Nest Settling

Lookit:

http://woodyevans.wordpress.com/

facebook q&a

I've publicly criticized FB's use by libraries before -- but at the link below I don't even bother to mention the dissolution of reference services this development suggests.

http://woodyevans.com/public_html/archives/795

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Facebook-Questions--Askcom-Cashing-in-on-Mass-Ignorance-69187.asp

Happy Ada Lovelace Day: Donna Haraway

Ada Lovelace Day: Donna Haraway

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

My hero of the day is Donna Haraway.

I think I first encountered Donna Haraway’s work in about 1996. I was studying up on Actor-Network Theory as part of an effort to get into an exchange program to Keele University (John Law had taught at Keele, and that’s how I got into ANT), and somehow that led me to theCyborg Manifesto. Once at Keele, Primate Visions was required (for a class about society and nature with Gordon Fyfe, I think).

Haraway’s work has really been important to me. She’s helped me to make sense of the interstitial spots between technology and bodies, between people and animals. So for Ada Lovelace day, I celebrate Donna Haraway!

img: rusten hogness via wikimedia commons

woodyevans.com goes archival

Grab it while you can, hoss:

http://woodyevans.com/public_html/feed

(teaching a class how to embed video for their blog projects... Dave ended up as the example for some reason...)

QR book to Web application: live

Via "Building Library 3.0" blog:

QR book to Web application: live

QR Library application -- this is very homemade, very "beta" -- actually very "delta".

I've described it before: QR code slapped on a book, a patron uses their phone to snap a pic, QR pic takes them to whatever online resource you want them to see.

Here's an example:

Imagine you've just picked up this book in the library, "Chess and the Art of Negotiation", and noticed a QR barcode on it.

You use your gizmo (to which you have already loaded Semacode or Kaywa, etc.) to load the barcode and are taken here:

Hosted resources -- online forums, chess resources, similar books, available e-books, etc. etc. Plus a place for patron comments, so they can add resources you hadn't yet found/ thought of / or approved.

This is a "proof of concept". Sorry I can't give the direct URL yet. Hope you'll work up something like this on your own. [http://buildingthree.blogspot.com/2009/08/qr-book-to-web-application-live.html]

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Also see:

http://ishush.blogspot.com/2008/06/bidi-books-bidibooks-bidimensional.html

http://ishush.blogspot.com/2006/09/haiku-in-kaywa-qr-code.html

http://ishush.blogspot.com/2006/10/qr-code-in-action.html

http://ishush.blogspot.com/2006/10/5-cell-phones-in-library.html

cc open id

via bq:

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/08/06/06readwriteweb-creative-commons-launches-cc-openid-profile-92620.html?emc=eta1

""Says open source advocate Chris Messina in a recent blog post on CC OpenID:

"Creative Commons is redistributing the brand equity and social capital their members have accrued over the last several years by letting people show and verify their affiliation to the organization.

With this simple example, we can start to see the symbiosis of making an intentional choice about identity: Creative Commons finds a new revenue opportunity and members of the community have a way to express their affiliation and promote the brand."

heather liggett on npr

Here's Ms. H. Liggett's twitter page. NPR's M. Brand (?) interviewed her on Fri. afternoon. Go take a look for yrself at her activism-type work:

http://twitter.com/hal512

Some good old libertarianista type ideas there, but not often fully formed... I wouldn't trade a corporate oligarchy for a collectivist-leaning republic, I don't think... but maybe some "libertarians" would. What would Ron Paul do?

use yr infoskillz

Here you go, see if you can find problems with Maddow's logic here:



Maybe you can't. But who else is going to try? And who the frak else is dissecting the layers of oligarchy at recessrally.com?