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What I’m Reading Today

August 9, 2010 – 9:33 pm | by lindybr1
via @librarianbyday – excellent presentation from Marta Kagan full of statistics on social media and how it is changing our culture in many ways:
View more presentations from Marta Kagan.
* Spiegel Today–International: The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World

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Hi. I’m Back.

August 4, 2010 – 8:37 pm | by lindybr1

It’s been awhile, but I wanted to say Yeah! I officially have my MLIS now. Woot!

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Interesting graphic about Twitter

May 9, 2010 – 5:47 pm | by lindybr1

From the Website Monitoring Blog:

The graphic includes fun facts about the number of accounts on twitter, types of messages tweeted, international demographics, who has the most followers, etc. It also has a nice time-line of Twitter’s growth since its creation in 2006.

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Follow JFK’s 1960 campaign on Twitter (via JFK Library)

April 26, 2010 – 9:40 pm | by lindybr1

I know I’m a bit late with this, but what a cool idea! The JFK Presidential Library created a twitter account where folks can follow JFK’s 1960 campaign trail. Check it out: kenedy1960

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Wikipedia: a reminder to double check your sources!

April 8, 2010 – 7:32 pm | by lindybr1

The development of Wikipedia is a wonderful story and splendid example of the power of community, but I am reminded of the importance of double-checking my sources, especially when referring to community-edited content. While not intentional, a Huffington Post blurb about the “Funniest Acts of Vandalism on Wikipedia Ever” calls attention to this.

Out of curiosity, I went to Bill Gates’ Wikipedia page, clicked on the ‘history‘ option to see all the revisions and then did a control-F (aka find) for “vandalism.” In the first 500 revisions, I found 22 cases of vandalism — some funny, some probably honest mistakes and some just downright mean. This is a reminder of the speed at which these pages may change and at any moment, you could be reading erroneous information… or see a mustache painted on someone’s picture.

Always double-check your sources for confirmation of information!

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