1. Live, Online Book Discussions? Oprah’s new Live Book Club launched on Monday, March 3rd. Approximately 500,000 simultaneous logons crashed the system, but Harpo Productions,…
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4Cast #91: Library Hybrids, Librarian Profession, Free, Webware
Posted in 4cast, Add new tag, backlinks, blogs, communication, GIMP, Internet, Let Simon Decide, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, OffiSync, Reference Extract, Songza, training, Tweetmeme, Web 2.0, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1.  It Ain’t Your Grandma’s Library. Libraries are offering more and more services inside and outside of their walls, allowing them to…
4Cast #90: Google Health, Blu-Ray, Gaming, E-Books
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This week’s 4cast: 1. Â A Google A Day Keeps the Doctor Away. Google will begin its final phase of global domination, er, I mean personal…
4Cast #87: Library 2.0, LTR, Social Media, Gaming
Posted in 4cast, Add new tag, blogs, Facebook, Flickr, games, GIMP, HarperCollins, Library 2.0, library funding, Reference Extract, social network websites, and Web 2.0
This week’s 4cast: Co-Opting Library 2.0 Technology brings challenges, of course, but how much 2.0 does a library really need? Are important issues being ignored…
4cast Podcast #25: Library Web Presence
Posted in 4pod, Add new tag, blogs, Cinematic Internet, Let Simon Decide, social network websites, Video searches, and Wikipedia
For years, libraries have been issued the challenge of creating an effective (but not overly invasive) web presence. For many libraries, the extent of this…
4cast #78: Digitization, OpenSocial, ILS, Websites
Posted in Add new tag, Apple, digitization, Diigo, Evergreen, Federal Register, Google, Obama, social network websites, Videosurf, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1. Don’t Digitize That Obituary Just Yet Anthony Grafton writes in The New Yorker that massive digitization projects (such as Google Book…
4cast #76: Digitization, Experimentation, Comcast, Fines
Posted in Add new tag, digitization, Google Shared Storage, Library 2.0, library fines, neoK12, net neutrality, and OperaUnite
This week’s 4cast: 1. Your Scanners Are Not Welcome Here Several influential research libraries have spurned offers to join Google and Microsoft’s mass digitization projects.…
OPLIN 4cast #73
Posted in Add new tag, Apple, Internet, Let Simon Decide, Scribd, usability, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1. Let’s Meet Somewhere Else Karen Coombs (Library Web Chic) ponders whether the time, effort, and resources devoted to the aesthetics and…