<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596164</id><updated>2011-08-02T19:05:22.886-04:00</updated><category term='social networking'/><category term='web 2.0'/><category term='equal access libraries'/><category term='blogs'/><category term='wikis'/><title type='text'>Like's</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://likenyc.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8596164/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://likenyc.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>like</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04415549630468514926</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_AQg3mUqupvQ/TGGW_OeLMtI/AAAAAAAAAoU/i-EXZsX6clo/S220/me0510sm.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8596164.post-8327794181629582841</id><published>2007-02-10T16:14:00.073-05:00</published><updated>2010-10-13T20:44:40.109-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social networking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='web 2.0'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wikis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='equal access libraries'/><title type='text'>Geeks Bearing Gifts</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:16px;"&gt;Geeks Bearing Gifts&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Web 2.0&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;O’Reilly “&lt;a href="http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html"&gt;What is web 2.0?&lt;/a&gt;” -&lt;br /&gt;The internet is the operating system. First coined in 2004 at an O’Reilly conference. Interoperability, collaboration, sharing. Responds to the user. Harnesses collective intelligence. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;Wikipedia “&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0"&gt;web 2.0&lt;/a&gt;” &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en"&gt;Google Home Page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.yahoo.com/"&gt;Yahoo maps&lt;/a&gt; – &lt;span style="font-size:0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Directions, traffic.&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/"&gt;Google maps&lt;/a&gt; – Direction, traffic, wikipedia entries and more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wwwl.meebo.com/index-en.html"&gt;Meebo&lt;/a&gt; - All your IM programs in one page.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a id="p5rf" title="Instantbird" href="http://instantbird.com/"&gt;Instantbird&lt;/a&gt; - New IM aggregator on the scene.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.webware.com/100/?tag=nl.e404"&gt;Webware&lt;/a&gt; - 100 best web 2.0 applications&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Open Source/Mashups/Collaboration/Folksonomies/Tagging&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Open Source&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linux.org/"&gt;Linux &lt;/a&gt;- One of the earliest to take the “open source” idea.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.openoffice.org/"&gt;OpenOffice&lt;/a&gt; - Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, database creation…&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mozilla.org/"&gt;Firefox and Thunderbird&lt;/a&gt; – Web browser and email programs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/chrome"&gt;Chrome&lt;/a&gt; - Google's foray into the browser market&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.getmiro.com/"&gt;Miro&lt;/a&gt; - watch TV on your computer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://drupal.org/"&gt;Drupal&lt;/a&gt; - Content Managment System.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://koha.org/"&gt;Koha&lt;/a&gt; - Integrated Library System.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.open-ils.org/"&gt;Evergreen&lt;/a&gt; -  check &lt;a href="http://www.open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:evergreen_roadmap"&gt;latest version&lt;/a&gt; to see how active.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sourceforge.net/"&gt;Sourceforge&lt;/a&gt; - repository of open source software&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Mashups&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.housingmaps.com/"&gt;Housing maps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healthcarethatworks.org/maps/nyc/"&gt;NYC Hospitals&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.healthcarethatworks.org/maps/nyc/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/"&gt;Google Maps Mania&lt;/a&gt; - a blog linking to Google Maps mashups of all kinds.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/"&gt;H1N1 Swine Flu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Collaboration/Folksonomies/Tagging&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hub.ebay.com/buy"&gt;eBay&lt;/a&gt; – User ratings. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://amazon.com/"&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt; – User ratings, build recommendations&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/"&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt; – Users decide what is top news&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_%28metadata%29"&gt;Tagging &lt;/a&gt;- How people can find your information&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/07/tag-clouds-gallery-examples-and-good-practices/"&gt;Tag Clouds&lt;/a&gt; - Gallery, examples and best practices.