Cronin complains about blogs … on a blog

Just found this sorta funny (via skagirlie).
Blaise Cronin (an MLS professor) posted a “Dean’s notes” article about blogs in his college’s SLIS News.
The funny part? You can subscribe to the RSS feed. So - when he asks “Why do they choose to they [sic] expose their unremarkable opinions”? … is he asking himself that question???
And [...]

RSS Ads are Starting to Appear

Google has been testing out ads for RSS feeds. Take a peek at this image, taken in my bloglines account. If you go to the actual blog page, you don’t see the ad - it only appears in the RSS feed!
Honestly, I’m not sure what I think about that. On the one hand, some bloggers [...]

Library staff sharing about conferences

Michael Stephens at Tame the Web just posted something extremely cool. His library goes to conferences, just like everyone else’s libraries. But then, they go one step further:
One step further
They met and shared “top trends/learning/issues/thoughts they picked up on during the conference. How cool is that? But wait - they weren’t done:
Two Steps Further
They then [...]

Help in Question Writing for Usability Tests

I just read this - DonnaM’s Writing memorable scenarios for usability testing. Good stuff!
To sum it up… when you do a usability test, you usually ask a bunch of scenario-type questions. Your test participant then tries to answer the question by finding an answer on your website. Easy enough, right?
The hard part is writing those [...]

CSS and Handheld Versions of Websites

Go over to webis.net and take a peek at the website. Then look at this image of the website viewed with my iPaq. Nothing terribly noticeable
or cool, you say? Wrong!
The cool thing? The designer separated the style from the content using
CSS, and also has allowed my PDA to view the website in a friendly
format, also [...]

More on The Web as Communication

I posted this yesterday, and received some good comments. So this post will focus on those comments:
Comment #1:
Add patience to that list From SkaGirlie (make sure to read her way-hip blog, by the way). Sorta tongue-in-cheek, sorta not. My three solutions for what to do with staff that don’t want to accept the web [...]

The Web as Communication: A Response to The Shifted Librarian’s post, “We Don’t Serve Your Kind Here”

Jennny at The Shifted Librarian said this about libraries that don’t allow public IM:
“And guess what? Your library sounds the same way if you tell patrons (of any age) that they can’t IM from your library because that’s not a valid use of your public computers. You’re basically telling people that their choice of communication [...]

Adobe and Macromedia are merging!

Just read about this on Mike Chambers blog (he’d a product manager at Macromedia).
Anyway - this is huge news! Adobe (acrobat, Go Live, Photoshop, etc) and Macromedia (Dreamweaver, Flash, ColdFusion) are merging, assuming that stockholders and “government regulators” approve the merger. Wow. Just thinking about the combination of products that could come from this merger [...]

Luddites have XML Feeds, too!

The Guy Who Calls Himself A Luddite but has a blog and complains about RSS and XML… something does not compute
More than one blogger will be writing about this post today. Here are some thoughts from me:
“New technologies have certainly added something to libraries, but what the [beep] does RSS newsfeeds or XML [...]

Kansas City Public Library’s New Branch

Kansas City Public Library will re-open our Plaza Branch library this weekend! We’re pretty excited. The story in a nutshell? We knocked down the old building, and built the new building on the same spot. We get the basement and the ground floor, and various corporations lease the upper floors.
Technology? We got it! About 50 [...]

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