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Using Open Source Software and CPanel for Teaching Librarianship |
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A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation at Syracuse University on using Open Source Software for teaching librarianship. If you would like to see how this technology was used this spring in a course I taught, please take a look. Link |
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The Dark Side of Social Networking |
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Saturday, May 17, 2008 | Last summer, the local CBS affiliate television station, News 8, aired a story about a website called BumFinder.com. The website solicited users who would spot people who appeared to be homeless and plug in their location coordinates using a Google Map. The station interviewed San Diego's most famous homeless advocate, Father Joe Carroll, who was filmed as he accessed the site and expressed outrage at its existence. In the television spot, the creator of the site remained anonymous, but responded in e-mails with the insistence that the site was only to help community residents stay safe and secure. The site has since been taken down by its creator, 27-year-old San Diego native Brant Walker. It wasn't his first -- and wouldn't be his last -- brush with controversy online. A graduate of San Diego's Platt College with a web design multimedia degree, Walker's first business was a website called FakeYourSpace.com, which sold counterfeit friends, using stock photos of models, to MySpace users looking to juice up their online posses. Link |
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Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web |
 Gen Y is taking over. The generation of young adults that's composed of the children of Boomers, Generation Jones, and even some Gen X'ers, is the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers and three times the size of Gen X. As the Boomers fade into retirement and Gen Y takes root in the workplace, we're going to see some big changes ahead, not just at work, but on the web as a whole.
There's some contention over where exactly Gen Y starts and stops - some say those born 1983-1997, others think 1982-1997. In this week's Entertainment Weekly, Gen Y is defined as "current 13 to 31 year-olds" and BusinessWeek says they can be as young as five. Regardless, we know who they are - they're the young kids of today, the most digitally active generation yet, having been born plugged in. Link |
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Next generation of business software could get more fun |
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CAMBRIDGE — Once upon a time, people bonded with their co-workers on office softball teams and traded gossip at the watercooler. OK, so those days aren't gone yet. But as big companies parcel Information Age work to people in widely dispersed locations, it's getting harder for colleagues to develop the camaraderie that comes from being in the same place. Beyond making work less fun, feeling disconnected from comrades might be a drag on productivity. Now technology researchers are trying to replicate old-fashioned office interactions by transforming everyday business software for the new era of work. The historically dry-as-sawdust products are borrowing elements from video games and social-networking Web sites. You can tell just from looking at the Beehive program under development at IBM Corp. that something is different. Beehive's color scheme is bright yellow, not IBM's standard blue. The cheerfulness reflects the fact that Beehive is meant to encourage far-flung co-workers to like each other more. Link |
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