Rich’s string of cool posts is enough to get me to stop writing about BarCamp Boston 2. The Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities launched a new site this week with lots of content from American newspapers: Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Beta). (Gotta love the beta. When something gets to omega, [...]
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 [...]
The last two of the BarCamp Boston 2 presentations I attended on Saturday dealt with different medical applications. I missed a chunk of the first talk about a Web-based medical application Andy Shearer works on. He uses a variety of languages for it. It’s spiffy.
Richard Barbalace gave a tour of medical surveys the lab where [...]
Another person I know from blog group, Michael Feldman is speaking about using technology in education now. The Web site he put together for it seems useful. It includes a number of questions educators should explore before using technology in a class.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen Michael give a presentation. I was first [...]
I should tell you about the medical application sessions I went to yesterday afternoon, the One Laptop Per Child excursion, and a few other things from last night, but I’m in a BarCamp Boston 2 session Erica George is leading about Stop Badware.org, a project out of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society about [...]
I wasn’t sure how to blog BarCamp Boston 2 because I didn’t know if I’d be making posts for each session or just doing brief summaries. The two sessions I attended already I can briefly summarize. Now, I’m in Amanda Watlington’s talk about making video and audio searchable. She rocks. I know her in real [...]