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I promised myself that after about 10 straight days of being attached at the hip to my laptop, I’d take to-day off and clean the house and read a book and have a relaxing “unplugged” day. Well, I cleaned the house, but then decided that I really needed to upgrade to WordPress 2.0, so [...]


OLA: User-Created Content: Is there a Role for it in the Library’s OPAC?

OLA Super Conference
Presenter: Beth Jefferson, BiblioCommons
Beth worked with Ranganathan’s five principles to frame her talk (which provided great context, but I only got notes on four of them! Bad, bad conblogger). She also worked in some examples of work that’s being done on the Oakville Public Library’s website redesign (which is not live [...]


OLA: Connections, not Categories: Applying Social Networking Concepts to Information Organization

OLA Super Conference
Presenter: M.J. D’Elia, University of Guelph
Session focus:
- to provide a broader pic of information organization
- what’s going on in the non-library world & what we can appropriate for our own uses
- where we need to go in the future
- blogs, wikis, etc. and libraries – fad or future?
- three main ways to [...]


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30 January 2006 @ 9pm

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word clouds

I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading into social bookmarking, tagging and folksonomies for an article I’m working on, so imagine my delight when I came upon SnapShirts. Enter your URL and it generates a word cloud, which you can then have printed on a T-shirt. Brilliant! The image at left is [...]