Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Gareth-Michael Skarka tweeted this morning: Deleting Facebook accounts over privacy concerns is the new slacktivist hotness. If you’re concerned about less-savvy users — TEACH THEM. And he’s absolutely right. Colleen Harris blogged last week: It’s not the nerds, social networking experts, librarians, Alex Scobles or other techgeeks Facebooks awful privacy settings take advantage of, though [...]
Posted in education, social software, tech, web | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
I just deleted my Facebook account. Why? In part it’s because of my concerns over Facebook’s frequent changing of the goalposts when it comes to privacy. But even more, it’s Facebook’s growth as an all-purpose internet site. To my mind, Facebook is trying to be AOL 2.0–a site that provides you with email, IM, image [...]
Posted in life, social software, tech, web | 7 Comments »
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
My friend Royce Kitts is the director of the Tonganoxie Public Library in nearby Tonganoxie, KS. The library has redone its website, and it looks fantastic! Check it out! The site has a definite look to it, but it’s not overdone. It’s comfortable and appealing. It’s easy to find things. I love the picture of [...]
Posted in librarianship, libraries, tech, web | 4 Comments »
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Just now, I tweeted: “Dear Google: Opt-in social networks are good. Opt-out social networks are bad. Please remember this.” I was speaking in regards to Google Buzz, the company’s latest social networking release. Buzz is a social aggregator, like FriendFeed, pulling your content from different sites into one stream, where your friends can comment on [...]
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Most of the time, I think my optimism and enthusiasm is justified, because life regularly turns out to be at least as amazing as I expect and imagine it will be. But sometimes…not so much. I was really, really excited about Google Wave when I first learned about it. I snagged an invite to start [...]
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
As much as I inherently cast a suspicious eye towards large companies, I have to say, Google regularly knocks my socks off. I’ve just learned more about their huge new project, Google Wave, and not only are my socks knocked off, my jaw is on the floor and my eyes are popping out of my [...]
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
The future of library technology is here! SMS services? Facebook apps? iGoogle widgets? Bah! You may as well ask for a steam-powered velocipede! My place of work, the Johnson County Library, is premiering its new technology initiative for patrons: the brain chip! Welcome to Tomorrow. It’s an exciting place.
Posted in April Fool!, libraries, library news, library users, tech, workplace | 5 Comments »
Monday, March 9th, 2009
I love new technologies, new tools and toys, new gadgets and widgets. I spend more time at a computer than pretty much anywhere. And yet, what technology do I keep promoting and marvelling over? Books. Books are amazing tools. You don’t have to worry about incompatible operating systems. I’ve never had a book crash on [...]
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
I just added the WPtouch plugin, so if anyone with an iPhone or Android phone could look at this blog and let me know if anything needs to be tweaked, I would greatly appreciate it.
Posted in blogs, meta-babble, tech | 5 Comments »
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Dorothea Salo explains once more why she doesn’t have comments on her blog. I think she makes an excellent point: it’s her web space, she can do with it as she pleases, and she doesn’t want comments on her blog. I can’t think of a reasonable argument against that and I think it’s silly to [...]
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