DOPA is Dead

According to Andy Carvin, DOPA has just died in the Senate. From his blog - “The end of 2006 also marks the end of the current congressional session
in the House and Senate, closing the door on the Deleting Online
Predators Act.”
I don’t know a whole lot about politics - is this true? I certainly hope so!

The Superhuman Quiz

This is sorta funny… I’m the Green Lantern!
Your results:You are Green Lantern

Green Lantern

70%

Hulk

70%

Spider-Man

60%

Superman

60%

Robin

50%

The Flash

45%

Supergirl

40%

Catwoman

40%

Wonder Woman

35%

Batman

30%

Iron Man

15%

Hot-headed. You have strong will power and a good imagination.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero am I?” quiz…

John Edwards announces his Presidency Via YouTube

Check this out - John Edwards is using YouTube to announce his presidency. And if that’s not enough, he’s also “invited” some webbish 2.0 types down to New Orleans with him to, well, do their thing (ie., Robert Scoble has been blogging about it and plans to shoot video, and the Rocketboom folks actually filmed [...]

David’s current speaking schedule for 2007

I’m already starting to get busy! Here’s what/where I’m speaking as of now for 2007 (more is sure to be added):

January 8 - February 9: Website Management 6-week online course. Education Institute
January 18: Social Networking: Best Practices for Libraries (I’m on a panel with others). ALA Midwinter
February 19 - staff day
April 16: Planning and Implementing [...]

Blog Tag - 5 Things You Don’t Know About David Lee King

Alrightie then… Michael Stephens tagged me on this 5 things blog meme / tag game going around right now. So upward and onward - 5 things you don’t know about me:

I’m an extreme creative and an extreme white collar worker (ie., no real “skills”)… so it’s particularly odd that I worked one summer on a [...]

I Made the Top 100 Education Blogs for 2006 List

I’ve never heard of the list or the site before, but - the Online Education Database named my blog as one of the top 100 education blogs of 2006. How cool is that? Some other cool library blogs also made the list (even more than I linked to - librarians are way hip!).
Thanks!

My First Second Life Video

This is my first attempt at making a movie using the Second Life movie tools, and it came out ok. In the video, I’m sitting down and chatting with Stephen Mandelbrot in Cybrary City. Take a peek!I have to admit - I felt kinda odd doing that! The chair had a movement sim thing attached [...]

It’s NOT a Podcast, ALA!

I was just getting ready to dump the ALA District Dispatch feed into iTunes and/or just download their podcast… but I can’t.
Why? Well - first of all, there’s no direct link to the audio file in the post. And second - because it’s not a podcast (see Greg Schwartz’s way cool Podcasting: An Introduction for [...]

Testing and a request!

My feeds have been having “issues” the last few days. Can some of you do something for me, pretty please with sugar on top? When you see this post, can you:
1. leave a comment saying you saw my post
2. tell me what rss reader you’re using
Thanks!
David

another test

sorry about this!

keep looking »