"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