I’m taking Easter off from PCs ‘n’ stuff, I think. I don’t even have a suitably thoughtful post to keep at the top of the aggregator for the next week..so four disjointed, lazy woman bitties…..
1. A GROSS GENERALIZATION BASED ON A HUNCH WITH NO EVIDENCE TO BACK IT UP
The biblioblogosphere has seemed a bit quiet in the last couple of months. Is it because many of our libraries are implementing the projects we’ve been jumping up and down about in the last year?
Last year there was a lot of “Wow..this stuff is so COOOOL and I think we could use it in our libraries, maybe..why doesn’t my workplace GET IT”. Now it seems to be more often “I’ve been asked to talk to a roomful of my colleagues about this Cool Stuff”.
I think there’s a glimmer of “I’m setting up this really great project using the tools I was speculating about last year”..and even “one of my colleagues had this great idea how we could use this stuff”. Maybe I’m just projecting….
2. WHAT THEY SAID
Ever find yourself nodding and saying “aha, aha, yep, aha” all through a post?. Here’s three from the last 24 hours, where the only thing I have to say more on the topic is “what they said”.
- Michelle McLean at the Connecting Librarian talks about being passionate about your work and leaving your young family for a bit to pursue it.
- Connie Crosby rants about Ning’s inadequacies on her Library2.0 Ning network blog, then sets up camp with Aaron Dobbs in his newly created “Ning Rants” Ning network
- Ellyssa Kroski previews her paper for Computers in Libraries about designing for the new web – simplicity, ease of navigation and sociability at Infotangle. Information Design for the New Web.
3. AN IMAGE
Emerald Dumont talks to BrianA Corleone atop his treasure trove and hopes the dragon’s egg will hatch.
4. A CLIP
Via HeyJude
David Berlind, Managing Editor of ZDNet describes mashups in a way that makes me understand where APIs fit in the mashup food chain.
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