Facebook & Privacy?

Sarah Steiner, Learning Commons Librarian at Georgia State University, posted a link to the following video Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?. The video makes interesting and disturbing claims about privacy concerns regarding the site Facebook. It quotes from the terms of service posted on Facebook, which I have to [...]

New Book on Social Software in Libraries Almost Here!

Meredith Farkas’ new book called Social Software in Libraries will soon be published.
According to the forward by Roy Tennant, posted on her blog, “This nuts-and-bolts guide provides librarians with the information and skills necessary to implement the most popular and effective social software technologies: blogs, RSS, wikis, social networking software, screencasting, photo-sharing, podcasting, instant messaging, [...]

Barack Obama Goes 2.0

Today, in English101 class, we evaluated different Barack Obama websites as examples of different types of sites for different information needs. This site is his campaign site and I found it very interesting. It’s essentially a MySpace for Obama supporters. It has many Web 2.0 features, including the ability to create ones own profile, invite [...]

Inside Higher Ed :: A Stand Against Wikipedia

Today must be wiki Friday A report from Inside Higher Ed, quotes Wikipedia officials’ reaction to policies by university professors that ban the citing of Wikipedia in student bibliographies. Note that neither policy mentioned was designed to stop students from using Wikipedia as a starting point for research, but rather to keep them [...]

Citizendium – Academic Wikipedia!

Here’s a follow-up to an earlier post, (http://rhondagonzales.wordpress.com/2006/10/30/can-wikipedia-ever-make-the-grade-chronicle-of-higher-ed-discussion/). While some studies have shown that Wikipedia is similar in reliability to traditional encyclopedias including Britannica, many academics have still felt nervous about the fact that anyone can contribute to Wikipedia. While the content is usually accurate, it is often incomplete and, what’s of more concern, it [...]

Hot Books – Playing at the Library

One of our librarians, Sandy Hudock, thinks we should host a matchmaking night at the library. If you want to meet someone you come and hang out in the call number section of the library that represents your interests. Then you look for someone else with the same interests as yourself. In general, I think [...]

Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy

This interesting article from D-Lib, discusses the inherent problems with using tags or folksonomies to categorize resources. The author bases the analysis on philosophical principles regarding relativism and categorization. I think that current technology might be able to provide a solution to the problems illustrated. Could not an algorithm be devised that analyzes the tags [...]

Academic Wiki Website

I love this idea. Does anyone know of a wiki product that is robust enough to handle this? Also does anyone have ideas about how this might be made to be compatible with campus website design guidelines? Finally, are any academic libraries doing it?
Library 2.0: An Academics Perspective: The Ideal Library 2.0 Academic Library Web [...]

Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade? Chronicle of Higher Ed Discussion

The Chronicle: 10/27/2006: Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?
“Are Wikipedians good historians?” he asked. “As in the old tale of the blind men and the elephant, your assessment of Wikipedia as history depends a great deal on what part you touch.”
The Chronicle article discusses the pros and cons of Wikipedia as well as studies and [...]

TravelinLibrarian.info Posts Video on YouTube by Google

Exactly my point! http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2006/10/on-google-purchase-of-youtube.html
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