Link de Jour : What Google Really Thinks About You

Google Analytics recently added a "Demographics and Interests" feature to its set of tools measuring website traffic. They amass this data basically by what kinds of searches you do, your Google+ account, the sites you click on, etc. To see how accurate a picture it has drawn of you, click the following link (updated):

https://myadcenter.google.com/?hl=en&sasb=true

LibSite.org : Sneak Peek

LibSite.org : A Recommendation Service for Library-related Websites:  Just a sneak peek of LibSite.org -- a recommendation service for library related websites. I've been working on it for a while and will probably be announcing it "officially" at some point early next week.

It's built around the premise that library-related projects need and deserve a higher profile, that the technology allows us to engage this material in any number of ways.

So of course, the site features a blog, a wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts (the last two being configurable down to the individual tag). Users can rate sites and add them to a "favorites" page. There's even a LibSite Widget that people can put on their own sites (see the side navigation here for an example).

Of course, the key is user-involvement. It's not going to be much of a site if I'm the only one contributing to it. Everyone can recommend sites and even when people don't feel like doing that, they can leave constructive comments or otherwise take advantage of libSite's features.

So have a look and tell me what you think: http://libSite.org [Wayback Machine]

New ALA Wiki: Read Write Connect

Bill Drew (SUNY Morrisville) posted a link on Web4Lib to the American Library Association's new Wiki, 'Read Write Connect'.

The Wiki brings together many of ALA's online services loosely defined as 'Web 2.0' (i.e. Podcasts, flickr, etc.) This is one of a series of new online products, the most successful of which, IMHO, is the electronic newsletter, AL Direct.

Link of the Day: Only Human

 Website 'Only Human' is the True Confessions of social networking sites.  It bills itself as a "community where people share stories about mistakes they've made in life and their advice to others."

A glance at some of the most recent 'mistakes' includes, "focusing on my studies and not getting a job", "getting in trouble with the cops" and "bringing along/almost finishing 2/3 a bottle of rum". Based on these experiences, authors can include one-line 'words of advice' that are then prominently displayed with special highlighting. Readers in their turn can leave comments and rate posts by clicking on a box marked "I learned from this".

Fun idea. Up there with Twitter. (h/t Mashable)