October 27, 2005
October 18, 2005
October 17, 2005
Cool Flickr Toy!
http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/calendar.php
See any library Web uses folks? I sure do!
September 21, 2005
Librarians in Hardhats
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/45312710/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelcasey/44912824/
:-) I did an advcanced search...are there no more Librarians in Hardhats photos?
September 12, 2005
Lost in a Tag Cloud
(What can you learn about folks by their Tag Cloud?")
Anne down in Australia turned me on to this term while we were preparing for my talk with Skype and Jybe. ! I love it. Have you gotten lost in tags yet? Now there clusters too!!
Try these:
In honour of ILI: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/london/clusters/
See anyone you know? http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/librarian/
And here's a "lusty" one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ipodnano/interesting/
:-)
August 25, 2005
Flickr-Stalking
Flickr-Stalking: (verb) To browse through someone's photostream with the intent of learning all about how they live their lives: where they go, what pets they have, what their living rooms look like, etc, includes in-depth investigations of their tags and their contact's photostream and tags as well.
August 23, 2005
August 20, 2005
Flickr: TagFight!
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000913055170
Via one of my favorite blogs, the TagFight at http://www.netomer.de/flickrtagfight/fight. Two tags duke it out. Here's Library vs. Starbucks: http://www.netomer.de/flickrtagfight/library.starbucks.fight. Hurrah - LIBRARY wins!
August 02, 2005
Flickr adds features
http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000860052805/
I'm intrigued by the idea of clustering - associated tags for groups of like images, such as the Michigan Clusters here. It made me realize I need to pay attention to my tagging. If I want labrador retrievers and get to this page, I get to see all the variances in tags for those sweet yellow, black and chocolate hounds!
One of the benefits of pointing folks to clusters of images is that they will find more images that might not have appeared with just one tage. Ponder then, how we might set up our catalogs with this method. Here's the history cluster page... food for thought yes?
July 29, 2005
Demonstrating Flickr
When the BBC is looking at Flickr in their Creative Futures Knowledge Building session, we should take note. Libraries should be looking at how powerful inage sharing can be.
June 21, 2005
Flickr as medium for Proof of Concept
I've been talking to groups of librarians for a week and a half... ..and I've hit on gaming everytime. I used Jenny's slideshow as a proof of concept of what some libraries can do with gaming as well as how librarians are taking to it. Are you diving in to gaming? Here's the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shifted/sets/378371/show/
These images speak volumes.
May 17, 2005
Librarian's Desks @ Flickr
Friday I'm talking about Presence at the Indiana Online User's group in Indy. Coolest thing is Glenn Peterson will be there keynoting about the totally cool Hennepin CO PL site!!
While we are pondering presence, I think it's important for librarians to be seen out and about in the thriving virtual communities we know and love. For example, librarian's desks at flickr:
http://flickr.com/groups/librariansdesks/
Here's mine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/347976/
Flickr friends...feel free to tag away!
May 09, 2005
May 05, 2005
The Power of Flickr
I'm sitting here with tears welling folks....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/3296744/in/set-83049/
This is such a powerful thing.... poor Mickety had aggression issues. My heart goes out to Cogdog.
What a sweet dog my Jake is...he's 11 now.
April 22, 2005
Librarian's Shoes (Update)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/libraryman/sets/161808/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/sets/256532/
