Signal-to-noise, FriendFeed and my personal hang-ups on sharing info

I recently got an email from a good friend and former classmate who has been following my various posts and projects. He asked why I wasn’t using FriendFeed – a service to aggregate all the various social media services like blogs, Flickr, Twitter, etc. into a single feed for people to follow. I told him [...]

Helping libraries capture & share content

I had a great meeting last week with the Douglas County Library systems regarding the “content” that they produce. In my previous post What content did you create today – but threw away?! I discuss how all of us create content as we live our daily lives and with a very little amount of effort this content could [...]

What content did you create today – but threw away?!

Every year I create a music video for my wife that is the video highlights of the previous year staring our two children. The video is my annual Mother’s Day gift to her and I feel especially good when it makes her misty eyed (even better if I can get a tear). While I have often [...]

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business (Article)

An interesting article from Wired magazine. I’m not sure how I’m going to use the insights yet, but there are some good nuggets here.  If you want to read the article click here. Notes on article: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business Wired Magazine by Chris Anderson author of The Long Tail March [...]

Here Comes Everybody – Video Clay Shirky

Came across a terrific video of Clay Shirky discussing his new book Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.  His lecture covers some of the most interesting aspect of the new tools of communication that we have available to us now - Sharing, Conversation, Collaboration, Collective Action.  He does a wonderful job of articulating how the technology [...]

Found another crazy person to work with

I had a great conversation yesterday with Eric, a guy who shares my ‘crazy’ passion for helping folks learn more about their Mac.  What was incredibly cool about this conversation is that it started with a chance encounter on Twitter (imagine very big group instant messaging).  I’m getting ahead of myself, a little background… I had set up program to [...]

Libraries connecting with patrons via Web 2.0

I’m a fan of Geek Brief and had a chance to meet, Cali, Neal & Will at MacWorld – they were great to talk with. Over the weekend I saw Cali’s Tweets on a presentation she was putting together for the TX Library Association “I’m looking for librarians who are using new media to communicate [...]