Of Facebook and phone booths
Tue 30 Jan 2007, 11:39 pm
An appreciation of Work Social Life, a post on social software and identity by Alisia Wygant .
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Archive for January, 2007
Colorado Academic Library Summit
Tue 30 Jan 2007, 3:24 pm
I don’t know how many Colorado academic librarians read this blog, but I wanted to take a moment to point out Colorado Academic Library Summit 2007, a conference planned for May 31 and June 1, 2007 at the Sheraton Denver West.
The theme is Changing Cultures: Collaborations, Social Networking and New Technologies. Here is what they [...]
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The Scattered Librarian: The Dark Side of Library 2.0, Part 1: “It’s the Patron, Stupid!”
“Don’t worry about what babbling bibliopundits might have to say about the tools you choose, the speed of your implementation, or choice of software. You are not here to impress them–you’re here to serve your patrons.”
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The Scattered Librarian: The Dark Side of Library 2.0, Part 1: "It’s the Patron, Stupid!"
"Don’t worry about what babbling bibliopundits might have to say about the tools you choose, the speed of your implementation, or choice of software. You are not here to impress them–you’re here to serve your patrons."
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Look it up, kid
Sat 27 Jan 2007, 10:10 pm
“Sea-Anemones” from The sea and its wonders, by M. and E. Kirby, via Google Book Search
I enjoyed Ryan Deschamps’ post earlier this month, The Crux of the Biscuit: Do I Believe in Libraries?, in which Deschamps asks “Will telling my son to go to the library be more effective for his life-long-learning than telling him [...]
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FUD on OA
Fri 26 Jan 2007, 3:33 pm
PR’s ‘pit bull’ takes on open access, a news item in Nature, has some truly amazing quotes from open access opponents spreading FUD.
My favorite is this bit of doublethink from publicist Eric Dezenhall: “Public access equals government censorship.” And freedom is totally slavery.
(You can find good commentary on this article at Caveat Lector (of course), [...]
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Thoughts For Better Conference Discussions
How to share what you are doing at your library without boring everyone else?
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Machine tags – Flickr: Flickr API
I can’t say I fully understand this, but it looks like a way for shoehorning more structured metadata into Flickr tags. Good timing for me, as I’m about to start an experiment using Flickr to host some image collections.
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New theme
Wed 24 Jan 2007, 10:11 pm
See Also… is doing alpha testing on a new WordPress theme. Take a look!
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blyberg.net » AADL.org Goes Social
"So what is the SOPAC? It’s basically a set of social networking tools integrated into the AADL catalog. It gives users the ability to rate, review, comment-on, and tag items."
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"Moreover, you’ll also be subject to some fairly onerous terms of usage on Footnote.com, especially considering that this is our collective history and that all of these documents are out of copyright."
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Chaucer’s V things
Sat 13 Jan 2007, 2:14 am
You may recall that when I opted out of the “five things you don’t know about me” meme, I still went ahead and tagged a few notable bloggers, namely “Steve Jobs,” “Geoffrey Chaucer,” “Samuel Pepys,” and “Mel Gibson.”
Now, as arby points out, Geoffrey Chaucer has responded:
Ich shalle vse thys meme to telle sum detayles of [...]
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So what did we learn this week?
Fri 12 Jan 2007, 1:41 pm
Don’t feed the trolls, and I’m a pathetic drama junkie nerdboy.
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Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » Keeping it real
Meredith has a great trainwreck of a comments thread going here, complete with fisking and Nazis.
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Live from Macworld 2007: Steve Jobs keynote – Engadget
My favorite part of the coverage is the audience reaction: “Loud cheers, people are starting to lose it a little.”
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Drama vs. criticism
Mon 8 Jan 2007, 9:37 am
An appreciative reading of Rachel Hartman’s “Politeness? Overrated.“, in which I pledge to be less argumentative and more critical.
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“Did libraries (public and university) stop requiring people to be quiet in the last few years, or is it just me?”
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Library music video for “Every Time We Touch”
Wed 3 Jan 2007, 11:45 pm
The librarian in this goofy video is obviously based on me. I’m suing!
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Meet the new blog, same as the old blog
Mon 1 Jan 2007, 9:04 pm
OK, I’m flipping the switch on the FeedBurner RSS feed today, and kicking off the blog at http://stevelawson.name/seealso/. If you are getting this post in your aggregator, you are all set. I’ll start sending reminders to the old feed addresses, and keep them up for the month of January.
I’ll try to keep these throat-clearing posts [...]
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