Tag Archives: web 2.0
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Wordle: Cymbeline
Yeah, like a lot of other library people, I’ve been having way too much fun with Wordle. Here’s the text of Cymbeline, one of my favorite plays by Shakespeare.
What I find fascinating about this is that “Imogen” actually appears larger than “Cymbeline” (and larger than any tag for a male character), and it’s actually the [...]
This is… Facebook?
Now here’s an interesting use of social networking software. Apparently members of a particular Facebook group — numbering close to 30,000 — jotted “THIS IS SPARTA” in the essay portion of their AP Literature exam books and then crossed it out (as all test-takers are instructed when they don’t want something they’ve written to be [...]
Library Riot joins Flickr
Yeah, I probably should have mentioned this in the last post, but Library Riot (after much nudging from Laura) has finally and proudly joined Flickr. I’ll be posting pictures from whatever conferences I attend, as well as random but still (hopefully) relevant library pictures. I’ll also be posting pictures from (what I call) [...]
MALA / SLA Spring 2008
This past Thursday, I was invited to speak at a panel discussion for a joint meeting of MALA (the Metro Atlanta Library Association) and the Georgia chapter of the SLA (the Special Libraries Association). I had the great honor of presenting on Web 2.0 technologies and public libraries with Laura Savastinuk, co-author of the [...]
Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0
The March 2008 edition of First Monday is a special issue: “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0.” For the theorist in (any of) you, this really is some amazing stuff to read. I personally recommend “Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation of Web 2.0” by Kylie Jarrett. It basically applies and (re)interprets Foucault’s [...]