Category: Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

Family reunion 3 [pic] http://ff.im/7orJP #
@DonovanLambrigh They should – it's kbia.org and they podcast everything, too. The show's name is underground garage, I think. in reply to DonovanLambrigh #
Hey! I just heard it's @SonoranDragon 's birthday!! Happy birthday, dude!! #
@MegCanada Congratulations!! Now you deserve a treat!! in reply to MegCanada #
@ashuping look for the httpd.conf file and review it – depends on the install where it is, but possible in etc/ in reply to ashuping #
RT @ChadLivengood Talking to retirees opposed to "Obamacare": They love their Medicare, but they don't want younger people to have it. #
@librarianbyday Library, as part of a name, is a proper noun. Proper nouns are always capitalized. If it's not a proper noun, tho, no caps! in reply to librarianbyday #
@mstabbycat We have SERIOUS issues with our cable at home, too – True Blood was almost unwatchable Sun night – I had a headache by the end!! in reply to mstabbycat #
RT @revmhj: The reason there is an @calls and @office list in GTD is to that when #gmail is down you can still do work, people. #
Can y'all tell Gmail is down – I haven't tweeted this much in *ages* 😉 #
@Jill_HW GDocs is still up! That's what I'm doing right now, between writing updates on the sitch for the staffweb. Board reports in GDocs.. in reply to Jill_HW #
@victoriaptersen I used to do that!! Makes this way annoying, yes? Check out #gtd, though – way better than inbox=tasks!! in reply to victoriaptersen #
@elloyd74 Palm Pre rocks my socks. Just an opinion, though – others like that silly iPhone thing, I hear… in reply to elloyd74 #
#gmail is back? They've faked me out before, though, so I'm not going to believe it just yet. #
It is emergency day – first I lose a hard drive out of an almost brand-new server, then a trainer is running late for a class . Home yet? #
@hyveejcmo Can we talk about you all stocking more Diet Vanilla Coke Zero? 4 12-packs at a time is not enough! #
Meeting #1 and conference call down. Meeting #2 is in 40 minutes, then I get to go home before 4 hours of desk time tonight. I can haz nap? #
Billy & family [pic] http://ff.im/7ElGb #
Did something big just happen on Glue? I just got 4 new followers in 2 seconds. I'm confused… #
@mstabbycat Happy birthday to you… a wee bit early! in reply to mstabbycat #

Tags roundup, tweets, twitter

Lifestreaming without FriendFeed

Post author By Robin
Post date September 1, 2009
5 Comments on Lifestreaming without FriendFeed

For those of you who think that FriendFeed is too much of a time-suck (you are right, by the way, but what a fun time-suck it is!!) but still want to put all your various social network posts and upload into a single place, I will recommend Lifestream. I learned about it via Jenny Levine’s blog, The Shifted Librarian, and immediately thought it looked interesting – despite the fact that I have a FriendFeed account that does my lifestreaming for me. I installed it into my WordPress blog (the very one you are reading now) and then put a simple [lifestream] tag into my “about me” page on that blog. Pretty much instantly, a stream of information started showing up, giving folks who might be interested in me a way to see all of my Twitter posts, Flickr uploads, Facebook status updates and more. Of course, looking back on it now, it’s just Twitter posts and weekly blog updates about what I’ve been posting on Twitter. I need to get working on being more than a one-ring circus, don’t I?
Anyway, that is how I’m using it – a stream of activity, broken down by day, on my “about” page. Jenny chose to have her stream post to her blog, but since I’m already doing a weekly digest of all my Tweets to my blog, I thought that might be overkill…
One thing that occurred to me was that this might be a nice way to get the library’s “stuff” all together. I did the same thing – installed the plugin, entered the [lifestream] tag into the “about” page for that blog and was disappointed. Nothing more than “no events to show at this time” is displaying on the MRRL about page. We have “events” (posts are called events in this plugin), but we don’t have a terribly current version of PHP – which is probably causing the problem. We’ll be moving the site to a new server, which does have a new version of PHP, soon, so I’ll hold off on updating PHP on the old server…
Anyway – once I get it working, it will be a very cool tool for me to use to display all the information and inanities that I post to my social networks, and it will be a nice way to create a page that mimics FriendFeed’s lifestream, but is available to everyone – not just other FriendFeeders.

