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Forgiving my lack of expression (and the terrible lighting), which pair of hipster glasses do you think I should purchase?
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O hai Meg :) I like 1 and 4
- Hedgehog
I'm with Hedgie
- lris
Me three. Um, by which I mean I'm with Hedgie and Iris in liking 1 and 4. Not 3 so much.
- laura x
also agree with 1 and 4
- holly #ravingfangirl
I vote only #1. (Unless #4 is significantly cheaper.)
- c.a.j.
Not that you can really tell here, but #1 is "striped evergreen": http://www.warbyparker.com/women... and #4 is a "sandalwood matte": http://www.warbyparker.com/women...
- Meg V. Meg
I like 1, 2, and 4.
- Steele Lawman
2 or 4. depends on how hipster you want to go and what type of hipster you want to be and how "mad men inspired" you want to feel.
- kendrak
KK, which one is more "mad men inspired", I can't tell.
- Meg V. Meg
1 or 2
- John (bird whisperer)
Here's the color of the 2nd one: http://www.warbyparker.com/women...
- Meg V. Meg
4 i think? maybe 2? 3 and 5 are more early 80s. 1 is late 90s interpretation of 60s. (you can tell i spend a lot of time researching frames.)
- kendrak
i dig the brushed opal.
- kendrak
1 says I
- Libraryman
1.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
1
- jambina
1 and/or 4.
- Laura H.
1 and 4
- Sir Shuping is just sir
1
- Running Slow
1 or 4, but 1 is my favorite.
- Marianne
2 is kind of endearing though.
- Marianne
4
- Peter Dawson
1 or 4
- Stephen le Francoeur
2 but can't go wrong with any
- SteVe C
1 or 4. I like 1 more.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
1 and 4. Leaning more towards 1.
- Corinne L
1
- Friar Ticket to Ride
I and 4, but leaning toward 4. I kind of want them to be a little higher on your face...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
4
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Rudy, I think it's my ears (really)
- Meg V. Meg
2nd from bottom
- Hieronymous Boosh
2 or 4.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
1 or 3 or 5.
- Joe Boone
1
- Rachel Lea Fox
Now can we write captions for each of the pics? Because, really, your expressions are awesome. For example, for #1: "Are really letting that newt crawl up your nose?"
- maʀtha
1 or 4.
- Jim #TeamMonique
#5 "I wouldn't do that if I were you..."
- maʀtha
1 and 4.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
1.
- Julian
1
- Micah
I am envious of your long hair. It's totally gorgeous. Does that information help you choose glasses? :D
- Marie
Aw, thank you! I worry I'm too old for it. I also worry that my glasses won't match my hair if I (eventually) decide to color it. Woe, WOE, wooooooe is me.
- Meg V. Meg
Thank you guys so much, this is helpful! I'm trying to decide if #1 is too similar to my existing blue plastic frames (your affinity for #1 makes me feel much better about my current glasses), and I might look at #4 in a different color, though I'm not in love with the other colors available.
- Meg V. Meg
I love the fourth pair.
- Kelli H.
from Android
I don't know which one I'd buy. But the model in the pics is cute.
- Bubba da Troll
3 & 4
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
This is a fun game where you guess location of pic from Google Maps: GeoGuessr. Here's my recent score: http://www.geoguessr.com/#...
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What was your score? Mine was 7,471. http://friendfeed.com/bentley...
- Betsy #TeamMonique
6465 - at least i was in the right ballpark ;-)
- Heleninstitches
11,787 points in total. (I found the airport sign in Thailand, so that helped.)
- Joe Boone
11,172 on this round.
- Stephen le Francoeur
22,684! If you use Google to look up clues, you can do a lot better.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1214/
- Meg V. Meg
Betsy #TeamMonique, Kirsten, Steele Lawman and 9 other people liked this
All of you.
- Zamms
video unboxing?
- kendrak
I'm gonna Vine it.
- Zamms
woo
- maʀtha
The FRBR title had better be available in multiple manifestations, otherwise I'll cry foul.
- Stephen le Francoeur
You wrote a book or two AWESOME.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
No no no, I didn't WRITE them. I bought them for ME.
- Zamms
Also, Mr. Francoeur, you win the bibliosphere today.
- Zamms
^^^ agreed
- lris
Checking my email, my RDA book is coming separately. BUT I GOT MY FRBR ON: https://vine.co/v/bVaPE9Ag0WD
- Zamms
I love you Christopher Zammarelli.
- kendrak
In Soviet Russia, the box opens you.
