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Interesting and well thought response to Carson's Laws for using photos you take at your library (Information Today, Sept/October 08), focusing on libraries using flickr to archive images, especially those of patrons. I'm not sure that I agree with the argument for not using consent forms, but overall, a thought provoking piece. I think the goals of extending the library and promoting the

I love mike wesch's videos.

Slideshare the cool site that allows easy sharing of powerpoint slides via the web AND converts powerpoint into a more web friendly format for embedding, emailing, etc. has now started a great series on slide tips. Do you think they got tired of all of the really bad powerpoint presentations being loaded at their site? :-) Everyday, by some estimates, people deliver roughly 30 million

Cobbled together from a listserv and elsewhere:As many of you know, we have been trying for the past four years to get a car tag for Georgia Public Libraries. We need 1,000 people to sign up for one before the Department of Motor Vehicles will produce the car tag. So far, we only have 64 people signed up and the deadline is December 31, 2008! We need your help! The car tag is listed

Just a heads up: moonshine arts magazine is seeking writers, reviewers, podcasters, & artists for the next issue (october 10). We are looking for poets, short story writers, book reviewers, music reviewers (especially local & regional), essayists on culture and history as relates to art as well as artists "writing from the studio". Writings from the studio are short essays capturing the

I haven't had any problems watching Hulu using Firefox3, but I did have the occasional problem with sound on Firefox2.x. In the earlier version, I sometimes had to un-install and re-install the flash add-on. Anyhow, since upgrading to Firefox 3. (now 3.1), I've had no problems. ...but for those watching Hulu with no sound, here is more help. http://getsatisfaction.com/hulu/topics/

Although not specifically library related, considering how many seminars, workshops, and conferences we all attend, this might be an interesting webinar (and free!) Second Circle Event Technologies - Beyond Registration to Community Engagement September 18, 2008 2:00 PM EDT | Register Now! Events and meetings are a critical element of your overall market relationship management (MRM) strategy

For those of you who are dealing with the impact of Desmoid tumors (in my case my sister), please do check out the Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation. ------------------------------------ Please join DTRF in supporting the Sarcoma Patient Registry developed by The Sarcoma Foundation of America. You can start the process by going to DTRF's website (www.dtrf.org). On the bottom left hand side

Although a good portion of what I read in terms of change in libraries is cataloging/metadata/systems related (metadata for electronic & digital objects, nex-gen catalogs, rda, opensource ILS, products to enhance user experience that work with the existing catalog (e.g., vufind, etc.), changes in LC policy, etc.), occasionally an article which is more reference oriented wanders across my desk.

Okay, so this will be of little interest to anyone outside of my organization, but here is a little diagram I came up with to help illustrate how the ETD MARC conversion/crosswalk script currently works with the Ultimate db. Just one example of the kind of things I do BESIDES web2.0/emerging technologies.

Nice preview of openoffice 3 (woohoo!) Honestly, I haven't missed dumping Microsoft Office yet... ...and if you'd like to see a little demo, try this one which covers all of the types of openoffice (databases, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations):

Are you tired of chrome yet? Not even sure what chrome is? Here is the story of chrome (google's new browser): ..to be honest, it looks an awful lot like firefox3.... but no support for RSS Feeds? Are you kidding? Lots of chatter about its TOS, too, but apparently some of that was old verbage and has now been modified, at least, that is the official story. Bottom line is > read the TOS. ;-)

Click to play http://www.libraryman.com/blog/2008/08/23/hi-fi-sci-fi-library-back-story/

Cogmap is an online organization/project group chart creator. http://www.cogmap.com/ Someone has created one for microsoft, too. http://www.cogmap.com/chart/microsoft Kind of an interesting idea!

I was digging around in my webspace and found this brief overview of cataloging. This was created for an introductory technical services class for the Gwinnett school medial library program. Cataloging basicsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: basics training)

Whoa, so have you checked out shutterfly lately? I haven't done anything with my account there in FOREVER, because well, shutterfly didn't seem to do much. It certainly wasn't as great as flickr. However, shutterfly has jumped into the social networking venue with both feet -- take a look at my "profile" shutterfly page vs my flickr page. Okay, Okay, I know, the shutterfly page is more than

From Zen Habits, with my thoughts in brackets. 1. Online applications and the cloud beat the desktop and hard drive 2. Collaborate on documentation [online], don't email [Don't collaborate on paper, either. If needed, make screenshots of prototypes to share with the group. ] 3. Collaboration is the new productivity [not necessarily true, if you've ever been on a dysfunctional committee or

So, I'm probably (long story) taking this class focused on web2.0, scripting, etc. I've not taken an academic class focused on web2.0 technology, so I am excited about that. I certainly read enough about web2.0 and experiment with things (and can't count how many conferences, seminars, etc. I have attended), but it will be interesting to get a more scholarly perspective on it. Who knows, I may

Nice little tutorial. Getting Started with FlickrView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: flickr howto)

Hearwho.com is a free online service which converts text (type it in or copy + paste) to a downloadable audio mp3. Choices include: male or female voice, English or Spanish language, and then a couple of choices for quality. I'm not sure how well it works with a large chunk of scientific or medical text, but still an interesting project. http://www.hearwho.com/ ---- Very cool!