Mon 9 Nov 2009, 10:20 am
Jason Scott is trying to use his unemployment as an opportunity to get stuff done, assuming he can get $25,000 in pledges for his “sabbatical.” I think it’s worthwhile, and I also think the site he’s using to do this–Kickstarter–looks useful.
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 9:32 pm
Big organization changes data policy, users break out the pitchforks. Name that controversy.
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Wed 4 Feb 2009, 9:29 am
Inspired by LITA’s “Top Tech Trends” at ALA Midwinter, I put forth my nominee: Social software deathwatch. Are you sure those bits are going to be there tomorrow?
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Wed 26 Nov 2008, 10:59 am
It’s the time to be thankful, and I’m thankful for family, health, work, libraries, the Internets, and the friends I have made online. Thanks!
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Wed 15 Oct 2008, 9:29 pm
Some people love our IM reference. And we love them back.
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Fri 19 Sep 2008, 9:59 pm
People geek out over JSTOR on Tumblr, which is pretty cute.
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Tue 20 May 2008, 10:15 am
Is it creepy to try to reach students via Facebook? I don’t think so.
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Thu 15 May 2008, 4:59 pm
We finished our 365 Tutt Library Days project with 365 photos and two videos.
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Sat 10 May 2008, 11:54 pm
I went to the Jefferson County Public Library’s all staff day to talk about “Social Software for Library People.”
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Mon 7 Apr 2008, 9:45 pm
Some impressions of day one of Computers in Libraries 2008, including my presentation with Josh Neff and Rikhei Harris on the Library Society of the World.
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Fri 28 Mar 2008, 10:45 am
So, I just met this guy named Steve Lawson. And yes, this is another post about Twitter. I’m sure you can deal.
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Thu 27 Mar 2008, 10:26 pm
I’m looking forward to using Twitter to keep up with Computers in Libraries 2008 as it happens. Let’s talk about hashtags, the CIL2008 twitter account, and what private Twitter accounts mean to tracking the conference.
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Fri 1 Feb 2008, 11:19 pm
What would an MS takeover of Yahoo! mean for search and for Yahoo’s social software properties like del.icio.us and Flickr?
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Mon 20 Aug 2007, 12:36 pm
Thoughts on the Social Graph is a very interesting essay/post by Brad Fitzpatrick. I’m all for getting data out of social network sites’ silos.
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Thu 5 Jul 2007, 5:04 pm
In writing that previous post about Facebook, I had a few other thoughts that didn’t really fit. I have collected them here.
Privacy and the Facebook feed
Facebook users are familiar with the news feed of what is going on with their friends. In general, when your Facebook friends make updates to their profile, you will read [...]
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Tue 3 Jul 2007, 10:13 pm
Update, 2007-07-05: Ken Varnum’s comment on this post indicates that Facebook can change its decision on these kinds of apps with some patient explanation on the library’s part. It’s not clear to me if we can interpret this as a green light, or just a single happy outcome.
[Note: some of the links in this post [...]
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Fri 8 Jun 2007, 3:37 pm
The BIGWIG Social Software Showcase at ALA this year looks like a winner. Won’t it be cool when people use this stuff more for non-tech purposes?
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Thu 10 May 2007, 11:06 pm
In a First Year Experience class this year, I had a chance to work with students on a Wikipedia writing project. I hope it taught them more generalizable skills for understanding and critiquing potential sources in their academic writing.
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Tue 8 May 2007, 10:34 pm
As I prepare a presentation entitled “Web 2.0 and the Digital Library (or, Learning from Flickr)” I confess to losing a little faith in the idea of tagging and user-contributed comments in library applications.
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Thu 19 Apr 2007, 11:20 am
About my participation at the CLiC Spring Workshop in Pueblo, including meeting Five Weeks to a Social Library participant, Karen Pardue.
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Tue 10 Apr 2007, 11:58 pm
Sign me up for the 365 Library Days project on Flickr (thanks, Libraryman). Also, learning in public via the League of Awesomeness Internship.
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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 luser, [...]
