There's an ancient Japanese proverb which translates roughly as:
"If you put an infinite number of programming monkeys into a room, one of them will write a Library 2.0 Idea Generator"
So… tonight, Matthew, I am going to be that programming monkey and I proudly unveil the…
The Library 2.0 Idea Generator!
If you get any particularly juicy ideas, [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
The Library 2.0 Idea Generator
RIP: Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 (2004-2006)
It is with profound personal sadness that I must announce the passing away of Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394, aged just 3 years old. Below is a picture of GA-7VT600 in happier days:
DUG/HUG 2006 – Day Three
A little later than planned (due to a mislaid memory stick containing the final Powerpoint!), here's a link to the "Free Software" presentation:
http://library.hud.ac.uk/mediawiki/dughug2006/UsingFreeSoftware.zip
…and here are the photos from the end of day two and from the award ceremony on day three:
http://www.daveyp.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=14
http://www.daveyp.com/gallery/categories.php?cat_id=15
Grace Bays also emailed her photos through to me, so I've added them to the [...]
white dog poo?
Sarah Houghton (aka LibrarianInBlack) has blogged that Answers.com has a new natural language "Web Answers" feature which lets you pose life's great unanswerables – e.g.:
what happened to white dog poo?
(I should point out that Sarah didn't pose that exact question, but it's one that's been niggling at the back of my mind for years!)
After reverse [...]
DUG/HUG 2006 – Day Two
The only problem with offering to do presentations is that they don't leave you any time to blog about the actual event itself!!!
For those who prefer an electronic version, here are the 3 presentations I gave today:
Introduction to Web 2.0 / Library 2.0
Email Notices at Huddersfield
Sentry at Huddersfield
If you have any questions or comments, you [...]
DUG/HUG 2006 – Day One
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!
It's 01:02am and I just spent the last 30 minutes writing up an in-depth blog entry for day one… by the time I submitted it, the University of Lincoln network has timed my web connection out and refused to reload the page containing the text I'd just typed.
I honestly don't have the energy to type [...]
DUG/HUG Day Minus One
Martin and myself travelled down to Lincoln yesterday (via Sheffield) on a train that seemed to stop at everywhere else in the UK — what is about a 1 hour drive from Huddersfield to Lincoln is a good 2½ to 3 hour train ride along bumpy winding country tracks.
No sooner had we checked in, we [...]
looking for Library 2.0!
I'm giving a presentation about Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 later on this week at the DUG/HUG (UK) Conference 2006 and I'm wanting to demo some of the great things libraries have done with Library 2.0 and Web 2.0. In particular, I've got one slide that has two spare bullet points of space left and [...]
OPAC keyword email alerts
One of the medical conditions I suffer from is the common "not-enough-hours-in-the-day-itus" — bits of software and new stuff gets prototyped or developed to the proof-of-concept stage, and then put to one side when something more important comes up.
This is something I originally coded in January 2006, briefly blogged about in mid February, then got [...]
The Two Towers and Faceted Browsing in the OPAC
…well, the first is definitely a tower but I'm not so sure about the other one. Not only that, but I should really have posted this entry over a month ago.
Anyway, to get to the point — on my birthday (at the start of June), Bryony and I went for a walk over to [...]