Category: Digital Culture

• The Sect of Homokaasu – The Rasterbator
  (tags: posters print printing photography photo wallpapers)

• Jupelo – Trip Reports
  (tags: disney blog read)
• PBS
  (tags: media television tv web watch PBS)
• Song Search by Tapping – Search for music by tapping the rhythm of the song’s melody.
  (tags: cool music reference software search web RAVEN)
• meebo.com
  (tags: free instant message messaging Online IM)
• Remember The Milk
  (tags: remind tool tools SMS list manager)

Is anyone else having issues with WP2 and their categories not working? I can’t seem to get my posts to categorize anymore. I choose a category, and it always posts with the default rather than the one I chose.

Thoughts?

From BoingBoing, a hilarious photoset from Flickr of people’s reaction to seeing Goatse for the first time. (link SFW)

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you are much better off that way. Trust me. Really. The people’s reaction in the photoset should tell you something.

• YouTube – Broadcast Yourself.
  (tags: folksonomy flickr ipod streaming television video web tool Online)

Well, I had decided to hold off on posting about this, but…oh hell, I figured why not. I am interviewing on Wednesday for the position of Head of Reference & Instruction at UTC.

As I understand it, I am one of three that is interviewing for the position, and I am the only internal candidate. I don’t know anything about my competition, which is one reason that I hadn’t talked about the interview and such before. You never know how much research they are doing on UTC, and it just felt ethically…icky….to talk about it without really knowing who was reading. But I’m interviewing on Wed., and my presentation is done, and there’s nothing really that will change twixt hither and yon. If my competition finds the blog, and uses the access to my presentation, well then…so be it.

So here it is, if anyone is interested: Information Literacy & the First Year Student, my presentation to the faculty.

Wish me luck on Wednesday!

• College and University Feed Directory – Thomson Peterson’s – Edufeeds.com
  (tags: library RSS university academia Education edu)
• Medical Books – FreeBooks4Doctors
  (tags: books free Online pdf reference textbooks medical Raven)

My family’s white german shepard, Dixie, gets into the xmas spirit.

• Extratasty Get Your Booze On!
  (tags: cooking recipes drinks alcohol)
• AllPeers :. Share exactly what you want with exactly who you want!
  (tags: applications bittorrent Firefox Mozilla P2P plugin)

I hate metablogging as much as the next guy, but here I go again. 🙂 Blogging is likely to be really light over the next week, given that I will be involved in an ongoing interview process, and working my ass off with research and presentation prep.

I’ll probably use the blog to think out loud about some information literacy concepts….do any of my readers have thoughts about the concept? What does the phrase mean to you? In what ways has the concept of “literacy” changed in the last 5 years? As a secondary question: what do you wish you had been told about research/the library when you were a freshman, that you later found useful?