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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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Fri 9 Mar 2007, 5:00 pm
Twitter: who cares? Me, kinda.
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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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Thu 22 Feb 2007, 12:42 pm
Tutt Library gets a nice mention for our use of social software, which leads me to think about what that really says about MPOW (and what it might mean for YPOW.
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Mon 19 Feb 2007, 12:26 am
Walt Crawford has spent a fair amount of time this weekend trying to figure out why Bloglines isn’t picking up his posts. And he isn’t the only one.
Flickr had its own problem this weekend. On Saturday morning, I was looking at my contacts’ photos on Flickr, and I noticed that Laura Crossett had what looked [...]
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Mon 5 Feb 2007, 9:44 pm
“Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us,” a YouTube video from Professor Michael Wesch.
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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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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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Tue 26 Dec 2006, 7:03 pm
CueCat, Mirrormask librarian, and LucienOriginally uploaded by Hatchibombotar.
Going back to before we were married, my wife, Shanon, and I have several times given each other the same gift (wind chimes, juggling balls, etc.). It’s kind of like “The Gift of the Magi,” but without the irony; all sweet, no bitter. We did it again this [...]
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Mon 11 Dec 2006, 8:52 pm
So Google Answers tanks while Ask MetaFilter thrives. Why’s that?
According to Anil Dash, it is partly because MetaFilter was already a thriving community site when AskMeFi debuted, but also because it is moderated wisely by site owner Matt Haughey and his very able assistant, Jessamyn West. And, sez Dash,
Just as importantly, Jessamyn is [...]
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Sat 9 Dec 2006, 12:10 am
Those of you who are interested in this kind of thing have no doubt already seen danah boyd’s latest article on MySpace and similar social network sites, Friends, Friendsters and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites, which appears in the latest issue of First Monday. Below are my notes, so if [...]
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Fri 3 Nov 2006, 4:14 pm
In a post on ACRLog, Marilyn R. Pukkila, Head of Instructional Services at Colby College Libraries, asks Just How Connected Are They?, “they” being her undergraduates.
She says that she asked a few students in student government about podcasts and Second Life. Their resonse was a resounding “hunh?”
So she asks:
If they don’t know [...]
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Wed 4 Oct 2006, 10:45 pm
"Five Weeks to a Social Library" and me
I am pleased to say that I will be presenting on Flickr at the free-as-in-beer, free-as-in-freedom, Five Weeks to a Social Library course, which is, as you no doubt already know, being organized by Meredith Farkas and five other excellent library bloggers. You can take a look at [...]
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Fri 8 Sep 2006, 1:41 pm
I admit this is a pretty “Web 1.0″ concept–buying banner ads on web pages–but it is an interesting idea that I wanted to share with other academic librarians.
Facebook sells advertising “flyers” on the site. They appear in the left-hand sidebar below the navigation links, alternating with the more corporate ad banners. Generally they only show [...]
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Mon 24 Jul 2006, 11:57 am
This is new to me: ALA is on Flickr. We got this in our library email box today:
Hi Colorado College Tutt Library,
You are ALA – The American Library Association’s newest
contact! If you don’t know ALA – The American Library
Association, ALA – The [...]
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Fri 14 Jul 2006, 9:38 am
Edited 2006-07-24: I have no more invites. The ones I had are all gone. Any “refills” I get in the future I plan to send out to people I already know, either in real life, or from online.
Edited 2006-07-19: Sorry, I wasn’t very clear about something. Anyone can look at my Vox blog (or anyone [...]
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Tue 13 Jun 2006, 11:32 am
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, The Wired Campus notes that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says that Wikipedia isn’t great for academic use. Great quote: “For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia.”
But I’m using that little semi-relevant link as an intro to how much I lurve Wikipedia.
Today, I looked up ad [...]
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Thu 1 Jun 2006, 1:35 pm
Anyone have ideas for analyzing Trillian IM logs?
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Fri 26 May 2006, 10:01 pm
Library folks, whether you use social software or not, go take Michael Stephens’ survey at Tame the Web. All the cool kids are doing it. And the uncool kids (I did it). So, I guess, everyone is doing it. So do it. But don’t do it twice. It’s like voting in that way.
