Casey Bisson of the library blog Maison Bisson had a posting of the Ten commandments of egoless programming:
Understand and accept that you will make mistakes. The point is to find them early, before they make it into production. Fortunately, except for the few of us developing rocket guidance software at JPL, mistakes are rarely fatal [...]
The Massachusetts Library Association is holding it’s annual conference at the Sturbridge Hotel and Conference Center May 2-4, 2007. Some of the speakers include Nancy Pearl, Callie Crossley, Tom Ashbrook, , Jessamyn West, Jenny Levine, Michael Stephens, and Stephen Abram Early registration ends April 13.
For more info:
http://www.masslib.org/conference/2007Conference/index.htm
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Rachel Singer Gordon of the library blog The Liminal Library blog is writing a book on alternative careers for librarians and is looking for input from librarians who pursued nontraditional positions
http://www.lisjobs.com/liminal/2007/03/alternative-careers-survey.html
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Monday’s New York Times had an article called All the world’s a story about Assignment Zero, “a collaboration between Wired Magazine and NewAssignment.Net, the experimental journalism site established by Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, intends to use not only the wisdom of the crowd, but their combined reporting efforts–an approach that [...]
I was prepared to get back to regular blogging tonight, especially since Garrett sent me a really cool article about Talking Points Memo discussing how the writers do so much great investigative journalism/blogging, but I realized I still have things I should report about BarCamp Boston 2. It’ll have to wait. I was hoping to [...]