Twitter vs. Plurk – a brief reflection

Well I cross posted this from my hobby blog, since I want to be able to target different audiences with this reflection.
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These stamp images are courtesy of SirCrocodile and Quarksbar on Deviant Art.
Just as the title said, I am procrastinating on the studying that is needed to be down for my XML class, and [...]

10 Ways to cope with Information Overload

Found this interesting article, ways to cope with information overload.

Books to Movie – Fall 2008… a rundown…

Wow…swamped with my last semester in MLS. I found this list to be interesting.. so figure I’ll write a quick update. I don’t imagine that I have time to go to the movie to watch these movies.. but when it comes to DVD possibly. Although I wonder.

Amazon release of “The Ballard of the Bard”

Oh my.. well what have we have here.. I was looking at my mailbox today and guess.. what… “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” on sale by Amazon and what price differences there is!
Now I will probably read this book, but it has rode on the hype of being the book after J.K. Rowling’s Harry [...]

Books, Cataloging, Web 2.0

Currently I am enrolled in my summer class and yesterday the Professor was speaking about three websites that are useful to keep to keep track of books read. I never thought about it in that light before, but I figure I can mention it here…
Goodreads.com, Librarything.com, Shelfari.com. I love Librarything, since I got my first [...]

Feeds and thoughts- Jun 11, 2008

It’s been a while since i wrote in this blog, finished my semester now just working and waiting for summer school and trying to survive this heatwave. I was reading on my feed and two posts jumped out at me.
Advertise your wi-fi for freebies to connect to the internet, knowing about these sources is important, [...]

Printing on Demand

I just read this tidbit on my feed and it is regarding about print on demand by a scientist at California. Science books are always published so rapidly that seeing this news is a little bit of a relief.  There is also a  Youtube video to see the process of what the scientist did.

Twitter and Tweet Cloud

I know so many people have already blogged about this already.. .but just want to put my 2-cent in. I would probably like it if more of my friends would maybe get into it, however a real life friend said that it is perpetuating the dorm period for life. Twitter is nothing more than a [...]

NYPL’s Books to Remember for 2008

I was invited to this year’s presentation for Books to Remember. It was fun and definitely would shape my read list for the next year. This is the New York Public Library’s top 25 Adult books for the year.

Yahoo! Answers – A librarian’s worst nightmare?

Recently as I was looking through my mailing list, I read this article and thought about putting it up here. My personal take is that I use Yahoo Answers for fun and as I would say to students coming for me for reference – take it with a grain of salt like Wikipedia, but do [...]