DOPA, or DOPEY?

I don’t usually spout off about governmental things or politics. But this time…
The “Deleting Online Predators Act” or DOPA, is scary, to say the least. Yes, grown-ups should protect kids from bad people. Yes, bad people shouldn’t have access to kids, even in digital form. However, DOPA isn’t the way to do it. Here are [...]

Check out Gliffy

Really - go check Gliffy out (also mentioned by Stephen Abram and the Librarian in Black). Now. Especially if you are in charge of your library’s website or mess around with web design.
What is Gliffy? Gliffy is a free, online version of Microsoft’s Visio, which is a flowchart, diagramming, layout, floorplan designing kind of software. [...]

My flickr profile thingie

This is interesting - the photos actually change once in awhile (I chose random interestingness for the photo background).

More Things Libraries Can Do With Videoblogs

I’m working on a videoblog presentation I’ll be giving this fall, and discovered this cool list of “common genres” of videoblogs on Wikipedia. Here’s Wikipedia’s list and their definition of each videoblog genre, followed by my ideas for those videoblog genres in a library setting.Personal - Vlogs documenting the author’s life, the recounting stories from [...]

Librarians, Computers, and my 9-year old

Just a funny for everyone. Yesterday, my 9-year old son wanted to show me something. He held up a toy that had a round wheel, and pointed out to me that it reminded him of a computer mouse (even though he’s not really been around those old fashioned trackball mouses…
Then he said ” [...]

Library Videoblogs So Far

So far, I’ve seen four libraries that are videoblogging:

Westerville Public Library, which I mentioned yesterday. They seem to be focusing on videos of programming right now.
Manchester Public Library’s Teen Matrix - “a video podcast about books.” Not sure if they plan to update this (all three videos are from Nov 2005).
Orange County Library System is [...]

Westerville Public Library Videocasts (well, sort of videocasts…)

Westerville Public Library is shooting video! I just saw this (via Library Stuff): Westerville Public Library is doing a few pretty hip things:

They have created something called castr, that they claim is their “podcast delivery system” (more on that in a sec). So far, they have three videos (a zoo visit, story time, and spanish [...]

More Myspace Thinking

I’ve been looking at some library myspace accounts lately, notably Steele Creek Library and Denver Public Library’s eVolver Myspace accounts. Both are way cool. Steele Creek, especially, has a nifty background on the page that I think rocks.
And both sites have great content - they both use the blog part of Myspace, so any of [...]

Mobile Instant Messaging and ebuddy

I just finished playing around with ebuddy, at ebuddy.com. It’s a web-based IM service, like meebo. But the thing I was interested in is this - they offer a mobile version of their ebuddy service!
I haven’t wanted to actually PAY for IM on my treo, which I could do through services like VeriChat or Mundu [...]

Videoblogging Books

For those interested in learning more about videoblogging, here are some great books for starters:
Videoblogging For DummiesHave you ever felt the urge to share the entertaining and insightful things that happen in your everyday world? Got a message you’d like to get across to others? A cause you want people to support? A videoblog allows [...]

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