What struck me most about the conference wasn’t something from a presentation I saw. What struck me most was how many laptops the crowd had. Four years ago there’d maybe be two in an audience. This year there were dozens. I don’t know why there was such a dramatic increase, but [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
flickr at IL2006
27 Oct 06 – 11:53 pm
It is a bit nutty how popular flickr has become at library conferences. Look at the growth of photos taken, uploaded, and tagged with:
il2006 – 1,880
il06 – 117
total – 1997 (as of this blog post)
il2005 – 326
il05 – 564
total – 890 (as of this blog post)
That’s more than double in a year. [...]
Is something up with the Library of Congress’ QuestionPoint service?
27 Oct 06 – 4:29 pm
I’ve recieved a few emails from the Library of Congress’ “Ask a Librarian…” service that I wasn’t supposed to get. Either patrons have started entering in my email address as their own for the past two weeks or there’s, well, something wrong with the service. I don’t know which is more likely.
One [...]
myspace/facebook/flickr/etc a fad?
26 Oct 06 – 6:07 pm
Tomorrow’s Soaring to Excellence program – Best New Technologies: Keeping Up with the Storm – is going to be a solid program. I’ll post some sweet video once I have access to it. Brian Mathews is joining us via telephone for a portion of the program and said something great during rehearsal. [...]
new gadgets presentation
24 Oct 06 – 11:05 am
Yesterday I gave a presentation with Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina Pacifici about new and upcoming gadgets. We intended the session to be fun as well as informational. Judging by the laughs, we were successful. I don’t use too many gadgets (ok, maybe I’m in denial – cell for camera/internet/text, GPS, bike computers, [...]
