I’ll be talking with some educators from the country of Georgia about Web 2.0 kinds of things (blogs, wikis, sites where people can share other content, social networking sites, bookmarking sites, etc.). I know about a lot of the popular and good sites in America and among English speakers. I would be grateful for any [...]
I’ve spent way too much time these last few weeks moving blogs from Manila, the platform Harvard’s Berkman Center used to offer as a blog platform, to WordPress Multiuser, the platform they’re now using. Here are a few notes to help those of you also dealing with the migration.
Since WordPress doesn’t always deal well with [...]
A few days ago, someone on Newslib suggested using the Economic Research Institute’s Web site to find the tax forms non-profits file called 990s. It looks like ERI specializes in the salaries of non-profit executives, but some data from 990 forms are included on the Web site for free.
I saw a really cool Ask commercial tonight. It featured a man searching for cars who was explaining how Ask is smart enough to link concepts together. Pretty cool.
“Ask.com is pimped out search engine,” he says after explaining how it links pimped out and tight cars together.
Speaking of Ask, our hero, Gary Price, is touring. [...]
Ok, so, usually I pretty much ignore recommendation engines because they’re often so far off for my tastes, they’re just pathetic noise. When I logged on to Amazon to update my Wish List (you know, my fourth (count them … fourth) blogiversary is next week …) I was stunned to see Jump, Little Children’s CD [...]
I let out a gasp when I read the front page of The Boston Globe today before I even really processed what made me gasp. Kurt Vonnegut is dead. I was lucky enough to be able to hear one of his lectures while I was in grad school. I remember being amazed by it and [...]
Richard sent me a CNN video that shows the latest from One Laptop Per Child.
Jim shared this excellent photograph of a class in Nigeria turning the laptops on. The man in black with a laptop in front of the class is Khaled Hassounah, OLPC’s director of Middle East and Africa.
A reminder to those of you blogging on the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Manila blog server: The server is getting shut down. Migrate, backup, copy, etc., your content on that server before the April 11 deadline.
I completely forgot to blog something Mel asked me to write about a few weeks ago. My apologies, Mel! She’s doing a project concerning how librarians store and organize engineering toys, i.e. tools, models, games, etc., engineering students use to learn about engineering and would like some help from and discussion with librarians. She asks:
“If [...]
The March 2007 Nature has a bit on resumes and blogs looking at whether blogs are the new resume.
From one of Garrett’s Library News & Notes