I had a great time this morning doing a talk for the “Tech Tuesdays: Talking with Techies” webcast series, hosted by the wonderful Education Institute and the equally wonderful Darlene Fichter. It was great to see a strong turnout for the topic and a lot of interest in what metadata for non-librarians was all about. […]

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I started writing the following post about three weeks ago but it was never completed. Life has been a bit of a whirlwind lately with conferences and other work projects dominating most of my time. Like many fellow bloggers, I think there is something too that comes with the transition from winter to spring that […]

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Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist (quite the job title), is about to begin any minute now. TALIS distributed a paper copy of their Library 2.0 vision document, “Library 2.0: The challenge of disruptive innovation,” in each of the CIL delegate’s bag. Agree or disagree, I could appreciate the effort to provide delegate’s with something of substance […]

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Having found a seat near an electrical plugin, I’m able to once again take some notes [note to self: turn laptop off *before* you put it into your bag].
I’m just waiting for the session to start. This will be the first I’ve heard Andrew (and Roy for that matter) speak since NCSU launched […]

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Lee Rainie from Pew Internet gave a really interesting keynote this morning. So many great studies and stats come out of Pew that the quality of his presentation was hardly surprising. Lee’s a great presenter and would be well worth inviting back next year for an update.
His talk today was inspired by the new Time […]

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Notes from Lorcan Dempsey’s excellent talk on making more out of data resources.
Characteristics of Web 2.0 are the flattening of applications and the ability to stitch these services together in new ways that were previously quite complicated or impossible to do. Rich interaction technologies (like AJAX) as illustrated through services like Google Maps, present […]

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Megan Fox did a nice job with her keynote Wednesday morning in which she discussed handhelds and related gadgetry. Here’s a few notes from the session…

133 million mobile subscribers in the US - 7 billion text messages/month (up from 2.5 billion last year).
technology continues to rapidly be updated with features like: face recognition software; ability […]

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I’ve been on IM for quite a few years now, and University of Alberta is currently offering IM reference in addition to our formal QuestionPoint chat service. So I suppose I was already sitting in the choir waiting to be preached at. But what the heck… it was a good chance to hear what Amanda […]

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Frank Cervone (Northwestern U):
900 users of Metalib and 500 users of MySpace. People seem to know what to use it for - although the term “metasearch” means absolutely nothing to anyone. People use metasearch for keywords, and for the beginner, it gets them into the literature. For the advanced researcher, it exposes them to databases […]

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Gary’s got the presentation posted at: digbig.com/4gtwj. Rita’s will be posted to the Information Today site sometime soon.Overall, the session was interesting and not padded with a lot of filler. They’re both entertaining speakers - candid about their views, and able to skillfully cut to the chase, which is refreshing and a much needed attribute […]

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