I’ve posted about this blog already but I have to come back to it. A Dominican University Journalism class is using a Blogspot blog to report news and more to the campus and beyond. Our Dean of Rosary College, Jeff Carlson, shared the URL with me and I subscribed immediately. I was rather excited so I emailed the GSLIS Faculty and the Academic IT Committee: It’s a journalism class – and the content just keeps coming! The voices are human, honest and engaging. I have learned so much about Dominican and student life from this blog – I’ve added it […]
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Remember the Flickr & Libraries post? Here’s a great respoonse from a library director: My point is that we have so much legalese that comes in that it cripples a library’s ability to operate in this way. You can’t put people’s picture on flickr because of their rights (even though they don’t care). It’s no wonder that libraries can often seem faceless or uncaring. All the legal makes it so you can’t do very much or you violate someone’s privacy. Libraries are afraid to use a patron’s email to let them know about an event at the library or services […]
Via Brett Kochendorfer Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. This means means more people engaging more deeply with your website — and with each other. In this video, Google Product Marketing Manager Mendel Chuang gives a short introduction to Google Friend Connect. Very interesting -especially the bit about ease of sign on via any number of services and adding the Friend Connect to your site takes no programming skills whatsoever. Looks like ratings, friends and comments can easily be integrated. Ways it might affect libraries: Folks will come to expect this […]
Nice article from Jefferson Graham about YouTube in the USAToday from last Friday: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008-10-23-youtube-tv-episodes_N.htm The new YouTube, more popular than ever, has a different look. Much, but not all, unlicensed content is gone, replaced by approved material from such producers as CBS, HBO, Showtime, Sony Television and Lionsgate. Google-owned YouTube also has tossed aside its 10-minute-video limit rule. It is running full-length episodes of TV shows, starting with a test of three CBS-owned shows: Star Trek, MacGyver and Beverly Hills, 90210. The moves are a response to competition from sites offering full-length videos including Hulu, Veoh and blip.tv, which are gaining traction with […]
Micro-Interactions in a 2.0 World (v2) View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web 2.0) I wanted to stand up and cheer. My conference notes are here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IDEA2008+mstephens7
I’ve heard from a couple of directors about the legal issues of Flickr article: http://tametheweb.com/2008/09/18/legally-should-libraries-not-be-using-flickr/ I thought it would be cool to do a “The Directors & Managers Respond…” piece. Please send your thoughts and I’ll share them via a blog post. mstephens7 (at) mac.com
Teen Team 2008, originally uploaded by mclib dot net.
By Michael Casey & Michael Stephens As the buzz around social networking continues, consider that author Kevin Kelly has called the emerging web “One Machine” and predicts that “total personalization in this new world will require total transparency.” So, where do we fit in? Where do we position ourselves as professionals? We two don’t completely agree, so we thought we’d try to tease out the relationship between personal/social transparency and library transparency. MS: I think the line between the personal and the professional online has blurred so much recently that it’s impossible to separate them. MC: Our worlds are colliding-I […]
There’s an excellent new article from Sarah Houghton-Jan at Ariadne: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue56/houghton-jan/ All of it is golden, but here are some bits that resonated with me: Make an Inventory of Your Devices Not only do we need to consider the data, and the mechanism for their input, but the devices we use to access that data. I have a choice about accessing my work email; I can use any of three different computers or my smart phone. I have a choice about what device I use to talk to my parents; do I use my home phone or my smart phone? […]
!, originally uploaded by capemaycountylibrary. Justin Hoenke writes: I’m the teen librarian at the Cape May County Library here in Cape May Court House, NJ. I put together a “video games on tour at the library” event at our library that’s going on this week and so far it’s been really successful. We’ve had people of all ages coming out to test games at the library…it has been great! Here are some photos! http://www.flickr.com/photos/capemaycountylibrary/