- Julian
what books are these?
- RepoRat
FRBR: A Guide to the Perplexed and CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. Both are triumphs of brutalist design.
- Zamms
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER BOOK, ANOTHER VINE. https://twitter.com/cmz1018...
- Zamms
that's sorta racy.
- kendrak
Looking for live examples of sites taking advantage of linked data. E.g., Linked Jazz. http://linkedjazz.org/
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UVA SNAC: http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/
- Amandadon't
Some Open Knowledge Foundation projects might be useful? http://okfn.org/projects/
- Amandadon't
Thanks! That's super helpful.
- Stephen le Francoeur
bbc.co.uk. whole thing is linked data.
- kendrak
Kendra, thanks. Found two interesting items to help explain BBC's efforts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs... and http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs...
- Stephen le Francoeur
I went to a seminar from Talis (they might have some more examples) where they talked about doing linked data for the 2002 World Cup. It was great.
- kendrak
That reminds me of the Talis podcast from years ago. I remember they interviewed a guy from BBC behind the linked data efforts there.
- Stephen le Francoeur
That interface is pretty similar to the "Crossroads" exhibit at the Grammy Museum in LA http://www.grammymuseum.org/on-disp... but I think everything in the latter is from a proprietary source...
- JffKrlsn
If you haven't enabled 2-factor authentication for Twitter yet, you might want to before a hacker does it for you. http://www.f-secure.com/weblog...
h/t Blake Carver.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Crap, it thinks my phone number is affiliated with a different Twitter account?
- Meg V. Meg
Now I have a password reset code, but I have no idea what account it's for.
- Meg V. Meg
What fun!
- Stephen le Francoeur
So... this is not designed for people with multiple Twitter accounts, then?
- Zamms
I blame Blake. Also, I might have just reset the library's Twitter password.
- Meg V. Meg
And of course, once you set up your phone it wants to actually text you a bunch of stuff by default. Gah.
- Kirsten
$0.20 for me to log into Twitter. (says someone who might send a text once every other year)
- Julian
I turned off all the SMS notifications. Stupid defaults.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Gah, that just broke my twitter apps... It should be easier! ;)
- awd
What's your favorite vegetable?
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frozen would be green beans, fresh would be bell peppers
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Broccolli
- Mo Kargas
Yep. Broccoli. Green peas and corn come in tied for a close second, though.
- Akiva
Asparagus, but there are so many that I really like.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Tomatoes
- Katy S
Asparagus. (or broccoli. Or kale. Or, due to very short seasons English peas and delicata squash)
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I think I need to change my answer to onions considering how much I use them.
- Katy S
Spinach.
- ronin
rapini
- jambina
Mushrooms (cooked)
- Jenny
Mushrooms. Or tomatoes. Or stir-fried swiss chard. Gah!
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
R.P. McMurphy.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I'm with Katy -- tomatoes! Even though they are actually a fruit -- so I get a second pick: fresh green beans. :)
- Lois Loves LB and Mr. B
Broccoli. Or Tomatoes. Or Butternut Squash.
- John (bird whisperer)
Broccoli and zucchini.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Oh, and artichoke.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Asparagus
- Walt Crawford
Squash
- Eric
macaroni & cheese (I live in the south)
- Anne Graham
mushrooms
- Jenica
corn. but i want to be like Anne and say mac and cheese because duh.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Wow, we've gone from zucchini to mac and cheese. That's the full spectrum there, folks.
- lris
Iris - what's your favorite?
- Katy S
Artichokes.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
It's close between broccoli, asparagus, and summer squash.
- Heather
Eggplant! Can be in Japanese, Chinese, Italian food, or even just grilled. So versatile!
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
I like most things in a salad. Love potato in most forms. Corn on the cob. Grilled asparagus. Eggplant.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Oh, well, if *that's* the question, other than eggplants and olives, I'm good with most veggies if prepared properly (which usually means simply).
- Walt Crawford
peas
- Mary Carmen
Garlic? Or onion. Or mushroom. Or arugula.
- Meg V. Meg
Butternut squash or bell peppers.
- Laura H.
oh wait. potatoes.
- holly #ravingfangirl
I know right. Potatoes. I have to officially change my answer.
- Micah
Swede! espeially when mashed up with carrots and lots of butter and pepper
- Heleninstitches
(^also known as rutabaga :))
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
raw broccoli
- Hieronymous Boosh
Funyuns
- imabonehead
Asparagus and artichokes, fresh. Frozen Brussels sprouts with the fake butter sauce.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
I have so many I like...cannot eat peppers or cucumbers but other then that all is good.
