Category: Technology
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Mobile Blogging
Today I downloaded the new WordPress 2 app for the iPhone. This blog entry was created on my iPhone. The app is super easy and functional. During the past few months I’ve been doing my mobile blogging using Posterous and autoposting some entries over here on misc.joy. What I’ve liked about Posterous is the ease.…
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Librarians Can Be So Strange
via youtube.com After you watch the video, head over to the Library 101 site and read the essays and other ideas. Strange but GREAT and CREATIVE.
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Building a Social Library
Today I had the privilege to speak with 40 high school and community college librarians about building a social library. The event took place at the Powell Library at UCLA at the invitation of Esther Grassian. Though I created a Keynote Presentation (below) and demonstrated how one could use drop.io with groups, the majority of…
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Are you an edupunk librarian?
It’s risky business…talking about limited money/funding when you still have some money/funding. Some might suggest, based on this exploration, that if you can do without the money then we’ll take away what you have already. This discussion is more of an exploration in planning. Planning is important for leaders to consider, especially with the potential…
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Files, Files Everywhere
This is about ubiquitous file management. Do you work on multiple computers, maybe even on different types of computer platforms? You may carry a USB drive or email files to yourself, but there are slicker options available. Dropbox is a tool for storing your files on your local machine and in the cloud. It is…
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Ubuntu Rising on Two Dells
Image via Wikipedia In all it took about 6-hours to install Ubuntu on its own partition on my two Dell laptops and most of that time was unattended while running defrag on the Windows machines. The process is simple and I find the speed and power of the Ubuntu system to far outweigh my Windows…
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Video of Reference Desk Toolkit
Recorded with my Flip MinoHD camera, but only captured first 23-minutes because I had recorded the first presenter. Reference Desk Toolkit from Kenley Neufeld on Vimeo.