j's scratchpad

Podcamp Boston is being held on September 9-10 at the Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. The event is free, but you have to register to attend. Several librarians have registered.  http://podcamp.pbwiki.com/

"Newspapers are making progress with the internet, but most are still too timid, defensive or high-minded" begins the Economist’s bit on the newspaper industry. The article explores why newspapers are declining in popularity and facing revenue decreases. It explores some successful methods of newspapers as well as making suggestions for improvements.

I met Justin of Care2 on a Web 2.0 panel in June. He subsequently asked me to write a bit for frogloop about wikis as a guest blogger.

Paul Graham is a well known IT essayist. Many of his essays are online, and are quite fun to read.

The Pirate Party is participating in elections in sweden just a few days earlier, on september 17. Sneaky! Thank you!

I’ve heard a lot of really great things about past Internet Librarian conferences. Three to five days of geeking with librarians. Sounds like my kinda crowd, doesn’t it? I got a preview of some of the wiki talks at Wikimania. Terrific stuff. If you’re waffling about going, let me tell you now that I’ve heard [...]

Ok, well, you’ve read my thoughts on trackback spam before. I was discussing the problem I’ve been having deleting the huge mass of spam that’s been accumulating on some of the posts to a programmer friend of mine. Within a few moments, he came up with an easy way to mass select and delete much [...]

Yeah, so, um, like Kim says, I’m going to be taking some time offline between Sunday, August 27 and Monday, September 11. I’ve picked a few folks to keep content going on the scratchpad in my absence, so, hopefully, you will continue to find something new here each day. It’s funny: when I first learned [...]

Bewarre of the Pirates! Thar they be! Dude, Talk like a Pirate Day is next month.

Hi I’m Kim, I might be guestblogging here a little when j will be away.