CommentPress 1.0 released by if:book

The Future of the Book website has just released CommentPress 1.o, a free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text. I’m overjoyed to see this, as I am a firm believer in blogs as easier tools to use and manage than wikis. [...]

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Jane’s eLearning tips

I’ve subscribed to Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day for some time, and it is a great blog to find scores of learning and instructional technologies — some useful in the classroom, others not so much. Today’s post was a slidesharing tool called Slideshare, where you can upload your powerpoint presentations and other slides [...]

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Thoughts on the future of libraries (and therefore, librarians)

An excellent compilation of interviews by the movers and shakers in the library world.  Lots of emphasis on Library 2.0, but some good analysis of how technology is changing our perspective on the type of services we provide to our users.

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Courses on virtual librarianship

It doesn’t seem like virtual librarianship should be so hard that they have to offer classes in Second Life.  The graduate library school at University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and the Alliance Library System of Illinois are partnering to create two online courses designed to introduce newbies to the world of librarianship in Second Life.

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Happy 10th anniversary to blogging!

Its been 10 years since Dave Winer created Scripting News and Jorn Barger started his blog, Robot Wisdom, both the advance guard of a movement that didn’t take off with mainstream users until 2003.  WSJ takes us down memory lane as we celebrate blogging’s short but fruitful life…

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Web 2.0 debate in WSJ

Authors Andrew Keen and David Weinberger sound off on the term “Web 2.0″ in this piece from today’s online Wall Street Journal.  Keen has just released an anti-Web 2.0 book, The Cult of the Amateur in which he describes a new phenomenon called “digital narcissism”, or “…our self-infatuation with the subjectivity of our own messages…”.

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A perspective on Library 2.0 from the outside

Its always of the utmost excitement when an “outsider” notices what librarians are doing and sings our praises! Rohit Bhargava is a PR specialist who writes the Influential Marketing Blog and posted a piece on Librarians and Library 2.0
yesterday. He writes about the “…spokespeople of this revolution are the new generation of Librarians [...]

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For today’s blogs, wikis & podcasting workshop…

I’m interested in finding out why you are attending today’s session.  Tell me what you hope to learn from the workshop by clicking on the comments link below and posting your thoughts.

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Great article on blogs vs. wikis

While doing some background for my Monday workshop, I came across a great comparison of blogs vs. wikis, from a professor at Bemidji State University in Minnesota.  I especially liked her following idea:
Blogs = chronological; staying on top of things
Wikis= topical; carved from the inside out
Succinct and entirely accurate.

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Competencies for 2.0 Librarians

Wanna be a 2.0 Librarian?  David Lee King suggests the following basic competencies for becoming a 2.0 Librarian:
Specific 2.0 Skills:

Create, edit, and upload screencasts
Ability to do basic HTML editing – an understanding of (X)HTML and CSS. Here, I’m not wanting “web developer” skills – but someone who has enough of an understanding of HTML to [...]

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