On Friday, June 1, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School hosts UNIVERSITY – Knowledge Beyond Authority, their Internet & Society Conference 2007. Seeing to explore the role of the university in cyberspace, the conference features participants from One Laptop Per Child, Facebook, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) OpenCourseWare. [...]
I feel incredibly compelled to point to this Wired Magazine article about Hasan Elahi, who has been posting many fine details about his life to the Internet for a few years because the US government has him on a list of terrorists. I feel odd doing so because the article is somewhat tangential to the [...]
I can’t remember now where I first saw this list of free wifi spots in Denver, Colorado, but I know I first discovered it while reading through lots of info about the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference there, June 2-7. The list has lots of other cities, too. Very useful.
All news is local, right, so how can it be outsourced to India? Outsourcing has impacted several people I know in the tech industry. One friend lost several jobs when the company he used to work for shifted various tasks overseas. Another person now manages some men in India instead of men sharing his office [...]
On Thursday, author Lloyd Alexander died in Pennsylvania. Famous for The Prydain Chronicles, of which The Black Cauldron is one, he won two National Book Awards and a Newbery Medals. His next book will be published in the next few months.
You might not believe this statement, but I actually read The Black Cauldron and have [...]
As quite a few of us are preparing to travel to many of the large library conferences happening in the next few months, I thought this post by Todd Underwood on the Renesys weblog about Internet access on flights and how he was able to track his Internet connection over the Atlantic Ocean by watching [...]
Single female librarians: sit down. Hero of librarians everywhere Gary Price married his partner Lisa Cohen. Congratulations, Mazel Tov, and may you have all the best things married couples should have. Many wonderful years together~
(Oh, the things you can find on search engine weblogs these days!)
In January, the radio show Weekend America highlighted a deletion debate on Wikipedia about an anchorwoman in Wichita, Kansas, that explores the bigger question of whether local members of the media, even well-known ones, should be included in the work. During her interview, anchor Susan Peters talks about how she would like whatever decision to [...]
Some of you have been wondering what I’ve been working on for the past few months. Come to blog group on Thursday to find out!
Shimon Rura and I are giving a demo of a really cool, cutting-edge piece of software we’ve been working on. If you use a Web browser and some kind of software [...]
Randall of xkcd is speaking at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology tonight.
Someone brought a very large, inflatable velociraptor, but there are plenty of squirt guns loaded with grape juice to save us. During the talk, some ceiling panels in the room magically opened and dumped blue, green, yellow, and red playground ball pen balls on [...]