Friday, December 08, 2006
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Awards for Technology Collaboration
"The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded $650,000 in prizes to ten not-for- profit institutions in the first annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). The Mellon Awards honor not-for-profit organizations for leadership in the collaborative development of open source software tools with particular application to higher education and not-for-profit activities. More information on the awards ceremony, including podcast interviews with some of the recipients, will be available at www.cni.org beginning 5 December 2006.
The awards were presented December 4, 2006, at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the inventor of the World Wide Web. The ten recipients were selected from among more than 200 nominees by the MATC Award Committee, which included Berners-Lee, Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim O¡¦Reilly (Founder and CEO, O¡¦Reilly Media)."
https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113143.html
The awards were presented December 4, 2006, at the Fall Task Force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and the inventor of the World Wide Web. The ten recipients were selected from among more than 200 nominees by the MATC Award Committee, which included Berners-Lee, Mitchell Baker (CEO, Mozilla Corporation), John Seely Brown (former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp.), Vinton G. Cerf (Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.), John Gage (Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.), and Tim O¡¦Reilly (Founder and CEO, O¡¦Reilly Media)."
https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113143.html
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Sakai: Open Source Course Management system
New evolution in Course Management Software
"Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.
Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted and are using Sakai."
http://sakaiproject.org/
"Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.
Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community. Sakai's development model is called "Community Source" because many of the developers creating Sakai are drawn from the "community" of organizations that have adopted and are using Sakai."
http://sakaiproject.org/
Monday, November 27, 2006
8 Mashups
"While this is a simplified model (one must ask who checks the work every time to make sure it’s right, how is the code maintained over time, and so on), it’s also one of the significant motivations behind the drive for end-user mashups; applying this very same concept of task automation to daily work and life."
"How many routine tasks could we get out of our way if we had powerful task automation tools that almost anyone could use? How many one-off tasks could be automated that couldn’t possibly justify the expense of custom software development? These problem areas — automating repetitive work, and automating complex, collaborative problem solving (the tacit interactions I tend to cite so much) — are potentially ripe for enabling low-barrier tools that let us assemble solutions out of the rich landscape of services that are beginning to flourish in our organizations. This world of available services is already a vibrant ecosystem on the Web."
Read more at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=63
"How many routine tasks could we get out of our way if we had powerful task automation tools that almost anyone could use? How many one-off tasks could be automated that couldn’t possibly justify the expense of custom software development? These problem areas — automating repetitive work, and automating complex, collaborative problem solving (the tacit interactions I tend to cite so much) — are potentially ripe for enabling low-barrier tools that let us assemble solutions out of the rich landscape of services that are beginning to flourish in our organizations. This world of available services is already a vibrant ecosystem on the Web."
Read more at: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=63
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
HLA Conference 2006
I just returned from the Hawaii Library Association Conference (http://ohana.chaminade.edu/hla/index.html).
The conference was great--good speakers, beautiful scenery, very very well run and lots of web 2.0.
I presented on using blogs, myspace, and IM for library outreach. We did an pre-conference so it included a hands-on portion--that unfortunately turned out to be too short but I was interesting to see librarians use some of these technologies for the first time. I think the transition from content provider to content creator is fundamental--and often under appreciated as we move the Library 2.0...
The conference was great--good speakers, beautiful scenery, very very well run and lots of web 2.0.
I presented on using blogs, myspace, and IM for library outreach. We did an pre-conference so it included a hands-on portion--that unfortunately turned out to be too short but I was interesting to see librarians use some of these technologies for the first time. I think the transition from content provider to content creator is fundamental--and often under appreciated as we move the Library 2.0...
World Usability Day
"Make yourself useful on the 14th of November 2006. Celebrate usability around the world."
A truely under appreciated holiday....day off anyone?Friday, November 03, 2006
Web Science
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain plan to announce today that they are starting a joint research program in Web science.
Web science, the researchers say, has social and engineering dimensions. It extends well beyond traditional computer science, they say, to include the emerging research in social networks and the social sciences that is being used to study how people behave on the Web. And Web science, they add, shifts the center of gravity in engineering research from how a single computer works to how huge decentralized Web systems work."
“The Web isn’t about what you can do with computers,” Mr. Berners-Lee said. “It’s people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn’t tell you about what happens on the Web.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Web science, the researchers say, has social and engineering dimensions. It extends well beyond traditional computer science, they say, to include the emerging research in social networks and the social sciences that is being used to study how people behave on the Web. And Web science, they add, shifts the center of gravity in engineering research from how a single computer works to how huge decentralized Web systems work."
