and sharing resources more likely to be known to professionals in my field. During the past few weeks, I’ve been delighted by one of the popular genealogy-blogging themes, 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy where each of the prompts so far this year have been designed to encourage genealogists to further explore and use their library resources; in fact, the series creator is a librarian herself . Week 5 of the series has particular emphasis here because the goal was to encourage hundreds of genea-bloggers to explore WorldCat.org and I’m a huge personal fan of WorldCat. Access the Complete Blog Post Source: WorldCat Blog (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:34:08 +0100 819397 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/18/blogue-en-direct-a-la-conference-droit-civil-et-technologie/ À compter de cet après-midi, François Senécal assurera la couverture d’une conférence organisée par Vincent Gautrais qui risque d’être fort intéressante: Droit Civil et Technologie. Vous pourrez le suivre sur le blogue de Ledjit: n’hésitez pas à entamer la discussion! Voici l’agenda dont tant les sujets que les panelistes font rêver! Mot de bienvenue - Karim BENYEKHLEF - Directeur CRDP – Faculté de droit – UDM (site internet) et Vincent GAUTRAIS - Professeur – CRDP – Faculté de droit – UDM (site internet) PANEL 1 – Vie privée + technologies (LIVRE 1 – TITRE 2 – CHAPITRE 3) jeudi 18 février 2010 PM - 13h30 – 15h PRÉSIDENT : Jean-Louis BAUDOUIN - ancien juge à la Cour d’appel – avocat associé Fasken Martineau (site internet) Éloise GRATTON - Avocate-conseil droit des ti – McMillan (site internet) article 2 LPRPSP – Notion de renseignement personnel Vincent GAUTRAIS - Professeur – CRDP – Faculté de droit – UDM (site internet) article 4 LPRPSP – Notion de collecte et web 2.0 Raymond DORAY - Avocat associé – Lavery (site internet) article 13 LPRPSP – Notion de consentement en ligne Pause santé – 15h – 15h30 PANEL 2 – Propriété + technologies (LIVRE 4 – TITRE 2) jeudi 18 février 2010 PM - 15h30 – 17h00 PRÉSIDENT : Stefan MARTIN - Avocat associé – Fraser Milner Casgrain (site internet) Valérie-Laure BENABOU - Professeure – Faculté de droit – Versailles-Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (site internet) article 947 C.c.Q. – Droit d’auteur : propriété ou droit d’usage Stéphane GILKER - Avocat associé – Fasken Martineau (site internet) article 947 C.c.Q. – Notion de biens virtuels Pierre-Emmanuel MOYSE - Professeur – Faculté de droit – McGill (site internet) article 971 C.c.Q. ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:17:38 +0100 820291 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/02/18/zemanta/ Image via CrunchBase   Zemanta is a handy blogging tool that really helps you create links, find images and link to related articles in a fast and user-friendly way.  Simply install the plugin on your browser, and it interfaces in your blog.  It added itself to my Windows Live Writer with no trouble and to Drupal as well. Zemanta watches what you are typing in your blog post and offers a menu on the side that has links and images.  You don’t link blind, you can also click to see what the link contains, what article it is linking to too.  It is very slick but still allows you to really know what you are connecting your content to.  Beautifully simple and exceedingly inviting and easy to use, you really have to try this out if you blog.  I don’t have many blogging tools that I use, but this is one that I really recommend.  I will link to a couple of articles on Zemanta below so you can see how that looks.  It’s entirely built by the service as is the image above along with its attribution statement.  See, you know you want this!  Related articles by Zemanta Zemanta Gets an Update (415vince.com) Zemanta is coming of age (onlineobservations.net) Blogging is fun again with Zemanta and Apture! (72suited.com) Enrich Your Blog Posts with Zemanta (blogtipz.com) (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821017 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/a8MOXPBPwrA/gbs2-reback-on-why-the-technology-sector-should-care-about-google-books.html The GBS2 Fairness Hearing is set for today. No live blogging expected because of court restrictions but watch The Laboratorium for James Grimmelmann's comments this evening. Until then, here is the Open Book Alliance's Gary Reback TechCrunch post entitled Why... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819596 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/17/february-17th-stream.html Posted m3mo: Indiddily-do! RT @aarontay Event registration with GoogleDocs and Calendar http://bit.ly/bUaS1a via @nengard Cool!. Posted aarontay: someone should really create a blog post listing all the cool ideas to use qrcode, i can easily list a dozen. #hhlib2. @aarontay I’ll create a community to discuss QR Codes on ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org) if you’ll do that post there [shifted] @aarontay of course I know! we still hope you’ll join #alaconnect. I created a community for QR Codes at http://connect.ala.org/qrcodes [shifted] Posted leahlibrarian: Awesome beyond description: http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2010/02/Stephen-Colbert-Olympic-Poster.jpg #colbertrocksmyworld. Posted ericrumsey: 40 percent in US have No Broadband — INFRASTRUCTURE! (CNET via @zbriceno) — http://bit.ly/b7bclF. Posted oodja: RT @annehaines: LOL!!! RT @joshuamneff: QR codes for expanded info on gravestones. Call it “Second Death.” #hhlib2. Posted tadawes: 10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Implement Next Week: http://bit.ly/bYzDiy. I’d go back to blogging every day if I could post directly from my brain #technologyfail [shifted] Shared 2 photos. @davidleeking I thought about video but it’s too difficult to refer back to previous snippets, search, etc. I need thought-to-text software. [shifted] @freegovinfo @nicole_stroud I don’t think it does but maybe we can make it. email me & we’ll see what we can do (jlevine [at] ala.org) [shifted] Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:40:22 +0100 819411 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/17/los-blogs-estan-vivitos-y-coleando/ Un reciente estudio confirma la buena salud de los blogs, mi más reciente post en Weblog Magazine. Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:15:17 +0100 820167 http://csbsjulibrary.blogspot.com/2010/02/social-media-and-young-adults.html "Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group, as does social network use. Teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers, though high school-aged girls show the greatest enthusiasm for the application." Read the complete report or summary of the findings. -sg (Source: CSBSJU Library Blog) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819001 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/02/looking-forward-to-the-techset/ Wikis for Libraries Hi everyone! I’m excited to let you know that my book, Wikis for Libraries is due out next month! It’s part of a great collection of books, The Tech Set, edited by Ellyssa Kroski and published by Neal-Schuman (as a joint project with LITA). This book is for those who have been thinking about implementing a wiki, but haven’t taken the plunge yet. It’s also for those who have, but didn’t find the results they were hoping for. The book covers wikis you can sign up for on the web, and those you host yourself. We’ll talk about a number of different problems that wikis can solve, and walk through the steps to make sure your wiki is a successful one. It’s been an especially fun project to work on; I’ve been using wikis to solve problems for the past five or six years, and gave my first presentation on them in 2006. The world of wikis looks very different today from those early days, and it’s nice to be able to pull together the most recent thinking on wikis into one concise guide. I’m looking forward to the whole series. Check out the interesting titles and great authors! There’s something on the list for everyone: Next Gen Library Catalogs by Marshall Breeding Mobile Technology and Libraries by Jason Griffey Microblogging and Lifestreaming in Libraries by Robin Hastings Library Videos and Webcasts by Sean Robinson Wikis for Libraries by Lauren Pressley Technology Training in Libraries by Sarah Houghton-Jan A Social Networking Primer for Libraries by Cliff Landis Library Camps and Unconferences by Steve Lawson Gaming in Libraries by Kelly Czarnecki Effective Blogging for Libraries, by Connie Crosby And as you might guess (and hope for), there’s also a corresponding wiki with additional information and updates. Anyway, I was excited about the project, and wanted to make sure you knew about it, too. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:31:49 +0100 818932 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/yphXmbxbQFY/ I donlt often do posts where I just link to or re-present content that appears elsewhere on the web, but I’m going to make an exceptiopn in this case, with a an extended preview to a link on Martin Hawksey’s MASHe blog… Somewhen last year, I started to explore how we might use a Twitter backchannel as a way of capturing subtitle like commentary for recordings of live presentations (e.g. Twitter Powered Subtitles for Conference Audio/Videos on Youtube, Twitter Powered Youtube Subtitles, Reprise: Anytime Commenting, Easier Twitter Powered Subtitles for Youtube Movies). Further progress toward freestanding subtitles stalled for want of a SMIL like player that could replay timestamped text files. Anyway, whilst I was watching Virtual Revolution over the weekend (and pondering the question of Broadcast Support – Thinking About Virtual Revolution) I started thinking again about replaying twitter streams alongside BBC iPlayer content, and wondering whether this could form part of a content enrichment strategy for OU/BBC co-productions. I had a little more luck finding text replayers this time, for example here: Accessible HTML5 Video with JavaScripted captions and here: smiltext-javascript (I found that “timed text” is a handy search phrase), but no time to explore further… …and then this: which leads to a how to post on Twitter powered subtitles for BBC iPlayer in which Martin “come[s] up with a way to allow a user to replay a downloaded iPlayer episode subtitling it with the tweets made during the original broadcast.” This builds on my Twitter powered subtitling pattern to create a captions file for downloaded iPlayer content using the W3C Timed Text Authoring Format. A video on the Martin’s post shows the twitter subtitles overlaying the iPlayer content in action. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:18:13 +0100 820019 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/WT8oylZ7yVY/ If you would remember, last week I posted a blog entry around the topic of "Finding Experts in Your Company … Through Micro-Sharing" where I mentioned how perhaps one of the most powerful expertise location tools available out there within the corporate world would probably be Enterprise Micro-sharing/-blogging. But what happens when you are on the road, when you are constantly travelling away from your office into customer sites, or when you are stuck in an airport, for instance, and you are just looking for that expert that you know is out there and who may be the right person to help out? What happens then? Well, that’s when Collaboration In Your Pocket Is Here! Yes, that’s right! As more and more mobile devices, mainly smartphones, are starting to look with much more detail into the mobile Enterprise 2.0 world, we are beginning to see how plenty of our favourite social software tools for business are making it through and rather successfully. So eventually finding an expert, while you are on the road, or working remotely, is probably no longer the big issue it used to be. Check out the recent blog post that my good friend, Dennis McDonald put together on this very same subject and which I have referenced above already under Collaboration In Your Pocket Is Here! In that article Dennis states very clearly what are some of the biggest challenges that Mobile 2.0 has got ahead, if it would want to make it through successfully. To quote: "[...] We see in the demo nothing but the basic elements of enterprise expertise management — access to individuals and groups and the ability to locate and obtain access to needed expertise. These functions incorporate the essence of expertise management that I wrote about here and here back in 2006. Now, though, the tools and functionality have become more accessible, more streamlined, more user friendly, and much more mobile. ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:28:01 +0100 819120 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/TlljuVkWcMk/ Watching the OU/BBC co-produced Virtual Revolution programme over the weekend, with Twitter backchannel enabled around the #bbcrevolution hashtag, I started mulling over the support we give to OU/BBC co-produced broadcast material. Although I went to one of the early planning meetings for the series, where I suggested OU academics participate with elevated rights and credentials on the discussion boards as well as blogging commentary and responses to the production team’s work in progress, I ended up not contributing at all because I took time out for the Arcadia Fellowship; (although I have a scattergun approach to topics I cover, I tend to cover them obsessively – and so didn’t want to risk spending the Arcadia time chasing Virtual Revolution leads!) Anyway, as I watched the broadcast on Saturday, I started wondering about ‘live annotation’ or enrichment of the material as it was broadcast via the backchannel. Although I hadn’t seen a preview of the programme, I have mulled over quite a few of the topics covered by the programme in previous times, so it was easy enough to drop resources in to the twitter feed. So for example, I tweeted a video link to Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, explaining how Google ad auctions work, a tweet that was picked up by one of the production team who was annotating the programme with tweets in real time: I’ve also written a few posts about privacy on this blog (e.g. Why Private Browsing Isn’t… and serendipitously earlier that day Just Because You Don’t Give Your Personal Data to Google Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Acquire It) so I shamelessly plugged those as well. And when mention was made about the AOL release of (anonymised) search data, I dropped in to a post I’d written about that affair at the time, which included links to the original news stories about it (When Your Past Comes to Haunt You). ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:23:30 +0100 820021 http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-with-integrity.html By displaying the Blog with Integrity badge or signing the pledge, I assert that the trust of my readers and the blogging community is important to me.I treat others respectfully, attacking ideas and not people. I also welcome respectful disagreement with my own ideas.I believe in intellectual property rights, providing links, citing sources, and crediting inspiration where appropriate.I disclose (Source: School Librarian in Action) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819907 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/tight-pants-and-funny-hair.html That's what football looks like to me, a non-fan. So I was happy to read in the WSJ a few weeks ago that in a 3 hour football broadcast there is just 11 minutes 43 seconds of the ball in play and 67 minutes of standing around. No wonder I can't get interested and always go back to reading or blogging. (Source: Collecting my Thoughts) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 818680 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/bCX-yFUBsAc/west-on-filling-in-gaps-in-westlawnexts-rollout-marketing-and-sales-information-blogging-in-reaction.html Anne Ellis distributed the below "Dear Colleagues" message on AALL listservs this morning. It indicates that the folks in the land of 10,000 invoices are closely following bloggers and listservs to identify "gaps" in the WestlawNext discussion. By gaps is... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819610 http://www.precisement.org/blog/Ca-caquette-juridique-sec.html Ca caquette :-) juridique de plus en plus sur Twitter. Est ce vraiment utile ? Commençons par LA question : à quoi ça sert / est ce utile ? Pour vous répondre en 30 secondes, lisez donc un de mes anciens billets, avec sa mise à jour, surtout : Twitter — Encore un machin pour caqueter. L'idée est donc : une plateforme de micro-blogging, autrement dit des messages instantanés très brefs (140 signes maximum, espaces compris), avec un système d'abonnement, donc une veille (...) (Source: Un blog pour l’information juridique) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819175 http://lisnews.org/audio/download/35950/LISTen-106.mp3 This week's episode brings an extended miscellany where we track down some potential trends that seem to be developing. The essay poses the concept of a print supplement to LISNews and seeks input. Related links: Full text of the essay read out by the engineer Severe Storm versus Anthropogenic Global Warming hearings Andy Woodworth on this technological life Lance Whitney on broadband speed FCC on broadband penetration Gerald Warner on Internet usage licensing European/International Computer Driver License ZDNet on Google being ejected from the Linux kernel A Linux kernel developer as to why Android-related code is being excised Zonker Brockmeier's GNU Screen tutorial Felicia Day versus Google Buzz OpenOffice.org Review Discussing Microsoft Office 2007 compatability OpenOffice.org as if it were Hasselhoff Blogging is not cool anymore to teens (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:22:32 +0100 818382 http://yoyotxt.blogspot.com/2010/02/restaurant-review-brewburger.html Last night I took my family to Brewburger for the first time. We go to church right around the corner, so we knew about it, but hadn't been yet. We had a marvelous experience.The party was my wife and I, our three kids, and my in-laws visiting from out of town. My middle son has celiac disease, so it was important that there be no wheat in his meal. The server was a little harried, as we were part of a dinner rush, but she was friendly and prompt. Our food was served on time. Orders were correct. While fries were cooking for my father-in-law, she brought him some extra sweet potato fries to tide him over. She also brought out an extra basket of fries for the kids to share.The food itself was excellent. Portions were just right, and the options were diverse without being overwhelming. I had a Brewburger, but my mother-in-law had a fishburger, and I definitely want to come back and give it a try! Sides were great as well.I want to especially compliment the owners on the atmosphere. It seems that every restaurant now has a TV for every four or five tables. It was refreshing to go out and not have that distraction. Please, don't put any in! I also appreciated the coloring books, cards, and other things available to keep the kids occupied. I loved the art on the walls, particularly Lydia's drawings. She and I seem to have a similar aesthetic. :-)The only thing that surprised me was that there were no local beers available. I would have liked to have a Choc or a Marshall with my burger. I understand that Oklahoma's ridiculous liquor laws can make this difficult, but if your brand is being one of the "small fries", you should make as much effort to support other local businesses as much as you can.Interestingly, the Brewburger website lists Choc as one of their draught beers. Wonder why there wasn't any on tap last night? (Source: Txt-based Blogging) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819739 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/Vjt1XNxwFJI/ There is no doubt that one of the big challenges in the corporate world that every single business faces more often than not is the ability to find experts successfully in a timely manner. It’s probably, next to finding information, the number one challenge that every single knowledge worker faces on their day to day workload routines. I’m sure that every company out there has been trying, over and over again, to come up with successful solutions that would help