I was totally thrilled to see a note on Newslib today from Angelica Cortez announcing her new position at the Palm Beach Post. Congratulations and best wishes!
Angelica used to write about her quest for a job in a news library on Journey for a Wannbe, but unfortunately, that blog met with a sad death. She [...]
She said so herself on the radio today. She also talks to some guy named Sam Klein, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, and Clay Shirky to provide a brief glance of Wikipedia and a mention of Wikinews.
Addendum 2/22: The ResourceShelf, initiated by Gary Price, another Wikipedius (or whatever you call someone who has an entry in [...]
Linda Henderson of The Providence Journal announced the 2005 Special Libraries Association News Division award winers today. They will be honored at the awards banquet during the SLA 2005 Annual Conference.
Congratulations to Richard Geiger of the San Fracisco Chronicle, Ron Larson of Capital Newspapers, Alice Pepper of the Detroit Free Press, and Kathleen Hansen of [...]
The tech guru upgraded my work e-mail client. The first thing I noticed were clusters of peppers near some of the subject lines. It seems that the software looks for certain potentially offensive words and uses the peppers to indicate messages with questionable language. But the messages they were marking don’t have any offensive language [...]
The iPods I won in the Feedster Developers Contest arrived a few minutes ago. The one I unwrapped has the “Don’t steal music” disclaimer on it in English, French, German, and perhaps Japanese.
If I wasn’t bogged down in a massive project that’s eaten the last seven days I’ve been at work, I’d play with them [...]
LIS News reports on a study about South Carolina public libraries claiming for each $1 the state puts into a library, it gets $4.48 back. Sounds like a good investment to me!