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Fri 26 May 2006, 8:34 pm
Walt Crawford recently offered an “apology” of sorts on his blog Walt at Random for being the only person that the Library 2.0 proponents tend to cite as a Library 2.0 critic or skeptic. His January 2006 survey of the state of “Library 2.0 and ‘Library 2.0′” (link to pdf or html; it’s long, so [...]
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Thu 11 May 2006, 3:16 pm
Two weeks ago, Michael Sauers said I was a “Second Life n00b” (or newbie, or clueless new guy) and oh, was he ever on target. Here’s a shot from my misadventures last night at the Second Life Library 2.0. Yes, that is my avatar, Hatchibombotar Stein, with a Bible on his head.
Planetneutral (aka Greg) had [...]
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Wed 26 Apr 2006, 10:49 pm
I hung out on Second Life a little more on Tuesday night. I’m getting a little better with the navigation, though I did jump off the roof of the library at one point.
I met a few more people and am now officially Second Life “friends” with Planetneutral Fackler and Max Batra (or my avatar, Hatchibombotar [...]
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Tue 25 Apr 2006, 6:49 am
So that’s my Second Life avatar, Hatchibombotar Stein, standing in front of the horse statue that is outside the Second Life Library 2.0. I may end up making him blue like Krishna or Dr. Manhattan or a Smurf, but he’s OK for the time being. If I ever have some time to burn, I might [...]
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Tue 4 Apr 2006, 3:41 pm
Coburn Library
Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library.
My friend, colleague, and occasional commenter on this very blog, Jessy Randall, has posted a photoset to Flickr of historical photos of Colorado College libraries.
Some of the photos may just be interesting to Colorado College folks, but who [...]
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Mon 3 Apr 2006, 4:43 pm
HigherEd BlogCon starts today, with the teaching track running this week. (That means I have two weeks before I have to have my piece for the Websites and Web Development track completed. Whew!).
This is a free conference: free as beer, free as in Creative Commons-licensed presentations. What is not to like about that?
The other tracks [...]
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Sun 12 Mar 2006, 4:19 pm
A while back, I said that someday soon, we won’t be talking about the “read/write web” or “Web 2.0″; instead we will just say “the Web” and mean exactly the same thing. As more and more people take advantage of social software and create their own content online, the less we will settle for top-down [...]
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Fri 24 Feb 2006, 10:53 pm
…or how keeping up with social software might help with your actual job.
A little while back, my friend and colleague Sarah, the Academic Technology Specialist for the Humanities here at CC, asked me if I had any ideas for an art history professor who was looking for software that would enable her students to annotate [...]
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Thu 23 Feb 2006, 4:06 pm
It looks like Tim Spalding at LibraryThing is reverse engineering FRBR.
That is the thought that leapt to mind, but I felt a little unsure about blogging it, as I’m not an expert in FRBR or in the exact way that LibraryThing is combining different editions into single “works” (as seen in the Invisible Man book [...]
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Mon 20 Feb 2006, 9:52 pm
In case you haven’t seen this yet, Michael Stephens of Tame the Web is doing a survey on librarians and instant messaging. It takes five minutes, maybe less, and you should take the survey regardless of whether you or your library uses IM.
In the illustration (from my buddy list) we see that Mr. Stephens is [...]
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Fri 17 Feb 2006, 1:40 pm
All of you who are considering getting your library on MySpace or the Facebook need to watch a very informative video from Daily Show’s “Trendspotter” Demetri Martin. (You might have to scroll down to find the link to the Windows Media video.)
Favorite quotes:
Besides candy, online networking is the thing young people like the [...]
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Fri 3 Feb 2006, 12:37 pm
The world’s tamest and lamest Facebook page: mine.
Last week I did a Library Lunch & Learn presentation on Social Software. “Lunch & Learn” is our weekly series of informal presentations on largely extra-curricular matters with library-provided pizza and soft drinks. I had a pretty good turnout, even including some students which is always nice.
