I Was Assaulted By This Man Who Identified Himself as a Police Officer and Refused to Provide Me Identification, Photography is Not a Crime Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk. No, I wasn’t assaulted, but the photographer was. This image and long thread of comments at Flickr fascinates me. Privacy..First Ammendment rights… photography…it all illustrates how the world is changing and that those changes can bring about messy events. At the bottom of the comments, someone proposes a Flash Mob at the site on the one year anniversary of the assault. I hope they do it.
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The folks at Allen County Public Library asked their patrons to take photos on a specific day and then send them in. The created a collection called “A Day in Allen County” for their library Flickr presence. http://flickr.com/photos/acplinfo/sets/72157600001135158/ Hey libraries – you can do this too! How about: A Day in ____________ A Day at the Library (or branch or department) A Day on Campus etc.
Check out this video from ALA Publishing! I love seeing everyone’s face — and those folks are having FUN!
http://www.pioneerlocal.com/evanston/news/forum/295064,pp-editorial-031407-s1.article From the Evanston Review: A freshman state senator has proposed a law that would ban access to social networking Web sites, such as MySpace, at libraries and public schools. Sen. Matt Murphy (R-27th) of Palatine, believes his legislation would make life safer for youths because it could prevent contact with potential sexual predators via computers at those sites. We do not doubt that Sen. Murphy is sincere in his desire to make life as safe as possible for the children of Illinois. Others like him see forums like MySpace that didn’t exist a decade ago and liken them to […]
From a Macworld chat with Flickr co-founder and general manager Stewart Butterfield: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/flickr/index.php IDGNS: If you’re the eyes of the world, do you foresee Flickr getting a news component? Butterfield: Yes, we already allow for that and it already happens but it’s not surfaced nor packaged up very well. But almost every day, Flickr is used as a source for photos that either don’t exist anywhere else or that there’s just a bigger variety on Flickr. A good example is when the New York Yankee player’s plane crashed into a [Manhattan] building. A text bulletin went out on the wires […]
Yup, I’m on Twitter Originally uploaded by mstephens7. http://twitter.com/mstephens7 http://www.davidleeking.com/2007/03/06/twitter-anyone/
Please vote for Jim Rettig for ALA president on March 15.
Read my interview with Robert Doyle: http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/02/thoughtful-advocates-an-ala-techsource-interview-with-ilas-robert-doyle.html “If people were better informed about social networking sites and knew and used basic Internet safety tips, the cloud of fear may decline.”—Robert Doyle, Executive Director of the Illinois Library Association
Check us out! Originally uploaded by Newport Public Library. Just a nice Flickr moment I thought I’d share. It does my heart good to see the human side of the library.
Some good advice for libraries establishing MySpace profiles: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413453.html This is GOLD: Real innovation (and real Web 2.0, as I’ve argued elsewhere) is an attitude you take toward the service you provide. If your library has blogs, for example, you should use your blog to make readers aware of new library services and resources. Your blog should not be just a self-promotion machine. Highlight upcoming events, everything from sewing bees, lectures, LEGO Mindstorm events, writers’ workshops, and book clubs. Sites like MySpace allow you to post bulletins to your friends as well as blog. You can use these tools to […]