Archive for March, 2008
Dispatches from The Brian Lehrer Show
March 31st, 2008Take a listen as Scott Douglas talks about his new book.
I received a preview copy and finished it awhile ago, but forgot to blog about it. Shame on me because it was fantastic. There were probably many times throughout the reading where the passengers sitting near me (I only have time [...]
Best last lines of novels
March 31st, 2008AJC - “The literary journal American Book Review has come up with its list of 100 Best Last Lines from Novels, and like all such lists, it’s a fun time-killer.”
The list is here.
Council could ban shirtless from library
March 30th, 2008Redding Record Searchlight - “The City Council on Tuesday will consider an ordinance against people who stroll into the library bare-torsoed and/or barefoot. Current regulations don’t spell out that library patrons must be fully clothed.”
Getting Ready for CIL and InfoTubies
March 30th, 2008Kathy Dempsey - “I’m making my final preparations to get to the Computers in Libraries conference, which starts a week from today.”
A Shiny, Happy Return For R.E.M
March 30th, 2008CBS News - “R.E.M. will release its 14th studio album this week, their music showing a renewed urgency and velocity. An answer, perhaps, to critics who suggested the band was showing signs of old age.”
See also: R.E.M. Royal Albert Hall, London
Like To Write About Comics?
March 30th, 2008Bookslut is looking for a new columnist.
Champion of reading
March 30th, 2008Charlotte Observer - “In this fast-and-flashy age of iPods and Kindles, Google and Amazon, Mark Herring is guardian of the not-so-flashy.”
NYT on R.E.M.
March 30th, 2008A review of Accelerate
Forget Facebook, everyone’s a-Twitter
March 29th, 2008TheStar.com - “Merlene Paynter is never out of touch unless she wants to be.”
It’s The END of the World (as we know it)
March 29th, 2008Enjoy your Saturday evening.
R.E.M. is firing on all cylinders with the new CD ‘Accelerate’
March 29th, 2008Boston Globe - “It’s been a difficult decade for R.E.M., creatively and personally, and everyone knows it. Peter Buck, the band’s guitarist, who sat down to talk earlier in a dressing room, says that if any of them had been thinking rationally they would have scrapped “Around the Sun” and started over again. Stipe begs [...]
Half Hollow Hills Memories
March 29th, 2008Ellen sent in a new blog from Half Hallow Hills Public Library, one town over from me. Very cool.
She’s also putting the pictures up on Flickr.
A Week Off and Feeling Better
March 29th, 2008Thanks for all of your emails and comments. I am now convinced that I did nothing wrong last week regarding my Twitter incident. That makes me so happy and after a week of thinking about it (and getting a well rested break from Twittering), I figured out what to do.
This afternoon, I made [...]
Stop Stealing
March 27th, 2008Irony Noted
AbeBooks goes Canadian
March 27th, 2008BookFinder.com Journal - “Canada-based marketplace AbeBooks has an AbeBooks.ca Canadian microsite now.”
Orange crush
March 27th, 2008Very odd.
“Don’t try to strongarm us — we’re the library!”
March 27th, 2008PLA Blog - “The title of this post is definitely the line of the conference so far, and it came from the mouth of Queens Library (NY) marketing director James Keller, while he was giving his presentation on branding.”
HeinOnline Law Journals Are Being Indexed by Google Scholar
March 27th, 2008HeinOnline - “It’s no secret! As Due Process, WisBlawg and ZiefBrief have all reported, Google Scholar is indexing the Law Journals in HeinOnline to make the more than 1,100 titles searchable in the Google Scholar interface.”
Why are we clicking less on Google search ads?
March 27th, 2008CNET - “The latest paid-click data for search engines shows that Americans are clicking on paid search ads less than we did last year–not an encouraging trend for the state of online advertising.”
EPA Officials Brief SLA on Plans to Reestablish Closed Libraries by September 2008
March 27th, 2008Special Libraries Association - “The Special Libraries Association (SLA) today met with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to review the agency’s report to the U.S. Congress on the future direction of its library network. The report, submitted on 26 March, explains the steps EPA intends to take to reopen libraries closed over the last [...]
Adobe Photoshop Express Puts the Power of Photoshop Online
March 27th, 2008Wired - “Photoshop Express, the long-awaited free online image editor from Photoshop maker Adobe, will be released as a public beta on Thursday. Unlike Adobe’s more powerful image editing tools for the desktop, Photoshop Express is aimed not at the professional photographer, but at the casual snapshot fan looking to polish up images before sharing [...]
Judge Dismisses Student Lawsuit Against Plagiarism Detection Service
March 27th, 2008learning.now - “A group of Virginia high school students who sued a plagiarism detection service on the grounds of copyright infringement has had its case dismissed. Ironically, the judge concluded that the company’s storage of student researcher papers constituted fair use.”
Pottermania lives on in college classrooms
March 27th, 2008CNN.com - “J.K. Rowling has retired Harry Potter, but the fictional boy wizard lives in on college classes across the country where the children’s books are embraced as literary and academic texts.”
The Not-So-Golden Compass
March 27th, 2008Freakonomics - “Earlier this month I asked readers what I should do to fill my post-Harry Potter void. I didn’t anticipate just how full of reading suggestions blog readers would be — 270 comments.”
Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing
March 27th, 2008Paper Cuts - “Like all professions book reviewing has a lingo.”
R.E.M. TO APPEAR ON THE TODAY SHOW APRIL FOOLS DAY
March 26th, 2008Must. Get. To. NYC. Early.
How To Regain Control From Your BlackBerry
March 26th, 2008Law Practice Today - “Blackberries and other smart phone devices are supposed to provide the flexibility to be able to work anywhere but are they really allowing us more freedom? It is important to recognize when your Blackberry has become more of a burden than resource and how to solve this problem.”
ALA releases ground-breaking study on library service to new Americans
March 26th, 2008Hispanic PR Wire - “Today the American Library Association (ALA) released “Serving Non-English Speakers in U.S. Public Libraries,” an unprecedented study on the range of specialized library services for non-English speakers. The announcement took place at the Hennepin County Library’s New American Center during the Public Library Association’s National Conference, March 25 - 29.”
130 Web Tips, Tricks, Tools, and Resources in 160 Minutes
March 26th, 2008I got a note today that 34 people have signed up for my post-conference workshop! Wow! Great news.
Is there such as thing as being fired for Twittering?
March 26th, 2008CNET - “It’s well known that bloggers can be fired for writing the wrong things about their jobs. Is this going to be a phenomenon for Twitter users as well?”
Probably, although if I haven’t been fired yet, then nobody will. Apparently I offend everybody!
On that note, I do not miss Twitter as [...]