At the Berkman Center for Internet & Society right now, David Weinberger is talking about authority and Wikipedia. http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s… is the webcast link. The talk should last until approximately 7:30 pm.
We spent a few minutes talking about the value of names and why many people uses pseudonyms in the Wikipedia community. I’ve been thinking about the [...]
So I’m listening to Dan Gillmor’s talk: part 2 of Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We. You can, too: http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s…. I’m not sure if an archive might be available.
The man sitting to my right has a really amazing looking gadget that seems to be a cousin of this computer marketed to [...]
The major news in the United States for the media industry is McClatchy’s purchase of Knight Ridder for $4.5 billion plus $2 billion in debt for a total of $6.5 billion. Both are huge media companies that own many news outlets. Based on daily circulation numbers, McClatchy will become the second largest newspaper company in [...]
Google launched Google Mars, a mapping tool for the Red Planet a few weeks ago. I wish this mapping service would have been around when I did my thesis on Mars.
So, yeah, so you’ve noticed I don’t have as many speaking gigs this spring as I did this past fall. Nonetheless, when I read these guidelines on being a great moderator by Guy Kawasaki, a blogger whose name I’ve heard a lot lately, I thought I’d stick them here. It’s close to conference season. Maybe [...]
gapingvoid explores how financially supporting bloggers can change the blogger-reader relationship with a conversation snippet. That’s not to say people shouldn’t financially support bloggers. It’s a caution that bloggers and readers should be aware of how their relationship might change when money enters the picture.
Note: Some people might find the language in the cartoon a [...]
Speaking of the Friday Five, The Redhead is back in the blogosphere with her new blog Very Well Red–a fabulous and quite fitting name.
I’ve missed you, Redhead. It’s been way too long.
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 [...]