The page [...]
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Fri 20 Jan 2006, 11:47 pm
Thanks to TangognaT’s (whom I have now just linked to twice this evening, and whose palindromic nom de blog I have only just now figured out) link, I read web designer and standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman’s article Web 3.0.
The article and ideas don’t map seamlessly to Library 2.0; libraries never had a “bubble” that I [...]
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Sun 1 Jan 2006, 8:20 pm
I didn’t really intend to take the time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, but that’s how it worked out.
Here, one day late, is my personal wrap-up of 2005.
Blogs
I started this blog back in August, and so far the experience has lived up to my expectations. I haven’t posted as often as I’d like [...]
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Fri 2 Dec 2005, 10:34 am
Some time soon I plan to jump into the Library 2.0 / Web 2.0 fray (I have no idea what it means, but I’m for it! I want my Library 2.0!), but in the meantime, I’m digging TangognaT’s snarky post on Library 360 (which I found via Information Wants to Be Free)
The main post is [...]
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Thu 24 Nov 2005, 10:31 pm
Michael Stephens of Tame the Web has an interesting post entitled The Unintended Consequences of Social Software (or Putting Yourself Out There)
It is interesting not just because he links to my family photos under “happy times,” (which is sweet) or because he has nice things to say about the Tutt Library Flickr page that my [...]
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Sun 20 Nov 2005, 7:08 pm
My trading card
…is put together my own librarian trading card at flagrantdisregard’s Flickr Toys and post it to the Librarian Trading Cards pool on Flickr.
I first spotted this meme de jour at Library Stuff, and the next thing I knew, a mephistophelean Michael Stephens was staring at me on [...]
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Tue 15 Nov 2005, 4:05 pm
Keep Up! Workshop Packet
Originally uploaded by libraryman.
Well, I had just been blabbing about how I’d like to do a “keeping up” session for librarians at next year’s Colorado Association of Libraries conference, and now Libraryman has pre-emptively kicked my ass. You can’t get all the [...]
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Tue 25 Oct 2005, 12:22 pm
Well there is not much point in me taking bullet-point notes on this, since Steven M. Cohen has posted his notes at http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/BlogsWikis. I’ll stick to stuff that is new and exciting to me.
He put up the URLs for the open IL wiki and open IL blog
The “news” in “Google News” or “Yahoo! News” may [...]
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Tue 25 Oct 2005, 11:30 am
A very good talk by Liz Lawley on social computing opened the second day of Internet Librarian today. I’m going to try and be more selective with my notes today, and hit more highlights than a full play-by-play.
Click though to read my notes on this keynote.
Technorati tags: il05, presentation, social_software
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Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:17 am
Usabilty of reception sandwiches == poor
Originally uploaded by Andrea Mercado.
There are a fair number of photos on Flickr tagged IL05 or IL2005. My favorite so far is this usability study of the sandwiches at the vendor reception by Andrea Mercado, who kindly posts this photo [...]
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Tue 25 Oct 2005, 1:52 am
Last presentation of the day (whew!). A nice overview of cool tools. Click through for my notes. As before, my comments in [square brackets].
Technorati tags: il05, presentation, tools, web
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Mon 24 Oct 2005, 6:17 pm
I was very happy to see Jenny Levine and Jessamyn West in person, as I have read their blogs, The Shifted Librarian and librarian.net for a long time. Their presentation was quite fun to watch, though I was already familiar with most of what they discussed.
I turned on iChat and Michael Stevens of Tame the [...]
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Wed 19 Oct 2005, 7:20 am
It was such a beautiful fall day yesterday that I took the library’s camera out for a stroll and took some shots of the library and campus with the fall foliage. This one is probably my favorite; there are a few more at the library’s Flickr account.
I set up that Flickr account a few months [...]
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Thu 13 Oct 2005, 8:04 am
Trying out a hosted wiki on PBWiki for a library intranet.
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Mon 5 Sep 2005, 9:17 pm
Setting up the sidebar to display posts to http://del.icio.us/bevedog/see_also.
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