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Sunday, May 4th, 2008It’s sunday at the tech kiosk!
Just Testing
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008Showing how to post on a blog at the Web 2.0 Tech Kiosk!
Visual Search with Searchme
Thursday, April 24th, 2008I’ve been playing around a bit with Searchme and I have to say I’m impressed. I’ve seen other visual search engines that just didn’t work for me. They seemed more set on adding visual elements to traditional search than to really being *useful*. For example, I don’t get much value from things like Aquabrowser, which […]
2010: Full of disruptive technologies… but where are the flying cars?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008(Taking a break from conference blogging.)
PC World reports on disruptive technologies that will reshape computing as we know it by 2010. Some interesting theories, many of which should affect what we’re doing with library services *today*. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, concentrate on this:
The analysts also said:
– By 2010, Web mashups […]
Wikis: Managing, Marketing, and Making them Work - Chad Boeninger
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008I first saw Chad Boeninger at Computers in Libraries in 2006, which was apparently his first presentation on the subject. I sat in on his session today to see what he had to add, or what he felt about wikis two years later.
Chad touched on the uses of wikis: as internal communication tools, […]
What’s in your wallet? - Steven Cohen
Monday, April 7th, 2008I heard over Twitter that Steven Cohen had decided to usurp one of the conference rooms after a program cancellation. He gave a presentation that folowed up on a series of articles he’d written called “What’s in Your Wallet?” It was nice to meet Steven after following him online for over a year. I’ve been […]
Digital Convergence and People Applications - Beth Galloway
Monday, April 7th, 2008Beth Galloway, Information Goddess Consulting
Slides available online (link to be added)
Widgets - a piece of a website that you embed somewhere else
IGoogle.com - personalized Google, made up of widgets
Blogger went widgets a year ago
Facebook - widgets and outside apps.
Widgets are user-created content
Why widgets? - We’re lazy. “one click is too many”
No downoading
works on every browser
easy! […]
Hi Tech + Hi Touch - Jenny Levine
Monday, April 7th, 2008Jenny Levine of TheShiftedLibrarian spoke, fresh off of hosting the Gaming Night the evening before. Her slides are available online here. Here are my random notes:
The internet provides tools, but not human contact. How do we translate that into the online world?
We’re on our way with physical library spaces.
Check out the Delft Public Library’s contextual […]
CIL 2008 - Opening Keynote: Lee Rainie, Pew Internet and American Life Project
Monday, April 7th, 2008Lee Rainie provided the opening keynote for CIL 2008. Took me a while to get my computer set up, so I’ll just recap the end of his talk. It’s worth noting, though, that he included quite a number of facts and figures from a soon-to-be-published Pew survey, which focused on how people attempt […]
ARLIS/NA in Atlanta– some thoughts.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007A few months ago, I was informed that my proposal for a “session” for the 2008 ARLIS/NA conference was approved. I put session in quotes here because what I proposed doesn’t really fit into the definition of a traditional conference session or workshop. I’ll explain what I proposed, but first I’ll explain a bit about […]
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