I have been trying to gather my thoughts concerning e-books for awhile now, after I heard about possible initiatives by California’s governor to switch out e-books for textbooks and similar initiatives in other states. While e-books were touted as he next big thing years ago, they didn’t seem to really hit the big time until [...]
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Author Archives: dbilyeu
Marketing Can Be Beautiful
I saw this on the DCPL Labs website and had to repost because I loved it that much. The Johnson County Library in Kansas has covered their delivery trucks with these gorgeous and funny advertisements referencing classic books found in the library. According to this article in the Kansas City Star, the ad agency involved [...]
Death of The Printed Blog
It appears as though The Printed Blog has met its inevitable end, with its founder pulling the plug earlier this week due to lack of advertising funds and investment capital. I originally wrote about The Printed Blog back in February and questioned its staying power. Though a fairly novel concept, it seemed like yet another [...]
Moving beyond Meebo
I came across an interesting post today on David Lee King’s blog discussing the use of LibraryH3lp in the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library website. LibraryH3lp is a chat and instant messaging platform that supports multiple users and message cues. It can also be integrated directly into the library website and/or catalog (as they [...]
Going local?
While there has been much ballyhoo over the demise of national newspapers, locally focused online-only publications have been quietly emerging to fill the growing void. While these online publications face many of the same issues that are bringing journalism to its knees (falling advertising, reduced readership, etc.), their close coverage of the community may be [...]
Sharing RSS bundles with Google Reader
Google announced a new service today through Google Reader that allows users to bundle and share groups of RSS feeds with others. They make it very easy to create a bundle (the best instructions I found were from Lifehacker), but I’m not quite sold on their sharing options. Right now, users can email the bundle [...]
If Oprah plugs Skype, will America swoon?
Anyone who has been watching Oprah lately may have noticed her increasing use of the synchronous communication tool, Skype, to connect with guests on her show. Yesterday she went a step further and devoted a whole show to the technology. Her “Where the Skype are you?” episode connected a host of people from scientists in [...]
Final Project
For those of you who may be interested, here is a link to my final project. In the “About” section you will find my documentation of the highs and lows of the project. I decided to see if I could force the square peg of the San Francisco Public Library website into the round hole [...]
Random Thoughts and Questions
So, I’ve already shared my love of the New York Public Library’s technology initiatives. Today, it is the Orange County Library’s turn. Wow. I previously admired the video they produced introducing their new iphone interface, but there is so much more going on in this library that is worth checking out. What most caught my [...]
Library Jobs mashup
Here is my first successful mashup. I combined the LibGib jobs feed from Twitter with the LISjobs feed and some of the listings found on LibWorm jobs and extracted geolocation info to create a map of job locations. Clicking on the title should take you to the job listing. // **UPDATE**–it seems that WordPress no [...]
