Clay Shirky and Information Professionals

Each clip is just over 6 minutes.
Both are worth watching, especially for those in the information industry.
This interview precedes the Online Conference in London, December 2008.
Here's the link to the conference:
http://www.online-information.co.uk/online08/index.html

Web 2.0 in Plain English

Gotta love CommonCraft! Simply creative!

Social Media: 3:44 minutes. THIS is a perspective and tool that libraries should be using, all libraries!


Twitter explained: less than 3 minutes.


Blogs explained: less than 3 minutes.


Update: Seattle Magazine May 2009 article: Editors in Brief: Common Craft by Jamie Friddle.
http://www.seattlemag.com/0p120a1446/editors-in-brief-common-craft/?currentPage=1

Update July 1, 2010...Common Craft Stickers!
Are you a fan of this talented team and are anxious for a t-shirt? Well, they don't have one yet...BUT they do have stickers! Want one? Just send them a self-addressed stamped envelope. Here's the link and information.

Online Publishing

SIIA - Cloud Computing
Nov 19, 2008 - Cloud Computing & Content: Where are the Best Opportunities?
Panelists include:

* Marc Frons, CTO, Digital Operations, The New York Times
* Charles Matheson, Cloud Infrastructure Group, EMC
* Matt Turner, Principal Consultant, Mark Logic Corporation

Part 1 Each section is about 27 minutes.



All of this was accessed through: the Newstex Blog http://newstex.typepad.com/

Part 2


Part 3

Airwaves may be opening up

This news was posted on www.theweek.com on November 14, 2008.

The Federal Communications Commission said it would open unused, unlicensed portions of the TV airwaves known as “white spaces” to deliver wireless broadband service. A coalition of high-tech firms, including Microsoft and Google, had lobbied to make the spectrum available to the public, saying it would spur development of new wireless gadgets. They plan to make smart phones, laptops, and other devices that will use the spectrum to surf the Web.

This sounds like a project with potential.

Anthropology of Education, Information, Media & Our Participation

Kansas State Professor Michael Wesch

Rethinking Education: An hour and 6 minutes


Another Wesch video - Rethinking information: 5 and a half minutes. Similar to some other videos I've seen.


Wesch's blog
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

The Cat at the homework!

And blamed the dog!

Robert Lang's Art + Math Equation

Origami applications that have abundant problem solving possibilities.
About 16 minutes. Thanks TED.com!

Ron Paul on the $700 Billion Crisis

An interesting, informative 10 minutes that underscores the need to have more people & perspectives involved in the presidential debates than a mere 2 parties.

Wharton Business School Discussion of current economic crisis

It's an informative discussion, addressing worldwide economic issues. An interesting 21 minutes.

Ask Here PA - a valuable resource

Probably something librarians want to think about each fall...to share with patrons, students, faculty, parents, customers, community.

Ask Here PA, is Pennsylvania 's 24/7 live chat reference and information service.They've made available FREE Ask Here PA bookmarks and posters.
Available only while supplies last! Order at:
http://www.askherepa.org/promotions.htm

Costs were underwritten by HSLC/Access PA & Commonwealth Libraries, Bureau of Library Development. LOVE them!!!!!!!

Paul Rothemund & his DNA work

Paul’s website at CalTech

TED.com profile of Paul

TED.com videos follow.

Taped in March 2007, posted in November 2007.

Taped in February 2008, posted September 2008

Wikipedia entry on Paul

PLOS Biology: a peer-reviewed, open-access published by the Public Library of Science : Algorithmic Self-Assembly of DNA Sierpinski Triangles

CalTech Media Relations: Scientists Display High Tech Art at MoMA, April 2008

NPR: Fun with DNA: All Things Considered, March 2006. Audio

I was fortunate enough to work in Laconia High School’s library when Paul was a student there. Fortunate, in that LHS was a wonderful place. I loved the students. Clearly, Paul was one LHS’s academic stars. He was also a very joyful, engaged individual, respectful and, as I recall, helpful to all those who needed his help. I loved his curiosity and enthusiasm for life!

How NOT To Do a Power Point

A good laugh...well said. We can all relate.

Open The Debates!

