Uncontrolled Vocabulary #41 - Parent-Child Relationships in the Metadata
By Greg | May 8, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #41 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Steven Cohen
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Jason Griffey, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Rikhei Harris, Grand Valley State University
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Courtney Stephens, Belmont University
Links to the show topics:
1. Oh the Joys of Management and Directorship (Gather No Dust)
2. Free Little Brother for librarians, teachers, etc — a tipjar alternative for people who loved the free ebook (Boing Boing)
3. Your BIGWIG
4. FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge (EFF)
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter’, Loses (Wired)
5. Is this how we encourage people to contribute? (Information Wants To Be Free)
6. U.C. Berkeley student’s Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt (Mercury News)
Bestiaries, Lockdown, and Twitter (bavatuesdays)
7. Grassroots storytime (Open Stacks)
On the agenda, but out of time:
AP, newspapers fit print into iPhone (Marketplace)
Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself, Results In Temporary Documents On Reusable Paper (Xerox)
Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song (Social Sciences Research Network)
Episode 41 tonight
By Greg | May 7, 2008
We’ll be recording episode 41 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary live tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):
- Your BIGWIG
- Is this how we encourage people to contribute?
- Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song
- Experimental Xerox Paper Erases Itself
And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:
1. Dial +1 724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN
Don’t forget that you can also call in for free using Gizmo Project.
Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #40 - Don’t Self-Deprecate Yourself
By Greg | April 30, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #40 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Tim Keneipp, La Crosse Public Library
Joshua M. Neff, Johnson County Public Library
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Julie Strange, Maryland AskUsNow!
Links to the show topics:
1. Oregon continues to insist that its laws are copyrighted and can’t be published (Boing Boing)
2. Microsoft device helps police pluck evidence from cyberscene of crime (Seattle Times)
Microsoft denies handing law enforcement ‘backdoor’ keys (Lamp)
3. Sorry But You Can’t Have It All (ACRLog)
Do I really want it all? (LISNews.org)
But What If I Don’t Want it All? (Academic Librarian)
4. Stepping into marketing (Open Stacks)
5. MARC, OPACs, and Podcasts (GutterType)
Submissions on the agenda that we didn’t get to:
Appraising the Deborah Jacobs revolution at Seattle libraries (Crosscut.com)
The Twitter Blacklist
Why we are the biggest obstacles to our own growth (Raganwald)
Episode 40 tonight
By Greg | April 30, 2008
We’ll be recording episode 40 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary live tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):
- Nextgens and administratophobia
- Marketing libraries vs. marketing librarians
- Appraising the Deborah Jacobs revolution at Seattle libraries
- MARC, OPACs, and Podcasts
And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:
1. Dial +1 724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN
Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.
Welcome 6POS fans!
By Greg | April 27, 2008
Just wanted to welcome anyone who is stopping by after seeing the link from Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation, my new favorite podcast. Mitch generously played my audio comment in episode 101, which was released earlier today. Thanks to all of you for stopping by.
You’ll find the most recent episode of our show here. Feedback, conversation, greetings, introductions or any other form of engagement welcome. Tell me something good (or bad or otherwise).
RSS feed issues - testing
By Greg | April 26, 2008
Last night, I switched my Wordpress blogs over to a Subversion setup at the same time that I upgraded Wordpress to version 2.5.1. One or both of those things may have rendered the UV RSS feed dead. This is a test post to help troubleshoot that. Pardon the feed reader spam, but that would indicate a working feed, so it’ll be worth it.
Update: If I use the ?feed=rss2 syntax instead of wp-rss2.php, it seems to work fine, so the Feedburner settings have been updated accordingly and you shouldn’t miss a thing. If anyone has any clue why this might be, I’d be interested in hearing from you.
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #39 - It works, but who cares?
