The physical archives of American Media, Inc., may be destroyed. The publisher of many of this nation’s finest tabloids was one of the first places hit with anthrax in 2001. Because anthrax spores are still detected in the building, all of the building’s contents will probably be disposed of as hazardous material.
This is […]
“… [I]ndustry officials say the campaign will help scare students away from copying songs when they see classmates who have downloaded significant numbers of tracks getting slapped with lawsuits.” They do not define how many songs is a “significant” number.
A letter to Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman explains the tactic. (Note: I haven’t been […]
Out of sheer frustration, I tried something a blog reader suggested to me over the phone last night and it worked. I’m so baffled. If I summon the dialtone on my cordless phone, my modem can dial fine. I can get a dialtone fine from the back of my modem, so I […]
The Chicago Area Solo Librarians has released an experts database of solo librarians in the Chicago area ” … to provide a knowledge base of solo librarian talent in the area to encourage professional interaction, consultation and support with other local solos.”
(A solo librarian is a librarian who works in a library alone, is the […]
I’ve been continuing to run my daily Google News searches as well as being on the list for Google News Alerts. There were two new articles in my searches today. (Well, one new article listed twice.) I still haven’t seen today’s alert. The last one came on Friday just before 1 […]
(Yeah, well, I’m sure a lot of you knew this already and I’m just slow.) I’m still amazed at who blogs and what they blog about. For those not in the know, Gaiman is an amazing author. He has a new book out, The Wolves in the Walls, which I should probably […]
Besides having over 1000 messages in one of my e-mail accounts this morning (and that’s just this morning) and 570 by the end of business yesterday that’s related to the latest worm, I just got a bunch of bounced e-mail messages in another account. I didn’t send anything to those people. When I […]
A new report about the effectiveness of Internet protection measures related to the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) recommends ” … 1) technology vendors should offer training services to educational institutions on specific features of their products; and 2) expand[ing] CIPA’s definition of ‘technology protection measures’ to include additional technologies in order to encompass a […]
“…I’ve been concerned for a number of years that the one literary format we’ve been missing is comic books,” said Charles McNamara, curator of the Rare Book Collection in the University of North Carolina’s Wilson Library, about the donation of 26,000 comic books by an alumnus.
“I think there’s a strong scholarly interest in comics,” McNamara […]
At last week’s blog gathering, someone asked why he should attend BloggerCon. Here are my thoughts, completely independent of and unsolicited by Dave Winer or any of the BloggerCon people:
1) Networking. (Especially since the person asking is unemployed.) I’m interested in meeting other bloggers, especially some of the people in journalism and […]