Archive for July, 2005
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July 17th, 2005Duplicates in tags frustrates me a little, something that I was just shrugging off. No big deal, right? After seeing the same Harry Potter article in my aggregator 4 times an hour for the past 3 days, I figured the duplicate issue was a lost cause (one anti-Harry note this year - I [...]
OH!Libraries & Preach Baby, Preach
July 17th, 2005A colleague at a recent conference told me that he has a PubSub feed for the words libraries or librarian because the content that it brings back is perfect for what he wants. Searching for libraries over librarian displays what people are talking about when they discuss our libraries, not the professionals that work [...]
Blogdigger, The T-Shirt (and more)
July 17th, 2005Greg “Gersham” Gershman mentions the Blogdigger store. Greg wants polo shirts, I want some t-shirts in Hallie’s size. There’s nothing like cute kid marketing! I’m going to buy myself a mug.
Strangers Helping Strangers
July 17th, 2005justcurio.us reminds me of Wondir. It’s an anonymous question and answer service. In order to ask a question, you have to answer one, so if you are a asker and not an answerer, go somewhere else. So, an open, semi-forced participation, Q&A network, with a bunch of rules. One last nugget: [...]
Reform the Patriot Act
July 16th, 2005The ACLU is using a blog to get the word out on their Patriot Act reform efforts. The blog is linked off of their reformthepatriotact.org page. Subscribed! See also: Tools for Patriotic Bloggers. (link via Paul Ruby)
A Human Touch to Searching the Internet
July 15th, 2005Our colleague Gary Price has a great quote in this article in the Globe and Mail:
“Gary Price, a librarian and editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, says he agrees that people are a necessary part of getting relevant information from the Internet. “There is still absolutely a role for human beings in searching for information.”
“According to Mr. Price, [...]
Sonoma State University Library Blogs
July 15th, 2005It looks like the library at Sonoma State is playing around with blogs.
Digg Upgrade
July 15th, 2005Via Jake Jarvis, I see that Digg has been updated. It’s a bit slow to load, but well worth a revisit. Digg is one of those second generation social bookmarking tools which attempt to bring the ratings of its users into play:
“Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, [...]
Keeping Up Like Going to the Gym
July 15th, 2005Gina, from the Idaho State Library talks about why keeping up with library technology is important and compares it to going to the gym:
“Sometimes I think that keeping up with changes in technology and library services can be like it was when I still had that limp. There are times I feel like we are [...]
National Academies’ RSS News Feeds
July 15th, 2005Did I mention this yet? The National Academies has 4 RSS feeds including news, new publications, and the current and recent issues of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Nice. (links via News Is Free)
FCW.Blog
July 14th, 2005Federal Computer Weekly is blogging. They have two of ‘em going:
1) FCW Insider - “In the Insider, Federal Computer Week editor in chief John S. Monroe and executive editor Christopher J. Dorobek will provide insights, analysis and observations on the government technology community.”
2) Culture & Context - “The government IT market is a fascinating [...]
Housekeeping - Catching Up
July 14th, 2005Hello LS readers. I’ve been preparing for my fall speaking tour (I’m going acoustic this time) as well as other programs that I will be involved in over the next few months, so I thought I’d provide an update.
My speaking schedule (so far) is as follows:
+ August 11th - Businesswire Panel - Minneapolis, MN
+ [...]
Don’t Count Out Law Librarians
July 13th, 2005I had a wonderful conversation with Heather Smith from American Lawyer a few months ago. She was writing an article about the importance of law libraries. The article, titled Don’t Count Out Law Librarians came out today. Well worth a read if you are at all interested in law libraries. My [...]
MIT Libraries News Blog
July 13th, 2005I wonder why I’ve never come across the MIT Libraries News Blog. They’ve been posting since May but the formal announcment didn’t go out until yesterday. They also have a help page on RSS which includes a link to another page on using RSS to keep up with research. Suweeeeet! (link via [...]
