When introducing my Advanced Internet class I struggle, at times, to describe Web 2.0 to the uninitiated. The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google provides a nice summary: Through the first decade of its existence… the World Wide Web was a fairly prosaic place for most of us. ...

I’ve been following David’s posts about online friending with extreme interest. In a nutshell, he suggests that before libraries join social sites they do it deliberately: set goals, a target audience, find a voice, and do outreach around it: You might have noticed that most of my sugges...

Last night, as I was updating my Wordpress, I decided I was sick of my old theme. So I found a new one. No great shakes… except that I’ve been blogging for the library. It’s quite interesting to put all the things I’ve talked about here into play over there. So, on the sideba...

After many months of spottily focused work, I was thrilled tonight to launch the upgraded, updated, preferred, deferred Tamworth Library website. When Casey and I began to expand the concept he proved with wpopac into what has become Scriblio we quickly realized we would need a development partner. ...

I couldn’t get on the wireless so I’m not liveblogging, really which really bums me out. Them and Me Firefox tools SafeCache protects your privacy segments the cache so one cookie can’t read another. SafeHistory similar, but hides your history. Good for public computers. Fox marks ...

For this, I’m just looking for more ideas about how to punk our city’s cms. I heard Darlene and Jeff when I went to Monterey a few years ago. Him and Me Improve the site incrementally. Iterative change - small stuff instead of big stuff. This model is so much easier on us web folk…...

I know I’ve said it before and it’s uncool to drool and carry on about your own work, but seeing library events in my personal calendar is just so fucking cool. I apologize for the obscenity, but it just is! I’ll see everyone at CiL next week! Afterthought disclaimer: I am in know ...

There was a story in the paper a few months ago about a child who was snatched to a remote corner of the library and unspeakable things happened. It’s not the kind of image anyone wants associated with their local library - or anything else. In response, our board asked the professionals to su...