tackle such problem over the course of decades. So as part of those solutions which role do you think social software tools play in helping out solving such issue(s)? Do you think they would help make things easier for us? Make things worse perhaps…? My good friend, the always insightful and forward-thinking, Gil Yehuda has put together a very comprehensive blog post where he is actually coming up with what could be a really worth while trying effort on tackling this problem of finding experts (I agree with him that using a locked out database won’t be very helpful…). He actually uses the example of Web 2.0 consumer offering Aardvark, that allows people to ask questions, wherever they may well be, to experts in multiple various ways, at the same time that the experts have got plenty of choices on how they would want to respond back. A very interesting and fascinating method for Q&A, which I would agree with could also work very well in an Enterprise environment. Have a look and read it through over at Finding Experts in Your Company and you will see how Gil’s approach is not so crazy, after all, of moving the working principles from a consumer related social software offering into the corporate world and making it work rather successfully. Here, at IBM, like in many other businesses, we also have this challenge of finding experts, specially when you come to think the IBM entire population (Including contractors) is up to 500k people. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:35:35 +0100 818320 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/02/12/weeklings-books-are-elitist-blogs-are-for-old-people-and-kirkus-has-a-new-owner/ I finally made time to read Jonathan Mahler’s profile of James Patterson (”James Patterson Inc.” New York Times) — since it was published, two weeks ago, Patterson has already written three more books and signed a contract to publish 38 more. I kid, I kid. But, certainly, this profile of the prolific Patterson’s powerful publishing apparatus could probably have run in the business section. (It reminds me of Eric Konigsberg’s profile of Harlan Coben, “Paperback Writer,” in the Atlantic a few years back.) My favorite quote from the “critic-proof” author was his jibe at another bestseller (“I’m sorry my good friend Stephen King couldn’t be here,” he began. “It must be bingo night in Bangor.”) — but my favorite quote overall came from Larry Kirshbaum, former C.E.O. of the Time Warner Book Group: “Jim was sensitive to the fact that books carry a kind of elitist persona, and he wanted his books to be enticing to people who might not have done so well in school and were inclined to look at books as a headache,” Kirshbaum says. “He wanted his jackets to say, ‘Buy me, read me, have fun — this isn’t “Moby Dick.” ’ ” Meanwhile, on the Daily Beast, William Boot asks and answers the question, “Do I have to read James Patterson?” (Answer: no.) Cross’s own arid interior monologue, which feels like an editor’s notes accidentally inserted into the text: “What was this about, and how had it led to the death of Caroline Cross? Where else would it lead?” In other news, a new study report that blogging is for old people (”Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so,” by Martha Irvine, AP). “It’s a matter of typing quickly. People these days don’t find reading that fun,” the 18-year-old student says. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:00:03 +0100 818057 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/MzO0QWBkgQE/new-york-state-librarian-update-8.html FYI: UPDATE 8 Please feel free to pass along this update to colleagues, friends, and anyone you think would benefit from reading about library matters in New York State. If you want to receive the State Librarian's Updates directly, send your email address to ppaolucc@mail.nysed.gov. This update and past updates are posted on the New York State Library's website at: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/library/about/statelibrarian.htm. State Aid for Libraries: For the fifth time in two years, another cut has been proposed for the 25 state aid to libraries programs in the state budget. The Executive Budget Proposal, which includes an additional 2.8% cut, is now one of the many items being discussed in the legislature as the deliberative process works towards the April 1st deadline for the new budget and the start of the new fiscal year. This additional cut, if it comes to fruition, means that State Aid for Libraries would be $18 million or 18% less than it was in 2007-2008. In context, it should be noted that state aid to schools is proposed for a 5% cut in funding after multiple years of funding increases. Funding for many other programs is left untouched. I have been persistent in telling all who will listen that these cuts, if enacted, will result in layoffs, branch closures and reductions in services and service hours. The cuts to public and school library systems and reference and research library resources systems will mean less for databases and materials, reduced interlibrary loan and delivery, challenged technology services, and less support for specialized services for youth, seniors, speakers of English as a second language, the blind and disabled, the unemployed and the incarcerated. If any of these impacts are being considered by your libraries or systems, pick up the phone today and call a legislator to convey your story. Legislators will be making choices. Your information will help them make wise choices. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:02:00 +0100 817731 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/11/mis-entradas-en-weblog-magazine-agosto-y-septiembre-09/ Los posts de Weblog Magazine recopilados mes a mes. Puedes leerlos también en la página del autor. Agosto Historia de los premios en la blogosfera hispana (11/8/09) SEO, ese oscuro objeto de deseo (14/08/09) Google Reader y sus nuevas funciones sociales (18/8/09) Tumblr se integra con Facebook e implementa ‘hashtags’ (19/8/09) La guerra Facebook-Twitter: primeras imágenes de Facebook Lite (19/8/09) Un repaso al podcasting, de la mano de Podcasts SL (21/8/09) WordPress renueva su portada (24/8/09) Cómo bloguear desde Facebook (25/8/09) 31 de Agosto: Fiesta en la Blogosfera (27/8/09) La importancia de elegir una buena plantilla para tu blog (30/8/09) Septiembre Fox promociona Fringe con Twiter (1//9/09) Blogging para impacientes (3/9/09) La guía definitiva para entender Twitter (8/9/09) Videoblogging en directo: Qik (10/9/09) Facebook implementa las menciones con “@” (14/9/09) De cómo la Blogosfera perdió su “inocencia” (18/9/09) Blogosfera temática: blogs sociales (22/9/09) 10 errores a evitar en tu blog (25/9/09) Adentrándonos en las Redes de Blogs (29/9/09) Lily Allen se hace granjera (30/9/09) Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:44:28 +0100 818160 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/10/twitter-y-la-television-se-alian/ Algunos ejemplos de simbiosis entre Twitter y Televisión sirven como preámbulo para una reflexión en nuestro más reciente post de Weblog Magazine, Twitter llega a la Televisión: ¿qué puede aportar una plataforma de microblogging a la TV?. Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:15:21 +0100 818163 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html#221580598231409396 But shit like this keeps coming up. I found these Fleur de Ham steaks at Rouses after the Lombardi Gras parade last night. I don't know why I didn't buy them. I'm sure they must be the most delicious cut of meat ever devised by man.The Saints parade was nuts. Crowd was like three Endymions deep. Coach Soupy was.. um... hamming it up big time with the trophy atop the Smokey Mary float. I caught some beads from Gumbo. I saw Thomas Morstead riding in the giant Muses shoe. This is all the stuff of fever dreams brought to life. I got a few pics but haven't uploaded them all yet. Here's a shot of the crowd I took with my phone.More later. (Source: Library Chronicles) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 818169 http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-book-is-overdue-how-librarians-and.html This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, by Marilyn Johnson (Harper 2010) 272 pp. $24.99. The Boston Globe includes a very nice book review of this book today, which brought it to my attention. If you follow the link to Amazon, you can see that the cover features a superhero librarian, which is always a nice change. According to the Globe reviewer, Judy Bolton-Fasman, the author of the book Marilyn Johnson, was inspired by an obituary of non-librarian library hero Henriette Avram. Mrs. Avram was the developer of the MARC record, and was blogged about here by my co-blogger, Marie Newman. Avram's development of the computer-readable code that translated millions of card catalogs into OPACs transformed librarianship in many ways. And that is part of this new book. The review is delightful and inspiring, and makes me want to get this book. There is more than I quote here, so you will want to follow the link back and read the whole thing, but I snipped the most delectable parts: Among information professionals, Johnson notes there are librarians and archivists: “Librarians were finders [of information]. Archivists were keepers.’’ But the information revolution is affecting both. She affectionately portrays archivists as magicians that deftly distinguish between detritus and artifact, capturing history before it disappears because of a broken link or outdated software. For Johnson, archivists are the unsung heroes of the library, cataloging idiosyncratic, often paper-based collections. The digital age is making possible the creation of searchable databases of archives, but it’s also making information, especially on the Internet, more ephemeral and harder to collect.On the art of cataloging Johnson reflects, “Who knows how many people are invisible because their stories don’t fit into our categories?’’ Here is an area in which the digital revolution offers help. ... Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817178 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/09/book-review-in-the-digital-age-librarians-are-pioneers/ On Sunday, we linked to an interview of Marilyn Johnson, author of This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. An audiobook and Kindle edition are also available. Today, the book is reviewed in the Boston Globe by Judy Bolton-Fasman. Here are two paragraphs from the review: Among information professionals, Johnson notes there are librarians and archivists: “Librarians were finders [of information]. Archivists were keepers.’’ But the information revolution is affecting both. She affectionately portrays archivists as magicians that deftly distinguish between detritus and artifact, capturing history before it disappears because of a broken link or outdated software. For Johnson, archivists are the unsung heroes of the library, cataloging idiosyncratic, often paper-based collections. The digital age is making possible the creation of searchable databases of archives, but it’s also making information, especially on the Internet, more ephemeral and harder to collect. On the art of cataloging Johnson reflects, “Who knows how many people are invisible because their stories don’t fit into our categories?’’ Here is an area in which the digital revolution offers help. Some of the invisible are brought to our attention by a group of sharp, blogging librarians who are not the stereotypical shushing, cardigan-wearing guardians of the reference room. Johnson introduces these ultramodern librarians as “open, casual, approachable, dedicated to demystifying technology and networked to the eyeballs . . . the public face of the twenty-first century librarian.’’ Source: Boston Globe (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:21:59 +0100 816770 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/jT8LVh0EdHc/ After two years, I think that’s probably the first, and last time!, you will see me writing that particular sentence as part of the title of a blog post: "Email Is Dead [...]" or its overall content, for that matter. I know there are some people out there who have been following for a while this initiative of living "A World Without Email" and all along it has looked like as if they would want me to see email go and die a painful death. Well, quite the opposite, I must admit. I have never said that email will die or cease to exist. On the contrary, I think it will be there for many many more moons to come. What I have been postulating all along though is a re-birth of email as a messaging / notification system vs. a content repository of various sorts. And here is the final report for Year 2 of having given up on corporate email. As you may be able to see from the attached weekly progress report, it seems that things have been looking good as well for week #52 with just 19 emails received for that week, thus still right on target for that follow up challenge of 20 emails, or less, received per week that I set at the beginning of the second year: But I guess it’s now a good time to share a couple of thoughts in the shape of a final report on what that second year has been like up to this point and share across as well some statistics that I am sure most of you would find interesting and relevant. The first year of "Thinking Outside the Inbox" I received a total number of 1,647 emails, which is an average of 32 emails per week, with a high peak of 60 emails received in a single week and with the lowest peak being at 3 emails for one week as well. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:24:13 +0100 817018 http://stephenslighthouse.com/?p=3091 I have to agree with Asi Sharabi at No Man’s Blog: “Please can we stop killing things? Over the last few years we’ve been all guilty of new-technologies sensationalism. Our response to the overwhelming pace of change made us believe that emerging platforms and technologies will categorically and dramatically kill everything that was before them. Search for “TV is Dead” on google and you’ll get over 2million(!) results. But is it? really? (That clever dude who wrote a book on the death of TV advertising also founded a new agency that specialises in marketing in Second Life. No, really!) What else have we had? Twitter is killing blogging! Widgets will kill the homepage! Second Life is killing Real Life! Digital is killing advertising! Yahoo pipes will kill the browser! Google is killing Microsoft! iGoogle is killing Newspapers! Gaming is killing the cinema! Books are a thing of the past! Google Wave will kill Facebook! Facebook is killing email! Twitter is killing Facebook! And now, the most recent hyperbole, straight from Twitter’s (AKA The Pulse) oven, I give you…. Streams are killing the web page. Guess what. it turns out that when human evolve and construct culture(s) they have some time-attention-alchemist-like qualities whereby old things are not being replaced with new stuff, they add to them. Sometimes they compete and sometime co-habit and complementary and together they evolve and we evolve. Honestly, we’re like every good parents – when we have a new baby we don’t stop loving the older one, we find time and make room in our hearts for both…;-) True, there are some casualties (DVD did kill the VHS) and natural selection (e.g. closure of few magazines and channels), some people make less money, some people make loads new money. Things do expand and contract, evolve and change but reality is more complex and is no where near the new-technologies massacres we read about every day. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:09:00 +0100 816901 http://circandserve.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/when-life-changes-hurt/ I’ve not been posting a lot lately because life has trumped blogging more than usual.  My grandmother (Nannie) passed away last Tuesday night.  It was the end of a long 6 months of rapidly declining mental and physical health.  The truth is, my Nannie mostly left us this past summer.  Her mental state was quickly deteriorating along with her physical health.  Regardless of whether she was having a “good” or “bad” day, she never forgot who I was and always smiled when she saw me.  I was fortunate that even though I live almost 600 miles away from my family, I was able to see Nannie several times before she passed and while she was in relatively good health. My Nannie was the center of our family.  She leaves behind two daughters, two son-in-laws, four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.  She loved all of us very much and went out of her way to make everyone feel like they were a part of our family.  She was everything a grandparent should be and I am truly blessed to have had her in my life. I had the honor and painful task of giving the eulogy at her funeral Thursday night.  I’d like to share it: I feel very out-of-place as I am usually better prepared when I stand in front of a group of people to talk, but I was thinking about what I wanted to say and kept getting stuck, and then I would cry and ended up with nothing written.  In my thinking I always came back to the same thought:  Nannie taught me how to drive.  Nannie taught me how to drive because no one else would get in the car with me.  So for three years she let me drive to and from school every morning.  It’s funny because I didn’t even get my license until I was 21, but she still taught me.  What I don’t think anyone knows since I know I didn’t tell anyone, and I’m pretty sure she didn’t either; is that I almost got into my first car accident with her. ... Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:21:25 +0100 816523 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/-5lB76kJS2c/ WebWorkerDaily has got a very interesting and thought-provoking blog post where they are actually questioning the worthiness of having comments turned on in a blog, whether for personal or business use, given the recent happenings of very popular blogs finally deciding to turn comments off for now. That WebWorkerDaily article surely is a good read providing lots of insightful thoughts on what are some of the pros and cons of such a bold move. Well, here’s my take: keep them! Turn comments on. They are worth it. And here is why. As most of you folks know already, I have been blogging for nearly five years externally, and for seven years internally, and even today I still think comments on blog posts are essential to the overall experience of blogging. I have always been thinking that a blog without comments is just another Web site. There is no interaction. No dialogue. No conversation. No reaction. No nothing. You just basically consume the content… and move on. Just like you would do with a regular (1.0) Web site. However, think for a minute, the kind of impact you would be provoking if you open up for comments in your blog. You are opening your front door for other knowledge workers interested about what you may have got to say to share their ¢2 with you. To help improve the original ideas through conversation, through open dialogue, through constructive feedback; with as little barriers of engagement as possible. Yet, the outcome being tremendously much more powerful, since a good bunch of those comments are bound to improve the original blog entry. ... Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:42:31 +0100 816514 http://lisnews.org/library_columnist_will_manley_launches_blog Hi guys...it's Will Manley here. I've had a blog at www.willmanley.com going for about 3 weeks. I would appreciate it if you could mention it. I'm a retired librarian and I write a column for American Libraries (Will's World) and Booklist (The Manley Arts). You can find an announcement of my blog at American Libraries . Thanks for your consideration. Will (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:12:32 +0100 816420 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/F0atozfIW5w/ I am blown away by the responses to the articles Chris Meadows and I posted over the past week. I am dismayed that in some reader’s minds, I came off as anti-author—if that were do, I would be downloading off the darknet right now instead of blogging to you—but I am delighted that the issues which have left me, and many other loyal ebook buyers, so frustrated are finally getting notice. Readers like me want to buy books and support authors. But we want to be treated like