Wikis, Wikis, and More Wikis
July 13th, 2005Yet another library wiki. This one from Chad F. Boeninger who blogs at Library Voice:
“The Biz Wiki is a collection of business information resources available through Ohio University Libraries. It is designed to assist business researchers in finding the best resources for their projects or topics. The Biz Wiki contains links to reference books, [...]
WDWY
July 13th, 2005Chad Haefele, the “devastatingly handsome, and available” librarian-to-be has a neat idea:
“I’m going to make a podcast. I’ve wanted to experiment with one, but never had a content idea meaty enough. Then a couple days ago, it came to me: call in radio. Of course, it wouldn’t be live. But it can still work. How [...]
The Wondir of RSS
July 12th, 2005I’ve mentioned Wondir in the past. It’s an open Q&A service for the masses. Yesterday, they RSSified all of their questions hoping to get more people to answer the numerous questions posed on the service.
Potter Pate
July 12th, 2005Michael Pate took some pictures of Harry Potter books being processed and got FlickrBlogged.
Stephen’s Lighthouse
July 12th, 2005There is a G-d. Stephen Abram is blogging.
Delicioso!
July 11th, 2005I’m not sure how long they’ve been doing this, but del.icio.us is putting some neat additions into their RSS Feeds. They have a “posted by” link, other tags that the person used for that item, and the ability to tag right from the aggregator. Slick. (Screenshot below)
Vacation - All I ever wanted - Vacation - Had to get away
July 6th, 2005I’m finally taking a vacation! See you next week.
E-lists, Democracy, and Name Misspellings
July 6th, 2005Chrystie over at BlogJuncton blogs about memberships, communities, and democracy (heavy stuff, but a topic that truly interests me). Yes, we did have a “boisterous discussion” about E-lists and how I thought (and still think) that they will die. She thought otherwise (Note: WebJunction does have a somewhat vested interest in library lists [...]
Computers in Libraries 2006
July 6th, 2005Come one come all to Computers in Libraries 2006. Get those presentation proposals in. I’ll be putting together a full day track on Collaboration and Communites (blogs/wikis/etc). Sadly, I’ll only be able to attend for one day (to do a preconference on advanced blogging) as I’ll be blogging the PLA conference in [...]
Bell Didn’t Think Obama’s Keynote was the Bomba…
July 6th, 2005Steven Bell (StevenB for those that read C&I) writes about his disappointment with Barack Obama’s keynote at ALA in Library Journal:
“Another American Library Association (ALA) conference comes, and along with it another opening keynoter who does little more than give us the standard, “Gee, I really, really like you” speech. It’s a syrupy blend of [...]
It’s LIS[fill in the blank].com Week
July 6th, 2005I don’t know what’s in the water in libraryland, but we’ve seen three LIS{whatever}.com sites launch this week which all deal with blogs and Wikis.
First, LISWiki, then Meredith announced LibSuccess today (Yes, I know it’s an LIB domain, not an LIS domain, but you get the point), another wiki which is, “a one-stop-shop for great [...]
Continuous Partial Attention
July 5th, 2005From a particulalry unexciting article, a “new phrase” is born:
“Continuous partial attention is that state most of us enter when we’re in front of a computer screen, or trying to check out at the grocery store with a cellphone pressed to an ear — or blogging the proceedings of a conference while it’s underway. [...]
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July 5th, 2005The future editor of Public Libraries magazine.
More on South Huntington Public Library
July 4th, 2005Ken Weil, director of the South Huntington Public Library (a library I’m proud to say is in my county and the next town over), should teach classes in marketing. He’s all over the place these days; Wired, ALA Presentations (He had an impressive little speech from the back of the room during the Hear [...]
Things You Can Do With RSS
July 3rd, 2005A very neat wiki-based list of, well, neat things you can do with RSS. Add your own “things.”
LiveJournal Blogs Search Engine
July 3rd, 2005I just spent 30 minutes looking at results from a search I did on LjSEEK.com, an engine that indexes Live Journal entries. Pretty slick. (link via del.icio.us)