Report from OLA
January 30th, 2004What an exciting few days it has been here in Toronto at the Ontario Library Association Conference. First, it’s cold. I don’t mean chilly cold, I mean I can’t feel my ears or feet cold. I mean tears running down my face from just walking out the the door cold. Here’s a recap in semi-congrunting mode.
Spoke Canadian and US politics with a traveler from Toronto on the plane.
Free broadband in the hotel (signed up to be a Marriott Rewards member)
Ate dinner while looking at the field inside the sky-dome.
Had dinner with James, saw Stephen Abrams for a quick second, finally met Rita Vine and am having dinner with her tonight, met (blushingly) Amanda Etches-Johnson and spoke with her for a few minutes.
Both of my presentations went well. Had the fortune to meet a fellow blogger who blogged one session (well, put links up) and then fascinated me with a neat little tool that he uses to find wireless points without having to take out a computer
Spoke about Refgrunting and congrunting.
A $33 dollar (US) cab ride from the airport to the hotel. Yikes!!
Can’t use my cell phone up here at all (unless I want to pay 49 cents per minute!!).
Saw Nancy Pearl speak.
One last note: I was talking with the convener for my session on RSS and mentioned crossposting among weblogs and how it wastes time. He mentioned that there should be a built in section of an aggregator to weed out the crosspostings. A great idea. That said, may be it would be better to put all of those posts that mention the same topics into a separate folder, so the user can read them if he/she so chooses. Maybe use similar code as Blogpulse. Which reminds me…
Blake: - check out blogpulse for that new tool you have been working on for LISFeeds…