David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!:
why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library:
Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop
why pay attention to change
There are best practices to handle change
Why […]
David Weinberger, author of Everything is miscellaneous and member of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society gave the Wednesday keynote talk called the Miscellaneous Knowledge, which he changed to The Smell of Knowledge at the 2008 Massachusetts Library Association conference in Falmouth, Mass.:
Bought up the fact that letters used to have the smell of […]
Instead of doing lots of little posts about upcoming conferences, I’m going to be slack and do a list in one post. I can’t remember for certain if I’ve written about these before in this space, so forgive me if I’m repeating myself.
MacCamp Boston, Saturday, May 10: A free forum dealing with Mac issues at […]
Oh, the things I learn from reading Babbledog at work. John Palfrey, who has been the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for years, is leaving his post to become the new vice dean of library and information resources at Harvard Law School. While Palfrey’s new job heralds a major change […]
At MIT today and tomorrow, there’s a very popular (read: this conference filled up months ago) conference dealing with humor on the Internet and some Web 2.0 things called ROFLcon for ‘rolling on the floor laughing’. The organizers are kind enough to present us with a webcast: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/roflcon-live. It’s possible some of the ‘cast will […]
With a title like that, I can only think what Jonathan Zittrain wrote in his book must be grim because otherwise, we wouldn’t want to stop it.
One of the first things Zittrain said after taking the mic is that he used to title things poorly. I think that was in reference to something else, not […]
As part of their 10 year anniversary celebration, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hoping to award someone US$50,000 for their contributions to the Internet. Nominations are due tomorrow, Friday, April 11. Somehow I missed the news about this award. I’m sure you probably have some great suggestions or know some folks who […]
ZDNet’s Dana Blankenhorn has some comments on the Project for Excellence In Journalism’s State of the News Media 2008 report:
http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2008/index.php
“The problem is you’ve got an industry blaming the customers for its own failures, and that never works.
I’ve been watching the disaster unfold from the front row for over a decade and I have to say […]
As always, Garrett has an amazing wealth of stuff in his weekly Library News & Notes. I couldn’t find a permalink for this week’s edition, though.
Here are some of the highlights. I myself don’t know where to begin reading.
Credible Web? It’s where we click most: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0319/p17s01-stct.html
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web: […]
I’ve done a bad job this week of telling you about cool events before they happen. I’m at a book release talk about global Internet filtering based on research by the OpenNet Initiative. Behind the speakers, various Web pages blocked in different countries flash on a screen as do pages from different countries indicating the […]