The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

Get Focused
1. Stop hiding who you are
2. Start being insanely selfish>

Be Creative
3. Stop following the rules
4. Start scaring yourself

Use Your Wisdom
5. Stop taking it all so damn seriously
6. Start getting rid of the crap

Take Action
7. Stop being busy
8. Start something

An oldie but a goodie found via The Heart of Innovation

CC image used courtesy of holeymoon on flickr

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 1/29/2010 thru 2/4/2010

1. about dismantling the echo-chamber… more on the echo chamber
2. Content Creators & Consumers (& the iPad) – an interesting post on who the audience of the iPad is. I know its not me, but I’ve had conversations with enough people who are just waiting to get one that I know there is an audience no matter what the techies feel its lacking.
3. Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer
4. Why Smart People Don’t Learn from Failures – its ok to fail, just be sure you learn something from it.
5. President’s budget freezes library funding, omits school libraries from education increase if you haven’t heard or read about this you need to and read Buffy Hamilton’s response An Indecent Proposal
6. Don’t feed the trolls, unless you’re feeding them tranquilizers – great article on how to handle blog comments, including how to handle trolls
7. 10 Steps to Promote Learning in Your Conference Presentation
8. Information and services should be equal
9. But, I Like My Loser Friends! great post from Mary Schmidt at Lip-Sticking in response to The Most Important Success Tip:Stop Lying Down with Dogs, Already from Copyblogger
10. ALA Learning -5 Tips for Trainers to Prevent TechFail

Since posting the Libraries and Transliteracy slideshow I’ve been asked many times to define transliteracy. Its a slippery term, people often confuse it with digital literacy or technology literacy. Sometimes I’m not sure I even have a good grasp on the concept. So a colleague and I sat out to hash out the details, here is what we came up with.

In collaboration with Brian Hulsey

Special thanks to Sue Thomas and Tom Ipri for their input & approval.

If you’d like to learn about libraries and transilteracy please visit my Transliteracy page

If you’d like to know more about transliteracy in general please visit transliteracy.com and follow the conference on February 9th.

Great post from erin dorney at library scenester on why students, librarians, administrators should be paying attention to the Library Day in the Life Project, I couldn’t have said it better.

One of my favorite post is from Andy Woodworth Library Day in the Life Round 4 (The Love Note) I haven’t read all the posts yet but I intend to!

You can view the Twitter transcripts from What the Hashtag

Some stats from What the Hashtag as of 11:30 am Eastern time 1/30/2010

• 2,333 tweets
• 366 contributors
• 333.3 tweets per day

Other stats

• 172 people signed up on the wiki you can still add your info through next week

Photos from the Flickr Pool, 45 members, 167 items – Add yours!

Thank you again to everyone who participated.  I hope to see you all next time (if there is a next time!)

I rescued this email from my Spam folder last night. How awesome is it that someone made this & sent it? So to everyone who participated in anyway, every way – Thank you!