j’s scratchpad

I got a kick out of this gapingvoid post about the role of A-list bloggers in promoting those of us who are not A-listers.
Caution: The comic contains profanity.

Someone in the blog group mentioned the idea of continuous computing–where so many of us are constantly at our computers: during meetings, at home in front of the telly, while we’re commuting, etc. I found a brief bit about it in MIT’s Technology Review.

This blog post is about an ad for the Library Bar using women who are dressed up like the sexy, smart librarian stereotype.
I swear I picked my tagline about quiet late last night before encountering all these great librarian things to blog about.
Addendum 8/14: LISNews also mentions this ad.

Nick Wingfield of the Wall Street Journal discusses ways reporters use blogs in the newsletter Journalists Speak Out on PR. In the following week’s issue, he discusses public relations strategy for blogs and podcasts.
from following a trail of links to Cyberjournalist from beSpacific.

The Seattle Times tells us what Nancy Pearl, the librarian on whom the librarian action figure is modeled, has been doing lately.
Most importantly, it reports:
"An ‘action figure’ made in her likeness has been reissued in ‘deluxe’ form, with book cart, desk and computer, and has just arrived at the Archie McPhee store in […]

"All this activity [in the library] puts to rest the memory of the library as a place where you have to “shush.”"
The Los Angeles Times takes a closer look at some of LA’s newer public libraries. In an age where we see far too many stories about library cuts, it provides a fantastic contrast.
I swear […]