Twtter Explained for Librarians, or 10 ways to use Twitter

First - what is twitter?
Think of Twitter like a personal IM account that can be shared with everyone. Once you have a Twitter account set up, you can send short IM, SMS, or web-based messages to Twitter. Others who are marked as your friends or followers receive those messages. And there’s a public timeline that [...]

Tracking SXSW with Netvibes

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SXSW is this week! For those of you not familiar with SXSW, it’s a very cool “content” conference. It used to be pretty much just focused on music, but in recent years it’s also included film and “interactive” tracks. The Interactive track is the cool one - it’s all about techie web 2.0 [...]

Helping a Friend

From a friend of mine, “Just curious if you know of anyone in the University community who is capable of translating Iranian Arabic script?”
He’s a military friend who just got back from Iraq, took some photos, and is now wondering what those photos say.
Can anyone help? If so, please email me - davidleeking at gmail [...]

the revolution is just beginning

Just a random thought floating around my head the last few days. Next month, I’m speaking about planning and implementing Library 2.0 at Computers in Libraries. Quite a few of my colleagues frequently talk about web 2.0, library 2.0, and similar types of “emerging trends” topics. And I have like 2000 different online accounts for [...]

We’re on YouTube

My library’s on Youtube!

Twitter, Anyone?

OK - I’m davidleeking in Twitter. Anyone care to join?

Wake County is Censoring MySpace

Update - take time to browse through the comments on this post. They’re that good. So far, comments include one person who agrees with the board,  someone trying to compromise, much wondering aloud about what the library plans to censor next, discussion about the futility of censoring a single social networking site, one person who [...]

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