Archive for February, 2008

Alternative to YouTube

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Need a new place to look for free user-generated video? There’s more than just YouTube out there.
Blip.tv is another place where video is easily uploaded, tagged, sorted and found. While poking around the site, I came across this video created by Bernhard Drax. It’s a nice summary of what libraries are doing in Second Life, [...]

Nothing to Do This Weekend?

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Women In Technology Summit
http://www.womenintechnologysummit.com/
The second annual Women in Technology Summit (WiTS!) will be held on the Harvard University Campus on Saturday, February 16, 2008. Registration is available online and completely FREE.

Teen Second Life Makes Local News

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Local tv news station R-News just showed a segment on the Global Kids Initiative in Second Life. Take a look at the video here:

Librarians Using Technology to Make the World a Better Place

Friday, February 1st, 2008

Recently, librarians Rosa Diaz from the Lincoln Branch of Rochester Public Library and Marcia Thor from the Maplewood Branch of RPL came up with a fantastic new library service.
They brought video cameras out to Fairport Public Library to record the “Babies Love Books” story time which is a program for newborns through 18 months (and [...]

Technology Trends and Library Services