Library Stuff

My partner in crime Chrystie R. Hill (when we send notes to each other, she’s CRH and I’m SMC – isn’t that cute?) just made It’s all good a totally kick-ass blog. Well, it was great before, but you know what I mean. Congrats CRH and the IAG team!

Within an hour in my aggregator, I read that Steve Lawson and Richard Akerman have turned of trackback.

I’ve never used trackback. If I want to see who is linking to my posts, I’ll use PubSub (Annoying disclaimer: I work at PubSub), and have done so for at least 3 years. If you want to set up a query in PubSub to be notified of any feeds that link to your blog, use the uri:domain.com query.

So, for my blog, it’s uri:librarystuff.net

Well, just one more…for now. Michael Sauers is asking for assistance in tagging photographs. He’s doing some preliminary work for yet another book.

Instead of writing about libraries and associations that are blogging, maybe I should be talking about those that aren’t. I’m kidding. That wouldn’t be very Steven 2.0 of me, now would it.

Today, Michael Stephens writes about the blogging and podcasting going on at the New Jersey Library Association. This is such great news. Congrats to Sophie and the crew at the NJLA.

According to ifoAppleStore, MySpace is being blocked at Apple Stores due to bandwidth issues:

“According to visitors, Apple is now blocking the MySpace.com Web site to cut down on net activity. Visitors at certain stores who surf the MySpace.com URL are re-directed to Apple’s own Web site. The move is unrelated to the security issues recently swirling around MySpace.com, I hear. It’s not clear what Internet connection Apple stores have, but speeds are at least 1.5+ Mbps upstream and downstream, with some store networks providing 2.5 Mbps speeds.”

If it’s happening at retail stores, it’s happening at libraries. So, has your library had bandwidth issues due to users logging onto MySpace? Of course, the infrastructure at libraries may be faster than an Apple retail store, but you never know.

What is the impact of MySpace on LibrarySpace?