The Shifted Librarian - Shifting Libraries at the speed of byte
 Wednesday, April 24, 2002

"Flash + Pocket PC + GPS
= location based rich media content - Phillip Torrone is hacking together the future of flash on mobile devices and it's got some great potential. If you want a reason why webservices are the future then look no further than mobile applications like this - they're the perfect solution to retrieving content based on location." [Flash Blog]

This could tie in with m-learning, too.

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"Going a stage further - if you could persuade, say for example, a number of UK based Criminal Justice or legal librarians & researchers to collaborate on one weblog, imagine how good a resource that would be. Imagine the networking opportunities. Most of the blogs I have seen from the UK seem to be created by individuals, so it is not too surprising that some very worthwhile blogs run out of steam, like Catherine Ebenezer's Mental Health Information UK blog. I'm sure Catherine is not the only Mental Health Librarian in the UK, perhaps if more people were involved the blog would be a bit more up-to-date." [infoblog]

Collaboration is difficult, though, as we're finding out in Illinois. It will take some time for blogging to burn into daily routines. We're not quite there yet, but I like the idea of a collaborative blog between experts in a field and librarians (one step further than what is mentioned above).

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"Jenny found true convergence.  Digital cameras combined with personal storage (MP3 player).  Next:  Video/camera devices combined with copious, mobile personal storage.  Add in glasses mounted displays and surround sound and you have a movie theater-like set-up that can span personal/family generated content to professional content.

Hey, let's stretch our brains a little more.  If combined with a OQO PC, voice control of a weblog app, and a next gen P2P network, it would be possible to totally document a life in full surround sound, video, stills, writing, and audio narration." [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

My mind feels like Stretch Armstrong....

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