Archive for March, 2008
How Many Librarians Does It Take…
March 19th, 2008…Raise a Banner
Accelerate : R.E.M. : Review : Rolling Stone
March 19th, 2008Rolling Stone - “Accelerate is the first studio album by that post-Berry stage band, and it is one of the best records R.E.M. have ever made.” (Thanks Connie)
The Ghost Hunters Visit the Library
March 19th, 2008Michael Lieberman - “Jacques J. Benoit, the library custodian at the Clapp Memorial Library in Belchertown, Massachusetts , has being seeing some “strange, unexplained happenings at the library for the past nine years.”
R.E.M. @ MSG
March 17th, 2008I know where I’m going to be on June 19th.
State can’t restrict kids’ access to video games, court says
March 17th, 2008Star Trubine - “Minnesota may not enforce a law restricting the sale or rental of “adults only” or “mature” video games to minors, according to an opinion issued Monday by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.” (via)
R.E.M. World Leader Pretend 1989
March 16th, 2008Great version of the appropriate song for 2008.
Searching as a Team
March 16th, 2008Technology Review - “Social software is proliferating online, but many of the most common Internet tools, such as search engines, are still used in isolation.” (via)
Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias
March 16th, 2008New York Times - “IT has never been easier to read up on a favorite topic, whether it’s an obscure philosophy, a tiny insect or an overexposed pop star. Just don’t count on being able to thumb through the printed pages of an encyclopedia to do it.” (thanks Linda)
R.E.M. is revved and ready, but does the band still matter?
March 16th, 2008Chicago Tribune - “Michael Stipe couldn’t go onstage without his espresso Thursday, so the few hundred fans, friends and journalists gathered at the taping of “Austin City Limits” on the University of Texas campus had to wait.”
Hear the Stubbs show from NPR
plan2succeed’s bookmarks on del.icio.us
March 16th, 2008Want to stay current on library porn/filtering/computer news? this is the place. Of course, it’s one sided, but it’s better than no sided.
Using RSS As a Life Tool
March 16th, 2008Leslie Poston - “If you are anything like me, RSS feeds are a constant part of your daily life.”
Surviving a Web of unproductivity
March 16th, 2008Jessie Bonner - “My dad, and his generation, would not have had time to blog.”
Congrats to Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers
March 16th, 2008Ditto. I know more M&S peeps from this year than any other.
Twitter etiquette
March 16th, 2008The Ed Techie - “My general practice in twitter is to follow someone if they follow me, although not if they appear to be a bot, spammer, non-poster or nutter.”
I’m the same way.
Piracy provision aims at universities
March 16th, 2008Los Angeles Times - “A House bill to make college more affordable contains a mandate that campuses develop plans to prevent illegal downloads. Schools say they’re a minor part of the problem and unfairly targeted.” (via)
Social Media Burnout
March 16th, 2008Eric Benderoff - “I have social media fatigue.”
On Instablogging
March 15th, 2008Instapundit - “[B]logging — my kind, anyway, not essay-blogging like his — is kind of like DJ’ing. It’s not just what songs you play, but in what order. Sometimes a song’s good, but it just doesn’t fit into the mix.”
I’m an instablogger these days and lovin’ it. Mostly because I don’t have alot of [...]
Getting backstage at Austin City Limits with R.E.M. and AMD
March 15th, 2008Robert Scoble goes to an R.E.M. “show”. I’m so jealous.
Thanks Connie
EPA Closure of Libraries Faulted For Curbing Access to Key Data
March 15th, 2008Washington Post - “A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency to close several of its 26 research libraries did not fully account for the impact on government staffers and the public, who rely on the libraries for hard-to-find environmental data, congressional investigators reported yesterday.”
Teaching young people to HATE e-books
March 15th, 2008David Rothman - “A bomb threat at Brooklyn College emptied the library building (photo), preventing me from delivering my talk on E as a bridge: How e-libraries and the right e-book devices could bring nations, socioeconomic classes and generations closer together.”
Green Libraries Unconference
March 15th, 2008LibrarianInBlack - “The Arlington Public Library is holding a *free* one day Green Libraries Unconference April 23rd in Arlington, Virgina.”
Librarian sues Ohio State, claims Christian discrimination
March 15th, 2008WDTN - “A former Ohio State University librarian has sued the school, claiming he faced discrimination for his Christian beliefs.”
no children allowed?
March 15th, 2008Dodging Raindrops - “Is the library intended for computer use or for reading and promoting literacy? We were in the children’s section and my son was reading!”
Blog vs. Peer Review Update: Interactivity Brings Some Surprises
March 15th, 2008Chronicle.com - “For the past several weeks, the scholar has posted a section of his draft each day to a popular blog he contributes to — called Grand Text Auto — and he has invited readers to praise it or tear it to shreds. They’ve done both. And by early next week, Mr. Wardrip-Fruin will [...]
Inside the Bush library, view to a legacy
March 15th, 2008Dallas Morning News - “Exclusive: Exhibits telling ‘greater story’ to include controversies, firm says.”
Suddenly in Hartford, then home again
March 15th, 2008K.G. Schneider - “Librarianship was reinvented over dinner last night.”
Public Wi-Fi: Be Very Paranoid
March 15th, 2008BusinessWeek - “Wireless services in airports, cafés, and hotels are often not encrypted. So user beware.”
Scoble and REM
March 13th, 2008Love ya Robert!
The Technological Divide Between Parents and Their Children
March 13th, 2008Bits - “Who would have thought that the technological divide between teenagers, who love to send text messages, and their parents, some who are just learning how to do so on their cell phones, would have been such a hot topic in Sunday’s paper?”
Jim Rettig Testifies on EPA Libraries
March 13th, 2008District Dispatch - “Today, ALA President-elect Jim Rettig testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the closure of libraries at the Environmental Protection Agency.”