Tag Archives: technology
Stephen Kellat: Defining Value
From Stephen Kellat, over at the LISTen podcast:
While many in the First World are more connected than ever with online tools and gadgetry, attention is taken away from the real world around you. When you functionally cease to be part of a community, value and cost make little sense to you. When you functionally cease [...]
Navigation via Pancake
No, that’s not a typo.
If I haven’t made it clear before, I freakin’ love Google Maps. As if it couldn’t get any better, the street-view interface has been updated with the ability to click-and-drag your way to new destinations, or even new perspectives. Ovals (for linear distances) and rectangles (for the edifices of buildings) indicate [...]
Open for Questions
I’ve commented before on how impressed I am with the Obama administration’s excellent use of social networking and Web 2.0 technologies. Somehow I’m continually amazed at how different this adminstration has been so far, at least in terms of technology.
In latest developments, the White House has released (functionally) a short-term and topic-specific Digg clone called [...]
Twitter versus Facebook
I have a simple question: Is Twitter more social than Facebook?
Twitter, on the one hand, only allows you to post brief messages describing what you’re doing. Yet everyone’s talking at once and there’s almost always a lot going on.
Facebook, on the other hand, allows you to describe yourself, list your interests, upload all sorts of media [...]
Predictions for 2009: SNS Edition
With the end of the year around the corner, here are my predictions for what the social web will look like in 2009. Some of these are kind of “well, duh,” but I think they still deserve to be said.
MySpace will continue to be dominated by socio-commercial interests, a site more for promotion than for [...]
Hip to be human
Remember that New York Times article “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers” that came out just over a year ago? It’s been on my mind lately, and I’m not sure why. Anyway, I finally realized why I don’t like the article and why I still walk away from it with a sense of discomfort.
I think many [...]
Learn & Play @ the CML
Jennifer of the Columbus Metropolitan Library in Ohio filled me in on their exciting “Learn & Play @ CML,” a Web 2.0 learning program similar to the 23 Things program at PLCMC developed by Helene Blowers. Since digital literacy is one of those spaces where public libraries can truly excel (and so few libraries are [...]
“OurSpace, TheirSpace”
I finally decided to upload one of my conference presentations to SlideShare. This particular presentation (“OurSpace, TheirSpace: Libraries, Young Adults, and Social Networking”) was given at the Georgia Public Library Service Teen Conference in December 2007, and it was essentially the result of a semester’s worth of research about the subject. Please note that the [...]
“The Disconnected”
There’s a downright important article in this month’s Library Journal that everyone — and I mean everyone – should read: “The Disconnected: Who these 3.8 million people are, and why libraries need to help them”
From the article,
Ultimately, these factors create insuperable economic and social challenges for this group that we, as librarians, cannot ignore. Beyond [...]
For the love of lo-tech
I firmly believe that the post-it note is one of the single greatest inventions of the twentieth century, if only because I couldn’t make it through a normal workday without them. I scribble — notes, call numbers, library card numbers, to-do lists, personal reminders — all over them, both at home and at work, and [...]