New Resources Online

I just went to a New England Library Association Conference and I always pick up some new information that surprises me.

Consider the following from a 2008 survey of over 27,000 freshmen & seniors at 98 institutions:
98% own a computer (2007 survey)
82% own a laptop (%53 in 2005)
77% are downloading music & movies on a weekly [...]

Web 2.0 and Libraries

The Friends of the Library are having their annual meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 26th. Lichen and Jay Rancourt will talk about social software, Web 2.0 and libraries. Here’s a sample of the websites we’ll visit: Quicker than a ray of light
web 2.0, social software, library services, web page, on-line services

YouTube is for Amateurs

YouTube presents podcasts by you and I, regular people, to the world.
Yesterday I watched a doozy that made me question just exactly what it is I mean when I use terms like “regular people” or “normal people” or “amateurs.” Please watch this podcast all the way through, right through the credits, and give it ALL [...]

Surfcasting for Geography

These are all the countries I’ve visited, mostly in my footloose youth.

Create your own visited countries map
Go to this interesting website which offers a free bit of coding on ‘visited countries’ that you can add to your website or blog. Just takes a minute–that is, unless you’ve traveled the world. and please let me know [...]

Open source design

At the very bottom of each page on this website is a black bar with links on it, that are grayed and indistinct.
Powered by Scriblio
Based on WordPress
Theme designed by Kaushal Sheth of FWD
These links will take you to the developers of the open source (free) software that created this page. It is customary when [...]

Surfcasting for Flickr

Flickr, a terrific photo-sharing website that has become a major photographic force on line, is one of my favorite examples of social software.
Recently Nicholas Carlson of xSP news reported
“By August, (2006) Yahoo’s photo-sharing/social-network hybrid, Flickr, had over 4 million users and 200 million uploaded photos. And in September of 2006, one in 20 [...]