Steven includes this Thomson’s Petersons blog about how various colleges and universities are using feeds. They’re also working on a directory of feeds from colleges and universities.
RSS4Lib highlights a recent USAToday article examinining how college students use feeds. It mentions Pluck and Onfolio and interviews Paul Jones of ibiblio fame.
It seems that the dinner party that spawned the idea for the librarian action figure happened on August 26, 2002.
This article has a terrific quote from Nancy Pearl, the librarian on whom the figure is modeled:
"’One new librarian came up to me and she said “I got nine action figures for graduation presents.” And I [...]
I was shocked when I tried to file something in the Reading department and couldn’t find it on the drop down department list on the posting page. Following the link on my sidebar returned a 404. It had vanished from the Departments page. I quickly created a new Reading category and found the cache in [...]
I created a new department for items about computers because I find that I write about them enough, especially my laptop, that having a clear place to stick the entries is a good idea.
My computer had a small mishap Thursday night involving a cat and a 3 foot fall to the floor from a bed. Now, it can’t find the airport card, so I’ve been digging around on the Internet and in the machine’s help documentation looking for information about taking out the Airport card. It gets knocked [...]
David Sifry explains how Newsweek is going to highlight bloggers linking to their articles in the articles’ sidebars.
John on Shore News Commentary provides some additional perspective: bloggers can benefit by having their content highlighted by a major news organization and media outlets have another way to encourage/be a part of a broader conversation about news [...]
A Newslib post highlights this service where users can share .pdfs with each other and have them printed, bound, and shipped.
Journalism professor and contradancer Bob Stepno tells how he introduced one of his classes to feeds and aggregators and such. He provides not only a good model of how to do it, but he also explains what they are clearly in his post.
It looks like several NBC journalists contribute to this weblog.
noticed on the Dowbrigade
The Independent reports on Wikimania, as did sj at Thursday’s blog meeting. Audio of some of the sessions is available on the Wikimania wiki. sj told me he noticed about 10 librarians at the conference. He brought me a copy of the German Wikipedia DVD. = ) Thanks, sj!
I found the link [...]