Archive > November 2008

Open Stack 2.0

Last week my colleague Bert Zeeman published a poll “Open stack, get rid of it!” (in Dutch) with 3 options:
1. Yes, of course, should have been done long ago
2. Help, no, open stacks are the backbone of the scientific library
3. Nonsense, like always the truth lies in the middle.
I voted for option 3, which is [...]

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Antisocial Networking

In his post “Twitter me this” Owen Stephens writes about differences in use and audience of Social Networking Sites. (Apparently at Imperial College London they had a similar kind of Web2.0 Learning programme as we had at the Library of the University of Amsterdam.)
Owen distinguishes audiences on several, intermixed levels (my interpretation): “young” (e.g. MySpace [...]

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