So get this y'all--I was innocently surfin' the web, lookin' for some slammin' pix of Jennifer Beals with which to pimp my next blog post, when I came across this:
Google has collaborated with Time-Life to digitize and release to the public domain some of Life Magazine's celebrated photography, like this gem of Walt Disney. Unlike many other collections, this wee little snickerdoodle of an operation is supercali-awesome 'cause it includes all the published photographs--not just scans of famous covers. Enjoy, my friends, enjoy.
This week's Muddiest Point is brought to you by Muddy Squirrel. Apparently he lives on a Hill or something. I'm not sure, I don't speak squeakum (3:18 mark), and he was a Pixburger squeaker at that.
Why are we learning about the value of blogs months after we began blogging for class. I mean, c'mon, we're all MLISes aren't we? My black, technology-unsavvy heart cries out "Poor form!", even tough my teacher-sense tells me that we can't learn everything in the first week, and my Yoda-soul tells me to chill.
Sorry for being away for so long, y'all! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and all that.
Using a wiki to manage a library instruction program Does anybody else suspect that the ALA was reading this sort of wiki-propoganda before they aparently drank the Kool Aid and went all wiki on us? Ugh. I don't think much of this author, to tell you the truth. I read the summary first (c'mon like y'all don't! it's like reading the abstract), and got all uber-sarcastic up in this joint like "Oh, we need everybody's expertise? Really? Stunning. Give us another gem, genius!"
Creating the academic library folksonomy At some point, I just have to shrug my shoulders and say "this has as little to do with my work as a children's librarian as sock puppets do to a chemistry librarian." This article brings about that reaction. Working with kids, I can't conceiveof why I would have them make a folksonomy of the library's holdings. Perhaps I could get them involved in the choosing of bookmarks for the library's homepage, but kids and their language and their fads change so quickly that there would be an incredibly high turnover rate in tagging. Sorry, but this gets a pass from me.
Jimmy Wales: How a ragtag band created Wikipedia He's a pretty darn good talker. I was really surprised at how volunter-based Wikipedia was--I expected them to be closer to the PBS model--as well as how few users are editors (he says that there's a close-knit community of only 600-1000 editors, and only about 18% of edits are anonymous). Anybody else think his opinion on truth and neutrailty was uber post modern?
Weblogs: their use and application in science and technology libraries I really like the idea of incorporating blog-teaching into the role of librarians. Hurrah information literacy! Since I've taken to bridle with SCALA's blog (and, coming on its heels, this blog where I can freestyle shizzle), I feel totally comfortable with the idea of incorporating blogs into my professional life (whether with students or with other library workers).
For those of you who don't know what on earth ^that's^ all about, it's about time you either tuned into Nick Jr., went shopping at WalMart, or talked to a Children's/School Library Track MLIS student. Srsly, lol.
Anywho, here's the link (htttp://www.pitt.edu/~jht3/) to my Assignment 6, which wasn't nearly as painful, or as aesthetically pleasing, as I intended. Ah well, c'est la vie n'at.
I'm just a postin' machine today, y'all! Here are my comments for Week 9, brought to you by the Halloween-appropriate- and also, and this is quite rare, English-9-appropriate- lolcat!
Complimenting last week's muddy dog, pointing you towards SCALA's Technology Petting Zoo, and continuing the animalistic ferocity of this blog in general, may I present the muddy horse (with hooman accessoree)!
Now that I’ve been thinking on it a little bit (as I carefully *stifled laughter* edit this post), maybe HTML is that much more comfortable than XML because it seems a more natural extension of what I already do to edit my documents. I press CRL+i to italicize, then press it again to stop italicizing. If I were to write out what I was doing, say to instruct someone through IM a Librarian (a Help/Reference Desk service popular at many academic libraries and called Digsby at Pitt) about how to italicize something in their paper, I might just write it out like HTML. XML, not so much. Is anyone else getting the sense, like I am, that HTML is more semantic than XML, despite techie claims? Or am I just being an ostrich with my head stuck in the sand, incapable of moving forward at the necessary pace?
Bergholz Tutorial Maybe because it seems to take longer to write out, or because I came into this class as an HTML and an XML virgin , but XML just doesn’t seem any easier or more semantic to me. In fact, and maybe, again, because it was introduced first and I don’t even have my training wheels off yet, but HTML seems simpler.
XML Schema Tutorial Yeah, no, totally didn’t convince me that XML is easier than HTML. Perhaps they need to get the guy who wrote the HTML instructions to come on over and write these ones. It makes me realize that it’s going to be a long time before I’m comfortably literate in either of these computer languages.
Survey of XML Standards XML has vendors? Are there like XML conventions? Are they at ComicCon? ‘Cause if they are, I’ll totally go see them (since SCALA will be having a booth there at ComicCon anyways, not that I'm plugging SCALA or anything, nope no conflict of interest here)! Having a person actually give you an elevator speech on the importance of XML and its use would be so much more motivating and intriguing than (at this Debbie Downer part of the semester) trudging through useful, but difficult, articles.
Introduction to XML You’d think after nearly 18 years of formal education I’d not be such a doofus. I totally should have read the Intro first! This was an excellent, concise, and clear explanation about why I should give a flying fudge about XML. Don’t think I’m converted to the good church of XML just yet, but I think I will go back and reread the other articles now that I’ve read this.
This week's Muddiest Point is brought to you by Muddy Squirrel. Apparently he lives on a Hill or something. I'm not sure, I don't speak squeakum (3:18 mark), and he was a Pixburger squeaker at that.
and went all wiki on us? Ugh. I don't think much of this author, to tell you the truth. I read the summary first (c'mon like y'all don't! it's like reading the abstract), and got all uber-sarcastic up in this joint like "Oh, we need everybody's expertise? Really? Stunning. Give us another gem, genius!" 
This article brings about that reaction. Working with kids, I can't conceiveof why I would have them make a folksonomy of the library's holdings. Perhaps I could get them involved in the choosing of bookmarks for the library's homepage, but kids and their language and their fads change so quickly that there would be an incredibly high turnover rate in tagging. Sorry, but this gets a pass from me.
model--as well as how few users are editors (he says that there's a close-knit community of only 600-1000 editors, and only about 18% of edits are anonymous). Anybody else think his opinion on truth and neutrailty was uber post modern? 
information literacy! Since I've taken to bridle 
with SCALA's blog (and, coming on its heels, this blog where I can freestyle 
shizzle), I feel totally comfortable with the idea of incorporating blogs into my professional life (whether with students or with other library workers).
I'm just a postin' machine today, y'all! Here are my comments for Week 9, brought to you by the Halloween-appropriate- and also, and this is quite rare, English-9-appropriate- lolcat!
Complimenting last week's muddy dog, pointing you towards SCALA's Technology Petting Zoo, and continuing the animalistic ferocity of this blog in general, may I present the muddy horse (with hooman accessoree)! 
, but XML just doesn’t seem any easier or more semantic to me. In fact, and maybe, again, because it was introduced first and I don’t even have my training wheels 
off yet, but HTML seems simpler.
in either of these computer languages.
on the importance of XML and its use would be so much more motivating and intriguing than (at this Debbie Downer 
part of the semester) trudging through useful, but difficult, articles.
This was an excellent, concise, and clear explanation about why I should give a flying fudge about XML. Don’t think I’m converted to the good church of XML just yet, but I think I will go back and reread the other articles now that I’ve read this.
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