http://www.librarytechie.com Technology Trends and Library Services Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:56:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The State Library of Kansas pulled together all the important information for tracking Santa's whereabouts and posted it on the web for your convenience: Kansas Government Information Be sure to check these resources later tonight so that you'll be in bed before Santa's arrival. You know the rules: "There must be no ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/12/24/keeping-tabs-on-santa-via-the-web/ I attended Rochester Institute of Technology's "official" launch of it's virtual island in Second Life yesterday. It was a well-attended event: about 40 avatars were at RIT Island when I logged in and RIT staff members said there were a lot of Real Life visitors as well. RIT has been using ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/12/11/rits-virtual-ribbon-cutting/ Here's another event worth noting: The Program for the Future Conference is "An Invitation to Innovation. An interactive conference inspired by Doug Engelbart's vision of harnessing technology for human betterment. " The conference takes place Monday (12/08/08) at The Tech Museum of Innovation and Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, and then on Tuesday (12/09/08) at Stanford University. ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/12/06/program-for-the-future-conference/ Will you be in the New York City area this weekend? Make a point of getting yourself to She's Geeky. The cocktail party begins tonight at 5:30 p.m. and the unconference runs through Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Here's the blurb I received from Renee Lloyd. It looks like this will be a ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/12/05/shes-geeky-a-technology-conference-for-women/ I love ThinkGeek.com.  It's chock-full of great tee shirts, gadgets, toys and electronics that are sure to fill your geek heart with lust and envy. They seem to have first dibs on some great new technologies and they put them out there for the rest of us to buy. Reasonably ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/10/29/what-youre-on-twitter-but-your-houseplant-is-not-tsk-tsk/ Interested in a guided tour of Second Life? If you've never been in-world and want to see what it's all about, or if you're a seasoned pro and just want to see some new sights, join me tonight at the Fairport Public Library for a presentation on Second Life. We ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/10/08/tour-of-the-metaverse-tonight-at-fairport-public-library/ Linden Labs announced today the new Direct Slurl. This is fantastic news for people who are trying to encourage people to try Second Life and to help newbies have a pleasant experience so they come back. Direct Slurl enables a location-based url that allows a newbie to teleport directly to a ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/09/18/second-life-just-got-better-for-newbies/ My library has finally made it's first foray into YouTube. Here's a video: http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/09/17/foray-into-youtube/ This is a fantastic video! Great to see physicists get down on youtube. : ) http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/09/01/science-gets-funky/ I caught this on Webmonkey yesterday and was blown away by this video production that Michael Wesch presented to the Library of Congress on June 23, 2008. Dr. Michael Wesch is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, and is doing some very interesting work in the ... http://www.librarytechie.com/2008/08/06/an-anthropological-introduction-to-youtube-by-michael-wesch/