Japan – flattening the library culture
Last week I was invited to give a keynote presentation at Keio University in Tokyo (that’s me carrying on about the Long Tail as a preface to discussing mass digitization). …
Read MoreWalled Gardens vs. Picket Fences
OK, so I’m a little late learning about “walled gardens.” I heard this term used several times during two recent events – first at the Berkeley Digital Media Conference and …
Read MoreRLG joins Web 2.0, Library 2.0
Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Talis‘ work in this area have been all the buzz on the blogosphere recently — here and here and here for example. In a small, …
Read MoreMore Flickr fun
Since Merrilee’s post on trading cards was such a crowd-pleaser, I thought I’d pass on this alert on yet another fun niche of Flickr for librarians: Jill Hurst-Wahl just posted …
Read MoreJournal of Usability Studies
Brenda Reeb, user studies goddess at the University of Rochester, posted a link to the new Journal of Usability Studies on USABILITY4LIB today. I took a quick peek at the …
Read MoreGot Subjects?
In the wake of a great conference in Boston, the listserv [link to sign-up – sorry, no archive!] of the Museum Computer Network (MCN-L) has been teeming with stimulating discussion. …
Read MoreGiving thanks to PREMIS!
I greeted my co-worker Robin Dale with a big smile today and told her I have some really good news. She proceeded to ask me whether I’m getting married, which …
Read Morepod-cast with Jim
Paul Miller just announced that he’ll record a Talking with Talis pod-cast with hangingtogether’s very own Jim Michalko (who incidentally also happens to be the president of RLG.) Paul wants …
Read MoreLibrary of Congress and Google partner in World Digital Library
I first read this on Boing Boing moments ago; my colleague Robin Dale first read it first though, in the (printed) Palo Alto news, and found it online at MacWorld. …
Read MoreGoogle smarts vs my bandwidth
Merrilee wrote how Google got smarter the other day, and provided a neat dog example. Since they get smarter so often, and I have only so much bandwidth to keep …
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