By Greg | April 24, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #39 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
David Bigwood, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas Library System
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Links to the show topics:
1. A moment about our new Facebook Page
A second moment about MyBlogLog
2. Library of Congress Subject Heading Suggestion Blog-a-Thon (Radical Reference)
3. Library Sues Its Friend (Courthouse News Service)
4. Creative Commons, Copyright, and the Murky Middle (Library Crunch)
Of Librarians, Photography, Copyright & Creative Commons (Travelin’ Librarian)
5. At LAPL, Proposed $1 Fee for Holds Appears Dead (Library Journal)
6. Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers (TechCrunch)
Free Britannica (Open Stacks)
Britannica Webshare (Pattern Recognition)
7. The new library fad: borrow a person (Times Online)
8. Librarians Urge Department of Education to Tag Library-Tech Instructors as ‘High Need’ (Chronicle of Higher Education)
9. The 5 People Who Make Me Hate the Public Library (Bookgasm)
The 5 Reasons I Love the Public Library (Bookgasm)
Episode 39 tonight
By Greg | April 23, 2008
We’ll be recording episode 39 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary live tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):
- Library Sues Its Friend
- Creative Commons, Copyright, and the Murky Middle
- Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers
- The new library fad: borrow a person
And, of course, so much more. To join the conversation:
1. Dial +1 724-444-7444
2. Enter the show ID: 38665
3. Guests: Dial 1#
TalkShoe members: Enter your 10-digit PIN
Participate in the text chat by visiting our TalkShoe show page.
And have you joined the Facebook Page yet?
Facebook Group > Facebook Page
By Greg | April 20, 2008
In case you are likely to read only one or two sentences of this post, here’s the moral: I’m asking all Facebook users to join the Uncontrolled Vocabulary Facebook Page, which, for all current members of the Facebook group, means migrating over. Thanks. (For the thirty or so people I just invited to the Facebook group this past week, irony noted.)
Now for the rest of the story:
As many readers of this blog (and listeners to the podcast) already know, I’ve had a Facebook group for this show almost as long as the show has been extant. I’ve sent weekly messages to the members of that group at the same time that I post my weekly reminders of upcoming shows on this blog.
Last week, I was compelled to try a newer option, known as a Facebook Page. These didn’t exist when I launched the group. It’s a little different in structure and has a bit more flexibility compared to a group page. For example, it was quite simple to add the MP3 app and the TalkShoe app right to the page, so that you can listen to the show or join the call right from there. That wasn’t possible (at least not obvious to me) with the group page.
The page been up for a few days now and, as of the time of this post, there are 38 fans of the show. Thanks to the early adopters. The “problem” is that there are currently 266 members of the Facebook group. And I just plain don’t want to maintain two presences for the show on Facebook. So, to be blunt, I’m asking and encouraging group members to switch over and become a fan via the Uncontrolled Vocabulary Facebook page.
For those of you who get annoyed with my weekly reminders showing up in your inbox, this is a no-brainer. Instead of an email, the show notices appear up as an unobtrusive update at the top right corner of your Facebook home page. A number of people have already expressed a preference for this.
For those of you who really like getting email reminders of the show, I encourage to sign up for email notifications from this blog using the form at the bottom of this post. [If you read this via RSS and yet for some reason would like email notices too, you may need to click through to the post itself to see the sign up form.] This will give you not only the reminders, but the actual episode posts as well (along with notices like this one).
I will continue to send out show reminders to the Facebook group for the next few weeks, while encouraging people to make the transition. I don’t expect to do that for long, unless a bunch of people tell me they like getting the Facebook email reminders.
I thank you in advance for your willingness to embrace change. If you have any thoughts, leave a comment on the blog or use the contact form.
Update 4/21/08 6:30 AM: It has come to my attention that it’s possible to ask Facebook to migrate members and content from a Facebook group to a Facebook page. At present, I do not plan on doing that, as I’d prefer to let you take whatever action you are comfortable with. Some people will stay part of both the group and the page, which is great. I’d never discourage that.
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38 - Sandy Berman gone bad
By Greg | April 17, 2008
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
A million thanks to Mary Carmen Chimato for taking over the show this week. As you’ll hear, she did a fantastic job in my stead.
On the call:
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Anna Creech, University of Richmond
Stephen Kellat, Host, LISTen, the LISNews.org podcast
Michael Sauers, Nebraska Library Commission
Links to the show topics:
1. Response to the show and the greening of CiL from Jane Dysart
Comment from Jill O’Neill
2. Oregon: our laws are copyrighted and you can’t publish them (Boing Boing)
Related documents (Scribd)
3. Publishers Sue Georgia State on Digital Reading Matter (New York Times)
4. The state of libraries: Funding down, but gaming up as way to attract young people (International Herald Tribune)
Does Gaming Promote Reading? (The Shifted Librarian)
Chiming in On the Biggies (The Other Librarian)
5. War Declared on Library of Congress by Venezuela (Friends of Cuban Libraries)
6. Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology (Chronicle of Higher Education)
An argument against Shyftr and communities built around full-text RSS feeds (Online Media Cultist)
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