Today is social media day (follow it on mashable), like most days, I posted a few new pix http://on.fb.me/i2BShM , did some tweeting, checked in at linkedin, and blogged. So what are you doing? #SMDay
I thought you might like to see my student’s homework for the intro to image editing workshop (their assignment – edit an image). I didn’t pick the best image to use as a sample, but I think they had a good time with it. and here’s the original…
I actually talk quite a bit about wifi and security (and even in connection with Facebook) in the class I’m teaching this week (it falls under the “how to keep your private life… private” section…) ———————————-If you use facebook, make sure you change the security settings. The default behavior is over http and this Wi-Fi sniffing app (facesniff) for Android
Whew, a huge topic to cover in 2 hours (kind of text heavy in a couple of spots but they get slides too): <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>last sess<br> last session of the web2.0/social media training program…
“Welcome to ATLAS! Using Social Media to Promote Digital Photos” Alliance Library System(ALS) and LearningTimes are pleased to announce n online conference to debut ATLAS, a new set of social media tools to promote history and digital photographs. The conference will beheld online using Adobe Connect on Monday June 29 from 9:00 A.M. –11:00 A.M. There is no charge for
Interesting infographic of the recent sony data breach (1 million passwords) and other large data breaches.http://flowingdata.com/2011/06/13/largest-data-breaches-of-all-time/
——————————————————————- Another library user wistfully mentions to you “how nice it must be to read books all day!”– You’ve just left another meeting about a meeting and no positive impact has been made on the community you serve, or– Hey, you’re just ready to try something new! Library and Information Science (LIS) has always been concerned with recruiting efforts, especially
This may also be of interest to those with semantic web interests: ——— “Transforming our Bibliographic Framework<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-051311.html>,” a statement from the Library of Congress (LC). A web site has been established for the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html> (http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition) and that will be the central place for plans, news, and progress.
really interesting thoughts. “Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever? In this special report, newscientist.com editor Sumit Paul-Choudhury – for whom these are not idle questions – reports on life, loss, memory and forgetting in the internet age.” http://www.newscientist.com/special/digital-legacy
Interesting article about archiving the digital life of those after they die.” When he died, his family were at a loss as to what to do with his digital archives, so they passed them to his friend and former student Jeremy Leighton John, curator of e-manuscripts (“eMSS”) at the British Library in London. Hamilton’s is one of about a dozen