“Geo­caching, and its low-tech granny let­ter­box­ing, are a kind of hobby trea­sure hunt, mas­sively multi-user hide-and-seek games played in the great out­doors. Basi­cally, play­ers hide caches or let­ter­boxes in out of the way places, then other play­ers use clues or maps or GPS coor­di­nates to find them. The caches usu­ally con­tain a log­book, so you can record your find, or a stamp or trin­ket you can keep to prove you found it. Eccen­tric Brits have been doing this since the 1800s, but the inter­net and inex­pen­sive GPS devices turned the hobby into a phe­nom­e­non.… Why can’t we do this with his­tor­i­cal research?… Call it clio-caching. Leave call­ing cards in card cat­a­logs, plant trin­kets and rewards in archive boxes, bury trea­sure in the tex­tual lay­ers of the past. Then share your clues: There’s a cache buried in the James For­re­stal fonds at the Tru­man Pres­i­den­tial Library. Find the last let­ter Isaac Brock wrote before the Bat­tle of Queen­ston Heights and you’ll find a prize.” — via @copystar

“I think the key to suc­cess­ful future con­fer­ences, events and tradeshows are design­ing expe­ri­ences that include ele­ments of suc­cess­ful online games: achieve­ment, com­pe­ti­tion, explo­ration, immer­sion and socialization.”

RT @jajacobs: #FGI­blog : NASA is archiv­ing its social media posts http://freegovinfo.info/node/2952

this is pretty much my orga­ni­za­tional phi­los­o­phy, too. does it sound good for #ALA? http://bit.ly/am6hxb (via @alltop)

sweet — thanks for shar­ing! RT @swissmiss: Im using http://packrati.us to auto­mat­i­cally book­mark the URLs I tweet. Check it out!

RT @JustinLibrarian: http://bit.ly/9BpX28 Sur­vey par­tic­i­pants needed (ALA accred­ited MLS pro­gram or prospec­tive LIS stu­dents) #alael10

Under­grad audience-responses on “How many copy­rights have you infringed today?” “Should you be able to rip your DVDs?” http://bit.ly/9dB3cX
– Nancy Sims (Copy­rightLibn) http://twitter.com/CopyrightLibn/statuses/11269090572