RSS Is Dead. Long Live RSS.
Tomorrow Never Knows In 2008, a post-Twitter world, technology writers and developers were already pondering the future of RSS readers. As time passed and topics cooled, pragmatic views appeared. For…
Tomorrow Never Knows In 2008, a post-Twitter world, technology writers and developers were already pondering the future of RSS readers. As time passed and topics cooled, pragmatic views appeared. For…
In the last six months the buzz has been about Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, and edX, but what about the Saylor Foundation? If you want to learn more about the…
This week, Karen G. Schneider, wrote an article in American Libraries titled "Personal Branding for Librarians." It created a bit of a stir on forums and Twitter. And, I think…
Dr. Akira O'Connor (@akiraoc) has a wonderful post on his blog about conference socials and tweetups. Networking is not something that's easy to do, at least for those of us…
Lately, I've been talking about productivity / project management software, specifically, Trello and Asana. In using and writing about technology, it's apparent how difficult it is to stay on top…
Last week, I wrote a post "Work Smarter with Trello" and briefly laid out why I like Trello and how it works. However, Trello doesn't work for everyone, so I…
This week I made the classic game Asteroids using Python and the Pygame library for an introductory computer science class I'm taking. The assignment was both challenging and fun. We…
In talking about libraries this week, one topic that keeps coming up is the cost of journals and access to them. What isn't discussed is how users navigate these blockades.…
This week we've been talking about academic libraries. We're trying to define success and surface behaviors that impede success for libraries. Librarians have a loud voice in this conversation, but it's…
Yesterday, I started off the discussion with the question, "What does a successful academic library look like?" While there were a lot of people who read the post, no one…