From the monthly archives:
Just testing out the Treo. Did you know you can actually reach blogger’s web-based admin area using the Treo Blazer web browser? Of course that also means that I’m hunched over and typing on a thumb keyboard… very slowly. But a successful test, nonetheless.
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I’m playing with my new Treo 650 – and discovered that it takes video. So of course, what do I do when I discover that? Immediately play with it… here’s the result of my experiment.
Ok – very silly test video, I know. Nonetheless:
Reading all these, I can see a way to sum it up – cheap video is capable of capturing the moment – it will capture the relevant info, so you can use it later as supplementary material (for whatever you’re doing).
Update: Gee, Dave… it helps to actually include the link to the video…
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4 Jobs I’ve had in my life:
4 Movies I can watch over and over:
4 TV Shows I love to watch:
4 Places I have lived:
4 Places I have been on holiday:
Holiday? Not sure about that one, but – four places I have been:
4 of my favorite dishes:
4 Websites I visit daily:
4 Places I would rather be right now:
4 Bloggers I am tagging:
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We now have a gaming taskforce at my library! The taskforce’s goal is to create a gaming plan for our library system, and report back to our management group… then the management group will decide where to go from there.
So we now have a gaming taskforce group email account, and I have a couple of email and computer gaming folders… wow.
And I also did some brainstorming on gaming at the library today, and thought I’d share it. It’s not neccessarily what we’ll be doing – just my thoughts. But some of you might be interested in them, nonetheless… so:
David’s Gaming Goals
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Just poking around more on the Opera Mini site – and found an Opera Mini simulator! Pretty cool – I was able to test what Kansas City Public Library’s website looks like using the Opera Mini browser.
What did I discover? Our way cool horizontal menu bar? Doesn’t work. Normal links DO work, though. I was able to click through to an image and an article in one of our subject guides.
Thankfully, we’re working on a redesign – we’ll have to focus on STANDARDS… CSS, XHTML, etc. so the world can browse us. Even those using cell phones!
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Seen on Bill Drew’s blog – Opera just realeased their Opera Mini Browser that installs on most cell phones (Bill installed in on his Cingular phone)!
And like Bill says – this isn’t WAP – it’s real, live HTML (via some crazy magic java thing). From the Opera Mini site “Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. This makes Opera Mini™ perfect for phones with very low resources, or low bandwidth connections.”
OK – we all know that cool pricey smart phones like a Treos, PDA-enabled things, and Blackberrys get web. And some cell phones… but Opera? And not WAP? From this blog (the Toronto Palm OS Group) – “Opera Mini offers the same speed and usability as the renowned Opera mobile browser, and uses Opera’s Small Screen Rendering technology to provide access to the Web. It has all the features expected of a browser, and more, such as bookmarks, browsing history, and ability to split large pages into smaller sections for faster browsing. ”
If this works easily, and accesses the web quickly… we could be in for quite a ride in 2006.
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I just finished my first webcast – it was a blast! The webcast was for the Education Institute, and was on creating library website subject guides.
For those of you who might venture into doing a webcast sometime, a few pointers:
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A Third Place can even be digital – here’s a cool article discussing MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) as a third place, and even mentions a paper (currently under review) written by Constance Steinkuehler called “The New Third Space: Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming in American Youth Culture.” Wow.
Ok, so there’s a very brief Third Place background. Obviously, the physical library space can act as a Third Place for patrons – and that’s all well and good. But did you know that libraries can also infiltrate other Third Places, and possibly even people’s First and Second Places? Think about it – home and work/school. If you tweak your thinking about libraries, websites, and virtual services just a little, you can then start thinking about how a library can offer library services in people’s homes, at their workplaces, and at their schools – in essence, being available in people’s First and Second Places.
One way to get in those places, short of a physical Outreach Services type of thing where we physically take books to people, is to focus on our digital services. What digital services do you have now? Do you offer services like virtual reference, IM reference, phone reference, useful and usable web content, RSS feeds, etc? All those digital services get our digital foot in the digital doors of First and Second Places.
Just a braindump/thought process of going where your patrons already are – at their first, second and third places… libraries can be there, too!
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And some of the qualifications:
Just… wow. What a completely interesting job! I think hiring one person to tackle Library 2.0 is certainly one way to do it. Hopefully, the library ALSO plans to work on their mission, their strategy and goals – otherwise, one person won’t make much of a dent.
Either way – should be a fun time for the person who gets the job.
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Some of you will get a kick out of this. I just got a mention on Rocketboom, a techie, newsie videoblog (an extremely popular one, too).
Remember those Blogging Delivered billboards I posted about a day or two ago? The Rocketboom folks also found them interesting – and included one of my pics in their January 10 videoblog! They linked to my flickr account, too.
My wife just chuckled, and accused me of blogging about a videoblog that blogged about my flickr feed blogging billboards… that I blogged about… (ahem – sorry – just a little giddy with squeamish videoblogging delight).
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