So, here I was thinking that 19 people have signed up to be members of my blog. It turns out that anytime anyone posts a comment on my blog, they automatically become members of the site. So it’s not that 19 people have joined my blog, but that 18 people have posted comments [...]
There’s a blog about librarian/library blogs. The compilers are rumored to be looking for new sites to post on it. Details
I learned today that the presentations from the April blog program sponsored by the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology are online. “It’s Not Just Google Anymore: Blogs and the Latest in Search Engines” featured Jenny Levine and Jessamyn West, among others.
Vernica talks about this important digitization project on her blog and links to more resources about it.
Today’s journal Science has an article about the status of looting in Iraq, the return of items, and how the media incorrectly reported the number of items taken from the Iraq Musem. The article also gives good background about the role of US troops in protecting antiquities from raiders. It reveals that on [...]
This week’s issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education has quite a few articles about open-source software, ranging from how open-source software allows academics to better tailor the software to the higher education environment to what happens when popular software, like PeopleSoft, is acquired by another company. There’s a colloquy at 2 pm today [...]