Tags aggregators, friendfeed, lifestreaming

Web 2.0

OPALescence Presentation Archives up

Post author By Robin
Post date August 31, 2009
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If you missed the OPALescence conference in Mid-August, you can head over to the (still in progress) Archives page to check out the presentations – they have the audio + slides/chat, the audio and just the slides up for many of the presentations – including mine! Go check it out!!

Tags collaboration, opalescence, presentations

Web 2.0

Why Libraries Kick Ass

Louisville Public Library Flood In order to get attention for the campaign to raise money to help out the Louisville Public Library, a whole bunch of people are blogging today on why libraries are so important to us, both personally and professionally.
My take on why libraries kick ass? Because they provide the necessary tools – for free – to be an informed, responsible citizen of the United States (yes, I’m being US-centric today, others will blog about the importance of libraries in other countries, I’m sure). With the amount of disinformation and rumor that is passed around on topics as important as the economy, health care and our government, it’s nice to know that there is an unbiased source of information that is completely free for our citizens. They can go to their local library and read from a selection of local and national newspapers, check out information on the Web, look up articles from both scholarly and popular magazines in databases and get help with doing all of this from people who have made it their life’s work to provide this information. Without this free source of information, the access to information required for an informed citizenry is based on ability to pay – and that isn’t very democratic!
All libraries kick ass – no matter where they are located. This particular library, however, is in need of some help, so if you have been provided information for free from some helpful librarian, please consider donating a few bucks to help these hard-working librarians out!

Tags donations, libraries, Louisville

Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

I've got to work on my posture – it's only 9:45 and my back is killing me. #
reading: Google Wave Explained http://bit.ly/12HHIa #
@SonoranDragon & @joshuamneff My son asked that this morning – why wasn't he in prison? I told him because his last name is Kennedy… #
@SonoranDragon Your tweet was the first time I'd seen it mentioned all morning. I'm with @joshuamneff – he did good but… in reply to SonoranDragon #
@SonoranDragon True enough… NPR obliquely mentioned it this morning (hence my son's question), but it was quick & easy to slide past in reply to SonoranDragon #
RT @stevelawson: Not much time left in LSW fundraiser for the LFPL. Please contribute if you can, and spread the word: http://bit.ly/mfzvY #
RT @elloyd74: RT @suzigurl RT @yelm "In lieu of flowers, please pass Health Care reform." RIP Ted Kennedy 1932-2009 (I like this a lot!!) #
Working on #GTD ubiq capture – not there yet despite notebooks everywhere & Pre – need in-shower whiteboard #
@djfiander My brother had a coffee delivery guy at his old job. I was sooooooooo jealous. in reply to djfiander #
Nikki at work [pic] http://ff.im/7inq4 #
@infosciphi woot!! Congrats!! Make sure you don't get in with a wild crowd there at NCSU, though – I've heard stories… in reply to infosciphi #
I'm liking KBIA's Sat eve show – early Elvis followed by Sex Pistols. Nice… #

Tags roundup, tweets, twitter

Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

Ok – back at work after my day off – it's time to see if my GTD reboot last week will help me GSD today… #
Huh. Apparently it does work – I've blown through my "gotta-do" list for the day in the first hour. Now I hit my "nice-to-do" list… #
@lauramoore Isn't that lovely – I've had that happen at @coffeezone before and it's a wonderful thing… in reply to lauramoore #
@brewinlibrarian Hello from mid-Missouri! Twitter's awesome – almost as awesome as your teacher – have fun with it!! in reply to brewinlibrarian #
RT @kendrak: RT @sglassmeyer: "The Romans did not build their empire by having meetings. It was built by killing everyone who opposed them." #
@JGamblin in this case governing != conquering to create an empire to govern – and it's all just a jab against meetings, anyway 😉 in reply to JGamblin #
@mstabbycat My phone will arrive today – it's already on the truck for delivery! Happy Robin!! #trackingapackage in reply to mstabbycat #
@mstabbycat I dropped it in the back parking lot at work and screwed up the internals so that it wouldn't charge. I had insurance, tho!!! in reply to mstabbycat #
@mstabbycat Yep, I have been in Pre-withdrawl for 4 whole days now. It's getting bad… in reply to mstabbycat #
RT @elloyd74: Tom DeLay to be on Dancing with the Stars. Seriously. http://is.gd/2ozBz #
@griffey I just bought my plane ticket today – I'll be there! in reply to griffey #
RT @val_forrestal: I just got Google Reader to zero…. Next person to post to their blog gets defenestrated<- for proper word usage & LOLs #
Got up, got a page or so of writing done, got Alex to school and now I'm diving into work. I'm already tired… #
Checking out LifeIO – not sure if it will be really helpful for me… though I see some possibilities… #
Hectic morning – went to PCC twice for emergencies, set up scanner for craft program and updated the public meeting minutes page. #
And that's all folks – I'm off for the afternoon and won't be back to work til 5pm. Don't talk about anything too exciting without me!! #
Weekly review is finished #GTD; drupal installations are updated & to-do lists are pruned. It's break time! #
MRRL won the grant for technologically-enabled, subject-specific reference tables at the main library. Now the real work starts… #
@bckhough Thanks – it was a collaborative effort so there are lots of folks here to congratulate – I'm just the only one with a twitter acct in reply to bckhough #

