Category Archives: social media

Amazon buys goodreads

robinna/ March 28, 2013/ social media/ 0 comments

 Well this is interesting. When asked how Goodreads would be integrated into Amazon, and the all-important question of how, and when, a retail component might be rolled into the site–currently users can buy books through a host of third party retailers, including Amazon–both Chandler and Russ Grandinetti, Amazon v-p, Kindle content, skirted the subject.  When pressed, Chandler said: “We don’t

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Adventures in pinning – pinterest = visual bookmarking? scrapbooking?

robinna/ February 25, 2013/ social media, my projects/ 1 comments

So, I’ve been experimenting with pinterest, which up until now, has been predominantly used by women over 50. To be honest, initially, I could have cared less about pinterest. I really couldn’t see a reason to use it as it seemed to be all DIY, crafts, fashion, recipes, and childcare stuff…  kind of a glittery glued, bubblegum, hearts and flowers

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Separating spotify from Facebook and moving playlists from one account to another

robinna/ February 10, 2013/ social media, question of the day/ 0 comments

Now that spotify no longer REQUIRES a facebook login, how do you go about separating them?  I really needed to do this for a lot of different reasons. One, I use georgiawebgurl for all of my social media except for Facebook. I don’t mind connecting twitter, pinterest, etc. together but I don’t want them all connected to my personal Facebook

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Catalogers don’t blog (well some do – at least 10 years!)

robinna/ January 29, 2013/ Libraries, social media/ 0 comments

I’ve been blogging since mmm… 2000, maybe 2001? I didn’t do a very good job of announcing myself. I just jumped into the stream… The first entry for content divergent is 2003, but before that I was photoblogging (story and some screenshots here) that evolved into a more personal site which was featured on about.com (predominantly in the migraines section). In

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Artists uses tweets to make art – thoughts on twitter TOS and more

robinna/ January 27, 2013/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

I found this project really interesting given that I both tweet AND I sometimes incorporate materials (including text snippets usually from out of copyright materials) into my artwork..  I do wonder how twitterers feel about this… So here is what this particular project does: Many tweets have GPS coordinates embedded in them. Shindelman and Larson exploited those geographic points by

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Musings on the illusion of Facebook friendship

robinna/ September 1, 2012/ social media/ 0 comments

I’m going to have to say that Facebook has been an interesting social experiment. In terms of brands, businesses, and institutions, I think it is a great tool in marketing and building community support. In terms of personal accounts, I’m just not sure. Maybe moving everyone to a page platform where it is public or private (sounds very twitter like,

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Linked data, Libraries – How, Why & MARC

robinna/ August 30, 2012/ Libraries, social media, semantic web, tutorials/ 0 comments

Two excellent presentations together, one focused on MARC/linked data; the second focuses on user experience but in terms of how linked data and the FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) model could possibly impact that experience. The first (Philip E. Schreur, Stanford) focuses on bibliographic data and MARC.  Really great overview and explanation of linked data and its potential impact

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