Adapting the Netflix Model to Libraries

Michael Porter (libraryman) has been talking about Netflix and fee-based services. It’s good stuff - go read and think! That’s what I did, hence this post… here’s my off-the-cuff thinking about the Netflix model and charging patrons for value-added services.
This can work just like a web 2.0 company’s services. Let’s use Flickr as an [...]

David’s First Experiment with Screencasting

I’ve wanted to play around with screencasting for awhile now, and recently when looking at job ads, it dawned on me - why not make a screencast of some bad website usability? That way, I can test out screencasting and at the same time, provide something marginally usaful to my blog, too.
So… here it is. [...]

Finally added something to my About page

I FINALLY got around to adding content on my About page. So - if you’re extremely bored or extremely curious (or both), go visit my About page and find out a little bit more about me.

Planning Manpower for the Web

Webmasters, check out this article: How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team (found at A List Apart). The article provides some pointers on figuring out how many people/hours are needed for web projects - something we could all use!
Shane Diffily (the author) describes website manpower in terms of “scale” - simply put, the larger [...]

Going on Vacation

No more posts from me for 2 WHOLE WEEKS!!! I am officially on vacation. See everyone soon!

Example of Using Video for Library Events

I’m still experimenting with video, as you can see here. This was taken today, at my library’s First Fridays event. This month, we had a band performing on the stairs to our way-cool library parking garage. We also had free hotdogs and an information booth! It was fun (if you’re interested, I took some photos, [...]

I am a portal…

Yesterday, I taught another one of my Introduction to Web 2.0 classes - this time at the Missouri Public Library Director’s meeting. There were about 50-60 library directors there, which was pretty cool!
Afterwards, they asked some great questions. One of their questions really puzzled me at first - someone asked me to explain the difference [...]