more than a nuisance or afterthought too. We deserve books which look nice and are free from errors. We deserve to pay a fair price—not overly high, but not overly low either (most of the objection to the MacMillan price raise was a distrust that they would actually lower it later, when the book aged—they have not done this in the past and mass-market $6 paperbacks still are retailing in ebook for $10 and up!) We deserve books which are not so crippled by DRM that we can’t read them on the device of our choosing (and yes, we deserve to be trusted that we won’t abuse this freedom—treat us like book-buying fans and not potential criminals who must be thwarted at every turn!) We deserve to simply have the chance to BUY the books and not have them made unavailable due to the vendor we shop at or the country in which we reside. Here is my call to arms, for readers and authors alike—let’s move into action now. We all know that the issues are, and they are just as bad for authors, who let’s face it could use the extra business, as they are for the customers, who are walking away with fewer purchases and bad experiences. We need to move beyond ‘the author camp’ and the ‘reader camp’ and into a ‘mutual problem solving camp’ where we can begin to resolve these issues. ... Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:51:42 +0100 816243 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/02/08/20-tumblers-para-iniciarse-en-tumblr/ No es un ranking. Ni son todos los que están, ni están todos los que son. Para una posible segunda ronda, deja tu tumblelog en los comentarios. Ahora, si estás empezando en Tumblr y quieres conocer lo que publican algunos de los usuarios: 20 usuarios de Tumblr para iniciarse. La lista de Twitter con los 20 tumblers del post: Veinte tumblers. Si votas este post en Bitacoras.com, otros podrán descubrirlo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:15:42 +0100 818165 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=1993 Jaron Lanier has a new book, You Are Not a Gadget (NY Times review), which I have to add to my reading list and bump up a few notches. There is an excerpt from it in the February issue of Harper’s: “The Serfdom of Crowds.” He’s writing along the lines of some of what I have been blogging about here, but from the perspective of an early tech industry insider. Also, he is an amazingly writerly writer for someone with his background… (Source: Library Juice) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:59:48 +0100 817457 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/06/windows-7-law-firms-and-truth-in-blogging/ Two weeks ago, while watching the NFL playoffs, I upgraded the OS on my home laptop (a Lenovo T60p) to Windows 7 Professional from Vista Business.  The upgrade went quickly, smoothly, and without a hitch.  I haven’t had a problem since. The screen image from the instructional video – which I have yet to need – was captured with the Windows 7 native  screen capture tool, called the “Snipping Tool”.  It’s very easy to use. When will I recommend that move at the office, where all of our machines run on Windows XP? Where the common core of all of our Microsfot software does not yet include any flavour of Office 2007 software? Not tomorrow, anyway, but that’s  nothing more than a current “don’t fix what ain’t broke” premise when there’s, as yet, no need to begin.  In that vein, the two new laptops I ordered both have Win XP installed and the word processing software will be the Office 2003 suite. Bear in mind that we do not have internal IT support – other than yours truly who’d prefer not to. Even assuming one’s (computer) hardware is sufficient to run the Win 7 OS effectively, one of the current “inconveniences” in moving from Win XP to Win 7 is that it requires what is called a “clean install”. You can’t just install Win 7 over Win XP, with the installation process saving all of your existing settings. The installation process essentially wipes out what you had so that you will have to reinstall everything: applications and data. That issue may well be the killer for many firms (law and otherwise) who do not have to upgrade, immediately, on a firm wide basis. This link is to an ABA Journal article that discusses some of the issues involved in the decision to upgrade. ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:56:51 +0100 816134 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/4Avtu4rEOeM/ Over the last few days, the angry Amazon/Macmillan rhetoric has been flying fast and furious from several positions. Recently, we posted an impassioned piece by Ficbot with the attention-grabbing headline, “Maybe we should be hurting the authors,” which was linked in a post on author Tobias Buckell’s blog and has brought us a great deal of traffic today (not to mention the liveliest comment thread we’ve seen in some time). There seems to be a perceptual disconnect, or maybe several perceptual disconnects, between the authors/publishers on one side and the e-book readers on the other. There are many voices on both sides, both reasonable and less so—and to each side, the loudest voices on the other side become that other side’s entire argument. And so we have on one side e-book fans absolutely convinced that publishers and authors unjustly hate them (or worse, don’t care at all). And on the other, there are writers who plaintively wonder, “How did the American public get hoodwinked into believing that the suppliers are the bullies rather than the retailers?”—and some who actively belittle the e-book fans. It’s the kind of misunderstanding that makes it so, so seductive to write a response, because “someone is wrong on the Internet” and you’re just sure that if you make that one more post, say that one more thing, you’ll get through to them somehow. You know beyond any doubt that you’re right, and you’re sure they’d agree too except they’re just misunderstanding you, and you have to make them understand. I’m halfway afraid that this post is going to be just another iteration of that. But all the same, but I’m going to try to unpack some of the issues on the readers’ side and explain why this issue is so incendiary for long-time e-book fans. ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:59:50 +0100 815744 http://redhairedlibrarian.com/2010/02/05/returning/ It’s been a long time since I last posted. I’ve been off earning my PhD in Library Science. Some people might be able to continue blogging while earning a PhD, but I’m not that energetic! I focused on school libraries and youth services in my research and classwork. This blog will focus on issues of library services to youth and the underserved. I’ll also look at technology and new media in connection with how it shapes library work with and by youth. This semester, I’m teaching Youth Services and Internet Reference, so it’s likely most of my posts will be related to those two topics. (Source: Redhaired Future Librarian) Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:46:03 +0100 817760 http://stephenslighthouse.com/?p=3052 State of the Internet Explained In One Giant Infographic “Here are some of the other points (the image itself is farther down): - There’s no gender bias when it comes to the Internet; 74% of men use it, and so do 74% of women. - The older people are, the less likely they are to use the Internet. 