This post is dedicated to my penpal.
The first Saturday in May is Free Comic Book Day! This year, that’s Saturday, May 5. Certain retailers are participating. The Web site has more details.
I’m heading out shortly~
So, um, I’ve been a bit distracted this spring and have neglected to give my usual post about the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, June 2-5, 2007, in Denver, Colorado.
As always, there are a lot of great things on the schedule. Former US Vice President Al Gore and Dilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams are giving [...]
My credit card company flagged my recent Special Libraries Association membership renewal and conference registration costs as suspicious activity because they didn’t believe such an organization existed. I had to call them and authorize the purchases so they would go through. It cracked me up.
I’m glad my credit card company is being careful, but, really, [...]
The online comic xkcd put together a map indicating the size of online communities. Like the disclaimer says, it’s based on the best knowledge available, but not necessarily accurate knowledge. Thanks, James, for the link.
Unfortunately, someone stole xkcd creator Randall Munroe’s laptop while he was sleeping. I had another close brush with hard drive bad [...]
One of the questions after David Weinberger’s talk Monday is why library catalogs don’t have more features like some of the Web 2.0 tools and Web sites like Amazon have. What would be so wrong with suggestions like “People who read this book also read …” or informal book reviews and tagging integrated into catalogs? [...]