SB1682 and the senator who banned himself from the library

Senator Matt Murphy has a blog. That’s cool. However, read Jenny Levine’s post about the good senator. He wants to ban himself from the library. That’s not so cool.
He, of course, is the senator who introduced Illinois Senate Bill SB1682, which bans social networking sites in public libraries and public schools. And banning social networking [...]

Travel 2.0?

Steve Rubel just wrote about the web 2.0 impact in the tourism industry, of all things. In fact, you might want to watch his blog for awhile. He says “Over the next several weeks I am going to start posting about the
global medium to long-term impact Web 2.0 will have on different
industry sectors.” Now THAT [...]

Fun with Filtering

For all you filtering fans (or anti-fans), check out this article: From Bess to Worse, at Slashdot. They claim that 30% of sites blocked by Bess are obvious errors. Wow. I checked this at my last library, and came up with 42% - that’s pretty bad (and pretty much matches what the article writer came [...]

Design for Your Audience

Louis Rosenfeld has started a 5-part series on Information Architecture. Part one includes this:
Step #1: Ban the word “redesign” from your meetings. Step #2: Determine who your most important audiences are. Step #3: Determine each primary audience’s 3-5 major needs. Step #4: Make damned sure your site addresses [...]

Adaptive Path and Second Life

This is cool. Adaptive Path, a company that focuses on building digital experiences, is apparently going to help Linden Labs improve the digital experience that is Second Life.
I find that to be an extremely interesting project. Usually, improving a digital experience means improving someone’s website, or a function of the website - not improve something [...]

Changing Case Shortcut in Microsoft Word

Just a reminder to myself - SHIFT-F3 toggles text between first letter uppercase, all upper case, and all lower case.

Great Video Resource

I just found this great article on the online video industry (from the Read/WriteWeb). The author discusses online video, and divides the online video industry into handy categories:

Video Sharing
Intermediaries
Video Search
Video eCommerce
Video Editing & Creation
Rich Media Advertising
P2P (Peer To Peer)
Video Streaming
Vlogosphere

Each category has example websites/links - go explore!

Podcast with Jon Udell, Ed Vielmetti, and John Blyberg

I haven’t even listened to this yet - mainly trying to remember it for when I have time to download and listen. But with those three names, it’s gotta be interesting!
Here’s the link to the podcast…

Change, Adaptation, and that 33 Reasons Why We’re Important Article

Lots of bloggers have been posting about the article 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians are Still Extremely Important. And that’s cool - it’s a great article, and I’d say that all librarians should digest it.
However, I’d also say that this article didn’t need to be written. Well, I’d say that if there weren’t some [...]