93% of people ages 18-29 use it, but only 38% of people 65+ do. 65 is where the big drop off happens, though; 70% of people 50 – 64 are online. - As you might expect, the higher their income level, the more likely it is that someone has broadband access. - Education is correlated as well. 94% of college grads are online, while only 39% of people with less than a high school education are. - Internet use is up significantly in just the past five years. In 2005, 27% of people surveyed used the Internet “several times a day.” Now it’s 38%. - 58% have a desktop computer. 46% have a laptop. - Ages 25 – 44 make up the majority of people who blog. Only 7% of people under 25 do — that’s an even lower percentage than people 55 – 64! Have the youngsters latched on to other new media? - 54% of bloggers consider themselves experts on whatever it is they’re blogging about. - Norway is the country with the highest level of Internet penetration. The United States is in fifth place. - Japan has the fastest Internet connections on average. No surprise there. - The average mobile Internet connection clocks in at around 700 Kbps.” Stephen (Source: Stephen's Lighthouse) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:26:08 +0100 815729 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/DD0RYymTopY/ I have mentioned already a couple of times how my first contact with social software tools inside IBM, my current employer, was around the year 2000, when one of the communities I still belong to (And still one of my favourite ones, too!) decided to put together a wiki where we could all contribute and share our knowledge across. From there onwards, the continuous learning experience of transitioning from traditional collaboration and knowledge sharing tools to these social tools has been quite exciting, to say the least. But I am sure you may be wondering when did IBM *really* got started with all things 2.0 on a wider scale, right? Well, this is a blog post where I will share some of those insights myself. However, I am not going to start telling you all sorts of various different details on how IBM has been adopting social software tools over the last few years, starting probably on that landmark date of late 2003, when a blogging platform called BlogCentral  first became available through the Technology Adoption Program (a.k.a. TAP). No, I am not going to do that. Mainly, because I am not very fond of re-inventing the wheel myself, and, secondly, because there is a stunning online resource out there that has done a wonderful job in describing very thoroughly how everything got started and where we are now. Check out the article put together by Casey Hibbard, over at Social Media Examiner, under the title: "How IBM Uses Social Media to Spur Employee Innovation". Casey has been working with my fellow IBM colleague, and good friend, Adam Christensen, putting together, perhaps, one of the most tremendously comprehensive and thorough articles / reports, available out there that clearly describes in very simple, effective and helpful terms what IBM’s Social Media strategy is at the moment, and how it all got started a few years back. ... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:54:52 +0100 816515 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/02/04/social-media-and-young-adults/ Pew – “Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group, as does social network use. Teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers, though high school-aged girls show the greatest enthusiasm for the application.” Read the report (Source: Library Stuff) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:25:38 +0100 815096 http://bioingegneria.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/eventoopen-access-una-nuova-opportunita-milano-24-febbraio-2010/ Riprendiamo la nostra attività di blogging segnalando un bell’evento a partecipazione gratuita (iscrizione gradita) organizzato dalla Facoltà di Farmacia dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. Di seguito il programma Open Access: una nuova opportunità? La libera diffusione dei risultati scientifici per una più ampia visibilità e un maggiore impatto Facoltà di Farmacia 24 febbraio 2010, Aula A – [...] (Source: Blog @lla tua biblioteca) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:56:48 +0100 814996 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/02/resolution.html I assiduously avoided making resolutions this year, because, well, I normally fail them terribly. But I've really gotten to the point with blogging that I either talk a lot about myself (which is fine--it's my blog, after all, and it's a personal one) or I include news stories I find interesting (also okay), but in the latter I rarely add commentary anymore. Sometimes, I'm so pressed in terms of getting some blogging done that I just put up a few links. That's not really creating content, something I think is important when writing online. So I'm going to work at more commentary on news, observations of my day, etc. and not focus quite so much on things like my foot pain, etc. I suspect that's getting old (trust me, having it certainly is). If you're enjoying the blog as is and don't care for changes, let me know. If you have suggestions for topics or just the blog in general, again, let me know. (There's an e-mail link on the sidebar or of course commenting links under each post.) This is my *ninth* year blogging continuously here. I'd like to keep it up. I have to admit that it has become a habit and it makes me antsy to not write at least a little every day (and being offline at times is maddening). Anyway, that's my resolution. Just one. Think I can do it? (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 816302 http://ntrls.blogspot.com/2010/02/blogging-is-for-old-people-pew-report.html Blogging is for Old People, Pew Report Finds Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer Thursday, February 4, 2010 Teenagers and young adults spent less time blogging during the past three years as social networks like Facebook became more popular, according to a Pew Research Center study released Wednesday.Still, one social network, Twitter, has failed to catch on with the vast majority of (Source: North Texas Regional Library System) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 816252