When I talk to people about using weblog software for library projects I always mention that the clean code it’ll spit out is advantageous. This clean code, along with dynamic content makes it easy for search engines to index, increasing the chances of your stuff getting noticed.
As of yesterday, I have a [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
weblogs, they work
28 Jul 06 – 11:46 am
read a good bokilur lately?
26 Jul 06 – 10:31 pm
The other day, Springwise.com had a post titled “Audiobooks for phones” about a product and company in Sweden.
Bokilur is Swedish for book on phone. And the company offers exactly that: audiobooks for cellphones. …
Books are usually split into 5 parts, each of which costs SEK 30 (USD 4.10/EUR 3.25), and is between [...]
International Survery on DDR
25 Jul 06 – 1:29 pm
For those of you in libraries that might need some research and numbers to start gaming events in your institution, here’s a paper titled “International survey on the Dance Dance Revolution game”. Print it and wave it all around, maybe in the general direction of any wet blanket in your building. The full [...]
gaming in libraries: old idea
20 Jul 06 – 8:13 am
Some have tried smoking rooms, had boy’s club rooms and games, and many have tried simply to make the rooms homelike and cheery, and all of their experience is valuable to us.- “The Library as Social Centre“, the opening address of the Minnesota Library Association, October 12, 1905, by Miss Gratia Alta Countryman
Read the [...]
DSing on the Plane
15 Jul 06 – 10:24 am
I lived the Digital Natives conference travelling to and fro Boise. On both trips I found myself next to some young people travelling alone, and I knew it wouldn’t be difficult to make airplane friends with them. Both had their Nintendo DSs along for the journey and were bug-eyed excited when I brought [...]
