March 29, 2008 – 11:24 am
Rather than comment and have my comment buried, I’ve decided to highlight the question in Pogue’s column and turn it towards us:
“why aren’t we, the libraries and archives, taking advantage of Web 2.0?”
Comment…for as Pogue points out (and Jim notes) a blog posting without comments is really just Web 1.0!
Chris L.
This Thursday’s (3/27/2008) New York Times Technology columnist, David Pogue, had an interesting piece on the use of Web 2.0 in businesses.
Are You Taking Advantage of Web 2.0?
While you may not think there is an application for Web 2.0 in the Library, think of the College as a business, and answer the posed question: “why [...]
Nineteen voted at Doodle.
“The Daily Slog” captured nearly 60% of the vote for the name of the blog. So be it, until someone comes along and pays naming rights or we get tired of it!
Chris
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-04/bz_curator
Algorithms Are Terrific. But to Search Smarter, Find a Person.
By Brendan I. Koerner
“…These ventures have a common goal: to enhance the Web with the kind of critical thinking that’s alien to software but that comes naturally to humans. As Calacanis told a conference audience: “Google’s mission is to index the world’s information; our mission is [...]
March 25, 2008 – 10:06 am
The focus of the latest issue of First Monday is Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0. From the preface:
“From Scholz to Silver, the goal of this special issue on Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 is to remove the blinders that Neil Postman warns us of, and in reading the essays that follow, we hope to help [...]
March 20, 2008 – 11:25 am
You might be interested in the TRICO Libraries News and Notes, which is a blog for the TRIPOD consortium of Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. Among the categories you can pick from are: Databases, Events, Exhibits, Features, General News, Info & Society, Kudos, Opinion, Profiles, Publications, Tips, and What We’re Reading.
http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/
The reason I first [...]
Wikia Search, now under development
by the folks that brought you Wikipedia, is an open search engine in which searchers will help refine the results. The founder of Wikipedia, Jim Wales calls it a nightmare for Google because it will be open source and based on community use and feedback. Too soon to [...]
Here’s a great student training presentation I found at Oberlin’s library student assistant site while rummaging around looking for ideas. It gives general guidelines for handling those archaic, outmoded resources called “books” for students who work in the stacks. I have a link to it on my student Moodle site, and require my student workers to [...]
FCLC had a preliminary discussion Monday with Susan Stearns regarding the finding of the Ex Libris audit of the Five Colleges implementation of Aleph. The report is still in gestation so more on that later. In a sidebar, Sherre Harrington of AC asked, so is it ALEPH or Aleph?
Susan tells us that it was [...]
