A comic from XKCD:
“I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world.”
“Sounds good.”
[panels showing the world's great beauty, a truly grand adventure]
“And yet all I can think of is ‘this will make for a great Livejournal entry.’”
Posted September 29, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, information behavior, internet, journaling, life, livejournal. One Comment.
Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker:
[N]ew media in their fresh youth [produce] a distinctive, hot-tempered rhetorical style.
…transformative in their capabilities…a mass medium with a short lead time — cheap…and easily accessible to people of all classes and political inclinations.
And quoting author Mark [...]
Posted August 27, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogging, citizen journalism, journalism, Mark Knights, Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker. One Comment.
How can I not appreciate thenonist’s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above?
The men in suits come from May 29. June 4 offers us these funny trading cards and a gallery of horror movie damsels (in distress, of course). June 5 offers a good look at sincerity among other [...]
Posted June 9, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: blog, damsels in distress, galleries, links, quality, russian theater, thenonist, trading cards. Be the first one.
My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards:
Sun vs Dell
All you need to know about Dell & Sun was predicted 8 months ago by some blogger in his parent’s basement. The draft ads are cool:
http://spiralbound.net/2005/09/15/sun-talks-some-smack/
How come the big brokerage house analysts can’t figure this stuff [...]
Posted May 12, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: basement, blog, blogger, blogging, cliff pearson, dell, industry analysis, link love, parent's basement, sun, sun vs. dell. Be the first one.
I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. It had sections on teaching, libraries, CRM, and web development. (Aside: why must we call it “admissions, alumni relations, and communications & marketing” instead of the easier to swallow “CRM”?)
The “events” are over, but everything is online, and most [...]
Posted May 2, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: blog, blogging, conference, education, higher education, higheredblogcon, libraries, teaching. One Comment.
Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story:
Student Looking for Info that your not give us
February 3rd, 2006 10:11
you [...]
Posted February 5, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: blog, blog comment, blog comments, blogs, blogs are conversations, comments, future libraries, internet generation, libraries, library, millennials, reference blog, social internet, social web, teens, web 2.0. Be the first one.
A friend revealed his reticence to blogging recently by explaining that he didn’t want to create a trail of work and opinions that could limit his future career choices. Fair point, perhaps.
We’ve all heard stories of bloggers who’ve lost jobs as a result of the content of their posts. And if you believe the [...]
Posted January 28, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: advancement, blog, bloggers, blogging, blogs, changing modes of communication, professional advancement, risk, risks of blogging. 3 Comments.
Most of my reading is non-fiction, so I depend on Bob Garlitz to keep me current with the rest of the literary world and a bit of the art world.
bob, bob garlitz, garlitz, art, literature, stylist, blog
Posted December 6, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: art, blog, bob, bob garlitz, garlitz, literature, stylist. 2 Comments.
Arguments about Wikipedia’s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.
On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at [...]
Posted December 5, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogs, communities, community, editor, editorial, editorial control, fear, findability, forbes, google economy, John Seigenthaler, libel, moderation, opinion, Seigenthaler, slander, social, social software, usa today, wiki, wikipedia. 6 Comments.
The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. Tristan Louis did the math and put the sale value into perspective against the number of incoming links the the Weblogs Inc. properties. It’s an interesting assertion of the value of the Google Economy, no?
The various properties [...]
Posted November 25, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: ad revenue, ad revenues, aol, assertion, blog, blogger, bloggers, bought, citation analysis, google economy, link value, linking, links, sale, sale price, sold, technorati, weblog, weblogs, weblogs inc, weblogsinc. 3 Comments.
Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today. This may become a series…[[pageindex]]
More: my presentation slides and the Daily Show video.
Introduction
Public awareness of blogs seems to begin during the years of campaigning leading up to the 2004 election, but many people credit bloggers for [...]
Posted October 25, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: blog, blog study, blogger, bloggers, blogging, blogs, content structure, libraries, library, livejournal, media, networked information, presentation notes, typepad, wordpress. 2 Comments.
I’m a big fan of the WP Geo plugin, but I want more.
My biggest complaint is that I want to insert coordinates using Google Maps or MultiMap URLs, rather than insert them in the modified story editor. So I wrote a bit of code that reads through the URLs in a post, finds the “maps.google” [...]
Posted September 26, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: beta, blog, blog gis, blogmap, blogmaps, geo, geocoding, geolocation, geotagging, gis, google maps, lat, latitude and longitude, lon, map, mapping, maps, metadata, multimap, plugin, plugins, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wp plugin. 8 Comments.
WordPress’s Pages open the door to using WP as a content management system. Unfortunately, Pages can’t be edited via XML-RPC blogging apps like Ecto. This might be a good thing, but I’m foolhardy enough to try working around it.
Here’s how:
Find a text editor you like and open up the wp-includes/functions-post.php file.
in the wp_get_recent_posts() function, change [...]
Posted September 22, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: blog, blogg as cms, blogg as content management system, blogging, cms, content management system, ecto, hack, hacking, hacking wordpress, php code, wordpress, wordpress hack, wordpress hacks, wordpress pages, xml-rpc, xmlrpc. 17 Comments.
Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. She found patterns in who keeps blogrolls and who is in them, as well as patterns about [...]
Posted August 10, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: bias, biases, blog, bloggers, blogs, gender, gender differences, google, google economy, link, linking, rank, ranking, social life of information, technorati. 3 Comments.
I stumbled upon captnkurt’s Information Nation where he popped a link over to Eric Myer’s Stereotypes. The gimic — and it’s a fun one — is that you can mix and match bits of faces. I don’t know why I like the combo above so much, but, anyway.
The thing about this is that it reminds [...]
Posted August 4, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: blog, blogspot, couchsurfing, eric meyer, faces, mix and match, photography, stereotypes, troy bennett. Be the first one.