The New York Times has released TimesMachine, a specific wayback machine that allows you to browse replicas of past issues, from September 18, 1851 to December 31, 1922. Hovering over an article brings a little box that contains the beginning text of the article and a link to read more, which opens up a PDF […]
Today is my birthday.
I’ve gotten used to having a birthday the day before Christmas. In fact, I rather enjoy it. But one thing that’s always been something of a drag is how cut-off from my friends I generally feel. I’ve never had a birthday party with friends on my actual birthday. My family has always […]
My teammate Amy is a wizard. Today, she added a line of code to our Library homepage so that when you go there, you can add our Library catalog to your IE7 or Firefox search box. Go ahead, try it. I’ll wait here.
Back? Good, because there’s more. She also created a widget for your iGoogle […]
Jennifer Graham and I were talking about Web 2.0 and how neither of us really understands what the “Semantic Web” that is supposedly Web 3.0 could be. I mean, I went to college, I was an English major, I’m not a complete idiot…but no explanation of the “Semantic Web” has given me much of an […]
My gosh, I sure do love LibraryThing! Today they added a new feature, Common Knowledge, which adds more social cataloging mojo to the site. I think it’s the start of more tasty exploration and collaboration, and I’m excited to see how it develops. Tim Spalding’s blog post about it gives better, more detailed information about […]
It is a terrific bit of synchronicity that the same week MPOW has it’s big web launch, Unshelved features an hilarious storyline about redesigning the library website. I loved the entire week’s worth of strips.
Ladies and gentlemen, the day has arrived. May I humbly present to you the all-new, all-different…Johnson County Library website! (Humbly presented because I honestly had little to do with it besides giving a thumbs-up to various design factors and adding some content here and there. The lion’s share of the credit goes to the other […]
My fellow carping nerdboy Steve Lawson has an excellent post about Facebook. I highly recommend reading it.
In my own short time on Facebook, I’ve found that there’s a lot I dig, but it does have a definite “gated community” vibe.
The biggest irony in Michael Gorman’s two-part blog post entitled “Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason” (part I and part II) is that he clearly doesn’t understand how the internet (including, but in no way limited to, Wikipedia) works, or he’s willfully misrepresenting how it works in order to make his point. Whichever the case, […]
Just before my blog went down, I started giving Twitter a try. While my blog was down, I got to know Twitter a lot better.
And I was wrong.
Before, when I said Twitter wouldn’t appeal to me? Yeah, I was wrong. It turns out, Twitter is a lot of fun to use. Trying to squeeze my […]
