‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ – New York Times captures some of my own experiences on Facebook and might make a good piece for my Building Next Generation Web Applications course: So last week I joined Facebook, the social network for students that opened its doors last fall to anyone with an e-mail address. The […]
With too many things on my plate right now, I decided not to attend next week’s Google Developer Day 2007 – Mountain View. One can, however, follow the sessions as they are broadcast: Google Developer Day 2007 – Mountain View – Sessions . Given what I just read in the Times about Google’s intense recruiting […]
Over the summer, I hope to take a closer look at all the wonderful work contained in the collection of Master’s Final Projects: 2007. I don’t think that there is an official API for Google Reader although Niall Kennedy documened an unofficial Google Reader API a while back. Shaking up tech publishing (Loud Thinking) is […]
My Dreamhost-hosted sites are down again: DreamHost Status » Blog Archive » Spacey filer issues. Time to move? But where to go? If I want to add SSL access to any of the domains I host on dreamhost.com, I will need a unique IP address, which costs an extra $4/month . Some threads on this […]
I’m adding Digital History Hacks to my list of weblogs to follow on the strength the author (William J. Turkel) ‘s being a historian working in “digital history” and writing about web spidering and scraping. To wit, Digital History Hacks: Teaching Young Historians to Search, Spider and Scrape: To get the most out of the […]
Ever since I left my job as a data architect to focus on writing my book on mashups, I’ve not had much to say publicly about data architecture, especially as it applies to higher education and the world of libraries. Often, my posts have been in response to specific pieces of news that arrive on […]
Just to express some agreement ith Peter Brantley when he wrote in PB keynote at DLF Forum: I do not think it is the place of libraries to build applications that directly permit the sciences’ domain consumption of content, but I do believe that libraries should develop services that allow our content riches to be […]
I wish I could attend the Educause Western Regional Conference happening the week after next in SF, whose speaker list includes a number of folks I know personally. It’s great to see more library catalogs with APIs, such as those documented in REST output from Huddersfield’s catalogue. Congratulations to Roy Tennant on his new position […]
I’ll have to write more soon about Citizendium, which is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names. As a member of the Citizendium Editorial Council, I’ve not yet had much […]
As a “guest expert” last week in Writing for Digital Media, an online course at Chatham College Online, I had a lot of fun interacting with students in back and forth writing. I thought that I’d capture (in a slightly edited form), what I wrote. (It’s probably even more interesting to write down what the […]