Sooo… Facebook has already killed the historical profile accounts which were written about well... just about everywhere (Google Joe McDonald)  although it seems like they also killed a potentially great PR and marketing campaign. “While McDonald and Lewis initially only had friends who were distant relatives, their lists of connections swelled from just over 100 each to more than 1,000. They were featured in Mashable, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yahoo! News and the UK’s Daily Mail.

LinkedIn: Web 2.0 Social Media Panel (2008)UGA faculty Kaye Sweetser, Janet Frick, withDavid Noah from the Center for Teaching and Learning discuss Web 2.0 Social Media at the Student Learning Center.

For those who haven't heard about it, Google+ allows you to group networks and contacts in visual circles (and share information similarly to Facebook). Google + is kind of just added functionality to your Google account and if you are already have a Google account, more than likely it will be rolled out to you eventually (following the pattern of implementation for Buzz and Wave).

 Oh, I love xkcd. 

http://xkcd.com/894/

Apparently only 1 Georgia Librarian has been nominated.

Last night I watched Nova's Smartest Machine on Earth program.Really fascinating stuff as it explored how machine learning happens (it is essentially a weighted relevance ranking dependent upon data and rules, but then it makes decision based upon specific bits of information including pattern seeking). It also touched on what makes us human, our peopleness and how our experiences shape our knowledge (and how do you teach those to a computer?) The main focus was exploring the work on the machine Watson which plays on Jeopardy Feb. 14-16.

Choosing Technology: How We Decide What Technologies Work Best in Our Libraries ( http://georgialibraries.org/events/wed-web-series/choosing-technology-how-we-decide-what-technologies-work-best-our-libraries )Presented by Tim DanielsWednesday, January 19, 2011, 10:00am - 11:00am Eastern TimeSeparate registration is required for each hour-long session (free & open to everyone!)In today's environment librarians are constantly bombarded with new and emerg

http://www.videojug.com/player?id=5a0d3506-1dee-7c6b-ead7-ff0008cb818cGeek Humour:The Top Five Fonts To Never Ever UseOk, I don't have a problem with arial, but it is kind of boring.

Everybody KNOWS that librarians don't really shush you anymore... and hey, this is the LITERAL version (original is head over heels)."I've got a stack of books to return, I wish they were better"... heh, haven't we all been there? ♥ tears for fears, though.

Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.organd here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHClAlso searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips.I'm sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality.Youtube allows searching by licens