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The November 26 issue of the Internet Scout Report highlights this Web site featuring thousands of magazines, newspapers, and other reading material from around the globe.

Cyberjournalist links to some nifty uses of Google Maps.
From Garrett’s Library News & Notes

A few weeks ago, BusinessWeek featured some articles about podcasting, something a few of my readers see as an alternative to me blogging while my wrists are out of commission.
I’m working on getting my voice recognition software running. I now have an insight into how spam e-mail is written.
I think it’s great, though, that […]

Since my wrists need to heal, I’ve called on an action figure for some help blogging.
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Rich Allen sent me the link to this contest for bloggers who blog or would blog about things south of Boston.
Thanks, Rich!

Text: Boston SLA hereby confers upon Jessica Baumgart its 2005 Chapter Achievement Award as one whose outstanding performance in a committee assignment has contributed to this year’s success
Kami Bedard, Kathy McCabe & Tony Stankus
Boston Chapter Awards Committee
Hope Tillman, Boston Chapter President
The Special Libraries Association Boston Chapter gave me the 2005 Chapter Achievement Award on Wednesday, […]

The NEASIST Events weblog, which is for the New England Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, has audio and notes from their recent program Syndicate, Aggregate, Communicate: New Web Tools in Real Applications for Libraries, Companies and Regular Folk.

I attended a great presentation on tech toys and gadgets, complete with live demos! I couldn’t stop drooling. If I could have taken notes, I would have, but I can’t write and I couldn’t type. The presenter shared her del.icio.us URL with us.

I wrote my first post for the SLA Conference Blog. It’s on TypePad, so I also, coincidentally, made my first post on that platform. It’s nice how similar the posting screens are to other platforms I use. What’s confusing is that the button labeled Save is really the button to post. Since several platforms I […]

Although I was tempted to blog this item at work, I resisted temptation. The National Public Radio show Talk of the Nation examines blogging in the workplace, including interviews with John Palfrey of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Mark Jen, who was fired from Google for blogging, and someone from Sun Microsystems.
The links […]