Yet another instance of web calling's growing range - now Sony PSP users can place free calls using Skype.
skype and the sony psp
reconstituting the video kiosk.
Much of my last year's program experimentation time was devoted to a series of Skype reference pilots created in collaboration with my Technology Team colleagues at Ohio University - an interesting process to say the least. In one of these programs we set up a reference kiosk that maintained a perpetual Skype videocall with a... Continue Reading →
2008 internet predictions and top searches.
A brief pre-chicken fried quail xmas post (yes, I'm still in Texas): Read/write web has released their 2008 web predictions - there's a lot of consensus among the group that Google is likely to struggle in both social network building and public image-wise, which I agree with. Among other predictions - semantic web apps are likely to gain ground,... Continue Reading →
texas bound.
I'm off to Austin this morning to revel in my home state (i.e. family, friends, texmex, and coldbeer). It's a little obscene how much I love Texas, but I seriously couldn't help it if I tried. I will likely be posting less frequently due to the vacay. If you're curious about the origin of the... Continue Reading →
a few more thoughts on google knol.
I've mulled it over a spell and have come up with one slightly less critical thought on Google knol. A potential positive - users can rate, edit, comment on, and question articles, which may lead to a more visible and interesting conversation than in Wikipedia discussion pages. My main question about article edits is this... Continue Reading →
google knol, or a thinly-veiled strategy to knock wikipedia down a notch.
Just read about this on Slashdot - the folks over at the Official Google Blog have called preschool to session for the day: "There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not... Continue Reading →
moving communication forward: internet voice and video in libraries
My CNI breakout session yesterday went very well - it was a packed room, and the audience was gracious and seemingly very interested in OU's Skype reference experimentation. Roughly a third of attendees self-identified as IT-oriented, two-thirds were in library administration, with two or three "in the trenches" reference librarians also in attendance. The session... Continue Reading →
mashup contest: student created video parodies
CNI Project Briefing Tuesday December 11 at 10:30 by Anu Vedantham, director of the Weigle Information Commons and Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of English and Cinema Studies Weigle Information Commons (collaborative digital multimedia lab) film trailer mashup contest in collaboration with faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. Permission culture vs. remix culture - clash between... Continue Reading →
creating interactive course assignment pages: the OSU libraries ICAP creation tool
CNI Session, Tuesday Dec 11th @ 9 AM (I only caught the second half of this presentation) Designing course-specific web pages using a simple, interactive, drag/drop and WSIWIG editor developed at Oregon State Libraries by Kim Griggs, systems programmer. Software known as the Interactive Course Assignment Project (ICAP). Using the software results in easy/attractive course... Continue Reading →
public knowledge project: providing alternatives for scholarly communication
CNI Project Briefing December 11th at 2 pm, presented by G.W. Brian. PKP, or the Public Knowledge Project, has developed an open-source scholarly publishing software module at University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Their stated goal is to "improve the scholarly and public quality of academic research through the development of innovative online... Continue Reading →
info-mational 