David Weinberger’s Web of Ideas series at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society features Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter on Tuesday evening, October 25, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. Free pizza! Del.icio.us is a popular social bookmark tool featuring tagging, a type of metatdata for the people by the people. His talk, which is open [...]
MassINC, the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, will give tours of its redesigned Web site from the Massachusetts State House on Wednesday, October 26. They want to bring their new site to the people who use it or could benefit from it the most by taking it on the road. They’re even providing coffee [...]
This Globe and Mail article linked above describes a situation where someone supposedly from one airline company wrote some bad things about a competitor in Wikipedia. As soon as Wikipedians noticed what happened, they removed the edit.
(Yes, I mean that as a joke related to the funny video available through the above link. Thank goodness for BS!)
Is there some kind of aggregator that enables the easy sharing of selected items in it or some easy way to share specific items in a feed with other people? A few members of the audience of the talk I gave in Wisconsin discussed the need for such software. Several of them already use a [...]
When one of my professional colleagues told me he put a question about me on the midterm exam for the course he teaches, I, at first, thought he was kidding. Then, I felt bad for the students. It wasn’t something off my weblog, though, so it’s not like they were required to read this stuff [...]
I used PowerPoint for the presentation I gave on Wednesday. Using slides makes it easier for people in the audience to see the information I’m presenting. However, I often find myself feeling “locked in” to PowerPoint. Switching from PowerPoint to browse the Web seems so clunky to me. I like presenting from a Web browser [...]
According to sj’s Wiki Hut of Horror or Longest Now, Wikimania 2006 will be in Boston. Details about the location are on the wiki for the bid. sj sent an e-mail to the blog group list with information about how people can help Boston host the conference. (Access to the e-mail might be restricted to [...]
This American Journal of Psychiatry article about the New York State Psychiatric Institute’s library and librarians is making its way around librarian discussion lists and weblogs. Library user and doctor David V. Forrest writes about his beloved library, the librarians, and the challenges they face.
On Friday, I gave a case study at the Advocating for New Technology session of the N-Ten 2005 Boston Regional Conference: Enabling Technology Funding: Issues for Grantmakers and Grantseekers. Unfortunately, it’s not a case study I can share in detail on this weblog, but it deals with how I advocated for my office to begin [...]