Thursday, October 25th, 2007
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 [...]
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
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 [...]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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 [...]
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
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.
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
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 [...]
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Wednesday, July 4th, 2007
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.
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
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, [...]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
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 [...]
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
One of the main projects I have at my new place of work is rethinking and redesigning the children’s website. It will be completely different from how it currently is, all new in just about every way. Now, I understand that there are certain expectations for its design and layout, both from our users and [...]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
I’m big on fostering and participating in communities of likeminded people, both in person and online. Have I established that well enough already? You all know that about me, right? Right. It’s why I immediately jumped on board when Jessica started the collaborative Library Talk blog and Library Links blogroll. Sadly, Library Talk hasn’t really [...]
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