Category: Ideas
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A distraction-free desktop
Uh-oh, it’s going to be one of those days! One of those neat days where one idea leads to another, and lots of thoughts fire in my brain. As soon as I finished that post about continuous partial attention, I switched over to my aggregator and saw that Jon Udell is thinking about the exact…
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Call for Chapters – casebook on online information literacy programs
As noted on the OffCamp listserv, and in A Library Writer’s Blog, there is a call for chapters for an upcoming casebook on online information literacy programs. Chapter proposals are due on or before Sept. 30, and if accepted, they’ll be looking for about 15-pages by Feb 2007. “The goal of the book is to…
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36,000,000 IMs per day
Yeah, it’s a big number, but it’s just the drop in the bucket that Meebo processes every day – imagine how many more Instant Messages are sent in the native interfaces! The number comes from an interesting writeup of a meeting he had with Meebo by Tim O’Reilly. Lots of little interesting “new ways of…
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Is Screencasting coming to SafariU?
I’m recommending another Jon Udell production to you; this time a 43-minute interview with CJ Rayhill of SafariU about their product, and technology in education in general. SafariU is an O’Reilly customized textbook product that allows profs to pick and choose content to create a customized copyright-cleared textbook for sale to students, and that also…
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Two things to listen to (to which to listen?)
I’ve got two short audio files to recommend. The first comes from the ALA Library 2.0 Bootcamp (which I think finished this week), and is from creativity consultant Kathryn Deiss. At first I thought it was a rebuttal to some of the posts that were disparaging the Bootcamp a couple of weeks ago, but then…
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Two more candidates for Screencasting on the Mac
Still don’t yet have a way to test these myself, but here are two more candidates for screencasting on the Mac: Screenography — Major Pro: has the ability to output directly to Flash. Con: does not record audio (they say they’re working on it). $39.95 US (maybe regularly $49.95 US) Screenography is an extremely easy…
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Jon Udell, God of So Many Things
You’ve probably heard of Jon Udell before, possibly as the guy who built the first Library Lookup bookmarklet, or perhaps as the guy who’s credited with coining the term “screencasting“. Today though, I heart Jon because he built an unofficial RSS feed to receive episodes of This American Life as a podcast. When I moved…
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ALA Programs of possible Interest to DLS members
The DLS Liaison Committee has compiled a list of programs at ALA Annual in New Orleans later this month, that may be of interest to the DLS membership. This was originally sent to the OFFCAMP mailing list: Friday, June 23(Pre-Conference) Reinvented Reference: The Integration of Digital and Traditional Reference Services — 8:00 a.m. – 4:30…
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CFP: IRSQ – special issue focusing on social software and libraries
Michael Stephens has posted that he’s editing an upcoming issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly: Internet Reference Services Quarterly, a refereed journal published by The Haworth Press Inc., invites proposals for a special issue focusing on social software and libraries. The issue (12/3) will tentatively be published in Winter 2007, edited by Michael Stephens, Instructor,…