I rarely make predictions but I’ve been making this one to myself for a few months now and I think an article about a 750GB hard drive for only $590 makes me feel safe enough to put this one to print. One terabyte hard drives will be commercially available to the public at a reasonable price by the end of 2006.
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Prediction
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Apr 2006
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ClustrMaps, redux
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Apr 2006
I’ve been running ClustrMaps for two days now and the statistics are starting to come in. Honestly, more people are reading all this than I expected. However, the point of this post is to point out that the mapping feature is giving a few odd results. Most specifically, shown below, it seems that someone is accessing this blog from the Pacific ocean somewhere to the west of Indonesia. Go figure…
UPDATE 29 April 2006: The folks at ClustrMaps have confirmed that I need a geography lesson. That dot happens to represent visitors from Guam. (If that’s you, give a shout.)
Category: statistics
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Community Building survey
27
Apr 2006
Steven and Chrystie have completed the design of their survey on community building. Please give them a hand and a few minutes of your time.
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Internet Librarian 2006
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Apr 2006
Consider this the first official post for the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, CA this October. The e-mails have gone out and it looks like I’ll be presenting on flickr on day two. I’ve got to admit that the others I’ll be sharing my time with are a bit intimidating.
D203 Flickr & Libraries
Michael Porter, OCLC Western, Fiona Hooten National Library of Australia, Lluisa Nunez Universitat de Barcelona
Michael Sauers, BCR
Flickr is a treasure trove for library professionals interested in community, connections, innovative software applications and marketing. With a strong library centric focus, this session starts with a brief look at libraries and librarians with Flickr accounts and then explores the largest and most active library/librarian photo group on the internet, the Flickr “Libraries and Librarians” group with over 550 members on six continents and 2600 images. Entertaining recorded stories share observations and comments from speakers on other continents including how participation turned into a partnership that created a mash-up between Google maps and images in the Libraries and Librarians Flickr Group. A dynamic demonstration of third party Flickr applications using Open API/Ajax, as well as tips and tricks, round out the program. This is the ultimate library professionals Flickr guide.
My initial plan is to assume that the others will be all serious when it comes to how libraries use flickr so I’m going to show a lot of the fun stuff you can do. (Trading cards anyone?) Though, before finalizing this plan I’ll be sure to contact the others to confirm my assumption.
See you in Monterey!
Category: bcr, marketing
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