j’s scratchpad

Gary Price points to a number of resources about semantic blogging from Hewlett-Packard. I think I’ve seen some of them on shimonolog, who asked where he could find more info about it.

I was playing around on Frassle today and rediscovered the manifestation of this blog over there. It’s based on the RSS feed, so it doesn’t include things like comments from this Manila blog or addenda. However, I learned that people can comment on it in Frassle, which I suppose means I now have to figure […]

One of my blog readers sent me the URL for this article and told me to look for the “naughty librarian” bits. It’s about Tina Fey’s glasses, which are similar to the ones Liv Tyler wore at the Oscars that caused, ahem, a small stir.

A colleague sent some information about Liberty Post to a discussion group. The site reposts news articles from many different news sources presumably without proper permission. If you work for a content creator, you might want to dig through their archives looking for your material. It looks like they’re pulling content from quite a few […]

The comic strip Unshelved has been doing a series about the online card catalog in the library being down. It’s timely for me since several servers I work on have been having problems and lots of down time lately.

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This is great. The Chronicle is one of the news sources I have to monitor every day. The feeds transmit more than just the article headlines. There’s a little bit about each article, too. I’ve been following the announcements of commencement speakers. The feed includes the names of the institutions announcing speakers instead of just […]