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I just report what’s out there. I don’t find errors myself … often.

I realized a few hours after Jimmy Wales’ talk at Harvard Law School was over that I completely forgot to post something in this space letting people know I was making a transcript on IRC. My apologies for totally flubbing that for those of you who might have wanted to tune in.
The transcript is now […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on ways academic libraries are preserving, digitizing, and providing access to films. Some of the film collections come from local new stations.

One of the topics that came up at Jimmy Wales’ lunch talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is that no one in the room besides Jimmy seemed to have Wikipedia entries. Seeing this item on Library Stuff about someone determining whether Jessamyn West, the librarian and blogger, deserves an entry or not […]

Someone sent me a link to this blog by Steve Matthews, who does Web development and library and knowledge management for a Vancouver law firm. Some of his more recent posts deal with KM in law firms. I like his vacation policy.
Addenda: Check out what Steve wrote on his blog about me linking to him. […]

I was laughing so hard after reading this one, I’m sure my coworkers wondered what I was doing.
I saw this in my aggregator. It’s the first time in weeks I saw a comic in my aggregator. Yea!

Beginning at 8 pm, sj will demo his birds project, which is what he showcased at the Boston Cyberarts Festival on Thursday. It’s great.
Jimmy Wales will still speak at 8:30 pm in 101 Pound Hall.

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hosting a special lunch for Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia/Wikimedia this afternoon. I am lucky enough to have gotten an invite. I will probably do some live blogging. Since it’s over lunch, my notes may not be that great because I’ll want to eat, too. sj is here […]

Just a word about the comment form because the info it asks for and what it does with it is a bit misleading.

Name
Email
Web site
Comment

Manila requires an e-mail address from people to post a comment. It doesn’t have to be a valid e-mail address; the blank just has to be filled in. Why it does this, […]

I told someone who thinks I’m being a bit elusive that I should be either the first or second hit for “j Baumgart” in Google. I don’t think he believed me. It’s true–at least for the time being.
I’m competing with a nursing scholar and a lawyer.
There’s a bad joke in there somewhere …