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Nurse, Richard. "Students as co-designers for library website tools," Libwebrarian's Blog - http://libwebrarian.wordpress.com/2013...
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Pull quote: "I’m starting to see that getting students involved in co-designing services is the next logical step on from usability testing. So instead of a process where you design a system and then test it on users, you involve them from the start, by asking them what they need, maybe then getting them to feedback on solution designs and specifications and then going through the design process of prototyping, testing and iterating, by getting them to look at every stage."
- Stephen le Francoeur
♫ listening to Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size ♫ // http://www.last.fm/music... http://t.co/r9ztV3qZfu
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I was thinking earlier today that my hard-rocking Mr. 11 might enjoy Jane's Addiction.
- Steele Lawman
After dinner tonight, I was stoking Mr. 6yo's fascination with metalish, loudish, screamish songs that are a bit off the beaten: Jane's Addiction "Ocean Size," Filter "Hey Man, Nice Shot," Faith No More "We Care a Lot" (which features a line about the Transformers!!!), The Cult "She Sells Sanctuary." There's a lot more I'd like to play for him but am afraid of him learning too many curse words all at once.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Jonathan Rochkind, "Academic library existence at risk?" Bibliographic Wilderness - http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2013...
Pull quote: “We will not survive by focusing on what we think our patrons need and ought to want, in preference to what our patrons say and believe they need and want. We will not survive by trying to convince them to want what we provide, instead of by coming up with provisions that excite and delight them. We need to change. We need to provide new and different services. We need to preserve some services, but significantly change the manner in which they are delivered.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Anyone know of something like the "Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals" that reaches back before 1824 and has the real names of people who published under pseudonyms or anonymously? We're interested in the first two decades of the 19th century, and this gets us tantalizingly close... but no cigar.
looks like the Victorian Database Online doesn't reach back far enough. bummer.
- Marie
Does Poole's go back a little further? ProQuest says back to 1802. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/marketi...
- Amandadon't
It does. I read your comment and skipped over to the shelves where we have our volumes and... it doesn't cover the periodicals we're interested in.
- lris
I've got access to 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers- what you looking for, it's worth a shot :) ETA also 19th C BL Newspapers ;)
- Pete #TeamMonique
We've got American Periodicals (from ProQuest), which goes back to 1740. I'm confused by what you need exactly ("real names of people who published under pseudonyms or anonymously.)"
- Stephen le Francoeur
There was a lot of poetry published anonymously and pseudonymously in British periodicals, and my researcher is interested in about 1810-20 right now. She wants to know the real names (if known) of the people who were publishing these poems in the periodicals. Right now she's particularly interested in Dorothea Primrose Campbell.
- lris
Thanks for trying!
- lris
I'm not quite sure how to even generalize the process of identifying anonymous and pseudonymous authors.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Yeah, no kidding.
- lris
Wow. This is where researchers need a free hugs service. One additional thought, though: would publisher archives eventually be helpful here? Assuming there are publisher archives in the right areas, even. So... hmmm... see who published Campbell the most, and hope she wrote them a letter with all of her previous pseudonyms and works listed in chronological order. I'm sure that exists and is easy to find.
- Amandadon't
No, this is where the researcher's *librarian* needs a free hug service. :-)
- lris
One periodical in particular is the Lady's Monthly Museum. What a quaint title. :-)
- lris
"LSW: The Librarians' Free Hug Service."
- Steele Lawman
^^^ Would like on a pin or button.
- Amandadon't
^^^^^^^^
- Andy
Your wish is my command. Sometimes. When I feel like it. Which I do right now.
- lris
Barbara Fister, "Decode Academy," LOEX 2013 - http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister...
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Pull quote: “We have put far too much emphasis on proof of productivity using blunt-force numbers. Number of publications and impact factors of journals, like robo-graders, are easier to administer at scale than actually, you know, assess stuff honestly. So long as we can measure how many papers a person has generated, no need to read them, and with a special sauce that gives us a prestige factor, no need to make any distinctions at all. Just run the numbers.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Barbara Fister, "End Robo-Research Assessment," Inside Higher Ed - http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
Pull quote: “We have put far too much emphasis on proof of productivity using blunt-force numbers. Number of publications and impact factors of journals, like robo-graders, are easier to administer at scale than actually, you know, assess stuff honestly. So long as we can measure how many papers a person has generated, no need to read them, and with a special sauce that gives us a prestige factor, no need to make any distinctions at all. Just run the numbers.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Of course that's by Barbara :) I saw the title float across earlier but didn't see author.
