There’s A New Kid On The Blog

Google has launched it’s latest bid to take on the behemoth that is Facebook. The new offering is called Google+ and has some interesting features. Not that I have explored it in great detail, having only taken the tour. I haven’t logged in because I will need to create a new Google account, and I really don’t [...]

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Nethui. You should have been there. No really, you should have.

Webstock used to be my no-miss conference until this week. It’s like a combined rock festival and party for geeks – the learning and fun are intense and amazing. If Webstock was a keyword it would be “awesome”. Nethui was not a rock festival, and less of a party in terms of headiness. Yes, there were [...]

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#blogjune 19: Libraries and library fandom

Let’s start with a definition from a “Tomorrow People” fan: Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, freedom, etc.) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest.1 Soon after local government [...]

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Blogjune 3: Tag, you’re it!

Tag as in we didn’t have a blogjune tag until I just did it now and in actual fact I’m it because it’s my turn, which I’ve known since exactly yesterday thanks to a small email-related hiccup. That’s the joy of the digital age. We had a round of emails as to how we might [...]

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An Interesting Experiment: University bans Facebook, Twitter For A Week

What an interesting experiment. It certainly tells a tale of modern society that there is a fuss over this. I know some workplaces ban various Social Media, but I think that is short sighted and denies the workplace a valuable medium for communication… Uni bans Facebook, Twitter [From Stuff] A central Pennsylvania technological college with [...]

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Why Are Kiwi Librarians So Bad At Online Social Networking?

Below is a response I posted to Paul Reynolds on one of the Library Ning sites. It was in response to a discussion we are having about the viability of the Ning, with Ning withdrawing from providing free networks. Paul has said he would be happy to contribute towards making the site a Premium site, but [...]

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A Convergence Of Thoughts Or A Call To Arms Or A Binary Exposition As Best Exemplifying The Monkeys With Typewriters Theorem

As you can guess from the title of this post I a was not quite sure what to call it. I wasn’t sure actually what I wanted to write about, so thus you get this. My Editor-In-Chief, and I were discussing employment, job descriptions and career paths the other day, and she said that she [...]

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Tim Spalding LIANZA 09 Keynote On Social Cataloging

Hi Tim Spalding has put his Keynote up on youtube. This presentation was a highlight of conference for me. So here are the links.  Its well worth the time to view. Intro, personal cataloging Implicit social cataloging, tag mashes Social networking, explicit social cataloging Common Knowledge, Legacy Libraries, flashmob cataloging LibraryThing for Libraries, “what does [...]

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Link for Friday

Social media is making us more human Who’d ‘ve thought?  Why? Because humans use it to share with other humans?  Seems perfectly logical to me. Seems the “internet is evil” line of thinking is taking its time to die.  Television has always been the anti-social medium in my mind. Btw, how are you liking the [...]

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