beSpacific includes this free Wall Street Journal interview with Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart. Project Gutenberg, now almost 35 years old, is a source of thousands of electronic books. Many are public domain works typed or scanned by volunteers.
to hear me ramble about blogs. Garrett Eastman and Susan Herzog did not make it. I took notes during the part of Megan Fox’ presentation I heard and will post those and my talk later. Addenda 12/10: The weather and traveling was so awful today, I feel like I need to confirm that I did [...]
Derek Slater, a noted expert on copyright, digital music, and technology and author of A Copyfighter’s Musings, speaks at the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series Tuesday, December 13, 2005. RSVP Friday to go. The space will fill up fast (and may already be gone). The lunches are usually Webcast.
Just in time for a talk on blogs I’m giving in a few hours (weather willing), Steven shares a great example of the benefits of librarians reading blogs through this brief story about what librarians learned by reading a university student’s weblog.
Wikipedia continues to be in the blogs and the news. Amy Disch shared a link to a memo on a Poynter discussion board from a New York Times editor suggesting that reporters not use Wikipedia as a source anymore. C-Net News explores Wikipedia’s legal liability in light of the Seigenthaler situation. Based on certain legislation [...]
For the presentation I’m giving Friday, I’d like to name some great knowledge management blogs. What are your favorites? I’ve got: Portals and KM by Bill Ives Knowledge Jolt with Jack Vinson Lilia Effimova’s Mathemagenic ASIST K-Blog Panel Want to add to the list? Comment or ping me.
Librarians-The Image and the Myth is a blog dealing with the librarian stereotype and the image of the librarian.
I was pleasantly surprised to find more than a hundred referer hits from Pajamas Media’s post about Wikipedia. I disagree with some of the information in their post and feel like I should clarify a few things. Some people I’ve been talking to recently seem to have the same misperceptions. "Wikipedia is … written in [...]
OCLC released the report Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources, which “summarizes findings of an international study on information-seeking habits and preferences.” The ResourceShelf has highlights.
I haven’t been counting my appearance at Thursday’s blog group as a presentation, but maybe I should. It’ll be my eighth and Friday’s talk will be my ninth this fall. (Ugh!) Anyway … Garrett and I are going to be doing a test of our presentations for ACRL ITIG on Friday. I’m talking about blogs [...]
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