It seems that many of you are asking me what the prize is for winning the CIL2008 Twitter Icon contest is. What, getting your icon used isn’t enough? Ok. Fine. Winner gets a $10 Amazon.com electronic gift certificate.
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Spring Speaking Schedule
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Feb 2008
March
- 11 – Rapid City Public Library, Rapid City, SD, Social Web Workshops
- 12 – South Dakota Library Association Spring Forum, Rapid City, SD, Keynote (Social Web) and closing (Observations from the day)
- 14 – South Dakota Library Association Spring Forum, Brookings, SD, Keynote (Social Web) and closing (Observations from the day)
- 19 – Library Camp Kansas, Manhattan, KS
- 20 – University of Nebraska Council of Libraries (UNCL) Staff Development Day, Lincoln, NE, Social Networking & Library 2.0
April
- 6 – Computers in Libraries 2008, Crystal City, VA, Gaming Preconference (attending)
- 7 – Computers in Libraries 2008, Crystal City, VA, Moderator for Track A
- 8 – Computers in Libraries 2008, Crystal City, VA, C202: Libraries a-Twitter & del.icio.us
- 9 – Computers in Libraries 2008, Crystal City, VA, eBooks & eInk Cybertour
- 10 – Computers in Libraries 2008, Crystal City, VA, RSS Postconference
- 17 – Nebraska Library Commission, Lincoln, NE, Get Your Game On! The How and Why of running a gaming tournament in your library
- 24 & 25 – 3rd International Conference on Information Warfare and Security (attending), Peter Kiewit Institute, University of Nebraska Omaha
- 25 – Lincoln City Libraries Staff Day (unconfirmed), Lincoln, NE, Library Signage
May
- 7 – Prarie Area Library System (PALS) Day, Starved Rock State Park, Il, Reference 2008
- 20-23 – NLC Workshops, Chadron State College, Chadron, NE, Topics TBA
- 28 – NLC Workshop, Lincoln, NE, XHTML
- 29 – NLC Workshop, Lincoln, NE, CSS
Map via Dopplr
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How To Behave On An Internet Forum
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Feb 2008
Internet forums are either a brilliant community where you can meet and chat with new, interesting people, or full of scornful idiots who deserve to be banned from The Net in its entirety. This film explains some of the common mistakes people make in forums, which makes them the sort of loathsome fool no one wants to know.
Category: video
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CIL2008 Twitter Icon Contest
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Feb 2008
As I posted yesterday there’s a Twitter feed for Computers in Libraries 2008. @stevelawson has suggested that I run a contest to create an icon for the account. So, ok, I will. Create an icon for the CIL08 Twitter account and send it to me. On March 17th I’ll post all submissions on this blog. Vote by leaving a comment. The winner will be declared on March 21st. (In the case of a tie I’ll decide.) The only real rules: Keep it clean and keep it within the technical specs required by Twitter (Maximum size of 700k. JPG, GIF, PNG.)
Category: cil2008, twitter
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I don’t know if my previous post had anything to do with Bill’s new post (though I get the feeling it did) in which he clarifies their current non-decision on giving Unshelved a CC license. I’ll just follow with my continued encouragement for "Mr. Con" to give it a go. You’re practically doing it anyway, why not make it official?
And the reason for the editing of the blog post. Let’s just say it involved a skateboard and Jim Croce. Thanks guys!
Category: creativecommons
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CIL2008 Twitter feed
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Feb 2008
It’s coming up on that time again. I’ve set up a Twitter account for the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference. If you’re going to be at the conference and twittering, contact me and I’ll tell the account to follow you. (You’ll need to friend the account back if you’re protected your updates.) Once the conference has started, or before if you’d like, use your RSS reader to subscribe to the CIL08 & Friends feed to get all the tweets from the conference.
Category: cil2008, twitter
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Funniest copyright statement ever
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Feb 2008
I was saving this for my CC talk at CiL but it’s too funny not to post.
All rights reserved under the International and Pan- American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced, replicated, reiterated, duplicated, conduplicated, retyped, transcribed by hand (manuscript or cursive), read aloud and recorded on audio tape, platter, or disk, lipsynched, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including genetic, chemical, mechanical, optical, xerographic, holographic, electronic, stereophonic, ceramic, acrylic, or telepathic (except for that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press who promise to read the book painstakingly all the way through before writing their reviews) without prior written permission from the Publisher.
Category: copyright, funny
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Thinking of using Firefox in your library?
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Feb 2008
If not, you should be, IMHO. Anyway, here’s two somewhat technical articles related to this topic.
- Hacking Firefox at my library: instructions & stuff
Instructions on how to lock-down and tweak Firefox for public consumption. I don’t necessarily agree with everything suggested but I don’t have any problems big enough to complain about either. - 40 Useful Firefox Add-Ons for Librarians
There are a lot of Firefox add-ons out in the wild. Here’s a list of 40 that are most useful for us librarians. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Category: firefox
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The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives
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Feb 2008
Yes folks, today is the day in which I clean out all those shortcuts on my desktop to things I’ve been meaning to blog about. This time it’s Open Source alternatives to those programs you’re using and drive you nuts. I’m not necessarily endorsing any of the programs on the list but it’s definitely worth taking a look though to see what you might want to give a try.
The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, in other cases still, you’ll learn that some proprietary programs are real gems, but that the open source advocate can replace those gems with equally shiny objects from the open source repertoire.
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb
Category: opensource
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The shiny guy, he always worries
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Feb 2008
Star Wars explained by a three year-old.
Category: star wars, video, youtube
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