More voices are better than a few. Unfortunately Nader is right, there isn't much difference between the Republicans and the Democrats...and if by chance there might be, those differences would be better highlighted with more voices involved in the debates. At the very least, Ralph Nader, Libertarian candidate, Bob Barr, and Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney, ought to be allowed to debate. Frankly, our election process needs to change. Our future is too important to limit to two groups. Our news outlets ought to step up to the plate and play their part...or we're all headed to the internet. Obama’s site and McCain’s site.

Links of interest follow:

Citizens Debate Commission aspires to host OPEN debates. George Farah and others.

Here’s a link to a CSpan interview of author George Farah.

Sign a petition to open the debates. At OpenDebates.org

Here's a link to a book by George Farah RE the lack of open debates. Interesting review & comments. No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates.

Here’s an essay about the debates by John Nichols at TheNation.com.

I love YouTube. 2 good clips follow.

George Farah on Nightline. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVeD2NmV2kU&NR=1


This is a YouTube entry found via the Dandelion Salad Blog.

Another link of interest: DebateThis.org

OnceUponASchool.org

Once Upon A School website:

http://onceuponaschool.org/

Dave Eggers, publisher, philanthropist, and creative community advocate for school students asks people to engage with local public schools. Ask teachers how to help, he advises, they'll know what they, their students and their schools need. Great presentation. 24 minutes.

MLIS 2600 projects - Summer 2008

My Website Link

University of Pittsburgh
School of Information Sciences

• Thoreau_index1.html (without hyperlinks)
• Thoreau_index2.html (with hyperlinks)
• Jing Thing à la Del.icio.us
• Google Docs assignments

ePrints
RefShare: Connotea, Del.icio.us, Zotero
Carol's Connotea
Carol's deli.cio.us account
Carol's Zotero
RefShare: Scopus & Google Scholar
Citation Alerts: 7 from Web of Science
RSS feeds: 11 from Scopus
WorldCat

• KOHA
  

Kevin Kelly - All of us at one with the Web

An appropriate TED.com clip with which to conclude our tech explorations through LIS 2600.

Web of Science Citation Alerts Guide

SO...I won't forget. For future reference - by myself and others.

Web of Science Citation Alerts – How To Guide

Register for End Note Web at http://www.endnoteweb.com/

Click into UPitt - ULS Digital Libraries,

Click “Find Articles”

Click “ Databases A – Z”

Scroll Down, Click on “Web of Science” line

Click “Connect to Database”

Search “Digital Libraries” or whatever

Click on “Citation Report” Top Right corner above 1^st listed reference.

Click on one of the references.

Click on “Create Citation Alert” in right hand blue column (Cited By report)

Highlight/Copy Record through Orange RSS XML feed.

Paste into word document.

Record: Audic, S. The significance of digital gene expression profiles Send Me E-mail Alerts: Yes

E-mail address: infoevangelist@gmail.com E-mail format: Plain Text Expiration date: 2009-08-01

RSS Feed:

Right Click on XML, click on “Copy Link Location”

PASTE onto word document, then edit as noted below.

javascript:openWindow('http://rss.isiknowledge.com/rss?e=f69f34c574c49e06&c=0d1201ec691674297ee2433de247552a','_WOK_RSS_')

Edit as follows:

javascript:openWindow('

http://rss.isiknowledge.com/rss?e=f69f34c574c49e06&c=0d1201ec691674297ee2433de247552a ','_WOK_RSS_')

Copy the edited link, paste it into your Google Reader's green subscription line.

Repeat till done!

Technology in Education

I was directed to this 5:37 minute clip by Jim Gates, our local Capital Area Intermediate Unit Technology educator.
It's a good clip. Dr. Tomer has certainly tried to expose us to a variety of the technological tools available to us. It's going to take more time & practice for me to become comfortable with the website work. I am, however, comfortable with the blog and the internet exploration. The latter has been pure joy... the fun part of this summer's tech exploration. I can't wait to explore and dabble in courses offered online...oh wait, I should be taking a break from that! :) Along with all those other hardworking FastTrackers!

Enjoy!

Librarian kicked out of city hall meeting, July 7, 2008

John McCain Town Hall Meeting, Denver Colorado.

Ascii Codes for symbols not on the keyboard

Here's a useful Ascii chart.
Pour les accents Français: aigu, grave, circonflexe, c cedille.

Creativity: Common Sense or Criminalization. Lessig

Another Great TED.com offering, filmed March 2007. 19 minutes.
Reviving the Read – Write Culture - a conversation worth having. A film clip worth viewing.

