I’m sure this will change before you see it, but the scratchpad’s post asking about how to place a feed on a site (not to be confused with creating a feed for a site) is near 26 on Daypop’s top 40. To my knowledge, that’s the first time any of my blogs have hit Daypop. [...]
Many of my friends read a lot of books and watch a lot of movies and like to talk about books and movies. I don’t have a lot of time to read and I don’t go to movies very often. I’ve missed some “essentials of American culture” because of those trends, apparently. They often recommnend [...]
Jessamyn writes about wifi in libraries, giving a good summary of the issues.
My local public library recently began offering wireless. I have yet to try it out–mostly because it’s difficult for me to get to the library when it’s open because of my busy schedule.
Wow! Maybe I could do live blogging from the next book [...]
The Wall Street Journal explores issues related to blogging in elementary and high schools, focusing on student privacy.
Addenda: My apologies: Last night, I meant to type that this link is only available to subscribers of The Wall Street Journal, but a phone call distracted me and I forgot.
Later: I think the above temporary link should [...]
No, I’m not this Jessica.
I attended part of a talk at Simmons College tonight with Janice Lachance, executive director of the Special Libraries Association, and Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Dean Michele Cloonan. I missed Dean Cloonan’s talk and only caught the end of Ms. Lachance’s remarks. I understand that Dean Cloonan related the competencies [...]
The Dowbrigade reminds us that spam solutions aren’t always the fantastic saviors we want them to be. It seems like I also spend twice as much time sorting through my eight or nine or so e-mail accounts (do I have more blogs than e-mail accounts or the other way around?) because of bad spam filters [...]