Archive for December, 2003
Misspellings
December 31st, 2003A bit different from my situation, but Dave hates it when people spell names wrong too. In his example, the writer should have checked. In my case, I never told anyone to spell it correctly…
Announcing RefGrunt.com
December 29th, 2003In the spirit of the original (and with the creators permission), Blake started Refgrunt.com. If you have ever wanted to Refgrunt, now is your chance. C’mon, everyone is doing it…
Why Steven will never be a Jenny or Dave
December 29th, 2003I am the fortunate victim of the name Steven. While that may sound oxymoronic, it isn’t.I love the name Steven and have always been fond of hearing my name said by others. I like the way it flows off the tongue. However, my first name can be spelled three different ways. There’s [...]
New Library Stuff
December 27th, 2003I had a few minutes between finishing up a consulting report and delving into the latest Joyce Carol Oates, so I took the plunge and transferred the new interface over to the Library Stuff domain. I think it looks pretty good. Not a lot of changes other than the right column now has [...]
MLC reviews a few weblogs
December 27th, 2003Well, he doesn’t really “review” them per se, but quotes a few weblogs that have linked to him in the past and offers a one/two sentence comment. If you don’t read MLC, you are missing out on some enjoyable reading. I grabbed the feed about 4 months ago and have been chuckling [...]
Recap of MIT training
December 27th, 2003David Bigwood apparently was in a car accident a few weeks ago (for some reason I haven’t been getting his RSS Feed). He is recovering and still posting to Catalogablog (writing is a form of medicine I guess). David was kind enough to send me this article recapping a workshop I did at MIT [...]
Free Ranger loves RSS!!
December 26th, 2003Karen Schneider is testing out the neat feature in Bloglines that allows the user to set up e-mail addresses to be used for discussion lists. Personally, I don’t read Listservs nor (obviously) respond to anything written on one (alright, I do subscribe to law-lib, but only for interlibrary loan issues and the rare occasional [...]
Greg, Walt, and LS
December 25th, 2003Greg has some words about the latest Cites and Insights, more specifically a brief article from Walt on the currentness of library weblogs listed in DMOZ. Walt also mentions a lively discussion we had on LS a few weeks ago about weblogs and publishing. When this bad boy goes live next week, I’ll [...]
Where’s My Book Review
December 25th, 2003Note to self. Do not give a copy of your next book to someone who promises to write a review on a prominent web site, because it might not happen. Make them go through the publisher.To the person who asked for a copy of “Keeping Current” for review (and then proceeded to not write one), [...]
Mailbucket/Bloglines - Be careful
December 24th, 2003Regarding services like Mailbucket that incorporate e-mail into RSS, Greg, over at Blogdigger writes:“What you thought were private emails consumed by your personal RSS news aggregator are really viewable by others.”Excellent point, and one that I took seriously when I started to use these types of services. I know that the major search engines [...]
Tales of the Liberry
December 22nd, 2003The blogger over at Tales from the Liberry has a list of the more infamous patrons that walk into the library. I haven’t been reading this weblog (for not other reason but my pure laziness in creating a feed or putting it into Watch That Page), but I’m going to now. (link via Waypath)
Phish Phood
December 22nd, 2003As if I needed yet another reason to listen to Phish, the band announced today that all proceeds from Live Phish their $10 per show (mp3) download sit will be donated to the Mockingbrid Foundation. Classy.
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December 21st, 2003Well, here’s a start. I finally got Blogger API working with Radio. Now, I can post to Radio and the same post will show up on my Blogger blog. Neat.
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December 21st, 2003I’ve always wanted to know the geographic location for the blogs that I read. Now, I can place the OPML file for my aggregator into The Georoll and its displayed. Sadly, only a few are shown (about 9 out of 200[ish]) but it is a start. (link via Yahoo Groups - Aggregators)
Dogdeit
December 18th, 2003“Dodgeit allows you to create throw-away email addresses (for crappy registration sites), and then delivers the email that comes into the resulting mailbox as an RSS feed that you and everyone else who can guess at your throwaway email addy can read. That’s pretty sweet.” (via Boing Boing)Pretty much the same concept behind Mailbucket, which [...]
More NPR Librarians
December 18th, 2003LII linked to Kee Malesky this morning. Kee is a reference librarian at NPR, a job that I’ve pined after for years. Last year in December I linked to her colleague’s column that I have been reading every month.Another job that I would die for? Reference librarian at the Baseball Hall of Fame.