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Sarah Houghton-Jan of the San Jose Public Library and Shannon Staley of the San Jose State University Library gave a talk called (Microsoft) SharePoint for Libraries: Streamlining Your Intranet Management. Both of them created a joint intranet using Microsoft SharePoint, a free content management program. It offers shared workspaces and documents, wikis, blogs, calendaring, RSS [...]

Facebook reports that people have uploaded 10 billion photo to the site: “Now, that’s a big number, but we actually store four image sizes for each uploaded photo, so that’s over 40 billion files.” Other stats: * 2-3 Terabytes of photos are being uploaded to the site every day * We have just over one [...]

Greetings from the Internet Librarian 2008 Conference in Monterey, CA. The flight from Boston was fine, except a problem with the connecting flight. Here are some pictures from Sunday’s Gaming Night: Posted by Rich IL2008

There’s a talk at the NELA Conference on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8:30 am called “News savvy: Journalists, Citizen Journalism and the News Consumer: Newspapers, broadcasters, citizen journalists and an array of bloggers provide news and opinion around the clock on the printed page, on TV, radio and via computers and telephones. With the [...]

The October 14 Quincy Patriot Ledger has an article called “Libraries popular with penny pinchers:” “QUINCY — One child needs tutoring, another wants to see a movie, and mom and dad could really use a quiet evening at an art exhibit or a film screening. With money tight, and discretionary spending a thing of yesterday’s [...]

I’m going to the Internet Librarian Conference 2008 held on October 20-22, 2008 in Monterey, CA so I will have plenty of postings and pics of the conf, if all goes right (knock on wood). This will be the first time I’m attending it. Have been to several Computers in Libraries conferences though not in [...]

Just a reminder that the early registration for the New England Library Association Annual Conference being held October 19-21, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire ends on Friday October 10, 2008. For more info: http://www.nelib.org/conference/2008/index.htm Posted by Rich

The October 5 Sunday New York Times had an article on gaming called “Using Video Games As Bait To Hook Readers”: “The online game that Mr. Haarsma designed not only extends the fictional world of the novel, it also allows readers to play in it. At the same time, Mr. Haarsma very calculatedly gave gamers [...]

Rachel Singer Gordon of the Liminal Librarian blog is looking for regular reviewers for technology-related titles for her new online publication called Tech Static: “The Tech Static, a new technology book review outlet for librarians launching this November, is seeking regular reviewers for technology-related titles. Please be comfortable with technology and with the prospect of [...]

Technorati has released it’s 2008 State of the Blogosphere Report which states: * Blogs are pervasive and part of our daily lives: “There have been a number of studies aimed at understanding the size of the Blogosphere, yielding widely disparate estimates of both the number of blogs and blog readership. All studies agree, however, that [...]