Too bad I’m swamped at the library right now. I’d like to give Meebo Rooms a proper write up. Evidently what’s old is once again new…with a twist. Meebo Rooms are user created chat rooms that allow easy integration of media from YouTube, Flickr and probably other places. To include media [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2007
the librarian in black in _Everything is Miscellaneous_
10 May 07 – 8:13 am
Ok so maybe I’m going to embarrass her, but I think it is so great that my friend Sarah is quoted in Everything is Miscellaneous. It is a killer quote about Gormangate where the phrase “irresponsible leadership” is used. Also in the discussion is a quote from Free Range Librarian Karen Schneider. [...]
facebook blocked on ontario gov computers
7 May 07 – 5:37 pm
UPDATE: Jennifer Peters-Lise of the Seneca College Libraries wrote in to tell me that the Facebook ban in Ontario has trickled down to the city of Toronto.
I can’t remember if I mentioned that towards the end of April I was up in Vancouver, BC giving a talk about social networking sites [...]
a PDF of my 4/30 EI presentation
2 May 07 – 5:00 pm
Yesterday I gave a Education Institute webinar titled Facebook and MySpace: Pros and Cons for Libraries. Here’s a big honkin’ (10MB) pdf of my slides.
http://www.walkingpaper.org/ei.pdf
One of the questions that came up during the Q&A session was about curricular uses of MySpace (particularly in a high school setting) in which students can remain [...]