- Hedgehog
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...depends on what you mean by "information literacy." :) Years ago I subscribed to a bunch of blogs that were specifically about IL (e.g., http://txstateinfolit.blogspot.com/, http://www.information-literacy.net/, http://infolitlib20.blogspot.com/) but quickly found that they didn't really address issues that I found useful in my own instruction practice. The blogs that I've found the...
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- Catherine Pellegrino
Thanks, I am indeed looking for blogs similar to http://pegasuslibrarian.com/
- aarontay
Catherine has great ideas on her own blog, too! http://www.spurioustuples.net/
- Megan loves summer
aw, shucks - thanks, Megan! Yeah, I doubt you're going to find many more like Iris' blog. She's a one-of-a-kind. :)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Char Booth - infomational.wordpress.com
- jambina
I've tagged few in my commonplace book: http://stephenfrancoeur.tumblr.com/tagged...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Here's another one that's new to me: http://pumpedlibrarian.blogspot.com/
- Stephen le Francoeur
Eric Phetteplace seems to mostly write about tech, but when he writes about IL and instruction he is ON FIRE: http://patametadata.blogspot.com/
- Catherine Pellegrino
Roy Tennant, "Structured Data on Web Pages," The Digital Shift - http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2013...
Talks about using tool from Google that helps you tag items for Schema markup. Pull quote: “The likely benefits are two-fold. One is that Google and other search engines can display more full-featured and accurate descriptions of individual search results that have such markup. Another is that search engines may give results that have such markup more “juice” in results ranking. In other words, it is very likely to be worth the little effort it might take to embed this markup in your pages.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Meredith Farkas, "Spare Me the Hype Cycle, " American Libraries Magazine - http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/columns...
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Pull quote: “When I see a shiny new thing, I ask myself, ‘How will this further the library’s goals?’ If I struggle to find an answer, I know it’s not worth pursuing.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Funny how the word "wiki" doesn't appear in that piece.
- Steele Lawman
Snark snerk.
- Stephen le Francoeur
ha! to steve. thanks for sharing this. i'm working on a presentation this is perfect for.
- kendrak
I'm giving some self-awareness benefit of the doubt here, but yeah, snerk.
- John Dupuis
While I'm teasing/joking, I think the paragraph that follows the part that Stephen quoted is more to the point--not everything is for everyone, but there's also value in trying things out or trying to generalize a lesson from someone else's shiny new thing.
- Steele Lawman
well, she starts the list in 2006. wikis are so 2004.
- kendrak
But don't all libraries have a blog and a facebook page?
- Blake
Library blogs are like KISS albums.
- Steele Lawman
i don't have any KISS albums come to think of it.
- kendrak
KISS is still producing albums, come to think of it.
- John Dupuis
Maybe before we rush to adapt these we should stop to consider the consequences of blithely giving this technology such a central position in our libraries.
- Blake
Blake, you sound wise.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Don't have any insights about a new technology? Just use this sentence! It makes you sound wise and you can say it about virtually anything.
- Blake
The great thing is, the sentence is really just a reminder to the listener to worry about whatever aspects of the technology they're already feeling alarmist about, which in their mind gives you credit for addressing their biggest anxieties.
- Blake
(I'm hoping someone will get the joke here)
- Blake
(I think Stephen did, actually.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
I think what Blake may be referring to is how Meredith's advice is neutral and obvious enough even though it sounds wise. But in a world of overheated techno-determinist rhetoric ("you must have this thing/be doing this thing"), it's still worth saying.
- Stephen le Francoeur
uuh, ok, let's go with that. Really the comic just seemed to fit with this topic. I like Meredith and she's a great writer and I bet she has way more to say about this that she can fit in the space AL gives her. And all advice is neutral and obvious to me because I've already thought of everything. Yeah, that's right, EVERYTHING.
- Blake
I bought the cat a hexbug nano to play with, but she's too indignant that it doesn't respect her personal space.
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I'd never heard an indignant meow before, yet it was instantly recognizable.
- Meg V. Meg
There are other hex bugs out there to test out.
- Joe Boone
Our cat was deeply offended by the hexbug nano.
- Catherine Pellegrino
My kids have a handful of them and they creep me right the fuck out. Out of the corner of my eye, I see them scuttling along the baseboards of our apartment sometimes just like the real cockroaches that randomly show up in our apartment from time to time.
