Category Archives: social web

Best Bad Marketing EVER

By Iris | Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2009
I thought I could resist jumping into the fray on this one, but this story just keeps getting better and better. Have you ever heard of the service called Clinical Reader? Apparently it’s a new service that acts kind of like a feed reader, only they decide which feeds you read, and it’s aimed at [...]
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Making FriendFeed Look the Way I Want It To

By Iris | Published: Friday, May 8th, 2009
I interrupt your regularly scheduled library-related thinking to bring you a brief note about FriendFeed. It recently changed its look rather significantly, and a few of us felt a little claustrophobic every time we looked at it. Luckily, if you’re running Firefox you can install Stylish, which lets you modify a site’s CSS. Once you [...]
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LSW Meebo Room Etiquette: One Woman’s Guide for the Newbie

By Iris | Published: Thursday, September 18th, 2008
LSW as a whole is kind of opposed to rules, but like any ecosystem some order appears out of the chaos after a sufficient amount of time. I find this process fascinating, so I thought I’d start a list of the social norms (from the trivial to the foundational) I’ve observed in the LSW Meebo [...]
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Doing Something Well

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
We’ve all heard the phrase “victims of their own success.” An instruction program takes off and suddenly librarians run ragged trying to meet the demand. A web app gets so popular it crumbles under the weight of it’s adoring fans. A person becomes known as Someone Who Gets Things Done Well and suddenly ends up [...]
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When the Social Gets Personal

By Iris | Published: Thursday, January 10th, 2008
We in library land spend a lot of time talking about the “social” web. We create Facebook profiles, MySpace pages, sign up for Twitter, and let people know what we’re thinking by writing blog entries, commenting on blog entries, and IMing each other… and that’s just scratching the surface. There are more social spaces online [...]
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