asks Jessamyn, regarding the merging of the Paul Wasserman Library at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies with another campus library.
The school I went to had a separate library considered to be a laboratory for us students. Many of my fellow students worked there in various capacities–behind the circulation and reference desk, working […]
Julien Pain, Head of Internet Freedom Desk at Reporters Without Borders, is the next speaker in the Berkman Center for Internet & Society luncheon series. He’ll talk on Tuesday, July 19th, at 12:30 p.m. at the Berkman Center. RSVP no later than 2 p.m. Friday, July 15th. For more information, visit the Berkman Luncheon […]
Focusing on The San Jose Mercury News’ weblog SiliconBeat, The Wall Street Journal covers the phenomenon of journalists blogging for news organizations, including the advantages of news organizations blogging and some of the concerns. It provides a great summary of many of the issues and is worth the read.
"The Mercury News’s push into blogs […]
The Harvard blog server administrators tweaked some things a few months ago that stopped the flood of comment spam. A few came through Tuesday. The spam links are part of the person’s registration data–information I cannot edit or delete. I deleted ten of the eleven messages and removed the members from the membership list.
One of […]
"Thoughts on journalism, librarianship and blogging from a news librarian at the Harvard Office of News and Public Affairs."
I haven’t been happy with the description of this weblog Google created for some time because it makes it seem like this weblog is somehow part of my job or officially affiliated with my employer when it […]
Whoops! My speech recognition software is posting to my weblog without my permission! And while I’m at work, too! Silly microphone! We’re supposed to be working on that database~
Addendum: So, uh, what I meant to say before my speech recognition software decided to blog without me is:
This weekend is ArtBeat in Somerville, Massachusetts–a festival of […]
About a month ago, I said I would post notes about Blogging for News, the course about blogging for news organizations I taught at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference.
Overall, I thought the course went very well and can only hope that the next time I teach something like it, it goes even better. […]
A Florida man charged with unauthorized access to a computer network for using someone else’s wifi signal faces a third-degree felony. The network’s administrator noticed the man using a laptop in an SUV outside his home for a few hours before calling police. The network’s owner chose to leave his network open. The St. Petersburg […]
Looking for information about the United Nations? The UN’s Dag Hammarskjöld Library offers this blog as a source of news, publications, and information about the UN.
The Public Relations Society of America is offering a teleseminar on Wednesday, July 13th, at 3 pm EST about using RSS in corporate communications. Elizabeth Albrycht, a PR veteran who writes about blogging and public relations, is the presenter.
Members pay $85 and nonmembers pay $250 to register a site.