New Song and Video: Social Digital Global Shift

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I recorded a new song and video for y’all! This song is all about social networking and how people are using the emerging social web to connect with each other, to communicate… and in my case, to sing songs to my blog readers.
When writing the song, I was thinking about [...]

I’m No Antidigitalist: a song about GormanGate

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Last week, as I was reading and responding to everyone’s responses to Michael Gorman’s blog posts, I re-read a couple of the posts myself… and this phrase from his earlier “blog people” article started running through my head … and wouldn’t leave.So I did what any self-respecting closet musician would do on his [...]

The Next DOPA?

From my comments - “Dopa is reborn as DOPA jr… ” (thanks, Steve!)
From the full article: “Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, introduced S.B. 49 at the beginning of the
current legislative session. The bill is reported to have identical
language to DOPA, with one addition. According to a report on ZDNet, Stevens added language that had been
part of [...]

Penguins at the Omaha Zoo

Update: How funny… this post was SUPPOSED to show up on my fledgling non-library blog, davidleeking.com/etc - not my library techie blog!
I’m doing an “etc” blog to get other non-library stuff out of my head. It will most likely include videoblog posts (stretching out a little more in that area), might include podcasts of music [...]

Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class

From this article… a professor has banned the use of laptops in her class. The article says “Professor June Entman says her main concern is that
students are so busy keyboarding they can’t think and analyze what
she’s telling them.”
Wow. Just wow. I have a question… those students are TAKING NOTES. But using a laptop to do [...]

Remixed Information Rap

 

There’s always a highly entertaining (and useful) Dead and Emerging Technologies forum at the Computers in Libraries conference. This year, D. Scott Brandt (who usually moderates these forums) started us off with a fun spoof of the “I’m too sexy” song - but he turned it into a rap about technology. It was pretty funny.
So, [...]