Posted in Conferences, Eh?, Web 2.0, tagged IL2007 on Sunday, November 4, 2007 | No Comments »
As was to be expected, a lot of the audience had their laptops out and were clicking away (taking notes) during talks. Here we are, preaching to ourselves the usefulness of technological solutions, and then we don’t put our money where out mouth is. Sure, the conference organizers provided a print booklet of any presentation [...]
Posted in Blogging, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
This October, the ranking of top 10 social networking or blogging sites in the U.S. looks like this:
1. MySpace
2. Facebook
3. Classmates Online
4. Windows Live Spaces
5. AOL Hometwon
6. Reunion.com
7. LinkedIn
8. AOL People Connection
9. Club Penguin
10. Buzznet
I’ve only ever heard of 1, 2, and 7; my husband thinks 9 is for kids. Are we hermits or what!? [...]
Posted in Clever, Digital rights, Images, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 | No Comments »
The Wikimedia Commons site offers loads and loads of pictures, for free. Or, as they put it, it “provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts” (quote from the Welcome page). What an exciting resource for educators! Be sure to check the usage [...]
Posted in Solutions, Usability, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Feedity offers a way to generate RSS feeds for any web sites. I only found one useful short review, so I don’t know how useful it is.
Found via What I Learned Today.
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Via LibrarianInBlack:
The Festsite Party Printer website allows you to print out text in waves, spiral, or heart shape, for instance. Straightforward and nifty.
The Web Video Cheat Sheet lists a multitude of video sharing sites and their features.
There’s also a list of portable freeware for software that you can carry around on your flash drive. (Remember [...]
Posted in Academic, Library 2.0, Studies, Tech, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
(I’m obviously going through my aggregator tonight.)
I found these through Library 2.0 – An academic’s perspective:
At The College of New Jersey, the modern languages librarian has added a tag cloud with links to pertinent links at del.icio.us to the library’s Italian Studies resources page. In addition, some of the del.icio.us bookmarks have been inserted on [...]
Posted in Library 2.0, Museums, Searching, Usability, Web 2.0 on Monday, July 16, 2007 | No Comments »
A few interesting things found via What I Learned Today:
Laura Cohen wrote A Librarian’s 2.0 Manifesto with several good practices on keeping with the times regardless of the type of library you’re in.
The WikiMindMap lets you browse Wikipedia graphically. Clicking links on the image takes you to the article in question. Nice for the folks [...]
Posted in Conferences, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Note to self: remember to check out the Social Software Showcase presentations [wiki].
“The Social Software Showcase is an online unconference occuring around and during the time of ALA Annual 2007.”
Posted in Searching, Web 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Another interesting link from What I Learned Today:
SearchCrystal searches across five engines, and arranges the results in a visual grid (if you can call a circle a grid). Each engine is color-tagged. The links (text, images, video, blogs, news, or tags) found by more than one engine get a multi-color blob next to it, and [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Grabbed from the What I Learned Today blog: Blaise Aguera y Arcas talks about Seadragon and Photosynth [video] These programs take images and link them for viewing, or to create a representation of an environment. They, with Microsoft’s table computer [video], made me gasp. Just think what we could do if we had people with [...]
