Bill Ives, who admits earlier “I used the wikipedia a lot and now have renewed confidence in it,” points to posts on Many2Many and Freedom to Tinker concerning the debate about whether Wikipedia is better than Encyclopedia Britannica.
Freedom to Tinker’s evaluation often mentions which source is more current. It’s too bad no one talks about [...]
The other night, I borrowed someone’s computer to blog and encountered these errors when I tried to post some news items and update my tagline:
“Sorry! There was an error: Can’t evaluate the expression because the name “referer” hasn’t been defined. The error was detected by Frontier 9.0 in mainResponder.respond. Webmaster: weblogmaster@cyber … .”
and
[Macro error: Can't [...]
My talk to the library/information science class went well, except for a number of technical problems involving the projector prohibiting me from showing them my presentation or the databases I brought with me. Thanks to a late night whim fulfilling the request of a blog reader, I tossed a draft outline of my presentation on [...]
I know from talking to Josh that he has some interesting thoughts on copyright law. I haven’t read this first-in-a-series-of-three post yet, but I think some of you who are interested in copyright law might want to read it. He ” … begin[s] by examining what factors influence a person’s decision to either buy [...]
(This item might read like a rant, but it isn’t intended to be one.)
Caveat Lector writes that my appearance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in, wow, less than forty-eight hours, is “bringing coal to Newcastle,” or totally useless, redundant, and unnecessary. Perhaps Dorothea thinks everyone in Wisconsin knows what blogging, feeds, and aggregators are and [...]
This Washington Post article compares Wikipedia to Encyclopedia Britannica and has some information about things Wikipedia is doing to improve its quality. The journalist reports that founder Jimmy Wales mentioned how Wikipedia might do start doing that in the near future.
“The way Wikipedia works now, anything can be edited almost endlessly. Editing could continue, but [...]
This Gannett News Service piece discusses the changing role of special librarians and the increasing need for their skills in corporate settings.
“Gone are the days of shushing and the Dewey decimal system, of linoleum floors and musty volumes. Now, being a librarian takes Internet savvy, organization, keen business sense and a touch of a detective’s [...]
Librarian.net is Feedster Feed of the Day! Congratulations, Jessamyn!
Addendum 9/18: I guess I should tell the backstory to this blog post ’cause it’s kinda cool. While I was giving my blog talk, I showed the audience Feedster. I happened to notice Librarian.net was Feed of the Day. I asked the audience if anyone was familiar with [...]