Archive for November 4th, 2005

The Magic and Power of Feeds

Friday, November 4th, 2005

I think I talked for about an hour and fifteen minutes including time for some really great questions at today’s program at NELINET. The outline of my talk is linked above.
Every time I give a talk, I find myself thinking, especially based on questions in the audience, “Is this the best order of my slides? […]

Library Access via Mobile Devices

Friday, November 4th, 2005

After my talk, Ball State University Assistant Dean for Library Info Technology Services Bradley Faust passed around a few mobile devices, like a Pocket PC, and talked about Ball State’s decision to offer special Web sites for people using Web browsers on smaller devices.
The library developed a number of special search services geared toward people […]

Wikis in Libraries

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Amy Harrell gave a fantastic presentation on wikis in libraries. Her handout, which is an outline of her talk, is linked above.
Of course, we can’t talk about wikis without also mentioning Wikipedia. I plugged Wikimania after her talk. Several people expressed an interest in the conference.
During the break, someone asked me about Wikipedia. As […]

gapingvoid Blogcards

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Last night, I overheard someone say a quote I recognize from gapingvoid:
"The price of being a sheep is boredom.The price of
being a wolf is loneliness.Choose one or the other with great care."
“Oh, you read gapingvoid?” I asked.
“gapingvoid? What’s that?” he asked.
“It’s a blog with lots of cool comics. I recognize the quote from one of […]

The Internet Librarian Calculator

Friday, November 4th, 2005

So, I’m at a fabulous NELINET program today about blogs, wikis, feeds, and mobile technology. Susan Herzog is speaking now about blogs. (She’s awesome, by the way. I heard she’s speaking again in December.) She just made a point about how people can blog all over the place. She told some stories about bloggers blogging […]


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