Category: 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 #

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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? #

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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

Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

Doin' a little "I rock" dance as I make Drupal's Content Templates bow to my will. Ahhhh, sweet success! #
RT @GTDCoachKelly: Best reason to get others on #GTD? It'll minimize the last minute fires & crisis YOU get due to their lack of planning. #
@griffey Oh man, I feel your pain, truly I do… in reply to griffey #
@mstabbycat You are welcome!! Choc-covered bananas are the best, yes? in reply to mstabbycat #
Vendor called – completely knocked me out of my "coding zone". It's about 15 minutes before quitting time, but I'm calling it a day. #
Reading about LSW's "help the Louisville Public Library" campaign, via Steve Lawson's blog, http://bit.ly/tJea7, and sending money, natch! #
I have inbox 0 on BOTH email accounts. Of course, as I am typing this, more are flooding in, but there were a few bright, shining seconds… #

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Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

Back at work from 2 days of being feverish, stuffy, miserable sick. So much to do, I'm not sure where to start. I think I'll read blogs… #
@chrisbrogan Remember the Milk + Gmail in reply to chrisbrogan #
LMAO at #hhlib tweets – keep 'em coming (especially you, Annoyed Lib!) #
The Tech Set http://ff.im/5WrKO #
@mstabbycat are you going to deliver it to me? 😉 I just saw apples on sale today and thought about making that myself. Yummmy! #
Who watches the Watchmen? I am now, with the boyfriend!! #

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Web 2.0

The week in Tweets

Back to work after ALA… Busy day of documenting IP addresses, updating server software and doing the yearly budgetary begging ahead! #
@Tweetdeck – I need an email address for someone who can give permission for screenshot use in a book. Reply to robin.hastings @ gmail, thx! #
@AJisaokay Feel like cataloging? We have a whole department of catalogers you could come visit next! in reply to AJisaokay #
I'm somewhere between a professional blogger and futurist/innovator… (March 2007) http://ow.ly/hJVM #
@ellbeecee Yeah, I'm almost on top of the futurist/innovator line, but not quite. I think a bunch of us started about about the same time? in reply to ellbeecee #
RT @mstabbycat: Thinking about making a ganache pie while I'm at @webgoddess's place this weekend. (I'm thinking that sounds awesome!!) #
RT @MoTravelMama: Missouri State Penitentiary tours and website now available. Check it out, this is a great tour. http://budurl.com/7fm8 #
@warmaiden Woot! Good luck Warmaiden. And if you need a collaborator for that conference in Wales… in reply to warmaiden #

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Chrome OS and the Cloud

I was recently catching up on my blog reading, after heading to the ALA conference in Chicago for a week, and came across Leo Babauta’s post on Zen Habits called “What Google Chrome OS Means For Cloud Computing“. Reading through his thoughts, I find that they are pretty complementary to mine – the cloud is coming and will be the default method of computing before too long. Leo discusses the advent of online-only apps, such as Google Apps, and says:

These apps are lightweight but powerful. They aren’t as feature rich as desktop apps, but here’s what many critics don’t understand: in today’s (and tomorrow’s) computing world, they don’t have to be.

I’d like to take that a step farther and say that they can’t be. Desktops and laptops – even netbook laptops – are fairly expensive in the general scheme of things. To get truly ubiquitous computing, we’re going to have to be able to access the Internet – and our data – from much cheaper and less powerful machines than the expensive behemoths we have available to us now. It’s starting with cell phones with full web browsers and always-on Internet connectivity, and will continue until just about everything we touch has some form of connection to the Internet. At that point, cheap little low-powered devices to connect to our data in the cloud will be commonplace. They won’t be able to run MS Office -and even if they could, there is no guarantee that their owners will be able to afford the crazy MS pricing structure. They might not even be able to run OpenOffice – but they will be able to get to the Internet and access online documents and data.
Leo goes on to talk about the benefits of storing our information in the cloud – but that is something we are seeing now. Just as flash drives are getting seriously cheap, I’ve managed to make it so that I don’t ever need one! Any docs I create on my computer are stored in my Dropbox account (accessible from anywhere with an Internet connection) but most of my documents are in one of my 3 Gmail accounts (personal, work & school) and are available to me on even more devices – because I don’t have to have MS Office installed to read/edit them.
He finishes his article with a discussion on privacy and, again, I’m going to agree with him. If Google really wants to mine my rather boring documents so that they can place ads I’m not going to pay attention to (but only in my personal accounts – school & work are ad-free), I’ll survive. It’s not like there is a person actually doing the mining anyway – it’s all automated! As for the security/privacy concerns… I have a pretty good handle on computer security, but I’m nowhere near as good as the people that manage the security for Google – and I know it. While I can take my steps to secure my personal information on my personal computer, it will never be quite as effective as the steps that Google, with all of their big brains and expensive equipment, can take and so my data may well be more secure in the cloud. I know that there are a few stories out there about cloud-based document providers letting private documents become public for short periods of time, but if it is a document that is super-secret (or superseekrit, as the cool kids might say) is being stored online and unencrypted, well, you can’t really place all the blame on the cloud provider, can you?
As a final note, I was interviewed on camera for the TechSource blog (the post is not up as of this writing) during ALA and asked where I thought libraries would be in 20 years and what we’d be doing. My answer stayed pretty close to my current passions – we will be conduits to the cloud, providing tools and information and resources so that people can create, share, mashup and consume the data that that the cloud will hold. We’ll still be checking out books and providing reference services and gassing up the bookmobile for remote visits and all of that as well – it’ll take longer than 20 years to completely stamp out the paper book, certainly, but a large part of our mission will be to connect our patrons/users/customers to the wealth of data and creative possibilities that will live in the cloud.