- Stephen le Francoeur
should i send you ours?
- kendrak
i do not like those things.
- jambina
so i should bring 'em to san diego? noted.
- kendrak
I was unaware of the existence of robot bugs. BLISSFULLY UNAWARE.
- Jenica
So I've finally gotten around to trying out Google Reader alternatives, and I'm digging The Old Reader pretty well but it doesn't look like I can combine feeds to make a new feed to export. I don't think Feedly does that either. Do any other readers do this one very nice thing?
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Worth it to use Yahoo Pipes for this, or no.
- Meg V. Meg
Yahoo pipes still exists???
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
will they take it away? i always suck at yahoo pipes. :(
- kendrak
This is the only thing I ever figured out how to do with it.
- Meg V. Meg
Here's a video I made showing how to use Yahoo! Pipes to combine feeds. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Thanks Stephen! (It was seriously easy peasy in GReader. Do not want to remake my monster feeds, alas...)
- kendrak
OMG YOU GUYS COMMAFEED DOES IT i think. http://www.commafeed.com/
- kendrak
Can't see a way to do it with newsblur
- Blake
I hope Yahoo Pipes doesn't go away. It's the only way I could scrape up an RSS feed for our library news; do not ask about our Content "Management" System.
- Deborah Fitchett
Wow...I think I love commafeed
- Hedgehog
OMG, commafeed just imported all my feeds in about a minute and kept them in their beautiful beautiful folders. And my keyboard shortcuts work as expected. Refresh rate is a tiny bit slow but really not terrible. I'm so in love, I'm tempted to donate on the spot. (I'll give it a week first though, I think.)
- Deborah Fitchett
Sigh. Signed up, but I'd not thought about the fact that I've been using Feedly for a while now...so it's gone nuts trying to import and refresh all (more than 9,000) posts since the last time I used Greader. I just disconnected it. My own damn fault. Maybe a good alternative. (Never got to where I could see any controls, however: just odd random symbols on buttons.)
- Walt Crawford
can you share a single blog post entry via email in commafeed? you can't do that in old reader and it makes me sad.
- Marie
Yeah, kinda, it's not as nice and easy as it is in Reader, but there's an email thingy that does a popup.
- Blake
A visual acuity test (or something like it) - http://walt.lishost.org/2013...
It will be interesting to see whether I get any comments on this. I'm not holding my breath. (But then, few posts get any comments anyway, and this one's a little abstruse.)
- Walt Crawford
I commented, mostly so you could just tell us what the trick answer is. Please?
- Stephen le Francoeur
There is no trick answer. I'm guessing one or two women with very high quality displays might be discerning enough to find the answer. ("Women" because they frequently have superior color acuity.) Or maybe this one's just hopeless.
- Walt Crawford
When I first looked at it yesterday, I could have sworn I saw a light blue frame around the image.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I see a light blue square on my computer. I didn't see anything on my phone.
- laura x
Oh wait. Now I see pink and yellow, too. And the pink sometimes looks lavender, depending on the light and the angle I'm looking at it from.
- laura x
DO I PASS? DO I WIN SOMETHING?
- laura x
I got nothin', even with my new cyborg eyes.
- Jenica
Can't see a thing other than white.
- Kirsten
Laura, what's in your drink?
- Stephen le Francoeur
These eyes are useless, I demand a refund.
- Meg V. Meg
No prize. A light blue frame around the image is a display problem. And it turns out I screwed up (or JPEG compression screwed up) the image--there are only four colors where there should be seven. I've just posted a new one with ten colors (four of which I can see if I really try hard), but this one isn't a guessing game.
- Walt Crawford
I assume it's cheating if you tilt your laptop screen? How much of this is dependent on display, or do you know.
- Meg V. Meg
^ this. If I tilt my monitor, I can see four.
- Jennifer Dittrich
There's no such thing as cheating (it's not a contest!), and I suspect a lot is dependent on display--a display in something like THX mode might do better.
- Walt Crawford
I see only white; I'll forward it this evening to a (female) friend who's a tetrachromat.
- Deborah Fitchett
I see pink and blue, if I tilt the screen way way down.
- Joe Boone
I see all of them, if I adjust my display so that I can see all of them.
- Meg V. Meg
Yep. Display adjustment has a lot to do with it (esp. the second, ten-color, version, which has bigger changes than the first one anyway).
- Walt Crawford
Eric Phetteplace, "Blacklisting Wikipedia & Information Literacy," PataMetaData - http://patametadata.blogspot.com/2013...
