OPENING KEYNOTE: Friending Libraries: The Nodes in People’s Social Networks

Starts by asking who’s going to tweet his talk, and then explain twitter/hashtags/etc to those not in the know.
showing some of the backchannel snarky comments about himself from previous CiLs and other conferences.

Ecosystem changes

Data from 2000 – 46% on Inter net, 50% with cell phone, 5% with broadband, very few with wireless and cloud access [...]

Twitter In Action

So, you’ve probably seen this video this week, but if not….The Twouble with Twitters:

Ha ha.  Ha.
Okay, here’s the thing…I’m really trying hard to not be defensive about my Twitter habit.  But I’m not going to lie..the first time I was shown that video, my feelings were sort of hurt.  While there [...]

Giving Props

Today is Ada Lovelace Day.  Who was Ada Lovelace?*  She is one of the first, if not the first, computer programmers.   Which is cool enough, but when you realize that she’s (a) an early woman pioneer in a male dominated field and (b) that, oh by the way, she did this in EIGHTEEN FORTY THREE…well, [...]

Tagalus – A Hastag Dictionary

Whenever I tell people about using Hashtags on Twitter or Flickr, I’m generally asked “Who decides those things?” The answer is that there are some standard naming conventions that have arisen and basically the hive mind goes into action and everyone sort of comes up with the same hashtag, although there are sometimes disputes.
I [...]

The New New Facebook

Facebook has been rolling out a new design this week.  It hit the Kentucky network on Wednesday and frankly, my dear, I am not impressed.  Briefly, what I dislike about it….

My profile page gives equal visual weight to status messages, commentary on the links I post and wall posts that my friends leave.
The avatar pics [...]

Government 2.0 Club

As the Washington Post and Mashable have reported, the Obama administration is having some trouble implementing an open, collaborative, transparent government within the exisiting government information structure.  Never fear, though, because some geeks are on the case….meet  the Government 2.0 Club. From it’s website:
Government 2.0 Club is a national organization that brings together leading thinkers [...]