I’m a Connector

I took the Pew Internet & American Life Internet Typology Test this morning while waiting for the coffee to kick in.  Apparently I’m a “Connector”.   Here’s the description:
Connectors make up 7% of the American public.
Basic Description
The Connectors’ collection of information technology is used for a mix of one-to-one and one-to-many communication. They very much like [...]

Today’s Minor Facebook Victory

One of the reasons that Facebook has had outstanding growth, in my opinion, is because of the wide variety of applications that are available. Why are there so many available? Because Facebook opened up its platform to developers and allows pretty much anyone to create an application. For free.
Ever since I [...]

A Map for Presidents’ Day

Happy Presidents’ Day, everyone. To celebrate, here’s a map I made one slow day last summer of all the Presidential Libraries. One day I hope to do a driving vacation, starting with John Quincy Adams’ library in Quincy, MA and ending at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA. It may not [...]

Do you educate students about what they post on the Internet?

It’s come to my attention recently that some of my law students have blogs and almost all have Facebooks.  With UK’s Barrister’s Ball this weekend, I felt obligated to post a little something about “thinking before you post” in our library’s blog/newsletter.
Do any of you do user education on this?  I’m thinking about maybe doing [...]

The Internet’s Answer to Crack Cocaine

There was a point in time when this applied to me, but now I’m just a recreational user. Now I only facebook on weekends and special occassions and to take the edge off of a really bad day at work…..
What Is Facebook Addiction?
More facebook videos here.
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Libraries and YouTube

I really like my job.  Not because I get to do really interesting mentally stimulating things or because I like helping people (both true, btw), but also because my boss sends me stuff like this:

After I got finish watching it, I started poking around and it looks like the Topeka & [...]

my blue 2.0 module is live

As promised, here is a link to my Blue 2.0 module.  I sorta don’t ever want to type the word “del.icio.us” again.  Except I just did right there.  I had to find it a little ironic that this was my module since I am terrible at tagging and organizing stuff.
Now that’s up and running, I [...]

I can haz blog?

OH HAI!!!
I realized this week that it’s been forever and a day since I updated this blog. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been playing around with technology, just that I’ve been too busy to write about it. Some highlights:
-Last year I went to the Computers in Libraries conference and got all [...]