October 9, 2009 – 11:12 am
The 2009 Horizon Report lists “Geo-Everything” among recent trends in the category “Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years.”
In a recent brainstorming session based on some of the Horizons technology trends, the Digital Services Team considered how the libraries might provide geolocation services using mashups, web pages, or software, for instance GPS directions/location or [...]
Whether you attended the Wellness Week workshop or not, remember the SCL staff members now haver a shared “Wellness” Delicious site, and all are welcome to participate in bookmarking: http://delicious.com/sclwellness.
Smith Libraries staff have established a number of group and individual accounts for mobile and social bookmarking on Delicious. Several of these are now listed [...]
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 [...]
September 19, 2008 – 9:24 am
I pass along this posting from the ARLIS/NA list
>>> Thomas Hill 9/16/2008 8:34 PM >>>
Dear friends,
I wish to draw your attenion to a marvelous series of images of small
exhibits of artists’ books curated by our colleague Rosemary Furak at
the Walker Art Center Library, available on Flickr at:
http://flickr.com/photos/walkerart/sets/72157606222409902/.
The exhibits offer a premonition of what to [...]
September 15, 2008 – 3:04 pm
This is a good read from the Chronicle.
Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind – ChronicleReview.com.
In it the author, Mark Bauerlein writes that online reading is a very different kettle of fish from other types of reading such as reading a book. Undergrads now arrive at college having been reading online all their life and there [...]
All Libraries Staff: Please send DST comments and feedback on the “Learning Web 2.0″ workshops, along with any ideas for additional sessions: DST’s Learning Web 2.0 Survey. Thanks!
As one might expect, much reaction to the Google=Stupid argument out in the Blogosphere:
Here is Stowe Boyd, from /Message, operating manual for the social revolution
http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/06/connecting-the.html
As we expose ourselves to a flow of information, running at a faster and significantly more conversational pace, two things are happening at once:
Small Pieces, Loosely Joined — Instead of [...]
Here’s an interesting post about teaching with YouTube, especially the comments about binaries near the end:
http://www.oculture.com/2008/04/teaching_on_youtube.html
What does this mean for the web2.0 read/write world for libraries?
Whatever you may think of Wikipedia, or Nicholson Baker (bête noire of librarians!), you will enjoy this “review” from the New York Times Review of Books of a book called Wikipedia: the missing manual by John Broughton.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131
The article is called “The Charms of Wikipedia” and it really isn’t a review: it’s Baker enthusiastically, hilariously, and [...]
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.
