Two weekends ago I attended PodCamp Boston 3, with some general sense that I might learn something useful, but an increasing uncertainty about what that might be. The first few sessions I attended had a pretty strong focus on using social media for marketing purposes (blech), increasing your “followers,” and, well, podcasting. Which I don’t [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Students as Technology Leaders
Posted in education, technology on July 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Day in the Life of a Librarian
Posted in library stuff on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Library Day in the Life project, inspired by blogger Bobbi Newman, is definitely worth checking out for all the aspiring librarian students out there: A growing number of librarians are signing up, and writing about a day in their work life on their blogs. The project is reminiscent of a book I’ve been reading: [...]
Copyright Confusion?
Posted in education, library stuff on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just came across this nifty website that offers a simple slider to determine copyright status of a work. I wouldn’t necessarily claim the information provided is food proof, but it sure does offer a good starting point for navigating the ever more complicated realms of copyright and permissions. This would have been super handy [...]
The Creative Library
Posted in library stuff on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Urban Library Journal’s Spring 2008 issue is dedicated to creativity in the library. There are some really terrific articles in here, on library transformation, using technologies in new ways in the library, and promoting work and leisure in libraries. I’ve never read this journal before, but I want to sit down and read this [...]
I have too many books checked out from the library
Posted in ephemera on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have always been envious of those people who can read four or five books at once, keeping up a good pace in all of them, never getting distracted and leaving one to languish bedside until even the main characters have been pretty well forgotten. I mean, I have a hard time with two books [...]
Podcamp Boston
Posted in technology on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is anyone else going to Podcamp Boston this weekend? Billed as “the new media community unConference,” it’s taking place in the Longwood Medical Area this Saturday and Sunday, and we’re going. It should be pretty interesting, although I’m not always so awesome about that networking stuff. I’m shy.
Registration closes tomorrow (Wednesday, July 16), so [...]
Have you read more than six of these books?
Posted in books on July 3, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I found this list on a friend’s blog: It is a list created by the National Endowment for the Arts, and she writes that they claim most American adults have read only six of these hundred books. SIX! That is almost nothing. I tried to find evidence for this claim on the internets, but my [...]
