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Karen Schneider of the Free Range Librarian blog http://freerangelibrarian.com/ has a very good review of David Weinberger’s Everything is miscellaneous book at ALA’s TechSource blog http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/05/weinbergers-well-ordered-miscellany.html Sara Houghton-Jan of the LibrarianInBlack library blog has a posting about being mentioned in the book: http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/05/ive_been_quoted.html  posted by Rich

The New England Library Association’s Information Technology Section (ITS) has a program called “Everything you always wanted to know about Open Source” Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston Mass. Elizabeth Thomsen of the North of Boston Library Exchange will do the opening session. Joshua Ferraro of Liblime will talk [...]

Gadgets like camera phones are changing how people do all sorts of tasks, from blogging to catching criminals to showing friends that cute someone noticed on the street. The January 6 Weekend America asks the camera phone inventor, Philippe Kahn, why he felt the need to create the gadget while his wife gave birth and [...]

Jessamyn West of the Librarian.net blog has a new posting on more info on Ubuntu Linux, including links even to a wiki! http://www.librarian.net/stax/2043/ubunutu-follow-up-explanations-and-links/ Michael Sauers of the Travelin’ Librarian blog http://www.travelinlibrarian.info talks about using Wine, an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/2006/09/html-kit-in-ubuntu.html Dell is offering Ubuntu Linux [...]

Here’s a bit of humor for Friday from, er, an anonymous friend. “It won’t matter. I’ve got Wikipedia.”