Social Web connects long lost library school nerds almost immediately!

OK, so I was posting a comment to the gaminginlibraries blog which is just getting off the ground.But anyway, Jenny Levine, aka "The Shifted Librarian" helped tremendously in setting it up and appears to be very active as an enthusiastic librarian and technology facilitator. While perusing her photos from flickr.com, I found a buddy link of hers to Mike Porter my old friend from Library school. He has this really extensive blog and almost 1000 photos on flickr as well. visit it! libraryman.com I tell ya, one week after listening to the burks on learning podcast, and I am shifting into high gear with "Web 2.0" social web, interactive and inter acTING Web services, however you like to slice it. I have Helen Georgas to thank for it all. She is our instructional coordinator and she's forging ahead to bring us into the 21st century with Web-based instructional tutorials using camtasia or ... oh what is that other one called... shuffle shuffle.. . We here in the academic world move at a slower pace, but rest assured, there are dedicated librarians chomping at the bit to bring information services to the Internet far beyond email ref. Wish us luck!

"Meatspace" heh heh

I saw this article in Wired and thought people might want to see it. Gamers in Second Life are making a living in the game space and no longer have to work in the “meatspace”
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70153-0.html?tw=wn_index_1

what! you play video games?! 2 old 2 play

Slashdot posted an interview with the founder of 2old2play.com

“In it he discusses the future of gaming for older people, why we need communities like 2old2play, and how the gaming industry needs to refocus its efforts on the games it makes. Cool insight and worth the read for any older gamers.”
http://tinyurl.com/9c24o

all the other 'places' I live

Rather than repeating myself in several spots, I offer you the links... Livejournal, http://brantles.livejournal.com/ , Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/profiles/brantles . There is enough out there for you to get an idea of where I'm coming from. I plan on keeping this blog fairly personal and eventually only open to a few people of my choosing. For the time being, brantles.blogspot.com is not restricted.
So, why come here? I keep up with Web services and report my opinions on them. I am a librarian and I find a lot of interesting information I pass along.

latest meanderings

What a lame title for a post.
I've been freaking out about the huge amount of free (and pay) video available from a lot of different Web sites. youtube.com/, ess.tv/, channel101.com/ "The unavoidable future of entertainment" thelonelyisland, and sooo many others not to mention video.google.com
To top it off I saw this real UIC presentation in realmedia of Burks Oakley, an educational technology professor from UIUC about podcasts, and then Helen gave this cool presentation about captivate and camtasia (I prefer Camtasia thus far) We are kind ofg chomping at the bit here to get going with online tutorials for library instruction.
anyway, I want to investigate technorati tags and del.icio.us more as well. check burns podcast on web2 technologies. (burnso2.blogspot.com) I think.

first silly call to audioblogger from the ELL

search these keywords!

Things to look at now:
newsbot
a9
keyhole,
googlegrid,
Things to look fo in the FUTURE
newsbotster,
googlezon
social recommendation engine
epic - evolving personalized information construct

I just viewed this from a listserve...

An eight minute flash video about the history of media told from the year 2015.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

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