Tech Speak: Can You Talk It?Michael SauersTechnology Innovation LibrarianNebraska Library Commission

Today’s Agenda

blog

Short for weblog (pronounced “we blog”, but occasionally spelled “web log”) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Although most early weblogs were manually updated, tools to automate the maintenance of such sites made them accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging".

Also: Blogger, blogoshpere

Notable Library blogs

Paper Cutshttp://papercuts.tscpl.org/

Ann Arbor District Libraryhttp://www.aadl.org

Colorado State Publications Libraryhttp://cospl.blogspot.com/

Travels with the State Librarianhttp://ksstatelibrarian.blogspot.com/

blogroll

A list of blogs that a particular person reads

My blogroll (via Bloglines) http://www.bloglines.com/public/travelinlibrarian/

astroturf

[astroturfing] pejoratively describes formal public relations projects which deliberately seek to engineer the impression of spontaneous, grassroots behavior

a blog that looks like a personal blog, but is really sponsored by a corporation.

splog Spam Blog Any blog whose creator doesn’t add any

written value, the results of which are plentiful and irrelevant results in search engines.

Typically all computer generated and all advertisements.

The concept is to force search results and click-throughs leaving to revenue generation

Sometimes also refers to comment spam.

Feed (RSS/Atom)

Really Simple Syndication(or Rich Site Summary, or RDF Site Summary)

a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by (amongst other things) news websites and weblogs.

Content is subscribed to, retrieved by, and accessed through the use of an aggregator.

aggregator

A software application, webpage or service that collects syndicated content from disparate sources and provides a consolidated view.

Aggregators can be Web sites, stand-alone clients, or added to existing programs.

OPML

Outline Processor MarkupLanguage

An XML format for outlines. Originally developed by Radio UserLand as a native file format for an outliner application, it has since been adopted for other uses, the most common being to exchange lists of RSS feeds between RSS aggregators.

podcast A method of publishing audio broadcasts

via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading audio onto portable players or personal computers.

The “Pod” comes from the implication that content is transferred to an iPod. However, an iPod, or any other portable device is not required to access podcasts.

open-source

Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials – typically, their source code.

Well-known open-source projects include the Linux OS, the Apache Web server, and the Firefox browser.

XML Extensible Markup Language A W3C-recommended general-purpose

markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages.

Languages based on XML are defined in a formal way, allowing programs to modify and validate documents in these languages without prior knowledge of their form.

XHTML

The reformulation of the HTML markup language to conform to the XML standard

XHTML is stricter than HTML and must be “valid” which allows for more automated processing.

Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity Wi-Fi was intended to be used

for mobile devices and LANs, but is now often used for Internet access. It enables a person with a wireless-enabled computer or personal digital assistant (PDA) to connect to the Internet when in proximity of an access point. The geographical region covered by one or several access points is called a hotspot.

SSID

Service Set Identifier In Wi-Fi, a

service set identifier (SSID) is a code attached to all packets on a wireless network to identify each packet as part of that network.

WiMax Worldwide Interoperability for

Microwave Access provides up to 50 km (31 miles) of linear

service area range and allows users connectivity without a direct line of sight to a base station. The technology also provides shared data rates up to 70 Mbit/s, which, according to WiMAX proponents, is enough bandwidth to simultaneously support more than 60 businesses with T1-type connectivity and well over a thousand homes at 1Mbit/s DSL-level connectivity.

USB

Universal Serial Bus “Universal” in the sense

that it replaces parallel, serial, and SCSI ports

Allows up to 127 devices to be hooked up to a single computer

Devices are designed to be “hot swapped”

portable apps A portable app is a computer program

that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your personal data is left behind.

www.portableapps.com

IM Instant Messaging A form of real-time communication between

two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.

IM boosts communication and allows easy collaboration. In contrast to e-mails or phone, the parties know whether the peer is available.

People are not forced to reply immediately to incoming messages.

Web 2.0“While the old Web was about Web sites, clicks, and

“eyeballs,” the new Web is about communities, participation and peering. As users and computer power multiply, and easy-to-use tools proliferate, the Internet is evolving into a global, living, networked computer that anyone can program. Even the simple act of participating in an online community makes a contribution to the new digital commons – whether one’s building a business on Amazon or producing a video clip for YouTube, creating a community around his or her flickr photo collection or editing the astronomy entry on Wikipedia.” – Wikinomics, Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams

The Social Web

Also known as social software and social networking.

Allows you to share with your colleagues, friends, family and strangers.

Allows you to share your writings, thoughts, videos, music, pictures and more.

MySpace

Social networking Web site offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos.

flickr

An online social photo sharing service One a user uploads a photo then can

then give the them titles, descriptions and tags arrange them into sets contribute them to multi-user pools post their’s or other’s to a blog keep a list of favorite photos leave comments and notes subscribe to photo feeds

del.icio.us

An online social bookmarking service Benefits

bookmarks accessible from any Internet-connected computer

tagging bundling subscribe via RSS feeds

wiki

A web application that allows users to add content, but also allows anyone to edit the content. The term Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website

Editing does not require knowledge of (X)HTML

Wikipedia

A Web-based, multi-language, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It has editions in about 200 different languages and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible.

Wikipedia contains approximately 1.6 million articles. More than 600,000 of these are in English.

Wikipedia’s volunteers enforce a policy of "neutral point of view" whereby views presented by notable persons or literature are summarized without an attempt to determine an objective truth.

Second Life

avatar An avatar (sometimes AV, av, or avvie) is an

icon or representation of a user. The term is used on MUDs, in computer role-playing games, and shared non-gaming universes such as Active Worlds, Entropia Universe, There, Second Life, and The Palace.

The term has also been applied to online virtual communities, and Internet forums in particular, as a picture that a member has elected to display alongside his or her contributions in order to represent themselves. Avatars have also become popular in instant messaging, and are beginning to be seen in mobile phone communications.

Mashup A website or application that combines

content from more than one source into an integrated experience.

A musical genre which, in its purest form, consists of the combination (usually by digital means) of the music from one song with the a cappella from another. Typically, the music and vocals belong to completely different genres. At their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical epiphanies that add up to considerably more than the sum of their parts.

ajax Asynchronous JavaScript and XML A web development technique for creating

interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.

Creative Commons Creative Commons licenses

provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators. We have built upon the "all rights reserved" concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary "some rights reserved" approach. We're a nonprofit organization. All of our tools are free.

Sources

Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/

NetLingo.comhttp://www.netlingo.com/

Thanks!

Michael Sauers

msauers@nlc.state.ne.us

www.travelinlibrarian.info

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