Category: Social Networks
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Tagging Baby Wipes (an interview with LibraryThing’s Tim Spalding)
I’m about halfway through another excellent Interview with Innovators podcast with Jon Udell interviewing Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing. The title comes from a throwaway comment Tim made about why people care to tag books, but why they don’t tag so much at Amazon. I’ve never heard Jon laugh like that before 🙂 I don’t…
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CBC To Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent
Cool! Not a program I would’ve watched ordinarily, but I’ll be giving it a shot. Michael Geist points out that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation plans to freely release a high-resolution version of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister via peer-to-peer networks without any DRM restrictions. And in a Naked Conversations moment, Tessa Sproule, CBC’s Executive in…
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JungleDisk for online storage
Does anyone have any experience with JungleDisk for online storage? Really would love to hear some real-world feedback. Thanks! Technorati Tags: JungleDisk, AmazonS3
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Another way for libraries to advertise in Facebook
Via Tame The Web, a Flickr account of one library’s use of Facebook ads to simply promote the library page in Facebook. The caption on the picture is, "64310 imprints, 67 clicks and 15 fans". Technorati Tags: Facebook
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Search Engine – recommended podcast
Search Engine is a CBC radio show, also available as a podcast. I just listened to a fascinating piece about the economy of gold farmers in World of Warcraft. 100,000 Chinese working in sweatshop conditions, killing monsters for gold in 12-hour shifts, so the people playing the game can spend some real money to buy…
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LITA Distance Learning Interest Group at ALA Midwinter
From the DLIG Blog: You are invited to the LITA Distance Learning Interest Group discussion! Saturday, January 12, 10:30-12:00pm, Courtyard Downtown, Salon III #3 on the map (PDF). The LITA Distance Learning Interest Group will meet at the 2008 ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia to discuss current issues in distance learning and some of the…
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New Pew Report: Information Searches That Solve Problems
The folks at the Pew Internet and American Life project have just released a new report entitled Information Searches That Solve Problems. The focus of the survey was how Americans address common problems that might be linked to government. The problems covered in the survey: 1) dealing with a serious illness or health concern; 2)…
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Some initial thoughts on library advertising in Facebook
Earlier this year our library received a nice chunk of change from our Students Union to help promote a couple of services that they had sponsored in previous years; ebrary and Refworks. They were concerned that the general student body wasn’t as aware of these resources as they could be, so wanted us to have…
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Potentially Interesting article
Don’t have easy access to this one myself, will probably go through ILL, but it sounds like an interesting article: LIBRARIES, SOCIAL SOFTWARE AND DISTANCE LEARNERS: BLOG IT, TAG IT, SHARE IT!Secker, J; Price, G New Review of Information Networking (ISSN: 1361-4576); Volume 13, No. 1, pp. 39-52; 2007
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Second Life for Distance Education
The Chronicle has a very brief piece mentioning San Jose State University’s use of Second Life to deliver instruction to distance students enrolled in their SLIS program. Also included is a video segment from their local PBS station in which several faculty and students are interviewed. Lots of strong comments about the use of Second…