Stephen Francoeur

Maximiek, Sarah, Erin Rushton, and Elizabeth Brown. "Coding into the Great Unknown: Analyzing Instant Messaging Session Transcripts to Identify User Behaviors and Measure Quality of Service." College and Research Libraries preprint. Accepted 22 Septem...

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:48:39 -0400

Maximiek, Sarah, Erin Rushton, and Elizabeth Brown. "Coding into the Great Unknown: Analyzing Instant Messaging Session Transcripts to Identify User Behaviors and Measure Quality of Service." College and Research Libraries preprint. Accepted 22 Septem...:

This preprint is expected to be published in July 2010. Analyzes IM reference transcripts. “The goals of this work were to determine who was using the IM service and why; if staffing for the service…

You Never Know What Kind of Questions You'll Get

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:02:24 -0400

You Never Know What Kind of Questions You'll Get:

A librarian in Florida received a marriage proposal from her boyfriend via the statewide Ask a Librarian service there.

dazzboard

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:38:22 -0400

dazzboard

Listening to: Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting http://bit.ly/BuCw4

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:36:40 -0400

Listening to: Charles Mingus - Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting http://bit.ly/BuCw4

Tucker-Raymond, Caleb. "text messaging options for L-net." L-net: Oregon libraries network, 10 September 2009.

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:05:38 -0400

Tucker-Raymond, Caleb. "text messaging options for L-net." L-net: Oregon libraries network, 10 September 2009.:

Describes experiment to use Spark IM client to connect with Library H3lp’s SMS gateway for text messaging.

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Keeping Warm http://bit.ly/iKbt6

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:38:44 -0400

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Keeping Warm http://bit.ly/iKbt6

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Conductor http://bit.ly/kMYSh

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:38:44 -0400

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - Conductor http://bit.ly/kMYSh

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:38:44 -0400

Listening to: We Were Promised Jetpacks - It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning http://bit.ly/3OR6n9

Anyone using QR codes in libraries? Specifically, wondering how your patrons might be using QR codes...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:38:44 -0400

Anyone using QR codes in libraries? Specifically, wondering how your patrons might be using QR codes you provide them.

MacManus, Richard. "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Personalization." ReadWriteWeb, 9 September 2009.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:20 -0400

MacManus, Richard. "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Personalization." ReadWriteWeb, 9 September 2009.

MacManus, Richrd. "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data." ReadWriteWeb, 7 September 2009.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:19 -0400

MacManus, Richrd. "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data." ReadWriteWeb, 7 September 2009.:

Explores three representative services that work with structured data: OpenCalais, Google Rich Snippets, and Wolfram|Alpha.

Google, Inc. "Marking up structured data - Webmasters/Site owners Help"

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:19 -0400

Google, Inc. "Marking up structured data - Webmasters/Site owners Help":

Instructions from Google about how to mark up web pages with microformats or RDFa in ways that will work with Google’s Rich Snippets function.

MacManus, Richard, "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web." ReadWriteWeb, 8 September 2009.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:19 -0400

MacManus, Richard, "Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web." ReadWriteWeb, 8 September 2009.:

Looks at how recent developments at FriendFeed, Twitter, Google’s PubSubHubbub, Facebook, RSScloud, and Delicious exemplify a move toward the real-time web.

Fromm, Ken. "The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1." ReadWriteWeb, 29 August 2009.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:18 -0400

Fromm, Ken. "The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1." ReadWriteWeb, 29 August 2009.:

Explores aspects of Twitter that exemplify the real-time web. Argues that new forms of communication are being created and that there is now a new, large corpus of content.

GoodRelations Annotator

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:18 -0400

GoodRelations Annotator:

Form that businesses can fill out in which they describe the services or goods they offer or seek. The completed form then returns RDF/XML that businesses can add to their web pages. With this newly…

Fromm, Ken, "The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 2." ReadWriteWeb, 2 September 2009.

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:18 -0400

Fromm, Ken, "The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 2." ReadWriteWeb, 2 September 2009.:

Looks at how real-time publication and indexing of information is changing the web infrastructure. Real-time web is also charactertized by conversations made public by authors whose social networks…

APML - Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:31:17 -0400

APML - Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata:

Overview page says this: “APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to…

Listening to: Superchunk - The First Part http://bit.ly/2tJXrJ

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:42:38 -0400

Listening to: Superchunk - The First Part http://bit.ly/2tJXrJ

Listening to: Archers Of Loaf - Freezing Point http://bit.ly/3u2oy5

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:42:38 -0400

Listening to: Archers Of Loaf - Freezing Point http://bit.ly/3u2oy5

Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home - Microsoft Research

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:26:33 -0400

Project Tuva: Enhanced Video Player Home - Microsoft Research:

Slick video presentation tool from Microsoft Research that allows you to take notes, jump to selected sections, etc. Lots of fun to watch Richard Feynman lectures on sample video, too!