John Phillip Sousa, Flying chickens, ASCAP cartel – BMI

Remix:
Anime mashed up with music.
GW Bush & PM Tony Blair mashed up singing “My love, there's only you in my life.”
Building Artist Choice

Great comments from listeners listed below TED’s post, available via the link http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

"Creativity Always Builds on the Past, " Lawrence Lessig

Copy.... Left! Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left?

Creative Commons

Lord of the Rings in 2 minutes

I went YouTube surfing and found a variation on Cliff Notes?? Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU&feature=related

SCOTUS links

A preview from PBS: clearly one of the very good reasons to support PBS.

My original intent was to find the Supreme Court Nominees website that Stephen Abram referenced in a Nov. 11, 2005 lecture (link below). I'm not sure I've found the sight he mentioned, but there are several interesting sites, many are listed below.

I find the Supreme Court fascinating. Two notes of a personal nature: 1) Supreme Court Justice David Souter graciously wrote to our daughter. She, as part of her 7th grade NH history project, wrote him inquiring about hiking in NH. He shared with her one of his favorite hikes...it was a steep one! Clearly, he likes challenges. 2) A few years later when I asked her if she wanted to hear Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor speak on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, PA, she said yes. Justice O'Connor was every bit as gracious as David Souter. When my daughter asked Justice O'Conner if I could take their picture together, she very kindly agreed. Those moments make big impressions on kids! They made big impressions on me! Two very kind, thoughtful justices!

Wikipedia, of course, always a good starting place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

SCOTUS nominees not confirmed. Some interesting history here: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31171.pdf

Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law: http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/supctnom.html

Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst: http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/supcourt/

SCOTUS site: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/members.pdf

Law Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/law/

Supreme Court Historical Society: http://www.supremecourthistory.org/myweb/fp/mission.htm

Info Please: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0847276.html This site offers the following: almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, timelines, countries, campaign 2008 and archived “features.”

High Beam Encyclopedia: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-8859882.html

2005 Christian Science Monitor article about SCOTUS justices: the greats and not-so-greats. http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1007/p01s03-usju.html

KOHA Step by Step

Graciously shared by a classmate. Thanks DJ!!!!!!!!
Posted here for future reference.

First get into KOHA from your access link/site w/ name & password.

1. Find the ISBN number (10 digits) for whatever book you want to add. You can get this number from "Library of Congress" or from wherever. I got most of mine from amazon.com, however the Library of Congress didn't have all of those books in their stacks, so I got a few errors. Whatever book you want HAS to be in the Library of Congress's stacks.
2. Log into Koha
3. From the left navigation list, select "Add MARC" (about halfway down on the list)
4. Scroll down to "020 International Standard Book Number" and put your ISBN number in the field there.
5. Select the button at the top of the screen for "z39.50 Search"
6. A pop-up window will appear with your search parameters. Your ISBN should already be filled in, and you don't need to fill in anything else. Select "Search Internet"
7. It will find your book and show the title under "Results". Move your bottom scroll bar all the way to the right side, as half of the window was hidden for me. On the far right, you'll see the author, ISBN, etc. Select "Import"
8. This will take you back to the initial Add MARC window, but will fill in all the information for you.
9. Under the line for "003-Control Number Identifier", type in whatever number you want. For example, I used "01" for the first book, "02" for the second book, "03" for the third book, etc.
10. Select the button at the top of the screen for "Add Bibliographic Record and go to Items"

hmmm....okay, this is where I have to deviate. I was walking thru the steps as I was writing this, and now I'm stuck. There was a Firefox patch that I installed today and I wonder if it broke something. All of the above steps, I'm sure of, but here's the rest that I'm going to try to wing from memory. If the page resolves itself, I'll send better instructions later.

11. I believe that takes you to a page where you need to enter the barcode. Go to that field and when you click, it will put numbers in. These numbers will not work and you will get an error. You need to replace them with some other number that you made up. For example, I used my anniversary followed by the number of books I entered. Such as "10071", "10072", "10073" etc.
12. At this point there is a button at the bottom to either import, or add to shelf or something along those lines.
13. I think the next step was a window asking you what shelf to put it on, and the first time, you'll need to "create a shelf" and name it whatever. Be sure to make the shelf "public" and not "private". Every other time, it will have the shelf you created on the top and you click the button associated with it.
14. I believe the final screen is one that tells you it was added and there's a button for "make available" or something to that affect. After clicking that, you should be all set. Verify with the "virtual shelves" link that your book is in there.

