j's scratchpad

I understand a few of you had problems receiving j’s scratchpad’s feed on Thursday, June 21. I put some m dashes in the quote I used from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Apparently, they were enough to blank the XML feed WordPress produces. I believe it was the m dashes (—, 'mdash;) because it was [...]

I realize some of you might be interested in knowing what I’m doing with my computer that won’t quite boot. A few years ago when I had a similar problem, a geek taught me the basics of what I’m doing now. An article from MacWorld describes the basics and how to do a little more [...]

Starting Friday, I’ll be attending my first ALA Conference which is being held in Washington, DC.  Hopefully, I will be posting about the meetings I will be attending as well as any photos I take as long the wireless connection works! posted by Rich

I don’t think I’ve ever written about Grazr in this space before, regardless of how long I’ve known about it or the fact that a friend of mine is a champion of the tool. He gave me a detailed demo, which makes me want to pull writing about it off the backburner and into reality. [...]

Here we go again. I finally had five minutes to catch up on some posts and my computer stopped booting all the way. I’ve been procrastinating getting a broken CD drive fixed, so I can’t boot from a CD. I dashed out to buy a Firewire cable, hooked the box up to another machine, booted [...]

Mashable: Social Networking News has published the Ultimate RSS Toolbox: 120+ RSS Resources http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/ The list includes readers, feed validators, plugins, mixers, and other items for Windows, Mac and Linux systems Link via the Distant Librarian http://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/

The Scratchpad was mentioned in the June 11, 2007 issue of LISNews’ This Week in LibraryBlogLand about j’s postings about the SLA conference June 3-6, 2007 http://twil.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/1258230 The SLA blog mentioned that j received an Agnes Henebry Roll of Honor Award, a certificate given to “a member or former member for service to the SLA [...]

The weblog MediaShift has a really cool interview with Lisa Williams of Placeblogger and H20town about the need for geographical tags. Using geography as a criteria to find information can be incredibly useful. It’s something many of us would like to do on a daily basis, from learning about a great new local restaurant to [...]

Garrett sent me a link to an AlterNet piece where Annalee Newitz tells her tale of what made her become a Wikipedia activist and why. Apparently, deletion can do more than just erase articles and history. Thanks, Garrett!

As you might imagine, Amy Disch, fearless Webmaster for the Special Libraries Association News Division, is hard at work posting News Division sessions on the News Division Web site. Thanks, Amy! I did not present at SLA this year.