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Wed 28 Mar 2007, 5:09 pm
Tim Spalding is coming out against “user-generated content”. Not the stuff–LibraryThing is built on “user-generated content.” It’s the words that have to go. I have to agree. I dislike “user,” though I know I have reached the point where I use the term without thinking about it anymore. (I could be persuaded to go for [...]
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Overheard in the Office | Lest the Keepers of the Books Wreak a Terrible Vengeance
Funny overheard dialog. It is one thing to be drunk and searching pr0n at the library, and quite another to dis the librarians. (link via Jessy)
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O’Reilly Radar > How Google Books is Changing Academic History
O’Reilly points to a blog post by a Berkeley grad student on what Google Book Search means to her research. I was just thinking of GBS as the "poor library’s ECCO" when I helped someone find an 18thC publication there this week.
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O’Reilly Radar > How Google Books is Changing Academic History
O’Reilly points to a blog post by a Berkeley grad student on what Google Book Search means to her research. I was just thinking of GBS as the "poor library’s ECCO" when I helped someone find an 18thC publication there this week.
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O’Reilly Radar > How Google Books is Changing Academic History
O’Reilly points to a blog post by a Berkeley grad student on what Google Book Search means to her research. I was just thinking of GBS as the "poor library’s ECCO" when I helped someone find an 18thC publication there this week.
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Lorcan Dempsey’s weblog: Finding Time
Dempsey embeds a funny/depressing video from Ellysa Cahoy about finding Time Magazine on the Penn State website. I counted 18 clicks. I often tell students "believe it or not, the link resolver is supposed to make things easier."
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Wed 21 Mar 2007, 11:04 am
My entry in the five non-library weblogs meme.
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Sun 18 Mar 2007, 12:53 am
Way more than 140 characters on Twitter, its critics, Paris Hilton, and haiku.
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2007 Code4Lib Conference Schedule | code4lib
Videos posted for presentations and lightning talks.
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Thu 15 Mar 2007, 10:31 pm
I’m making changes to the blog tonight so that my del.icio.us links will no longer be a separate sidebar/footer item, but will be individual posts of their own. This probably resulted in an onslaught of “new” posts from me in your feed reader tonight. Now I’m going to work trying to style those entries differently [...]
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Thu 15 Mar 2007, 8:28 pm
Interesting post on zines, Before the blog – zines from the 80s… and accompanying flickr photo pool The Piran Café zine repository.
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The Mantra of Entrenched Industries
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
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"Default templates are terrific for people who can’t or don’t want to design their own — but they’re terrible starting points for anyone attempting to establish their own unique brand. If you start with nothing, you’re forced to think about ever
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Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums
"Applying in particular data content standards by material type, and not by community affiliation, could lead to greater data interoperability within the cultural heritage community."
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"Over the last ten years, a company called ‘Octavo’ embarked on digitally photographing some of the world ’s great books from some of the greatest libraries…This site contains all of the books (about 400) that have been digitized to date."
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Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
"Twitter is the new Crackberry."
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Sean and Jenny on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
This woman’s Metadata/Metallica T-shirt is one fo the most gloriously geeky things I have seen lately. Rock on! \m/
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marclafountain.com: The Unbearable Lightness of Twittering
"Not only can you know in real-time when a friend is eating pizza, you can know if it has anchovies. Behold the power of technology."
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Fri 9 Mar 2007, 5:00 pm
Twitter: who cares? Me, kinda.
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Thu 8 Mar 2007, 1:23 pm
Social Software in Libraries Originally uploaded by Hatchibombotar. My entry in Meredith’s book cover contest. A book on social software needs a good profile, so I designed the cover as a Facebook profile. Click through to read the text.
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Thu 8 Mar 2007, 12:16 pm
Call Mom. Go to special collections. Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library. This comes to us via Jessy, a portrait of student John Thorp, one of her users. It just makes me smile. Mom should be happy.
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Tue 6 Mar 2007, 10:25 pm
Michael and Steve present online about Flickr and have fun doing it.
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Mon 5 Mar 2007, 10:55 pm
This is my life:
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