November 21, 2008 – 1:45 pm
A follow up on Jinny’s observation about the decline of blogging:
You know that blogging is evolving when that most irascible blog The Annoyed Librarian: whatever it is, I’m against it moves to staid Library Journal.com
Nicholas Carr, who wrote the article “Is Google making us stupid”, weighs in on
Who Killed the Blogosphere
“…It’s no surprise, then, [...]
November 21, 2008 – 1:10 pm
http://opensocialapis.blogspot.com/2008/11/51com-launches-opensocial-to-31m-unique.html
November 20, 2008 – 1:11 pm
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.”
November 17, 2008 – 10:33 pm
I stumbled upon this while Googling a Dewey Decimal Classification chart: a hotel in NYC organized according to DDC. Check out the short film with a tour of the hotel. http://www.libraryhotel.com/news-reviews/index.cfm Apparently it’s located on 299 Madison Avenue at 41st St. near the NYPL. According to Wikipedia, they were sued by OCLC (owners of the [...]
November 13, 2008 – 2:21 pm
Not all DST members received this invite, and although next week’s Tech Tuesday event appeared in the midst of other announcements for the College I thought I’d post here – perhaps others will be interested also. I just wish it did not conflict with Music in the Noon Hour….
Which of the libraries’ groups are [...]
November 13, 2008 – 11:01 am
I noticed this student movie $1K contest to promote open exchange of information announced on another library’s website. Something for us to promote on campus? More info:http://www.sparkyawards.org/
We could easily create an FYI to link to the site (OK, Betsy?). David or others might want to promote or share the info [...]
November 11, 2008 – 4:41 pm
Skimming Library Journal (not usually this entertaining) I stumbled upon a link to something called the Conversation Prism, created by a PR guru named Brian Solis:
“If you work in marketing, public relations, advertising, customer service, product development, or any discipline that’s motivated, shaped, and directed by customers, peers, stakeholders and influencers, monitoring and in some [...]
November 7, 2008 – 9:47 am
A look at the present, a look to the future from a year ago.
November 6, 2008 – 6:43 pm
From ACRLog:
ECAR report suggests there’s more to IAKT Syndrome than I thought. Here’s why. Students were asked to rate themselves when it comes to having the ability to search the Internet effectively and efficiently. I was not surprised to read that 80% of students stated they were effective and efficient Internet searchers. Almost half (46%) [...]
