j’s scratchpad

I prefer stouts. But I don’t really have a lake nearby where we can listen to the sailboats clank. Will the ocean do?

Here’s another article examining the differences between traditional media and weblogs. David Kirkpatrick of Forbes discusses how he used blogs to get information about the election last week instead of traditional media outlets.
noticed on Portals and KM

LS points to an innovative use of a wiki. Someone in Shanghai created an editable map for bus routes. People can also use the map to indicate where they live or the location of events. LS suggests using the technology in cities as a way to help people know about bad traffic situations.
The site linked […]

Originally, I was going to lump Feedster’s Scott Johnson’s and Nick Bradbury’s of Bradbury Software (FeedDemon and more) posts about what it’s like being a vendor at a conference with the other post about BloggerCon III notes, but I think those of you who attend any kind of conference might appreciate learning about what vendors […]

Curtis Krueger of the St. Petersburg (FL) Times backgrounds Jimmy Wales and the start of Wikipedia.
from LIS News

Feedster is giving away iPods in a contest for the best use of Feedster.
Maybe there’s hope for me yet:

Best Feedster Documentation or Tutorial for RSS Newbies
Best Feedster Advanced Search Documentation
Oddest use of Feedster (Sometimes I use it as a bathmat …)
The Wildcard — The other use of Feedster that we just like best

Does constantly breaking […]

Thomas Pack writes about the blogosphere and what it is in the November issue of Information Today’s Link-Up@Home section. The item does not appear to be available through Information Today’s Web site.
Addendum 11/9: It cites three sources for information about weblogs and their history:

Wikipedia on weblogs
What are blogs, and how did they become so popular?
Rebecca […]

Francesca Gino, a Harvard Business School post-doctoral fellow in the Technology and Operations Management Unit, discovered people don’t value free information as much as information for which they paid, even if the two are equal.
from a discussion list for solo librarians
Addendum: Jessamyn also shares thoughts about this research. LIS News also picked it up.

One of my readers asked me a number of questions about wikis. Here are a few resources about wikis and their use in libraries and business. It is my intention to add to this list over the next few days.

Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool […]

I found one of my secret blogs in Feedster tonight, er this morning. I had searched for it there previously and hadn’t seen it, but tonight, it was mixed with some search results. I realized why I couldn’t find it before. The search mechanism doesn’t like the name of the blog. When I searched on […]