Archive for November, 2005

HigherEd BlogCon

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

HigherEd BlogCon is a totally online conference exploring the new technologies being used in higher education. I am thrilled to announce that I am going to be chairing the Library and Information Resource track for the conference and am excited about getting submissions from librarians who are thinking about the future of social software [...]

Happy Turkey Day!

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I’m in South Florida to visit family and go to my 10-year high school reunion. The latter event ought to be quite the trip. I was a little… umm…. different back then.

Yeah, and that wasn’t even for halloween. I was quite the geek back then. Maybe I haven’t changed so much… [...]

Coders wanted.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

I’ve talked a lot in the past about the gulf that is growing between libraries that are change agents and libraries that are change averse. Lately, I’ve been seeing a new gulf growing in libraries, that has less to do with one’s attitude towards change and more to do with the skills of one’s [...]

My year in blog

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Today is the anniversary of my blog (Adam laughed at me when I used the word “blogiversary”). Part of me can’t believe it’s already been a year since I first started this blog. The other part of me can’t believe it’s only been a year for all I’ve written and for all [...]

Step right up to carnival #15!

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Check out the 15th Carnival of the Infosciences at Ask Nettie Day. This one interests me a great deal because she points to a good number of blogs I wasn’t previously aware of — very much the goal of the Carnival.

Remember to share and play nice

Friday, November 11th, 2005

My mother tells me that I was terrible about sharing when I was a little girl. My toys were MY toys. I would lick cookies so that no one would ask to have a bite. My dad even has video footage of me at age three grabbing my book away from my [...]

Social software metapost

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

These days it’s completely impossible to keep up with all of the “Web 2.0″ apps out there. I read eHub and TechCrunch and it seems like dozens of social software apps are released in beta (or even alpha!) each day. Social browsers, collaborative editing tools, RSS aggregators, social search, mashups of other social [...]

Leaving del.icio.us

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

I didn’t check out too many other social bookmarking tools once I started with del.icio.us, which was practically the only game in town at the time. I tried Furl for a while, but I didn’t find anything that would make me want to use it and I had a lot of trouble importing my [...]

Fill out Michael’s survey!!!

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

Michael Stephens’ blogger survey is up and running. Here’s what it’s all about:
The purpose of this research study is to help better understand the motivations of librarians who write independent Weblogs about libraries, technology or their experiences in libraries. It seeks to identify who, exactly, are the “blog people” of librarianship. There will be [...]

Any Vermont Bloggers?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005

I know this message is probably only useful to Jessamyn (and it isn’t, since she already knows about it), but Cathy Resmer from Seven Days has organized a Vermont blogger metup for this Saturday:
Date: Saturday, November 5
Time: 3 p.m.
Place: Langdon Street Cafe, Montpelier
Cost: Free, but you might want to get somethin’ to drink while we’re [...]