In order to try to get the folks at QuackTrack/Blogshares to correct the name this blog is listed under in their service (reported earlier, especially in the comments), I had to join Blogshares. They only let members send them error reports. I still have no idea why I would want to do anything with that [...]
Amidst a brief discussion about the Sunday evening film The Librarian: Quest for the Spear on Newslib, Gary Price pointed me to this ResourceShelf post about new domains with librarian in them. http://www.movie-librarians.com goes to a site with information about films with librarians as characters, from some wonderful classics to modern features. http://www.novel-librarians.com looks like [...]
One of my readers sent me this short Wired piece that looks at bias in Google News’ bots. I was hoping the bias would talk about how Google favors blogs over other kinds of sites and how that might creep into the news sources returned in search results. Instead, the bias is a political bias.
Krishna [...]
A colleague on the discussion list for solo librarians broached hyper-responsive service after readling the article “People Like People Who Are Responsive” in the November 8 Zweig Letter about how places offering fast response times (2-10 minutes) often have an advantage over their competitors. She mentioned that her responsiveness–even if it’s just letting a customer [...]