Wikis mentioned by Cass Sunstein in “Infotopia.”

I’m enjoying “Infotopia” and spending more time with it than I should.
I’ll start and end with Jimmy Wales’ offerings.

Wikisource – Highlights/links from the site: http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Wikimedia

Wikiversity	Wikipedia	Wiktionary
Wikibooks	Wikiquote	Wikispecies
Wikinews	Commons	Meta-Wiki

http://www.fluwikie.com/ Very interesting, useful idea.

Per Flu Wiki’s Website: the purpose of the Flu Wiki is to help local communities prepare for and perhaps cope with a possible influenza pandemic. This is a task previously ceded to local, state and national governmental public health agencies. Our goal is to be:

• a reliable source of information, as neutral as possible, about important facts useful for a public health approach to pandemic influenza
• a venue for anticipating the vast range of problems that may arise if a pandemic does occur
• a venue for thinking about implementable solutions to foreseeable problems

Wikitorial by the LA Times. Suspended. Here’s LA Times’ link to the suspension.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-wiki-splash,0,1349109.story

Lessig’s Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace book wiki: http://code-is-law.org/

Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/

WorldWind Central: official knowledge base and support site for NASA. Zoom from outer space to anywhere on earth and in 3D. http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Main_page

Free political encyclopedia, left leaning: http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Irish Politics: http://www.politics.ie/

Star Trek wiki: http://startrekwiki.wetpaint.com/

Lord of the Rings wiki: http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings

Wikicities, a Jimmy Wales offering, came up as the following: http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia
The highlights and links below are copied from the site:
Wiki Hubs. Discover and share your passions. Join a community or request a new wiki!

Biggest - Most Active - Languages

• Gaming
  Explore the Wikia Gaming Network. More than 1000 wikis!
• Entertainment
  The best resource for television and movie information.

• Books
• Cartoons & Comics
• Creative
• Education
• Entertainment
• Fan Fiction
• Finance
• Gaming
• Health

• Hobbies
• Miscellaneous
• Philosophy & Religion
• Politics & Activism
• Science & Nature
• Science Fiction
• Sports
• Technology
• Travel & Places

SirsiDynix, Professional Development & Marketing

I met Stephen Abram last November at PALA's annual conference. He suggested we think big! He sure does! I looked at his blog last year and I think I looked at the SirsiDynix website too. Yet it was only today that I realized the SD website offers a ton of FREE lectures. Just click and listen. Many offer accompanying handouts. I listened to Stephen's Nov. 11, 2005 lecture about 'Google and Libraries.' Excellent! AND still VERY relevant.

Here's the link to the entire treasure trove. Pat Wagner lectures too! Enjoy!

http://www.sirsidynixinstitute.com/

Providing professional development is a great marketing strategy for SirsiDynix. It makes them our partner. I suspect libraries might do well imitating the plan. Our customers are curious about all kinds of things from technology to knitting. We too, want to be their information & knowledge partners; as vital a part of our respective communities as SirsiDynix is to the library community. It's all about relationships!

Open Source Architecture

There's so much significance to Cameron Sinclair's talk that I need to watch it 10 more times to understand the potential & reality of Open Source.

Another great TED.com offering:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/cameron_sinclair_on_open_source_architecture.html

KOHA fini

http://pitt3.kohawc.liblime.com/cgi-bin/koha/bookshelves/shelves.pl?viewshelf=44

Knitting for beginners. Rubenstone, Jessie. BK Reserves

At the pirate academy : Zingher, Gary. BK Reserves

The school library media center / Prostano, Emanuel T. BK Reserves

The school library media center: Davies, Ruth Ann, BK Reserves

Information literacy and information skills instruction : Thomas, Nancy Pickering. BK Reserves

The emerging school library media center : BK Reserves

Woolcraft / Bloor, Liz. BK Reserves

Knitting from the top / Walker, Barbara G. BK Reserves

Designs on knitting / Kelso, Avril. BK Reserves

Machine and hand knitting : Kinder, Kathleen, BK Reserves

The Magic knitting needles of Mary Walker Phillips : BK Reserves

Teacher's portfolio of library skills lessons & activities / Weisburg, Hilda K., BK Reserves

The vogue dictionary of knitting stitches / Matthews, Anne. BK Reserves

Resources for educating children with diverse abilities : Deiner, Penny Low. BK Reserves