“The Web isn’t about what you can do with computers,” Mr. Berners-Lee said. “It’s people and, yes, they are connected by computers. But computer science, as the study of what happens in a computer, doesn’t tell you about what happens on the Web.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
The skinny on Facebook
Brian gives a great overview of a talk by "Mike Murphy, Chief Revenue Officer of Facebook, gave a great presentation about social media and the opportunities to engage users."
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian
/2006/10/a_night_with_fa.html
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian
/2006/10/a_night_with_fa.html
mySpace, byespace from WSJ
...belongs to a fringe of Internet users now renouncing MySpace and other social-networking sites -- not in spite of their popularity, but because of it. That highlights a dilemma facing News Corp.'s MySpace and Facebook Inc.: While it takes a critical mass of users to make these sites work, having too many users alienates some, especially when they attract an ever-growing cacophony of advertising and in some cases, spam.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116182858175204222.html
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Google's Custom Search Engine
Google is testing a search you build that allows you to "specify the websites that you want to searched-and integrate the search box and results into your own website."Read more at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
Thursday, October 19, 2006
YouTube:Wikiality
A very good Colbert Report and the reason to use a skeptical eye when using Wikipedia. Used in library instruction sessions.
Reuters to cover business news in Second Life
By Adam Pasick"LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Rosedale and his team at Linden Lab have almost godlike powers in Second Life, the virtual world they created, powers that Alan Greenspan could only have dreamed of when he chaired the U.S. central bank.
But they have much the same job managing its economy.
Second Life is an online, 3D world with a thriving business sector and a currency that can be exchanged for U.S. dollars, effectively making it a real currency in its own right. Up to 135.5 million Linden dollars, worth about $500,000, changes hands every day among its 900,000 registered users. "
Visit the News Desk: http://secondlife.reuters.com/
Shakespeare goes Virtual & Gaming
"Three-dimensional digital worlds and the world of William Shakespeare--it's hard to imagine two more disparate universes. But bridging the gap between them is exactly what Edward Castronova, an associate professor of telecommunications at Indiana University and the leading expert on the economies of virtual worlds, is doing.
On Thursday, the MacArthur Foundation is expected to announce a $240,000 grant to Castronova and his team to build "Arden: The World of Shakespeare," a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO, built entirely around the plays of the Bard.
"Arden" will be an unusual entry to the growing field of MMOs, which is already dominated by games and virtual worlds like "World of Warcraft," "EverQuest," "Ultima Online." But while those games are published by for-profit corporations, "Arden" is entirely an academic project."
http://news.com.com/Shakespeare
+coming+to+a+virtual+world/2100-1043_3-6127294.html?tag=nefd.lede
On Thursday, the MacArthur Foundation is expected to announce a $240,000 grant to Castronova and his team to build "Arden: The World of Shakespeare," a massively multiplayer online game, or MMO, built entirely around the plays of the Bard.
"Arden" will be an unusual entry to the growing field of MMOs, which is already dominated by games and virtual worlds like "World of Warcraft," "EverQuest," "Ultima Online." But while those games are published by for-profit corporations, "Arden" is entirely an academic project."
http://news.com.com/Shakespeare
+coming+to+a+virtual+world/2100-1043_3-6127294.html?tag=nefd.lede
300+ Web 2.0 apps
Use a web 2.0 technology (listable) to see a list of web 2.0 technologies......http://www.listible.com/list/
complete-list-of-web-2-0-products-and-services
complete-list-of-web-2-0-products-and-services
Monday, October 16, 2006
library 2.0 in job ads
"On the 2.0 Job Description (Part 2): LIS Students in a 2.0 World" by Michael Stephens. ALA TechSource
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/04/on-the-20-job-description-part-2-lis-students-in-a-20-world.html
"On the 2.0 Job Description: Part 1" by Michael Stephens.
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/on-the-20-job-description-part-1.html
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/04/on-the-20-job-description-part-2-lis-students-in-a-20-world.html
"On the 2.0 Job Description: Part 1" by Michael Stephens.
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2006/03/on-the-20-job-description-part-1.html
Saturday, October 14, 2006
Small Bytes Podcast
Some of our technology folks have created Small Bytes, "a weekly podcast about technology and St. Cloud State University."
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mamonn/smallbytes/
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/mamonn/smallbytes/
Go2web 2.0
See hundreds of examples of web 2.0 technologies....some useful...some not so useful
http://go2web20.net/
http://go2web20.net/
Why Wiki?
Check out this online course from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/courses/wiki/
http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/courses/wiki/
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Welcome
This blog is starting as an experiement (and really don't they all). I want to see what features they have added with the new beta version after the partnership with Google.
Lets just see what develops
Lets just see what develops
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