I'd like to share a few commentaries about Facebook and MySpace that I've run across recently. These are both really interesting - the first addressing adult's vs student's understanding of Facebook; the second on class divisions between Facebook and MySpace users. Here they are, in case you've missed them:
The Fakebook Generation
by Alice Mathias, a 2007 graduate of Dartmouth, printed in the New York Times on 10/6/07.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E5DB1730F935A35753C1A9619C8B63
Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace
by Danah Boyd, ethnographer
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
Cindy
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Audio for FOL, Encore
Just wanted post this since I ran into the issue today.
We had an Encore member who came to desk wanting to watch the streaming video of the ceremony where the Dalai Lama was receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor this afternoon. She was logged in on a SunRay at first, which has no capability to play any type of audio file, as far as I could tell. We tried calling up to the Media Center, but they said she'd need a Unity ID to use the computers there. Since she couldn't log into any of the PCs (could she?) without a Unity ID, I finally had her use a GIS workstation that had Windows Media Player installed. We actually had to do some searching to find a link to the streaming video designed for Windows Media Player, rather than RealPlayer, since RealPlayer isn't available on those machines.
All that to say...is there a better solution? I think using the web increasingly means using audio and video files, so I wonder if there's a way we could make this easier for our affiliated patrons.
We had an Encore member who came to desk wanting to watch the streaming video of the ceremony where the Dalai Lama was receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor this afternoon. She was logged in on a SunRay at first, which has no capability to play any type of audio file, as far as I could tell. We tried calling up to the Media Center, but they said she'd need a Unity ID to use the computers there. Since she couldn't log into any of the PCs (could she?) without a Unity ID, I finally had her use a GIS workstation that had Windows Media Player installed. We actually had to do some searching to find a link to the streaming video designed for Windows Media Player, rather than RealPlayer, since RealPlayer isn't available on those machines.
All that to say...is there a better solution? I think using the web increasingly means using audio and video files, so I wonder if there's a way we could make this easier for our affiliated patrons.
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