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A rogue RSS feed
Today, I got an e-mail from a reader of this blog. She told me that she reads my blog through Bloglines and that every time she clicks on a link,…
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Happy Blog Day!
Today is Blog Day, ostensibly because the date sort of looks like the word blog (3108) if you squint or perhaps are a really creative-minded person. It's a day where…
Posted inWikis
More wiki links and resources
While we're on the subject of wikis, here are some wiki-related links I've found recently that I thought you might want to know about: LIS753wiki - Even though they got…
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What are wikis good for?
Karen Coombs beat me to the punch with an excellent post on a Web4Lib comment I had noticed recently as well: "I am repeatedly impressed by how often, when librarians…
Posted inBook libraries social software
Things I wish I’d known about before I finished my book
I must apologize for not writing much lately. I really believed that when I finished my book I would have lots and lots of spare time, but then the speaking…
Posted inlibraries social software
Public libraries using 2.0 technologies
I got an interesting question from a reader that I really wanted to open up to the community on my blog rather than pretending that I'm knowledgeable enough to answer…
Wikimania Day 2: What’s Cooking in MediaWiki
Brion Vibber is the CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation. OMG, there is a serious lack of women in this room! This talk was about improvements in the pipeline for MediaWiki,…
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Wikimania Day 2: Wikis: Enabling Library Knowledgebases
Our talk today went really well! Considering who we were up against (Yochai Benkler!!!), I was surprised and pleased that we had a pretty decent crowd at the talk. Update:…
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Wikimania Day 1: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Projects
Considering that I have initiated many MediaWiki projects of my own, I was very excited about hearing from other folks who have experienced the highs and lows of running a…
Posted infree the information! Wikis
Wikimania Day 1: On Accuracy and Authority
Sins of omission? An exploratory evaluation of Wikipedia's topical coverage Alex Halavais & Derek Lackaff Looking at authority/authoritativeness of wikipedia articles. Accuracy is obviously an issue, but authority is more…
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Wikimania Day 1: Jimmy Wales
Our Movement: Past, Present, Future Jimmy first showed the "Wikiality" clip, which I highly recommend you check out for a laugh. Fundamental Mission statement: imagine a world in which every…
Playing catch-up
I haven't been able to blog as much as I'd like to lately. Between trying to get a million things done at work before the students come back -- wasn't…
DOPA: Contact your senators!
I Want you ... to Drop DOPA! Originally uploaded by davidking. I haven't written much about DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act), though I certainly made my opinions about social networking…
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SirsiDynix Talk Archive
For those of you who missed my wiki talk last week and wanted to watch it later, the archived presentation is up and is available as a podcast or as…
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Links for SirsiDynix Talk
Here are some links for those of you who are attending (or have attended, depending on when you look at this) my SirsiDynix talk today. If you have any additional…
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Wiki Webcast: You’re Invited!
What: Wiki: The Ultimate Tool For Online Collaboration When: Thursday July 13, 11 am Eastern, 8 am Pacific. Where: Online! Via the SirsiDynix Institute. Who: Me! Why: Because you want…
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Hot new blog, or RSS for the busy clinician redux
Good news! David Rothman, whom I recently wrote about here and Michael Stephens wrote about here, has just started his own blog (davidrothman.net) on medical librarianship and technology. He is…
Posted inblogging
Scientific analyses of blogging
Lilia Efimova, who herself has written some really fascinating studies of blogging, has collected papers from Computational Approaches to Analysing Weblogs and the 3rd Annual Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem.…
Knowledge management in a growing and change averse organization
On Friday, I had a meeting with the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies to discuss future plans for integrating information literacy instruction into the curriculum. On several occasions…
My (gulp) Speaking Schedule
It's funny for me to think back to one year ago when you couldn't have paid me to speak at a conference. Between now and November, I'm going to be…
