I’ve got my office torn apart for remodeling, and I haven’t had my computer hooked up for about 48 hours. I can hardly believe I haven’t started frothing at the mouth. We don’t have television or cable either, so we’ve been nicely disconnected for the past few days.
At any rate, [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2005
money –> mouth
29 Mar 05 – 11:51 am
In the post leading communities through info technologies I mentioned that I’d report back on the results of some advanced type classes at the library. Last week I held a class titled “Weblogs and Really Simple Sundication (RSS)” at the library.
Only 4 people attended. This, however, was a good size. Noone [...]
language
28 Mar 05 – 4:21 pm
One of the best moments at Computers in Libraries 2005 for me was when I was completely stumped by a question from the audience during our IM presentation. I was talking about the shortened version of English that can make up the majority of an IM conversation. I had the image of [...]
sms numbers
28 Mar 05 – 4:09 pm
There isn’t a full report, but PEW Internet /American Life has a ‘PIP Comment’ out titled
our IM presentation
21 Mar 05 – 11:47 am
I’ve updated the ‘presentations’ section with, in part, a link to our IM presentation from last Thursday. No need to click through if you are interested, here it is. It is slightly bare bones because we just used it as talking points, so if you have any questions, be sure to IM (or [...]
what users want
20 Mar 05 – 6:33 pm
After dinner the other night*, Michael, David, Greg and I visited a nice cafe called Tryst. Our time there and the “Delighting the User” keynote of 3/18 make for some interesting thinking. As we enjoyed our beverages we noted all of the people using the (free) wireless network and how different their preferred [...]
IM at CIL 2005
18 Mar 05 – 3:34 pm
I was pleased to see some more presentations about IM at CIL2005. In addition to my presentation with Michael, there was a 15 minute cybertour and another 45 minute session. The other session, “IM: Providing Services and Enhancing Communication” (given by two librarians from the business school at University of Michigan was [...]
Day One of Computers in Libraries
16 Mar 05 – 5:28 pm
There are a number of things I’m slightly busting at the seams to post about. I must say that it has been an inspirational day.
David King talked to a room packed with people about an excellent way to frame a library’s website: a user targeted design. It was a full and rich presentation, but I’ll [...]
