Okay, after five months of almost non-stop political posts, I feel like I'm going to slowly transition back to library and technology posts (with a healthy mix of cute kid too!) But I don't think I'll leave the politics behind completely – I've got a few posts percolating including a few thoughts on the role […]
When I recently told someone I'd just been to the CLA conference, he replied “So you're a nerd then?”“It's worse than that,” I replied. “I happily spent the first day with the Emerging Technologies Interest Group. So I'm like an uber-nerd of the library world!” In that spirit, here's my Geek Chart:Headtale's Geek Chart Here […]
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I’m taking a one day break from the “Top 10 Reasons I’m Supporting Ryan Meili” series of posts to promote a really cool idea. Last night, Ryan Meili’s campaign announced that it was launching a “Money Bomb“. If you’re not familiar with the concept, the term money bomb originated in the last US election as […]
I slipped over to the University today to sit in on the press conference for Ryan Meili's official launch of his campaign videos. The release of these videos was tied into the larger theme of the changing role of technology and especially its abiility to level the playing field in modern politics. (See his press […]
So a few entries ago, I once again posted my predictions for the NHL playoffs. I didn't take the time to do any analysis or anything – just posted a list of my picks using a unique style of picking teams based on a descending scale of 1) do I like the team? 2) Is […]
The World Digital Library officially launched yesterday. Here's some more info from their About page:The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant […]
The Free Music Archive is a social music website built around a curated library of free, legal audio…we're working towards an open source model and your feedback will help us get there. We'll also be honing our Help/FAQ pages based on your input, so please let us know what you think!
A good question on AskMefi to sum up how the Internet has shifted so much of our world. (Also see my post on “Five Things The Internet Is Killing (And One Thing It Isn't)“.)
Rarely do I read an article where I just keep going “yes, yes, yes!” (well, not in a mainstream publication anyhow! ) But that was my reaction after reading “The Facebook Generation vs. The Fortune 500”, a Wall Street Journal article which outlines the 12 differences between the Facebook generation (aka Generation Y aka Millennials […]
