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I missed last year's release of this treatise on Gaming Theory (version 1.1) from Future of the Book and just now stumbled on the 2007 update: version 2.0. There a two energies radiating from this node in cyberspace.

1. A captivating discourse on the nature of "gamespace" in our 2.0 world --philosophically dense at times, but full of insight into the g… Continue

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I ran up against the need to convert a pdf file to a Word document. I wasn't even sure it was possible, especially since I don't have Adobe Acrobat software. I remembered reading about an online file conversion site when I was grazing the fertile fields of Learning 2.1 earlier this week.

It's called… Continue

I just looked at the five finalist entries in the Thomson Gale Librareo community's "I Love My Library!" video contest. These were chosen from 177 submissions. Despite the clever pop-up book presentation from the Columbus Public Library or the bizarre zombie-spurred information search in Allen County Public Library's offering, all five of these videos broadcast the same stereotype: go to your library for books, newspapers,… Continue

This video on the Transformation Lab: Prototyping the Future speaks to one of my favorite topics --enriching the physical library with "2.0" experience. (Thanks to Alane at IAG who thanks Darlene Fichter for the link.) As long as we are meat, everything is n… Continue

At the Washington Library Association conference last week, Walt Crawford and Sarah Houghton-Jan shared the breakfast stage for a discussion of "traditional" v. Web-based services and balance. There was more agreement than dis-, which was not surprising. There were a couple of noteworthy moments, imo:

1. When Walt off-handedly mentioned the… Continue