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/"&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;- Social bookmarking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt; - Tagging by users&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wordle.net/"&gt;Wordle&lt;/a&gt; - create "word clouds" from text&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The users&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/"&gt;Pew Internet &amp;amp; American Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/Generations-Online-in-2009.aspx"&gt;Generations online in 2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/Generations-Online-in-2009.aspx"&gt;Generations online charts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/presidents-program-four-or-more-the-new-demographic?from=ss_embed"&gt;Four or More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Chronic-Disease.aspx"&gt;Chronic Disease and the Internet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Mobile-Access-2010.aspx"&gt;Mobile Access 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-Harris-Poll-Cyberchondriacs-2010-08-04.pdf"&gt;Cyberchondriacs 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2009/8-The-Social-Life-of-Health-Information.aspx"&gt;The Social Life of Health Information&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/231/report_display.asp"&gt;Internet use and Library Use&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/80/presentation_display.asp"&gt;Young and Wired&lt;/a&gt; - Teens least likely to know what libraries have to offer. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y"&gt;The Millenials &lt;/a&gt;-  instant messaging, sms messaging, multi-tasking, networking, remixing, google as first stop.&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/180/report_display.asp"&gt;Wired Seniors&lt;/a&gt; - 65 and older currently not online. That is about to change.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Communities/Social Networking&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gizmodo.com/5608042/explore-the-social-network-planet"&gt;Map of Social Networks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://xkcd.com/802/"&gt;Map of Social Networks 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/pages/New-York-NY/NNLM-Middle-Atlantic-Region/341486371937"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ning.com/"&gt;Ning&lt;/a&gt; - Make your own social network.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nurseconnect.com/"&gt;Nurse Connect&lt;/a&gt; - Nursing social network.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sermo.com/"&gt;Sermo&lt;/a&gt; - Physician community. Free to doctors, medical marketers pay to access.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/nnlmmar"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Twitter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Limited to 140 characters.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.webkrunk.com/2010/04/13/twitter-demographics-infographic/"&gt;Twitter Demographics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/medlineplus4you"&gt;MedlinePlus Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/cdcemergency"&gt;CDC Twitter stream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ucsdbiomed"&gt;UC San Diego Biomed Library&lt;/a&gt; Twitter Stream&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/TC3Library"&gt;Tompkins Cortland Library Twitter Stream&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cnet.com.au/newbie-s-guide-to-twitter-339274342.htm"&gt;Newbie's guide to Twitter&lt;/a&gt; - from Cnet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/who-should-i-follow-"&gt;Who should I Follow?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/scrlctwitter/home"&gt;Why Twitter?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://smartdatacollective.com/Home/27004"&gt;Twitter vs. Facebook Demographics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/buzz"&gt;Goggle Buzz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mashable.com/2010/02/14/google-buzz-column/"&gt;Mashable on Google Buzz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mashable.com/"&gt;Mashable&lt;/a&gt; - Keep up to date on social network developments&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Blogs&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/"&gt;Technorati&lt;/a&gt; - Index/directory of blogs &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/"&gt;State of the Blogosphere&lt;/a&gt; - Annual update by Tehchnorati&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay"&gt;Kill your blogs&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wired&lt;/span&gt; article on the state of blogging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"&gt;Academic blogs&lt;/a&gt; - Wiki of academic blogs &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/links/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_Blogging_Libraries_Wiki"&gt;Blogging Libraries Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://liswiki.org/wiki/Medlib_Blogs"&gt;Liswiki&lt;/a&gt; - List of Medical Librarianship blogs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infotoday.com/mls/nov03/fichter.shtml"&gt;Using blogs in libraries&lt;/a&gt; - this is from 2003&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Starting your own –&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.movabletype.org/"&gt;Movable Type&lt;/a&gt; - Installed locally or hosted&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html"&gt;Movable Type goes open source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://wordpress.org/"&gt;Wordpress&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:0pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;- Installed locally or hosted&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/start"&gt;Blogger &lt;/a&gt;- free hosting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.livejournal.com/"&gt;LiveJournal&lt;/a&gt; - Free or paid.