Archive for January, 2005

Laura Sydell is in Wikipedia!

Friday, January 28th, 2005

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 [...]

Congratulations to the 2005 News Division Award Winners!

Friday, January 28th, 2005

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 [...]

Mood Indicators in E-mail?

Friday, January 28th, 2005

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 [...]

Bitte keine Musik steheln.

Friday, January 28th, 2005

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 [...]

The Value of Public Libraries

Friday, January 28th, 2005

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!

Why Picking up Hitchhikers can be Good

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

Jessamyn tells about giving a hitchhiker a ride and helping him clear up his library fines.
Being in public relations, I really like her statement:
"… it’s nice when you just tell the truth about the library and people who have been thinking something untrue about it get the message."

Je’ on Dave Winer’s Point about not Naming Journalists

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

I think it’s funny and a good point, anyway.
And, geez, it’s been /forever/ since I’ve pointed to Je’. /me waves to Je’.

LII’s Feed

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

Last week, someone asked about the feed for the Librarians’ Index to the Internet. I waited for it to reappear in my aggregator so I could show it instead of just saying, “Yeah, I subscribe to that.” Here’s this week’s issue.

Comment to Copyright Office on Orphaned Copyrighted Works

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

It seems like I was explaining to someone the challenges of clearing copyright for orphaned works not too long ago. According to Sabrina on beSpacific, the Copyright Office hopes people will comment to them about it.
Addendum: A geeky reader observed that orphaned copyright works are very similar to abandonware in the computer industry.
I’m hoping readers [...]

Knitting at Library Conferences

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

Thank you, Tangognat, for reminding me what a friend reminded me about earlier that I totally forgot: I don’t mind if people knit during my portion of the blogging course at SLA in June, well at least the first part. When we get to the hands-on blogging part, I might be offended by someone who’d [...]


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