CIL2006, Day 0: the Video

I’ll be tossing out some random video this week - they’re all snippets of my time at Computers in Libraries 2006.
This one an exciting narrative of my subway trip into Washington DC.
One thing I’ve noticed rather quickly with the Treo 650 video - it doesn’t pick up sound (as in, my voice) very well. I’ll [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: Cool Tools Update for Webmasters

This talk by Frank Cervone and Darlene Fichter is always good (translation: I always learn about new tools!). Here’s basically a list of most of the tools they mentioned, with a brief description of some of them. So go check them out!
PHP Editor - paginas.terra.com.br… professional-grade PHP editor
PHP Expert Debugger - run and debug php [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: Federated Search Engines - Lessons Learned

Frank Cervone:
70% of all searches are keyword searches and they pretty much get article searches
Students don’t understand the concept of “metasearch” and federated
Federated product - good place to go for starters
students have strong expectations about how results should be displayed: relevance order - it’s the search engine model…
advanced users tend to head towards databses
If it’s [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: Collaborative E-Learning Communities

4 people spoke about collaborative e-learning and webjunction:
Anna Leavitt:
What is e-learning?electronically delivered methods…
blended learning - a mix of educational approaches. Mixes e-learning and face-to-face learning
blended=- dominant mode for offering educational materials online- still a need for human contact and face to face interaction- peole learnign in multiple ways- still large gaps in production of educational [...]

CIL2006 Day 1: Open Source Software for Library Website Management

(Karen Coombs was the speaker)
summary - open source is cool!
sometimes it’s not free… there might be a licensing cost
still need hardware and time
advantages: change and expand on the source code if you want to, offers an active developer community - very nice!
Foundational Software:
apache, tomcat - another java-based web server
php, perl, python, ruby - open source [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: New Web Site Tools & Technologies: AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript & XML)

(Jason Clark was the speaker)
Examples:
- Google maps, sproutLiner, Yahoo Instant Search, Google Suggest, Scriptaculous wiki
- Rather than everything on the page changing when you request new info, only the new info loads (no page refresh) - this makes the page and the site faster.
- scriptalicious - showed a drag and drop interaction
AJAX uses:
- javascript
- xhtml
- [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: Opening Remarks and Keynote by Chris Sherman

First, for Tom Hogan’s opening remarks:

2380-ish attendees this year!
150 speakers and moderators… wow.
60 exhibitors

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Keynote: Search Engine Update, Chris Sherman
Starting to see true differentiation and divergence among the major search engines:
Ask:

Jeeves retired. first-class search engine, as good as or better than the others
They also have Gary Price
Many new tools. Web Answers - a natural laguage search [...]

CIL2006: Day 0: Getting there

Getting to Washington DC wasn’t too bad this time. I flew on Midwest Airlines, and had a pleasant trip - it was nonstop, it was cheap, and they gave me a chocolate chip cookie (they mad a big deal out of that, so I guess it’s their thing).
And I found my hotel just fine, too… [...]

More Cool-Sounding Librarian 2.0 Jobs

Anyone see the job ads from the Orange County Library System? Take a peek at these (found on Library Journal’s jobline):
Digital Access Architect: “in this cutting edge position you’ll: identify, investigate, and use emerging technology to enable easy access to information and to provide customer information assistance to public library users; anticipate changing community needs [...]

10 Reasons to Love Web 2.0 - from a Flickr Dude

These are notes I took while listening to a podcast of Cal Henderson from Flickr, titled “From Web Site to Web Application - Ten Reasons to Love Web 2.0.”, who spoke at “The Future of Web Apps” conference. You can find it (and a lot of others) on the Carson Workshops/Summit website.
 Cal’s definition of web 2.0: “Web [...]

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