Meg V. Meg, Jason P and Catherine Pellegrino liked this
Pull quote: “The Wikipedia ban is a high school scaffold; it needs to be torn down in the first two years of college. Students can benefit from using Wikipedia articles appropriately, from understanding tertiary sources, from thinking critically about the sorts of issues that pop up in alert boxes at the top of questionable articles. If nothing else, the heresy of crowdsourcing—that a mass of amateurs can produce information as good as or even better than a handful of experts—must be taught.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
Holy crap I wish I'd written this.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Yeah, this is really good. Lots of good stuff for class discussions in there.
- Jason P
Lane Wilkinson, "Creation, consumption, and the library," Sense & Reference - http://senseandreference.wordpress.com/2013...
Walt Crawford liked this
Pull quote: “Even if the makerbrarians concede that the consume/create distinction is just a catchy soundbite or elevator pitch to throw out when we need to show the “continued relevance” of libraries to potential funding sources, all that implies is that non-maker services somehow aren’t relevant. Put another way, not only is the consume/create distinction a false dichotomy, and not only does it avoid questions of social value, but it’s also unnecessarily adversarial. A library patron who wants to read a book is not ‘simply consuming.’ Story-time can also “embrace imagination.” The “results of knowledge creation” are often cherished parts of a community. Let’s change the rhetoric and treat all of our community and patron needs with respect, not just the needs that can be met with ABS and LEDs.”
- Stephen le Francoeur
I will charitably assume that none of those throwing out the new rhetoric are in part carrying on the "let's stop mentioning those dreary old books" line of the recent past. Also, for public libraries, known as the "let's alienate most of our users and support base so we can hare after the shiny." Lane did a fine job here.
- Walt Crawford
Apparently TEDx wants to see other people, but we can still be friends.
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So you've got a TEDx ex now.
- Stephen le Francoeur
TEDx's loss.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
^^^ this.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Start up xTEDx. I'm sure no trademark infringement lawsuit will happen.
- Joe Boone
Then I could give a TED talk on being sued by TED!
- lris
insTEDx
- Meg V. Meg
^^^ winning
- Julian
We are uniTEDx to support you, no matter what you decide to do.
- Joe Boone
yTEDy?
- Steele Lawman
lol
- Meg V. Meg
from Android
Importing my Tumblr site into http://WordPress.com because reasons.
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Oh you hadn't heard that Microsoft bought WordPress?
- Zamms
And Yahoo bought Tumblr...oy!
- Laura H.
There's something amusing about a Friendfeed post (even if indirect) that seems to make the assumption that a purchase automatically means Doom. Just as Friendfeed went away when FB purchased it?
- Walt Crawford
Well, to be fair, FriendFeed isn't exactly top of FB priority list these days, is it?
- Zamms
Thank god.
- Meg V. Meg
What Meg V. Meg sez: FB mostly ignoring FF is a saving grace. Note the horribly irritating right-wing ads that *don't* show up on FF, just for one example.
- Walt Crawford
Reasons: (1) Curiosity about how easy the import process would be (2) Have been unhappy with Flickr ever since Yahoo took that over (Yahoo login process messed me up a lot) and then delicious (3) Don't trust Yahoo! to leave it alone.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Also, I'm not committed to switching over, as there are some formatting problems between my Tumblr posts and the way they display in WordPress. Need to do a bulk edit to fix something but can't see a bulk edit option for that post element ("Format") in WP.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Back to FB: Yeah, but on the other hand, when things go wrong on FF, the site is out for days, and you're left wondering if it's going to come back. And who do you contact when they do? I mean, it's nice FF still works, but we're living on borrowed time.
- Zamms
SHUT UP ZAMMS FF WILL LIVE ON FOREVA
- Blake
Here's how it's looking so far. WordPress: http://stephenfrancoeur.wordpress.com/ Tumblr: http://stephenfrancoeur.tumblr.com/
- Stephen le Francoeur
Sometimes?
- RepoRat
I often drop shadows, but only when I'm carrying a bunch of other stuff and need to reach into my pockets to get my keys.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I'm with RR - it depends.
- ~Courtney F
If it adds to readability, yes.
- Andy
Apple Keynote only offers drop shadows for text. It's not always the choice I would prefer -- for some typefaces, outlining works better -- but I use it liberally nonetheless for Andy's reason. Especially on the photographic backgrounds I like to use in presentations, text often needs some extra oomph.
- RepoRat
No. Use a better typeface.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Sure, go crazy.
