Tag Surfing: An Outreach Tool?

One of the nicer features of WordPress is their “tag surfer” feature. It allows you to view entries from other WordPress.com hosted blogs that match categories and tags used in your own blog.
It occurs to me that this feature might be used by libraries and librarians with WordPress hosted blogs as an outreach tool. When [...]

Why We Fight - Writers make it clear

Leave to writers to have an articulate explanation of why they’re on strike. Watch the video and then tell me their case doesn’t make sense.
Since it wasn’t credited, I do have to wonder where the music came from. Hopefully it was podsafe.

Information R/evolution

Thanks to Samantha for pointing out this video on Twitter. It’s a fun and creative viewing. It’s a little too either/or for me. Especially now that I have some experience with wiki-spam. Still, I think many of the videos points are well taken. Especially the point about how the digital realm allows us to put [...]

Librarian resistance through the ages

Stephen Abrams has a post called Kicking and Screaming, which gives a good overview of technologies or approaches that librarians have resisted over the years.
A few good quotes:
“It is certainly not the function of the public library to foster the mind-weakening habit of novel-reading among the very classes—the uneducated, busy or idle—whom it is the [...]

Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life

Another coming out party on Second Life, according to the folks on the Infoisland.org blog.
Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life
Nonprofits Celebrate New Home in Second Life:
Nonprofit Commons Grand Opening Gala Event on August 14th, 2007
Contact: Susan Tenby, susan@techsoup.org
Phone: (415) 633-9333
SL avatar: Glitteractica Cookie
http://www.nonprofitcommons.org
http://npsl.wikispaces.com/
San Francisco Meets the Metaverse: 32 Nonprofits and their supporters will [...]

RSS 4 UR State from USGS

The US Geological Survey has a number of RSS feeds, including ones that can be customized for your state. Check these out at USGS - RSS Feeds

Talk It Up!: Social Media Stupor Syndrome

From Heidi Miller’s Talk It Up!: Social Media Stupor Syndrome:
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“I’ve had a terrible case of Social Media Stupor Syndrome, with underlying Microblogging Paralysis. And it’s not just me–it’s an epidemic. Lee Hopkins spoke about this in his latest vidcast, and Mitch Joel discussed this very serious issue on Six Pixels of Separation. I was in [...]

Barbara Q explains why less is more

I just really enjoyed this quote from Barbara Quint in the latest issue of Searcher:
“Less, not more. That’s what people want. So I thought and still think. But then comes user-generated content and RSS and social networking and Second Life and you name it to fog up my crystal ball. The other day I read [...]

Aussie explains Facebook, Copyright Issues

Australian PR Blogger Lee Hopkins has a long but entertaining and thoughtful post over at his blog Better Communications Results.
It’s a wide-ranging post reflecting on the differences between Facebook and MySpace, the multitude of networks that beg for one’s attention and whether it can avoid MySpace’s fate of getting drowned in spam. I’ve wondered about [...]

Twitter me this, Batman!

At some point, I’m going to have to learn to say no to some new social media technology.
But until then, consider friending me at http://www.twitter.com/dcornwall.
Blame For Immediate Release, Rochelle and Casa Grande library if you’d like.
If I find really interesting uses for Twitter, I’ll report back.