One of my favorite Massachusetts librarians, Tony Stankus, is on the cover of the March Information Outlook, the magazine for the Special Libraries Association, because of his profile.*
Tony’s a fabulous mentor, terrific science librarian, and quite an ambassador for the profession. He also has a sense of humor, which is why I feel like I [...]
Before Gary Price began his talk on Wednesday, he showed me some really cool mapping services. I use Internet mapping services very often and haven’t really been happy with them, so I appreciate learning about new and nifty sites.
One of the things I’ve always wished for is a service that distinguishes between walking and [...]
Ok, I admit this post is horribly, horribly off topic and is something I don’t think is entirely appropriate for this space, but I got tagged as the scratchpad by our dear friend, fellow reader, mentee, and colleague Amy Disch to give four answers (remember the Friday Five?) to some questions in a blogosphere equivalent [...]
Scott Johnson’s blog Scott on Feedster is gone. While deleting the blog seems to make a lot of sense because he doesn’t work at Feedster anymore, it also removes a lot of information about and some of the history of the search engine from the Web. Where did that corporate history go? I’ve linked to [...]
Those of you who have been reading the scratchpad or blogging on Harvard’s server for two to three years might remember the now defunct global stats and rankings pages some of us used to watch. Many of us have been hoping we could find a similar ranking tool for our blogs or some other measure [...]
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet, one of my favorite metasites and an important resource for librarians and Web surfers, is facing a 50% budget cut. They have a survey to try to figure out what to do. They’ll be gathering data through Thursday, March 16.
From Question 3:
"LII is facing a 50% budget cut in [...]
On Talk of the Nation Wednesday, JJ Sutherland explains why National Public Radio decided to start a blog and how they hope people will use it. From the first post, which also introduces JJ:
"But perhaps most importantly this is an attempt to engage in an ongoing conversation with you. Send us email, leave us comments [...]