Science Tatoos - body art

Science-related tatoos (found on StumbledUpon)

Social Media Tools - a sampling

Aggregation Tools: FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm, Lijit, Ping.fm, Socializr, Socialthing!

Blogs: Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress

Bookmarks: Delicious, Digg, Livejournal, Mixx, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Yahoo! Buzz

Free Business Listings: BizHWY, Cardboard, CrunchBase, Jigsaw, MerchantCircle, NextMark, Tradevibes, and many more out there!

Post Documents: Google Docs, Scribd

Post PowerPoint Presentations: AuthorSTREAM, Google Docs, Myplick, Slideshare

Post Videos: Vimeo, YouTube

Social Networks: Crowdvine, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo

Twitter Tools: MyTweeple, TweetDeck, TweetLater, Twibes, Twitter, Twitter Browser

URL Shorteners: bit.ly, budURL, cli.gs, Eweri, Hex.io, kl.am, is.gd, POPrl, Pwurl, Short.ie, Snurl, TinyURL, tr.im, Twurl

Wikis: Pbwiki, Wetpaint, Wikipedia

Source: NextMark's blog Social Media Cheat Sheet (May 9, 2009)

Yes We Can - Music Video Barack Obama

US Election Map Using Google Maps

Keep up-to-date on the 2008 election with Google Maps

"On election day, it will take at least 270 of the possible 538 electoral votes for John McCain or Barack Obama to win the Presidency. Use this map to predict possible state combinations each candidate needs to win the election. Clicking on a state will change the total electoral vote count per candidate."

Source: Elections '08 Map Gallery

Interactive video to ecourage participation

A new twist on "get out the vote" from MoveOn.org.


Mitchell Brown Loses the Election for Obama

You too can join in. See link to colleague, Bob Johnson Loses Election for Obama

DOE Data Explorer (DDE)

From Jannean Elliott on OSTIBlog <http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog/>

If you're ready to discover data, then OSTI's newest product is ready for you! The DOE Data Explorer (DDE) <http://www.osti.gov/dataexplorer> is a unique tool that identifies collections of Department of Energy sponsored numeric files, figures and data plots, multimedia and images, computer simulations, specialized databases, and interactive data maps. Browse, run a quick search, or advanced search, then click a link to results. You'll be amazed at the data you can freely see and use, the highly specialized interfaces developed by the owners of the data that will help you delve deeper into their collections, and the software toolkits that allow you to manipulate, compare, visualize, download, and re-use the data.

The DOE Data Explorer will guide you to data collections at national laboratories, data centers, scientific user facilities, colleges and universities ...and across all of the science areas with DOE involvement. The DOE Data Explorer development team sifted through hundreds of these websites so that you would not have to, selecting each collection for inclusion according to strict criteria. <http://www.osti.gov/dde/faq.html>

The Department of Energy has several data centers <http://www.osti.gov/dde/datacenter.html> that provide excellent collections and expert services. Each of these centers specializes in data belonging to a specific subject area or scientific discipline. The DOE Data Explorer will help you find those centers and their collections. However, its unique usefulness is in helping you find the collections that are NOT in a data center. In addition, what if you want to do cross-disciplinary research? Or what if you don't even know what data might be out there or what discipline it might belong to? You need a data discovery tool that will allow you to see ALL of DOE's data - regardless of scientific discipline, regardless of format, and, even, regardless of where the data collection resides. The DOE Data Explorer can do that.

Is it possible that the team missed a collection somewhere? Yes, of course. This is why we invite each one of you out there to let us know if we neglected to include a collection of data that you generate or maintain or even just use. The DOE Data Explorer website has a comment form <http://www.osti.gov/dde/comment.html>, and we want you to use it!

Stay tuned to the OSTI blog <http://www.osti.gov/ostiblog> over the next few weeks as we write about the data included in the DOE Data Explorer. We will try to give you a feel for the vast amount of unique information represented by this exciting new product.

Tim Byrne
Information International Associates, Inc.
DOE/Office of Scientific and Technical Information
P.O. Box 62
Oak Ridge,TN 37831
Phone: 865-241-2358
E-mail: byrnet@osti.gov

UC Irvine 10 Things winner!

After ten months since the program was announced I was awarded the "First Finisher" of the UC Irvine 10 Things Library event. Wow! I finished the ten Web 2.0 tasks before Thanksgiving 2007 so we can get to the main issue - using these tools in a practical sense. Let us move forward, please ...

The New Polish Selena? My 15 minutes...

I was looking at this because I'm Don DeLillo fan, but then I saw the sidebar ad...and thought for a second that it was a picture of Mitchell!

http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/author_tom_delillo

Meet the Polish Selena, April 11, 2008

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Steven R. Harris

Collection Development Librarian

Utah State University

(435) 797-3861

http://collections2point0.wordpress.com/

Monkey Mail

Monk-E-Mail

From CareerBuilder.com you can choose a chimpanzee avatar, their headgear, glasses, stuff and locations. You can enter your own text to speech. Worth exploring.

Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians | JSTOR Facebook App

Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians | JSTOR Facebook App

Ellyssa Kroski, a Reference Librarian at Columbia University Butler library, recently posted a Three-Part series on the “Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians” on her iLibrarian blog

TheTopTenLibApps include:

*** JSTOR Search - Enables to the user to search the JSTOR full-text scholarly journal archive in the humanities, social science, and other fields. NOTE: Users may need to sign in from their library website before attempting to use the Facebook JSTOR Search

_AppAvailableAt_ [ http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2412474777&b ]

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LibGuides Librarian - Allows one to display Springshare LibGuides subject guides within your Facebook profile as well as to search your local OPAC.
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Librarian -This virtual librarian service provides links to books, scholarly sources, open access reference resources, and a community-based ‘Ask A Librarian” service.

_AppAvailableAt_:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=4ba85acd652971a6a8633d919bb9a05a
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UIUC Library Search - An App that allows the user to search the OPAC of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or request live assistance from a librarian. The App also permit the user to search the library’s journal article databases (but not retrieve full-text items
unless university-affiliated)
Other OPAC Apps: University of Michigan library catalog, , Ryerson University Library catalog, Hennepin County Library catalog.

_AppAvailableAt_
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=ad4ccedf62d21a09bf140d1533102b20&pwstdfy=fa0565221a24b781f7ef3d42d04a9c30
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The Three-Part Series is Available At
[1] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one/
[2] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-two/
[3] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-three/

If you have other unlisted favorite Facebook library-related apps, let Ellyssa know [ http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/about/ ]

Google Books Now in Melvyl Test Version

The CDL (California Digital Library) is excited to announce that records for Google mass digitized books are now visible in a test copy of the Melvyl Catalog:
http://melvyl-test.cdlib.org:8164/F 

This was accomplished by means of Google Book Search API (application programming interface), a "hook" which extends the ability for UC students, faculty and staff to find the mass digitized content in a search tool they are very familiar with - the Melvyl Catalog.  With this API, the UC community will be able to find not only what UC has digitized, but they will also have access to content digitized by any other Google partner.

Please see the attached press release and UC Talking Points for further information about this project, as well as the Google Book Search Blog:
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/03/preview-books-anywhere-with-new-google.html

New Google Apps - Knol and Image Labeler

Google has announced an alternative to Wikipedia, called Google Knol. Authors (with their real names) will be featured prominently on the articles they wrote, and can optionally receive ad revenue. Articles (or "knols" as Google calls them) with high ranks will appear in regular Google web search results. For now, the site is in testing and contributors are by invite-only. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html

Also, I've discovered Google has an interesting image labeling game. This has been out for awhile, but I thought it was experimental, developed by some researchers at Carnegie Mellon. Perhaps Google hired them. Basically, you and another random person type in keywords for images that are displayed on your screen. For every word that you and your random partner match, you get points. It's perhaps a new way for the masses to add metadata to content.
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Steve DiDomenico
Northwestern University Library -- Digital Library Systems Development
steve at northwestern.edu 847-491-4230 Evanston, IL

Thing 8: Folksonomies: LibraryThing

What is LibraryThing?

Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

Go ahead and take the tour.

What's good?

• Meet the world's largest book club. Find people with eerily similar tastes.
• Catalog with Amazon, the Library of Congress or 132 other world libraries. Import from anywhere.
• Get recommendations. Tag your books and explore others' tags.
• Put your books on your blog.
• Enter 200 books for free, as many as you like for $10 (year) or $25 (life).

Check it out

• Members have cataloged more than twenty-one million books.
• Show your books: on a shelf or as a list.
• Books: Middlesex, The Horse and his Boy, Programming Ruby, Stitch 'N Bitch, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Don't Waste Your Life
• Members: avaland, sylphette, Busifer, Irisheyz77, wafflehouse
• Tags: wwii, Victorian, philosophy of science, vampires, theology, dogs
• Check out the LibraryThing blog to see how rapidly—and openly—it's developing.
• If the buzz page doesn't convince you, you cannot be convinced. Go away.

Source: http://www.librarything.com/

Thing 4: Tagging Using Technorati

This exercise involved manually notify Technorati of a blog entry and use of multi-engine notifier Ping-o-Matic. I then checked a few of the blog search engines to see how soon the entries are pinged.

I manually pinged Technorati. Then in Ping-o-Matic manually pinged several search engines. Waiting several hours I returned to Ping-o-Matic page and click ‘link’ next to a few of the search engines to test the entry pinging. I entered search keywords "Mashup" and "Irvine" from recent blog posts and noted which engines had logged an entry. Link for Ping-O-Matic blog ping results.

Entries for : Technorati, Weblogs.com, BlogRolling.com

Thing 3: Flickr

Google Mashups Using Flickr and Google Earth
Mitchell C. Brown, University of California Irvine November 2, 2007
Presented at: Getting the Gist of GIS: Geographic Information Systems and Related Technologies for the Curious Academic Librarian, CARL Seal-South and ABLE-South Fall Program , Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge.

Abstract
A mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated application or tool. This example will use cartographic data from Google Maps and Google Earth to add location information to photographs taken in New Orleans, LA, creating new and distinct web services not originally enabled by either source.

The term “mashup” originally referred to the practice in popular music of DJs producing a new song by mixing two or more existing pieces.
Presentation in PDF - Poster and Meeting Notes.