I have a very hard time both attending an event and blogging about it, or even reading blogs about it while I’m there. I appluad the people that try, certainly. Andrea and Luke the Librarian are trying to add some organized useful blogged conference reports to the ALA Wiki. They could always use some more hands to help out.
Tag: wiki
delightful wikipedia timewaster/tool
Steven points me to the live recent changes feed for Wikipedia. This is sort of a neat way to look at how dynamic the project it [good news and bad news to librarians, I know] but also to get a ton of examples, an overview if you will, of what a good update looks like, or what all these updates are doing. You see logged in users, annotated changes, links to more information, and nonsense pages deleted so fast it can make your head spin. Fascinating.
ALA Annual Wiki – by Meredith
Please check out the ALA Annual Wiki that Meredith has set up if you’re planning on attending the conference in Chicago in June. This is a great idea. There is already a lot of good information there, and if you know anything, feel free to add it. The more I get used to wikis through my work with Wikipedia and my own experiments [yes I had a wiki, no I don’t anymore, yes I will have one again] the more I get excited about the potential benefits of providing simple easy-to-learn ways for people to collaborate online.