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.typepad.com/"&gt;Typepad&lt;/a&gt; - not free&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vox.com/"&gt;VOX&lt;/a&gt; - Privacy controls&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://podcastpeople.com/"&gt;Podcast People&lt;/a&gt; - Starting your own podcast or vodcast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;RSS – Really Simple Syndication&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS"&gt;RSS&lt;/a&gt; – what is it?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.medworm.com/"&gt;Medworm&lt;/a&gt; - Searches RSS feeds of medical news&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pubmed.gov/"&gt;PubMed&lt;/a&gt; – example of using RSS feeds&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://nnlm.gov/mar/"&gt;NN/LM MAR Homepage&lt;/a&gt; - RSS on the homepage&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bloglines.com/public/pmclibrary"&gt;University of PA Health System&lt;/a&gt; - Using RSS for a journal club.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitterfeed.com/"&gt;Twitterfeed&lt;/a&gt; - Link your blog to your Facebook and Twitter stream&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;RSS Aggregators&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/"&gt;Google Reader&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;Your browser! – Firefox and live bookmarks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wikis&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki"&gt;What is a wiki?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071030-prof-replaces-term-papers-with-wikipedia-contributions.html"&gt;Wikipedia entries instead of term papers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://booklust.wetpaint.com/"&gt;Book lust&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://soaring.pbwiki.com/"&gt;Best of the Web Toolkit&lt;/a&gt; - "Best of the web for librarians"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://liswiki.org/wiki/Main_Page"&gt;LIS Wiki&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ebmlibrarian.wetpaint.com/?t=anon"&gt;EBM Librarian&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pbwiki.com/"&gt;Pbwiki &lt;/a&gt;- Free wiki with opportunity to upgrade for a price. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wetpaint.com/"&gt;WetPaint&lt;/a&gt; - Fee wiki &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia"&gt;Wikia&lt;/a&gt; - Can request for to start a wiki for you. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki"&gt;MediaWiki&lt;/a&gt; - Free software to start your own&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="program"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9683874"&gt;Fresh Air from WHYY&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="date"&gt;April 19, 2007 - Terry Gross interviews one of the founders of Wikipedia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Cloud Computing - &lt;/b&gt;only a browser required.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.writely.com/"&gt;Google Docs&lt;/a&gt; – Google’s documents and spreadsheets. Can save document online or on your desktop. Save as MSWord, PDF, OpenOffice. Go &lt;a href="http://docs.google.com/m"&gt;Mobile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://office.live.com/"&gt;Office 2010&lt;/a&gt; - Microsoft announces their online component will be free.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://zoho.com/"&gt;Zoho&lt;/a&gt; - online word processor, spreadsheet and much more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photoshop.com/express"&gt;Photoshop Express&lt;/a&gt; - online photo editor with simplified functions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://aviary.com/home"&gt;Aviary&lt;/a&gt; - photo editing, effects, vectors, audio and more.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The new frontier?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://secondlife.com/"&gt;Second Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://secondlifemedicallibrary.blogspot.com/2006/11/grant-received-for-consumer-health.html"&gt;Consumer health reference service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2010/Jul/Mobile-Social-Health.aspx"&gt;Mobile, Social Health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081117-report-users-continue-to-prefer-office-over-google-docs.html"&gt;1% Currently Using Google Docs - Still true?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081117-hands-on-xios-becomes-a-better-icloud-still-isnt-viable.html"&gt;"Cloud" Operating Systems?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.android.com/"&gt;Android Phones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.windowslive.com/skydrive/overview.html"&gt;Microsoft Skydrive&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://referencextract.org/"&gt;Reference Extract Project&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Reading-Display-Graphite-Globally/dp/B002FQJT3Q"&gt;Kindle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/index.asp"&gt;Nook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy/index.asp"&gt;Nookstudy&lt;/a&gt; - Software for electronic textbooks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://seekingalpha.com/article/219431-barnes-noble-sale-won-t-cure-its-woes"&gt;Barnes and noble up for SALE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Health Records online&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://health.google.com/"&gt;Google Health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.healthvault.com/"&gt;Microsoft Health Vault&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081110-intel-wants-to-play-doctor-with-you-launches-health-guide.html"&gt;Intel's Health Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/state-privacy-laws-may-undercut-electronic-medical-records.ars"&gt;Electronic Records, HIPAA and State Laws&lt;/a&gt; - Article Ars Technica with link to study.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Would you like more? 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