Archive for August 8th, 2004

Joi Ito on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

I tuned into National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Sunday for the first time in weeks today. My ears perked up when Liane Hansen introduced the Summer Reading Series guest: Joi Ito. This blogger, whom many of my blogging friends read, talked about some of the blogs he reads in the brief segment. The page linked [...]

Is this like Flat Stanley, but

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

for the librarian action figure instead? Or is it more like Where’s Waldo?
(No, I’m not saying the librarian action figure looks like Waldo, though it does bare a distant resemblance to a Waldo I once knew …)
Addendum 8/8: Having posted this yesterday, it was a rather odd experience to watch the Flat Stanley portion [...]

Librarian Bloggers Survey

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

Aaron Schmidt and Michael Stephens are asking librarians who blog about their jobs to complete this text survey and e-mail it to them so they can use it for a paper they’re writing. The sixteen questions seem pretty straightforward.
I wonder if their article will appear in a forthcoming journal about about librarians and blogs many [...]

Finding Blogs by License Type

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

sj is looking for blogs with particular kinds of licenses and wonders if there’s an easy way to do it. If license types were included as a tag in the feed, perhaps a search mechanism, like Google, Technorati, or Feedster, could help someone find blogs with certains kinds of licenses.
Distributing licensing rights with the feeds [...]

Gary Price is in Wikipedia.

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

Someone sent me this entry about Gary Price as a trick to get me to play with Wikipedia. I had to correct some misleading information about my colleague whom I admire greatly. As a librarian and as someone who has a lot of respect for Gary, I want to help prevent false information about him [...]

Update on the Pulled Rankings Page

Sunday, August 8th, 2004

John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, which hosts these Harvard blogs, posted a note earlier today about the status of the rankings page and why it has been pulled.
I’m trying hard not to feel responsible for them pulling the page, but there was a recent discussion in this space [...]


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