RIP Muxtape (as we knew it)

The premise was simple.  Upload 10 songs.  Share them with friends via streaming audio on the web.  Like others.  Share your tastes.  Very simple Very WeWeb.  Too good and too simple to last.

That Muxtape is gone.

The guy who created muxtape explains on a very long post on http://muxtape.com/ about his attempt to work with labels and the RIAA.  I am not going to say anything bad about anyone in this post, lest I get sued for having an opinion, but the outcome IMHO stinks.

Thank you for entertaining some people.

Goodbye Muxtape as we know it.

Good luck relaunched.

T is for Training 2: How I Stumbled Into Training

T is for Training 2: How I Stubmled Into Training Expanded Post is ready for viewing at the T is for Training blog.

If you want, you can go directly to Episode 2 of T is for Training:How is Stumbled Into Training here via  MP3.

Stay in touch with T is for Training by following Follow us on the blog, Podcast Feed, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, FaceBook, or Twitter. And join us on October 10th at 2 pm Eastern Time for the next T is for Training.

Links to the many things talked about on the podcast are available on the Delicious Links Page tisfortraining.

Please feel free to suggest topics or post any items that would interest listeners of the show to the tisfortraining delicious tag!

How/Why I got Into Blogging?

Details: A meme started by Meredith Farkas at Information Wants To Be Free and I was tagged by local blogger and Maryland’s newest Library MuckEMuck The Strange Librarian.

Question 1:  How or why did I start to get into blogging?

Answer:  Well….its not that complicated.
1) I was co-chairing our system’s tech fair/ petting zoo and writing for that blog.  That used Blogger;
2) I knew that I would have to start a blog for our 23 things project and as one of the three system “leaders” of said project, it would behoove me to have my own blog before the project;
3) I  was one of the trainers for the aforementioned fair and wanted a blog that was not focused on that alone;
4) I was curious about wordpress as blogging software;
5) I wanted to see if I could start a blog i) at a conference via wifi while waiting for a session to start and ii) using a Dell Axim handheld PDA to write posts;  and
6) I am an opinionated person and sort of a need to be heard type, so there you are.

See, not that complicated.

Q2) How did i gain an audience?

First, assume you have an audience of one person.  Write about your passion, interests and knowledge as if you are talking to that person.  Participate in the conversation both on line and in person.  So blog, write, follow others, talk, participate by commenting, guest blogging, writing, IM’s etc.  Connect with those you admire and be helpful.  I think it has worked out so far for the blog.

Q3) What advice would you give to new bloggers who want to make a name for themselves in the biblioblogosphere?

• Having something to say helps.
• Saying it well helps more.
• Be yourself and be consistent.
• Be willing to brag about your friends and be open to make new ones.
• Be visible on line and in person if possible.
• Be friendly and very willing to share.
• Be honest and helpful, timely and thoughtful, current with a sense of history.
• Be willing to accept both praise and criticism.
• Personally, I use a dry sense of humor to keep em laughing while reading.
• Did i mention helpful and willing to share?
• Be a part of the conversation not the noise!

Now tagged by this meme are:  Annette Gaskins – Nette 2.0. Lori Reed - Librarytrainer.com, Bobbi Newman – Librarian By Day Robin Hastings – A Passion for ‘Puters , LBC- Required field must not be left blank ,  Stephanie Zimmerman – LSLC Training Blog, Marianne Lenox – The MLX Experience, Stephanie Willen Brown – CogSci Librarian Dani Vaughn Tucker – Curious Child’s Library Wanderings, Alan Simpson – The World’s Common Tater and for a second time Beth Tribe – Tech from the Non-Techie.

I am looking forward to the responses.

I am now LinkedIn. Let’s Connect.

You know I actually forgot that I signed up for LinkedIn back in the winter when I was trying out some social networking tools.

Now that I have explored the beast that is Facebook, I am sitting here procrastinating and thought it is now time enough again to explore LinkedIn.

So if you are a member, here is my profile page.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/baldgeekinmd

Let’s connect!

It be Talk Like a Pirate Day ‘morrow!

In honor of one of my favorite holidays Talk Like A Pirate Day, I took a wee test to see my pirate name.  If ye be needing an appropriate pirate icon:  The Pirate Icon Generator.. I <3 da web.

Let your knees buckle at the name of:

Captain Jack Kidd

Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. Even though you’re not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.

Alternate Names for those “special” days or Creative HiveMind at FF

Once again, Friend Feed (the content aggregator and soooooo much more) supplied me with a needed mental break today.  When taking a siesta from my job, I like to see what is going on at the national water cooler that is FF.

A user named Grizzled Librarian a library director somewhere in these United States what having one of THOSE days.  A real “poo-poo” hits the fan day.  He shared his sentiment with the people who follow his feed.  Then te hivemind went to work with others commented and collectively creating the following “bad day names” for the days of the week.  (Original Feed Post Here {original message has one of Carlin’s seven dirty words})

Presenting for your pleasure:
Mondays are now known as “Somebody’s asking to get cut” (aka satgcm) Mondays;
Tuesday are now known as “I’m feeling stabbity” (ifst) Tuesdays;
Wednesday are now known as “poo-poo hits the fan” (shtfw) Wednesdays;
Thursdays are now known as “Oh yeah…it’s ON” (oyiot) Thursdays: and
Fridays are now known as “I’m So Done” (isdf) Fridays

Now that is the hivemind in action!

The first T is for Training is in the books and I didn’t sweat too much..

The first T is for Training episode is done.

I can now wipe my brow and go WHEW.

It should get easier for me to do this as time goes on.  I was a wee bit nervous this morning with the technology.

First T is for Training 10 am tomorrow…on the heels of One Busy Week

Today I really wanted to get stuff done.  Seriously.  But life and work intervened.

So today I was pretty much unplugged.

Anything happen?

That said, I was able to shoot of a post about the first T is for Training show tomorrow morning.

What a week.

Heading to the North Country

Looks like I will be heading to Minnesota (with a brief stop in Wisconsin, I do love cheese) in mid-October to teach some technology workshops to staff at five different regional library systems.

I will be documenting my trip from Mountain Iron in the north to Mankato and Rochester in the south with a couple of cities in between on this blog.

They don’t know it yet but I am going to take pictures and video of the workshops.  Shhhh…..

Looking forward to visiting Minnesota when it is not -10 degrees without the wind chill.  And there should be some righteous fall color.  Cool.

The Chron got Blog Dayed..

Jill who writes at digitization 101 tagged the Chronicles as a blog to watch for Blog Day 2008.  A tip o’ the bald cap to one of the Chron’s “sisters of irony” for recognizing both my blog and four other blogs.  Three of the blogs I already follow via rss and the last I must check out later.

They are:

Connie Crosby
Digital Reference
The Goblin in the Library A man that can rock the bow tie!
and
Joeyanne Libraryanne: Librarianship in the Modern Age

We are all part of a loose conglomeration and informal affiliation called Library Society of the World (LSW). The group consists of networking, librarianship things and fuzzy beverages.

I am pleased as punch to be included with such great blogs.