Mike Wesch's "Anthropological Introduction to YouTube" was an informative video about the history and culture of YouTube. There were several points and observations made during the presentation which I felt could apply to my final project.

For example, Wesch states that YouTube is a new form of identity, expression, and community. Can Twitter be viewed in the same way? On Twitter, one's identity is not only molded by your profile, but more importantly what you tweet about. And one's...

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Just out today, NFI Research, a U.S.-based research firm that identifies and analyzes trends and attitudes in business, organizational management, information technology and organizational behavior, posted their Top Public Libraries on Twitter List as of November 4, 2009. Although theIPL was not added (yet), this list provides libraries to follow if you or your organization are considering becoming active on Twitter. http://bit.ly/18qCGG

The list was compiled according to the following...

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The Library 101 Project debuted today at the 2009 Internet Librarian Conference. http://www.libraryman.com/library101/

This is a project started by Michael Porter and David Lee King to invite librarians to develop the skills needed to adapt to the changing environment.

While the homepage of Library 101 has a YouTube multimedia message to promote the "campaign," the site also offers Library 101 RTK, Resources and Things to Know.

The list of 101 skills...

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Just watched David Lee King's slides from his presentation at the Internet Librarian 2009 Conference. David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. His website is www.davidleeking.com.

The presentation title is "Tweet Like You Mean It." He proposes that there are good reasons and not so good reasons for tweeting. A good reason is to make connections...

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I've been reading about journalism students taking classes about Twitter. For example, Australia's Griffith University recently made Twitter education a mandatory course for journalism students. http://mashable.com/2009/10/23/twitter-class/

Many people commented on this trend for Twitter fluency. Some say that writing for Twitter isn't far off "from writing lead sentences in headlines where you need to get your point across succinctly." Others comment that Twitter may be turning into...

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