While I’m thankful for all of you readers and commenters, I admit I’m not terribly thankful for the 117 comment spams I found this morning. The spam originated from a number of IP addresses, like it normally does, but each one contains an identical message pointing to a number of URLs on a server at [...]
For those of you interested in people search, Vanessa Fox profiles the search engines Wink, Spock, and ZoomInfo in the October issue of Information Today. (The issue is not freely available on the Web.) They pull information about people from various sources, including social networking sites, business databases, Wikipedia, and weblogs. Wink particularly sounds interesting [...]
Front page news on The Boston Globe (so it must be true): People are reading less. David Mehegan tells us about a National Endowment for the Arts study about reading habits (.pdf) indicating the decline in people reading for pleasure continues. It seems that if children don’t read for pleasure, they don’t magically start the [...]
“Commitment to the branches is an important piece of the future. So is commitment to technology and fund-raising. The tasks require more than a librarian or a politician. The job should not be a reward for past service. A library is the gateway to knowledge and literacy. Getting people, especially young people, through the gate [...]
A lot of librarians are wondering why some librarians are so interested in Second Life, a virtual world. Many of the sessions at Internet Librarian dealt with Second Life and why librarians should at least familiarize themselves with it, if not actually figure out how to use it for their work. At tonight’s blog group, [...]
When some people travel, they eat more junk food than they normally would, using vacation as an excuse to indulge in treats they wouldn’t normally consume at home. I often use USA Today as my travel treat. I don’t normally read the newspaper, but when I travel, I can often pick up a copy fairly [...]
Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Feeds in Your Organization
Jessica Baumgart
Hudson Valley SLA
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Click on the link below to get to the outline of the presentation I gave to the Hudson Valley Special Libraries Association chapter.
I had a great time being there. The audience had some great questions. Despite delaying them from getting their dessert, [...]
Congratulations to all of the recipients of Technology Review’s Young Innovator awards!
Three are of particular interest to this community.
When Ivan Krstic´ told me about his award, I was both surprised and not surprised. I’m not geeky enough to personally vouch for the quality of what he’s been doing, but a lot of my geeky friends [...]
Here’s a Slashdot post any of us who have ever had to answer e-mail on behalf of an organization (like library@, info@, questions@, webmaster@, support@, etc.) might appreciate. It certainly reminded me of a former job.
Thanks for the link, Jim!
Between Monday, November 12, and Monday, November 26, for $399 (plus shipping, handling, taxes, and any other appropriate fees) , you can buy a One Laptop Per Child XO laptop and send one overseas to a needy child.
According to the terms and conditions, they do not guarantee delivery by the holidays and they do not [...]