The ResourceShelf shares some thoughts on copyright and YouTube. What is the role of sites like these that post community media in informing their users about copyright law? How can they prevent violators from posting non-compliant material?
Do I really need to introduce Gary Price and Steven Cohen to you? They’re giving a team presentation now about keeping up-to-date. I’m not going to be able to keep up with the session, let alone keeping up in general. It’s a very good thing that Gary has already put his presentation online and so [...]
Second Life is a virtual world that’s become very popular with some of my friends and the folks at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Some folks behind the library in Second Life are giving a talk in a few minutes. I think I might go to that, even though Second Life doesn’t interest [...]
Next on the schedule is Sabrina Pacifici and Greg Schwartz of Open Stacks, who will tell us about how to search tools like blogs. Sabrina is speaking first.
Sabrina–it feels odd to call her by her last name when I’ve been refering to her and her work using her first name for a while–said she has [...]
Greg Notess, known for Search Engine Showdown, is giving us another take on search engines and advanced searching.
Northern Light is back with some searches for business sources.
alltheweb makes suggestions as you type. It uses Yahoo!’s database.
The way Notess’ presentation is structured, it’s easier for me just to list the various resource he’s showing us than [...]
For years, I have heard colleagues rave about Mary Ellen Bates’ presentations at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. This talk is the first time I’ve gone to hear her. Her sessions often fill to overflowing at SLA and there are so many other great sessions, I usually attend something else. She’s great. Everything [...]
Chris Sherman is of Search Engine Watch. With Gary Price, he coauthored a book about the invisible Web a few years ago.
I am torn between sessions in the Web Design and Development track and the Information Discovery and Search track. The Web Design and Development track has a lot of Web 2.0 stuff in it. [...]
One of the things I learned early as a writer is to always go to talks by writers whenever possible. An advantage of going to librarians’ conferences is that there are often writers speaking. Internet Librarian kicked off with a talk by J. A. Jance. It won’t surprise some of you to know I have [...]
On Tuesday, November 14, I’m giving a 90-minute talk at the Boston Center for Adult Education focusing on politics and blogging. One of the first projects I was involved in as a blogger was covering a lot of US presidential campaign events in New Hampshire in 2003. A number of us from the blog group [...]
In certain circles, "porn" has become a slang term for beautiful photos of any variety of things. Cookbooks might have food porn. Remodeling books might have house porn. You get the idea. Garrett sent me a link to some gorgeous photographs of amazing libraries based on a book.
I’ve seen the page before and intended to [...]