Well, we've come to the end of the semester, my friends. The reason for this blog no longer exists. Rather sadly, I've become fondly attached to it. I'm signing off now, but don't be too terribly surprised if I resurrect this blog somewhere down the road.
"Helloooo Ladies..." it's the muddy llama! Watch out now, don't let the Thanksgiving triptophan goggles fool you: he's a dirty boy underneath that handsome exterior.
Reading the No Place to Hide site, I got to thinking: how much more difficult is it to hide when you engage in electronic forms of communication? Should those wishing to send secret messages revert to rotary phones, carrier pigeons, and paper airplanes if they want to keep their information private?
No Place to Hide It all sounds so 1984 Big Brother-y to me that my natural inclination is to dismiss it as conspiracy theory nonsense, but I think I’ve heard this same sort of theory enough times over a long enough period to give it some credit.
EPIC I’m glad to know that there’s a group out there lobbying for the privacy of my information, but obviously they’re not especially well funded if their website looks as skillfully written as some of our Assignment 6es.
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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).
"Helloooo Ladies..." it's the muddy llama! Watch out now, don't let the Thanksgiving triptophan goggles fool you: he's a dirty boy underneath that handsome exterior.
to me that my natural inclination is to dismiss it as conspiracy theory nonsense, but I think I’ve heard this same sort of theory enough times over a long enough period to give it some credit.
as some of our Assignment 6es.
This week's comments are brought to you by the cutest purse evah! Please please please Santa, I've been good!!!
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).
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