- Steele Lawman
I lean towards no. When I see them used, I always think there's something wrong with my eyes
- Megan loves summer
For text, for the reasons mentioned by RepoRat.
- Royce's favorite Anna
Very very very small drop shadows, if the overall design would benefit from a 3D-ish element to convey its message.
- ɥsıuɐʎɹ
I'm OK with them if used minimally. Relatedly, here's an interesting post about flat design on the web. http://uxmag.com/article...
- Stephen le Francoeur
I sometimes think that I don't like drop shadows, then I look at the windows I currently have open, and see how easy it is to determine that my browser window is "on top of" my chat window because it casts a shadow on the chat window. Used with taste and subtlety, I think that shadows are very effective.
- Steele Lawman
RT @daveyp: OK, so you're an academic library but you can't afford a developer? Give one of your computing students a summer (or final year) project
Our computing students are helping us gamify our first-year student library learning event.
- Jenica
"Pyew...your library smells kind of gamey."
- Stephen le Francoeur
Notes from Gordon Dunsire's slide deck great for explaining how linked data will change cataloging practices. http://j.mp/12uHssJ
thank you
- RepoRat
Credit goes to Diane Hillmann for linking to it in this recent post of hers about MARC and BIBFRAME. http://managemetadata.com/blog...
- Stephen le Francoeur
did you decorate your mortarboard when you graduated? what did you put on it?
LB: #TeamMonique liked this
inspired by http://ff.im/1fq0yy
- Marie
Yes. It said "Divest Now!" Students at my college were trying to convince the trustees to dump investments in companies that did business in South Africa.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Nope. That wasn't allowed at my schools.
- Anika
Nobody even thought of doing that back in the day.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Actually, at my school, no one blinked if you didn't wear your cap and gown. My best friend wore his Celtics shirt and shorts.
- Stephen le Francoeur
OSU was the first university I attended that didn't have a "No decorating" policy, and sadly I didn't take advantage of it and decorate. :( I'm thinking it would look tacky to do so as a grad student so I missed my opportunity. My classmate who sat next to me at graduation crafted a tiny forest on his mortarboard. Forestry students. We're a bizarre lot. :D
- Hookuh Tinypants
Now although my high school didn't allow it (and I followed the rule), I helped my brother decorate his mortarboard when he graduated. I built and installed a tiny drum set on his, because he was a drummer in a band at the time. It made three of our local papers. I have the photo on my computer to share. Gimme a minute...
- Hookuh Tinypants
Yes. A masking tape outline of a family design, so my family could find me. (They were sitting higher up in the stadium stands.)
- Betsy #TeamMonique
i made papier-mâché longhorns since i had been accepted to ut austin for grad school. our college president was not amused but i did get applause from the audience. :D
- Marie
Wow, Marie! I was about to post "they don't allow that at Saint Mary's"! #respect
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
Undergrad: didn't wear cap & gown (only a few of us did). Grad #1: didn't attend commencement. Grad #2: wore PhD floppy-style hat with master's gown.
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
Stephen, where did you do your undergrad? I thought my alma mater was about the only one in existence where cap & gown were optional.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Wesleyan University.
- Stephen le Francoeur
cool! (Oberlin, here) *no gown fistbump*
- Catherine Pellegrino
Suddenly had an irresistible urge to listen to Don't Stop Believing
Kelli H., Brent Schaus, Eric - seven eleven and 6 other people liked this
How about an uncontrollable urge? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Stephen le Francoeur
^ Stephen, wow, that's an incredible performance.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Laura, this *is* the best version of that song, by the way. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Stephen le Francoeur
Craving satisfied. Now for some reason I *really* want to watch some Louis CK.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
(Psst. Tony lives.)
- Brent Schaus
from iPhone
shhh... don't give it away, Brent.
- Bren
Well that was different. My shower was interrupted by police pounding on the bathroom door demanding to know if it was me in there.
Mark H, Stephan Planken, Micah and 11 other people liked this
We've had a spate of dog murders near by, and I was taking most of the morning off, and my upstairs neighbor thought I was an intruder.
- lris
...wow.
- Jenica
Omigosh. Scary
- maʀtha
How did the y get in?
- maʀtha
Gah!
- LB: #TeamMonique
My neighbor let them in. Two squad cars in front, and two detectives in back.
- lris
eeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
- RepoRat
She could have warned you!
- maʀtha
holy shit... why would a dog murdering intruder take a shower in your apartment?
