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Archive for » November 3rd, 2005«

IM VR: What’s your opinion

From Dig_Ref:

Please share your opinions on virtual reference with us!

We are collecting information for a study on librarian opinions regarding chat and instant messenger (IM) as virtual reference delivery methods. The survey will take between 7 and 12 minutes, and will help us get a general idea of how many librarians are using, are opposed to, or have not explored IM as a virtual reference tool. We hope to publish the results in a peer-reviewed journal in 2006.

Here is the address to access the survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224Q22395K3

We will collect responses for four weeks, from November 3rd until December 1st.

You may also choose to view our informed consent form here: http://www.library.gsu.edu/download/informedconsent.htm

Thank you for your help and participation!

Sarah and Casey

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Sarah King
Learning Commons Librarian
Georgia State University Library
sking33@gsu.edu
404-463-9930

Casey Long
Business Liaison Librarian
Georgia State University Library
caseylong@gsu.edu
404-463-9932

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Serenity DVD

DVD Times is reporting a December 20th release of Serenity on DVD. Cover image and menu images included in article.

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Tagging Amazon.com


Take a look at the Amazon.com page for Amazon.com: Books: Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research. Scroll down and you’ll find a “Concordance” of the “100 most used words” in the book. It’s a tag cloud! Has anyone else seen books with this feature?
via Elegant Hack

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del.icio.us stats

Just finished listening to a podcast of Joshua Schachter of del.icio.us and, despite the audio quality royally sucking I did learn one interesting bit: the domains that have the most bookmarks in del.icio.us are del.icio.us, amazon.com, Microsoft, the BBC, and the Washington Post. (Go figure on that first one.)

Infinite Flickr #177 (reloaded)


#177 (reloaded)
Originally uploaded by mparthesius.

A second follow-up to my post.

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Teen Content Creators and Consumers

The latest report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project contained little suprises for anyone that’s witnesed a teen online in the past year. However, here are some of the items in the report that I found the most interesting.

  • While boys generally dominate downloading and file-sharing activity online, the act of creating and sharing self-authored content, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos, is one arena where older girls lead. Just 29% of boys ages 15-17 share their own creative content online, compared with 38% of girls in that age group.
  • Blogging teens are more likely to have helped an adult do something online than nonblogging teens, this despite living in households with generally more tech-savvy parents. More than nine in ten, or (94%) of blogging teens report helping an adult do something online that they could not do themselves, while 79% of other teens report rendering similar assistance to an adult.
  • Teens who report that they most often go online from home are also more likely to read blogs than those who favor other internet access locations. While 43% of these home users read blogs, 29% of teens who go online most often from school say that they read them.
  • While public discussion has raged about whether blogs constitute legitimate journalism
    or are a reliable source of information, for teens, blogs are much more about the maintenance and extension of personal relationships. When teens do read blogs, they mainly read the blogs of people they know. About 62% of blog-reading teens say they only read the blogs of people they know. The remaining group (36%) reports reading the blogs of both people they know and people they have never met. A mere 2% report only reading the blogs of people they do not know.
  • Out of the 622 teens in our survey who say they have tried music downloading, 75% agree with the statement that, “Music downloading and file-sharing is so easy to do, it’s unrealistic to expect people not to do it.” Just 23% disagreed with this statement.
  • Bloggers generally have similar attitudes as non-bloggers toward free music downloading and file-sharing. Most feel that downloading is so easy to do that it is unreasonable to expect people not to do it. However, like most teen internet users, about half of bloggers think that it is never really okay to download or share files without paying for them or getting permission. Surprisingly, bloggers are slightly less likely to say that downloading is okay as long as people are still buying music and movies; just 59% of bloggers agree with this conditional statement compared with 68% of non-bloggers.
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More cool book storage


This one has built-in seating. To find details, go to the company site, select “products” then “cave”.

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Pet me

adopt your own virtual pet!


Thanks L

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Battlestar Galactica Gets Third Season

Read the story at TV Squad.

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The Infinite Cat Project

From what I can tell, The Infinite Cat Project pre-dates Infinite Flickr.
Thanks Rosario

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