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The television trivia (but not trivial) game show Jeopardy! is searching for librarians to be contestants, according to LISNews. Try outs might be in Boston … Hhhmmm …

Seeing the post on Berkman’s site about Wikimania’s Call for Participation reminded me that I haven’t yet posted it here. The deadline to submit proposals for workshops and tutorials is a week from Thursday: March 30. The deadline for presentations, panels, and the like is Saturday, April 15. Yes, I am involved in the planning [...]

Mmmmmm a spaghetti sauce recipe from Scott, who admits to reading his aggregator in the kitchen sometimes and solving tech problems while cooking. I wonder if I’ll ever have time again to cook … I also find it’s a good time to ponder and sometimes brainstorm and solve problems. One of my apple crisp variations [...]

beSpacific includes this Wall Street Journal article about a ruling in a copyright case against Google last week. A federal judge decided Google’s activities related to Snodgrass Publishing Group do not violate any copyright laws. The article, which is available for free, summarizes a few other recent cases concerning Google and copyright.

It’s that time of year when I speak to a journalism class about doing research. In two hours, I should cover a lot of the basics and important stuff, like specific sources, public records, what resources are available through their local libraries (Gary Price shared a great anecdote about this during his talk), using libraries [...]

School Library Journal published a piece by Andy Carvin on the Digital Divide and why it’s dangerous that it’s no longer in the forefront of people’s minds. Andy does a lot of cool stuff with the Digital Divide around the world, so he’s definitely someone who knows something about it. He’ll be talking about his [...]

sj reports the English Wikipedia has its millionth article.

So, every so often, I think about getting blogcards, especially those with gapingvoid comics. But the problem with that is that I might have to choose which one I’d like on the card. There are too many good ones. And not all might be available as blogcards. This one is now under my consideration: "It’s [...]

Sure, we all know newspaper clippings are valuable. I attended a lecture at the Fogg Art Museum tonight by Anke te Heesen of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science called Clipping Culture in Art and Science. She touched on “… the cultural and scientific significance of collecting and deploying newspaper clippings in [...]