A guide to Dallas learning specialists / Kahn, Beth F. BK Reserves

Reauthorization of part H of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act : BK Reserves

Guide to writing quality individualized education programs : Gibb, Gordon S. BK Reserves

The Fulton special education digest : BK Reserves

Resources for teaching children with diverse abilities : Deiner, Penny Low. BK Reserves

Kids with special needs : Getskow, Veronica. BK Reserves

SENCO at a glance : Evans, Linda, BK Reserves

Defending and parenting children who learn differently : Teel, Scott. BK Reserves

Beyond survival to power for school library media professionals / Kulleseid, Eleanor. BK Reserves

Understanding special education : Stowe, Cynthia. BK Reserves

Adventuring with books : BK Reserves

Books for secondary school libraries / BK Reserves

Libraries take us far / Hill, Lee Sullivan, BK Reserves

Instruction in school library media center use (K-12) / BK Reserves

Children's literature : BK Reserves

U.S. Government publications for the school media center / Wittig, Alice J., BK Reserves

Cass Sunstein Interview

Bloggingheads.tv - diavlogs

Open Source Learning - R. Baraniuk

Frustrated w/ KOHA! Can't get there from here, as they say in Maine.
SO TED.com to the rescue. Thanks again TED.com.

Larry Lessig...may he go on forever

Though I hope he won't need to.
Here's a July 24, 2002 presentation by Lessig.




The remaining 3 parts of this 4 part series should reveal themselves in order, if YouTube works the way I think it does. Still learning. Still thankful for YouTube, Lessig, et al.

Jing Thing a la Del.icio.us

Jing Thing:
A la Firefox via Google: Just type "delicious" forget the periods, you'll see.
Delicious Registration, Installation of buttons on toolbar, and Use.
Enjoy! Especially Del.icio.us, a user-friendly tool.

http://screencast.com/t/DTyGgLbf

Google Reader

Google Reader

Online Social Networking in the Business Environment

Can libraries be far behind? Not if we can keep up w/ Tomer's class! It's 4am and you can see what I'm up to.

Three people address networking in the business world. All pretty interesting.
Cisco: 'Social networking and business practice: A case study in the telecoms industry'
Ruth Ward of (Allen & Overy, England): 'Social software in a hard world'
Matthijs Den Besten (OeRC): 'Wikipedia: the organizational capabilities of a peer production effort'
Panelists: Nathan Marston (McKinsey) and William Dutton (OII); Chair: Ellen Helsper (OII)

Another OII offering. Thanks OII!

Session 3 http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20080407_243

Alex Wright, The author not the wrestler.

Though I imagine writing a book is a bit like wrestling.

http://fora.tv/2007/08/17/Glut_Mastering_Information_Though_the_Ages Long. 1.5 hrs.

http://www.alexwright.org/ Alex Wright’s Website

Alex Wright writes for the NY Times. Two articles of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/weekinreview/02wright.html Dec. 2, 2007 Social Networks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html June 17, 2008, Mundaneum of Paul Otlet, an interesting and prescient former librarian, pre-WWII.

The following was brought to our attention by Wright and made available through YouTube. Paul Otlet's Radiated Library & the Televised Book. Very brief.

Google's Knol Encyclopedia

Found Google’s official description and launch of the Knol encyclopedia project. You’d think Google could put their entry for Knol at the top of their search page. Hmmm.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/12/google-knol-encyclopedia-written-by.html

Fora.tv - Another Window on the World

Given the reprieve today from LIS 2600, I went surfing and found great stuff. One of them was Fora.tv, a web treasure trove of great personalities and diverse topics. Here's Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc., speaking June 9th, 2008 at the Economic Club of Washington in Washington D.C. Topic: "The Future of the Internet: Engine for Economic Growth." Fora.tv provided an embedding option, so I've included it here, but I'd strongly recommend getting there via the 1st link below. It's worth checking out their website as you listen to Schmidt.

http://fora.tv/2008/06/09/Google_CEO_Eric_Schmidt_on_the_Future_of_the_Internet

Of interest and near the end of his talk, Schmidt made mention of a project named “Knol.” A knowledge project described in Wikipedia site as a possible competitor to it. Schmidt described it as a site written by experts in their fields. Relevant links:

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol

Google Knol offerings: http://knolstuff.com/
Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html