Archive for 2009
mobots4lib
One thing can lead to another, and it usually does. My last aside questioned David Weinberger’s quote in American Libraries that humans are hard-wired to externalize knowledge (e.g. writing), and suggested that it must have a social basis instead. I wanted to learn more and began reading Being there: putting rain, body, and world together [...]
echo
I usually only post about American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association, if I am going to make fun of it. The November 2009 issue has great columns by Joe Janes and Kate Sheehan, but however, also an interview with David Weinberger.
I just may love to hate this guy, but he reads [...]
lists of listmakers and the lists they make
My attention span is dwindling.
A few weeks ago - no - a week? I don’t know.
Recently, Twitter started letting you make lists. I sort of wondered, why?
Well I guess we all have different strategies for monitoring our social networks. I have a friend who only follows 50 people on Twitter. I’m not one [...]
and then i made another post
In And Then There’s This, Bill Wasik demonstrates how “viral culture” (or “viral marketing”) works and argues that for the most part, it is not accidental.
The most compelling bit of the book is the introduction, most of which is available in Google Books, where he argues that people writing blogs, tweeting and posting their [...]
really, it has something to do with libraries, you just have to make it up for yourself
Like a most other 0th-generation Oregonians I’ve met, I’m interested in the local lore. I usually find it hard to identify with people scalping indians, trapping beaver and cutting down the biggest trees they can find, but the landscape is fascinating, and I haven’t yet grown tired of its starring role in the recent, desperate [...]
stupid (awesome) internet
I was going to write a whole post about this but it never happened so, here, I want to direct your attention to this lovely essay by Karen Joy Fowler at the Powell’s blog because she describes beautifully the feeling i was trying to explain here. Stupid (awesome) internet.
adventures with Aardvark
i signed up with the q/a service Aardvark a few months ago out of curiosity and some professional sense of “i should know about this”. my experiences with it have ranged from unremarkable to amusing to somewhat upsetting. I know a lot of librarians out there “slam the boards” or otherwise participate in non-library question [...]
geocities, you will not be forgotten
I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the passing of Geocities. This coming Sunday, October 26th, Yahoo! is shutting down the site for good. I am not going to tell you I learned HTML with Geocities, or wax nostalgic on how awesome it was that they let anyone have a website for free, [...]
YOUR STUPID LIBRARY BRANDING HERE pts. 1 and 2
Aaron wrote recently about EBSCOHost Connection, a service from EBSCO that puts their source material into search engines, then lets end users log in through their library.
Nice idea. It’s something I’m interested in: how do we get the library materials into the search engines?
Sometimes you see hits from JSTOR or PubMed also, and searching around, [...]
cupcakes and wcl
the history faculty are coming over later and i have to try to convince them that worldcat local isn’t the end of the world. so i brought cupcakes because i can’t think of any other arguments.
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Command-F by Rachel Bridgewater, Anne-Marie Deitering, Caleb Tucker-Raymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 2009 ⌘f.
