I attended a talk about the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s use of SFX/Find It! technology. Harvard also uses this technology. I’ve seen the icon in several places, but I haven’t played with it to know what it does. It’s actually an incredibly powerful tool because it quickly connects searchers with similar items in other databases. Perhaps [...]
Bonnie Shucha attended "A Look into the World of Blogging" the other night and saw in my notes that I’m looking for better ways to describe feeds, aggregators, and syndication because a number of audience members seemed really confused by my explanation. Bonnie let me know about this PowerPoint presentation on Bloglines she gave in [...]
A few of you are amazed at the amount of e-mail I receive, so I’m posting this for your amusement. I missed four days of work this week because of my talk in Wisconsin. I got distracted when I began downloading my e-mail, so I didn’t see the initial number, but when I looked, it [...]
Wired magazine writes about Jessamyn West and the movement against the USA Patriot Act.
A few quotes from the article:
“[West] believes that you have to be somewhat radical to become a librarian in the first place. In addition to a good education, you need to devote yourself to low-to-middle-paying jobs where even your friends make jokes [...]
I posted my notes from "A Look into the World of Blogging," the presentation I gave last night at a Special Libraries Association Wisconsin Chapter program. I typed these based on my memory. If I remember more questions or more key points of discussion, I might go back to add more. If you were there, [...]
Frassle developer Shimon Rura is going to be horribly disappointed when he learns this, but I meant to show off the Frassle Publisher during my talk as a “what’s next in blogging” kind of example, but I decided not to because of time constraints. I think I might have had it on the screen momentarily, [...]