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Breakfast Blogging

This morning I attended a talk about UThink by Shane Nackerud as part of the Institute for New Media Studies' "New Media Breakfast" series. He talked about starting the UThink project and about some plans for the future. Here's a few tidbits I found interesting in the talk:

• A paper on how libraries fit into the blogging picture that Shane cites as inspiration for the UThink project.

• A whitepaper that he wrote about blogging and the U libraries.

• "Blueberry Muffin Syndrome" - Why should the libraries facilitate me talking about what I had for breakfast?

• Cornerstones of the project, like promoting intellectual freedom and building communities of interest.

• Google seems to give high pagerank to UThink pages due to the "edu" and "lib" in their addresses, while blogs don't usually rate so favorably.

• You can post citations for papers to your blog directly from the libraries' FindIt system.

• UThink blogs will eventually be archived creating a searchable, informal, populist sort of historical document of what's happening at the U.

• UThink MovableType template contest, anyone?

It was a great talk with a lot of good questions from those in attendance. Maybe Shane will post his powerpoint presentation?

Posted on March 24, 2005 10:52 AM by westr015 | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) UThink