Archive for the 'Uncategorized' Category
Stop Stealing
March 27th, 2008Irony Noted
Orange crush
March 27th, 2008Very odd.
R.E.M. TO APPEAR ON THE TODAY SHOW APRIL FOOLS DAY
March 26th, 2008Must. Get. To. NYC. Early.
Follow the leader
March 23rd, 2008ALSC Blog - “I now realize, I followed my own leaders…..Look around you. There’s bound to be a leader nearby, one that you can learn from, one that will gladly take you under wing and teach you to be a leader in your own right.”
Librarian Child Porn Story Taking Off
March 21st, 2008No better place to keep up with the story than here. Again, it’s one side of the story.
How Many Librarians Does It Take…
March 19th, 2008…Raise a Banner
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.
Surviving a Web of unproductivity
March 16th, 2008Jessie Bonner - “My dad, and his generation, would not have had time to blog.”
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 [...]
Suddenly in Hartford, then home again
March 15th, 2008K.G. Schneider - “Librarianship was reinvented over dinner last night.”
Sixers Megan and Jarett talk ‘Idol’
March 12th, 2008Page Six - “At last, American Idol gets The Beatles songbook. Was it worth the wait, or did they blow it?”
Brooke White rocked my world last night with her version of Let It Be.
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute Launches Blog
March 11th, 2008Library Boy - “Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute (LII) has launched LII Announce, a blog that will include “[A]nnouncements, featured content, and the occasional bizarre legal information factoid.”
Rulings on judge complaints to be public
March 11th, 2008AP - “Federal judges agreed Tuesday to grant the public more access to cases in which judges are disciplined by their colleagues.”
Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition
March 11th, 2008I just found out that my brother has been added to this book for his high scores in California Games. (remember that?)
Congrats bro!
Update - It’s a good thing he doesn’t have a video game addiction.
Update - Here’s his bio.
The joy of boredom
March 10th, 2008The Boston Globe - “Don’t check that e-mail. Don’t answer that phone. Just sit there. You might be surprised by what happens.”
Questioning the Questioners
March 9th, 2008The latest First Monday is on bring critical of Web 2.0.
Thanks Meredith, who blogs, “It’s good to see a questioning of a lot of the dogma coming out of the Web 2.0 movement, whether you agree with their criticisms or not.”
Many Library 2.0ers question traditional librarianship. Someone needs to question the questioners, if [...]
‘A Brief History of Anxiety: Yours and Mine’
March 9th, 2008Newsday - “Using her experiences as both a mother and daughter, Pearson, a writer for USA Today who lives in Toronto, delivers this concise account of one of the world’s most common afflictions - she notes that “according to data from the World Mental Health Survey, conducted in 2002 in 18 countries, anxiety has emerged [...]
10 Suggestions for Google Reader, One Year Later
March 9th, 2008Louis Gray - “In my opinion, you’ll see that due to Google Reader’s not filling all the gaps I laid out a year ago, a cottage industry of RSS readers and link aggregators has emerged - great for the Web, not always so great for Google.”
Is User-Generated Content Out?
March 8th, 2008Newsweek - “The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.” (via)
Misconstrual of the month: naked librarians and involving buns
March 7th, 2008Mark Rabnett - “There must be a copy editor job vacancy at the office of Library review.”
Smithtown Library Bond Passes!!
March 5th, 2008Yes: 3,556
No: 3,184
I’m thrilled! Go Smithtowners!
READ Posters… You can be on one too!
March 4th, 2008from Snapshots of Technology Integration. I like the book she’s holding.
Be like Bogie!
March 4th, 2008on Flickr
The Tyranny of Alternatives
March 4th, 2008Chad Heafele - “I’ve come to the realization recently that there is such a thing as too much choice. It is easily possible for too many options to be available.”
Flying Off the Shelves
March 4th, 2008The Stranger - The Pleasures and Perils of Chasing Book Thieves (via)
Ask May Dump Teoma For Google, Layoff 100 People
March 1st, 2008Uh oh. I hope Gary Price will survive, if this news is true.
Shh! In the Library
February 27th, 2008…on Flickr
New Public Website for Lawyers: ‘Give Content. Get Noticed.’
February 27th, 2008ABA Journal on JD Supra (via)
Oddest Book Title of the Year
February 27th, 2008From Bookseller Magazine
Peter Rukavina - Canada’s Superpatron?
February 27th, 2008Paul R. Pival - “Peter Rukavina - Canada’s Superpatron?”