Tags roundup, tweets, twitter

Personal Web 2.0

Google voice announcement

Post author By Robin
Post date August 18, 2009
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Of course, just a day or two after I posted the announcement that I have a Google Voice account and the number, I discover that when I dropped my phone the other day, I bent the internal circuitry to the point where it will not recharge. I have a new one on the way (thank you, Sprint insurance!!), but until then, I’m pretty much not reachable immediately. Of course, you can call the number (573)321-webg and leave a voicemail, which will be transferred to my email, and get a hold of me in a roundabout way that way, but it won’t be immediate until my new phone shows up, sometime later this week.

Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

@kgs No!! I don't want people to see what I'm reading, that's half the reason I got my Kindle, so I could read my trashy romances in peace! in reply to kgs #
@kgs Well. That's just brilliant! I love it and would totally be behind any upgrade that displayed the book I'm "reading" if that were so! in reply to kgs #
@sethhersh I've been watching the weather.com site and it looks nasty – and like it's coming straight across the state to visit us next! in reply to sethhersh #
Fwd: Some wingnut is outside Obamas town hall with gun per MSNBC. wonder if a secret service takedown will be the… http://ff.im/6sud7 #
MichaelMoore.com : Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican http://ff.im/6vuo9 #
@val_forrestal OPALescence hashtag = #opal in reply to val_forrestal #
Starting my session on Collaboration 2.0 at #opal in just a minute or two! #
@codslap my pleasure!It fit right into the topic!! in reply to codslap #
@jokrausdu Yes, I would, when I get all this other stuff I have to finish writing done… We'll stay in touch, yes? in reply to jokrausdu #
@djfiander Thanks. Now I have a *different* ABBA song in my head. I'd been hearing"our last summer" all morning in my head, now "waterloo".. in reply to djfiander #
@davidleeking Hi nice librarians! I'm in the capital city of Missouri now – Jefferson City – at the Missouri River Regional Library in reply to davidleeking #
Ok folks – what are some common abbreviations/text speak stuff you see in use in Twitter? Anyone wanna share? #

Tags roundup, tweets, twitter

Web 2.0

Google Voice

Ok, I’ve been a “user” of Google Voice since it was Grand Central waaaaaay back when. That being said, I never actually used it – just had an account. Now that Google’s taken it over and given us the option for personalized phone numbers, however, I’m thinking about starting to use it more. My current voice number is (573) 321-9324 (that’s 573-321-webg) and is all set up – but rarely used… I’ll start adding it to business cards and such soon, but I just wanted to start the ball rolling by letting my faithful readers (hi there, Tab!!) know that there is yet another way they can get a hold of me. Seriously though, texting is quicker…

Tags communication, google voice, number, phone, texting

Web 2.0

Online conference – starts today!

Post author By Robin
Post date August 13, 2009
13 Comments on Online conference – starts today!

The OPALescence conference begins today at 11am (CST) – there is a nice lineup of topics and speakers (including me at 2pm CST today, blathering on about Collaboration 2.0) as well as “unconference” sort of unscheduled discussion groups going on at the same time as the traditional conference sessions. If one of the sessions doesn’t do it for you, hop into an unconference session and talk about what is important to you!

Tags collaboration 2.0, conference, presentation