- Christina Pikas
She did try, but I didn't hear my cell phone ring. Then when she heard the shower start she'd already called the cops and they wanted to be very sure. She did the right thing. It was just all very weird.
- lris
That's one way to get a date. Bazinga! *waggles eyebrows* I bet that was the cops' best call all day.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
oh, gosh, i would've had a heart attack. *hugs lris*
- Marianne
Yikes! So after you told them it was you, what happened next? Did they patiently wait for you to get dressed or did you have to talk to them through the closed bathroom door?
- Stephen le Francoeur
Holy cow.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
"Is that you?" "Yes, it's totally me."
- c.a.j.
Wow, so, what do they do for real crime in your neck of the woods? Cause a burglary would not get that response here.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
I never saw them. My neighbor knew my voice and they went away. Though the detectives hung around outside for a bit.
- lris
wow, that's scary intense!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I think you have good neighbors. Good intentioned at least.
- SteVe C
Better check if one of the detectives has a FriendFeed account. I'm sure this pic http://ff.im/1fnnvE gave them ample reason to hang around.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
holy cow. I have no idea how I'd react to that, but I imagine not so well. good on ya!
- t-ra: not givin up
The drama continues. Apparently when they came to check on me, the police saw something suspicious next door. Half the police department has been camped out there all day.
- lris
good heavens.
- maʀtha
ruh roh. Everybody take a step back and breathe. Cleveland fall out?
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Use your laser eyes on them.
- Joe Boone
WOW! My neighbor is arrested, suspected of being the dog murderer! All the people are over there just waiting for a search warrant to go through the house. At least that's what it looks like from this. http://www.southernminn.com/northfi...
- lris
The one who let them in your house?????? *aniticipatory whoa*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
yowza!
- Marie
yikes
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
aiee.
- Marianne
No MoTO, not my upstairs neighbor. People in the house next door.
- lris
Well *whoa* anyway. And also *whew*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
That sounds incredibly scary. I'm glad your neighbor is observant though I'd probably crawl out of my skin at shower/door knocking. Glad they knocked before coming in? Also crazy re: your neighbor arrested.
- Hedgehog
Luckily for me, my upstairs neighbor has to come through my apartment to use the laundry, which she normally does on Fridays. So I assumed she'd come through to do that and seen something, like maybe a fire? (I always worry about fire), and needed to tell me about it. I didn't realize there were actual burly policemen in my house with her.
- lris
Well, after all that excitement I'll bet you need a cold shower. Yikes. I would have freaked.
- Spidra Webster
Back up. Neighbor has to go into your apartment every time she wants to do laundry? What if you're out of town? What if you don't like the neighbor or the neighbor is creepy?
- Betsy #TeamMonique
It's up to me whether I want to offer access to the laundry or not. The building used to be a single family home, so there's a stairway with a door at the bottom that separates our two apartments. My upstairs neighbor and I are good friends, so we just leave that unlocked and have agreed that she will do her laundry on Fridays during the day unless she lets me know otherwise.
- lris
It's official. They released his name and address, and it's my next door neighbor.
- lris
Yikes.
- Meg V. Meg
WOW.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Scary!
- Jen
Crazy.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Wow!
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
The Big Deal and the Damage Done - http://walt.lishost.org/2013...
Angel R. Rivera, Kirsten and ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤ liked this
Just ordered my own paperback copy that I'll donate to my library after reading it.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Thanks.
- Walt Crawford
me too
- Sarah
Does anyone have any resources (books, articles, people, etc.) to suggest on the topic of personnel and workflow for electronic resources management? Things like division of labor and responsibilities, training needed, overall philosophy? Not technology tools per se. We _might_ be looking to reorganize.
ping Galadriel; she'd know.
- RepoRat
Ooh, MPOW could use something like this as our local expertise (me) is apparently not nearly authoritative enough...
- awd
Also, ping Anna Creech, too, and check out TERMS. http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikiter...
- Stephen le Francoeur
More TERMS stuff here: http://6terms.tumblr.com/
- Stephen le Francoeur
Marie / orgmonkey would be a good resource too
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Stephanie, of course....Marie! I was thinking there was somebody important to mention when I typed my comment but I couldn't get my brain to work. Moar coffee now plz.
- Stephen le Francoeur
Thanks all! Just in case this helps: we have a sort of organically grow, fragmented system of responsibility, and it seems to be falling apart as people come and go and other responsibilities loom larger. We're looking for places to start thinking about how to do it better, but at this point, we don't even have the right questions.
- Rebecca Hedreen
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