I just finished up giving a presentation to our staff about the practical uses of rss. Returning to my desk I encounter this on Walsh’s flickr stream:

The comments include this, from Han N.:
Those colors are amazing! Did you know that an octopus can make itself like a coconut as a defense mechanism? I always thought [...]

I chose to go power-point-free, seat-of-the-pants-live-demo for yesterday’s presentation, nevertheless I felt especially important for them to see a good example of Gaim to really show it off. So, at the right moment, I took the perfect Gaim money shot. It turns out I didn’t need the image, but I was excited by [...]

I’m psyched that local papers are paying attention to Web 2.0, shifting primary information sources, and how libraries are responding to it to meet user needs even though “the trend has sparked anst-filled discussion for the past several weeks among librarians online.” Marian Peterson of the South Portland Library sums things up nicely:
Librarians need [...]

I’m just coming off a weekend of wall to wall librarianship. I was fortunate to spend all day Thursday and Friday at the PLA conference. Followed by a raucous Friday night reminding the gentle citizens of Cambridge, MA that information needs are all around us, if we’d only look. I got [...]

When trying to represent social software like IM & chat to librarians, I find the most difficult part is convincing them that these are tools their users are already using. If the librarians not participating in the community, how do can I prove to them it exists? I try stuff like, ‘to many [...]

I have a close friend who’s a reference librarian in a public library. A patron recently asked who Carrie Fisher’s mother is. Well trained and skilled at choosing the most appropriate resource in all situations, he turned to Google. And queried: Carrie Fisher’s mother. While one has come to expect searches [...]