Monday, August 9th, 2010
via @librarianbyday – excellent presentation from Marta Kagan full of statistics on social media and how it is changing our culture in many ways:
Tags: links, presentation, social media
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Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
It’s been awhile, but I wanted to say Yeah! I officially have my MLIS now. Woot!
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
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.
Tags: graphic, statistics, twitter
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Monday, April 26th, 2010
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
Tags: innovation, jfk presidential library, twittering libraries
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
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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