Ning

Lazy Easter patchwork post

Uncategorized

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”.

3. AN IMAGE

hedgehog_001.jpg

 

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.
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/U9sENSA_sjI” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

Embedded video: What’s a mashup

Ning network for Library 2.0

Uncategorized

Want to play with a social network? Practice adding friends, contributing to forums, blogging, uploading photos and files?

Like to explore the ideas of Library 2.0?

The newly created Library2.0 Ning network may be just the thing for you. To join up, go here.

ninglib20.jpg

Ning is a site that allows you to create a community on a Content Management System kind of background. So, why not just create your own social network on a CMS, and invite your friends over? I guess because it’s all “up there” on the web, you can create a number of networks at once, and you can poke about to find other networks and join with your Ning membership. For developers, it’s even more. It’s a platform that allows you to make changes and feed them back into the Ning community.

ningpage.jpg

I’m coming out of the closet here to admit I HATE the label “Library2.0”. I’m happy to explore the new attitudes and demands that new web tools bring, and to work out how new web tools can serve our clients better. The “Library2.0” name smacks of faddism and impermanence. This is a pity, as I really support what it stands for, just hate the easy target of such a dumb name. Ideas good, name dumb. I don’t have any better to suggest, so I’m stuck with using it.

Over 150 people have joined since the network was set up a couple of days ago by Bill Drew. It’s had over 13000 hits so far. It’s taking a long time to load pages right now, which I hope is just a temporary glitch and that it can handle the volume. The delay would be enough to stop me using the site.

Anyhow, worth checking out. I have found four other Australians there so far. If you do join up, feel free to add me as your friend.