the history of tech services (humor)
427 A.D.The Library at Alexandria decides to contract out its annual weeding project; Vandal hordes are the lowest bidder. http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~murrizol/ts_history/tshist.htm
3010, 2007
Monthly Archives: October 2007
2910, 2007
All Web 2.0 presentations online
Finally, some progress on collecting up my various presentations and some writings on Web 2.0 stuff: http://www.robinfay.net/web2.0/
2610, 2007
art installation in second life and word of the day
Art Installation in Second Life Wows Educators If art schools around the world start introducing their students to “hyperformalism,” credit can go to DC Spensley, who invented the term to describe abstract three-dimensional works created using software and personal computers. http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2422
2310, 2007
will portals win the social networking war?
Finally, some real contendors in aggregating social networking — a centralized spot to collect all of YOUR web 2.0 stuff! Isn’t it funny how there is all of this “stuff” and then the next step is to organize it and streamline it (sounds like cataloging, no)? Create the content and then organize it! 😉 Pageflakes has a lot of functionality
1910, 2007
Emerging trends book discussion group
A new project from the Kansas Library System (and the book discussion group is open to anyone). ——————————Intersections: A book discussion group for librarians Intersections is a book discussion group for librarians, focused on emerging trends in the intersection of society, libraries, and technology. “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson is the first book being discussed. NEKLS received an Interlibrary
1510, 2007
about this and me
Hello & welcome to my mostly professional journal blog. I write about all sorts of things that interest me — mostly web stuff, cool new technologies, a sprinkling of art stuff, etc. So, who am I? Well, that depends on the day of the week, I suppose. I am indeed an artist. Although, I currently work in the very textural
0810, 2007
practical & productive networking tools
A friend of mine who is a k-12 art teacher asked about getting started with social networking. She does a little blogging here and there, but she is knee deep in teaching at the moment, which limits her time online. I thought for a bit about how to respond to her question. Her question focuses more on personal professional networking,
0610, 2007
Speed up your website!
For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!): ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn’t haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache. That’s where your browserstores
0310, 2007
web 2.0 the bubble
In the course of doing a little research for a brief article on social networking for visual artists, I found a lot of new services and of course, what seems to be a lot more discussion about the potential Web 2.0/social networking bubble (perhaps, it is just cumulative effect). Will it happen? Oh sure, at some point…. and you can
0210, 2007
need an invite?
So, with all the various invite stuff (Yahoo’s new social networking service, mash), pownce, etc. if you didn’t receive an invite, you probably get tired of trying to figure out which one of your technie friends received an invite, so you could go bug them, right? Well, here is your answer.Inviteshare