Here’s a 5 minute or so snippet from my recent presentation to the San Diego Law Library Association on Realtime web. They chose a really interesting few minutes to post…
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BiblioMashups – Reading Radar
There’s a ton of good work being done in libraryland with mashups and bibliographic data (I’m looking at you, LibraryWebChic!). But for user experience and overall awesome, I love this mashup by John Herren of just the New York Times bestseller list and Amazon APIs:
He detailed how he did it in this great blog post, and it set my mind to racing with possibilities for libraries. For one, I didn’t know that the NYT bestseller list had an API! Public libraries all over should be leveraging this on their websites, with links to their holdings.
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David Weinberger @ LITAForum 2009
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Wha’s dat?
Eliza has learned to say “What’s that?” and now we’re doomed. It’s not the dreaded “why,” but it’s pretty close. Because she asks all the time, about everything, even when she knows the answer perfectly well. “Eliza, it’s a spoon. You know what a spoon is. You’ve said it since you were 13 months old.”
She’s not saying “Who’s that?” yet, but instead points to strangers and asks “This one?” as in, what’s this one’s name? She doesn’t yet realize that mom and dad don’t know everything.
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SANDALL – Mobile Technologies
And my second presentation from my trip to San Diego, on Mobile Technologies:
SANDALL: Mobile Technologies
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SANDALL – Realtime Web
Here’s my presentation from this morning on the Realtime web for the San Diego Law Library Fall conference. First time I’ve done this one, and I’m really happy with the way it came together.
Realtime Web
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Feelings
I think the most fascinating process in Eliza’s growth and development so far is watching her learn about emotions: what they are, how to talk about them, and how to recognize them in others.
Every morning, daddy says, “How do you feel?” And she always says, “Happy!” She also reports on the well-being of her classmates at daycare. So-and-so cries. So-and-so sad. And she knows the word “scary,” and uses it more or less correctly, like when she pointed at the covers of some of Jason’s videogames and said, “Mommy, that’s scary.” So I moved them. She looks carefully at the faces in her books, and tells me which ones are angry, sad, happy, surprised.
But the best of all is hearing her say, “I love you,” which comes out more like “I duv u.” But we know what it means. And it’s awesome.
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Entry sign at MTSU Library
Entry sign at MTSU Library
