Posted in Nifty Tools on Oct 30th, 2006 2 Comments »
I found this interesting reference to Flowser a graphical browser to Amazon on the Amazon Web Services Blog. With all the discussions of graphical search tools I thought that this would be worth checking out. It is pretty cool, but a bit busy when you “open” up a item. Still it is an interesting way [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 25th, 2006 No Comments »
A - AJAX
B - Beta, Browster (pop-up browser)
C - CoComment (keep track of all blog posts you’ve commented on)
D - Digg (search blogs
E - Econsultant
F - Flickr
G - Gmail, Gmail Space (from the audience, Firefox extension to use Gmail as hard drive space), Gliffy
H - Hype (many of these tools is all hype)
I [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 25th, 2006 No Comments »
Michael Porter, OCLC Western (LibraryMan weblog)
Brenda Hough, Northeast Kansas Library System
Dale Musselman, WebJunction
Presentation available at http://blog.webjunctionworks.org
How technology has changed
Originally 1 hour classes on how to user the Internet or email, or intro to PCs and lots of one on one on the fly training
How does tech trianing look in this new environment
Encourage independence
Encourage exploration
Stop trying [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Mashup is a piece of software that uses two or more pieces of software/services to make something new
Powerful real-time results
Mashup University - hands-on classroom style instruction
What’s go great about them
They don’t require coding skills
Results are instant
Ultimate in instant gratification
Results can be striking
Two categories of mashups
simple utilitarian - useful in some practical way
statement mashup - author [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2006 No Comments »
The first full day of Internet Librarian was great fun. My presentation when surprisingly well except for a minor issue when I did the live demo. I figured out what was wrong (something really dumb) and have attached a simple screencast demo of our Content Management System to the presentation section of this blog.
The presentation [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2006 No Comments »
This trip I’ve had my fair share of problems with wireless access. It seems to be everywhere in my room, at the conference center, and I have my choice of cafes with wireless. The problem is getting it to work. Today, I seem to be cursed. At the conference center I’ve had all sorts of [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Sunday was the perfect day here at Internet Librarian. Since I had the whole day to myself I got to do some work, a little pleasure reading and hanging out. I had to switch hotels because when I made my reservations there wasn’t a room available in one place for the whole trip. I was [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 23rd, 2006 1 Comment »
Jesse Andrews - creator of BookBurro and lead developer of Flock (http://overstimulate.com)
The room is WAY to empty for this session which is too bad because people should be paying attention to this.
Greasemonkey and User scripts
web is a playground
Book Burro
User scripts grow into Extensions
Flock
extensions grown into browsers
Browsers 101 - What are URLs
infotoday resolves to 216.83.98.6
document returned [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
This morning while I was having a mocha in the coffeeshop across the street from the conference center where IL is being held, I ran into Scott Brandt who commented about how much work he was getting done while he was on the road. It made me think about myself and my productivity levels. When [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Today was the perfect example of why I LOVE coming to Internet Librarian. My only commitment was to teach an afternoon preconference workshop on AJAX for Libraries with Jason Clark. Co-teaching a preconference workshop was a new experience for me. But I really liked the dynamic that it created. Jason and I would have conversations [...]
