Archive for June 17th, 2008

Blogger Gathering at Wild Ginger in Seattle, um, Now

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I was going to try to make the blogger gathering at Wild Ginger in Seattle this evening, but I don’t think I should try to do that with the News Division banquet starting at 6 p. The two are far enough apart that the timing just won’t work out for me to do both, especially [...]

Twitter is over capacity again.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

It must be all the librarians at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference trying to figure out what everyone is doing for dinner. Microblog on Babbledog instead!

Keeping Found Things Found

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

William Jones, who is one of the fellows behind the project Keeping Found Things Found, is giving an overview of the project and personal information management at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. I remembered writing about the work before and was suprised that it was back in December 2003. One piece of irony is [...]

Cynthia Cheng Correia on Blogs, Podcasts, & Newsgroups for CI

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

In a session about how to use blogs, podcasts, and newsgroups for competitive intelligence, Cynthia Cheng Correia covered the basics of competitive intelligence and how to evaluate and select blogs, podcasts, and newsgroups for competitive intelligence. With regards to blogs, she shared a cautionary tale about marketing people who set up blogs with the voice [...]

AP Grapples with Bloggers Quoting Articles

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

“On Friday, The A.P. issued a statement defending its action, saying it was going to challenge blog postings containing excerpts of A.P. articles ‘when we feel the use is more reproduction than reference, or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.’ An A.P. spokesman declined Friday to further explain the association

More Cuts in the News Industry

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

There’s been a lot of talk among the Special Libraries Association News Division about the state of our profession because of all the job cuts. Yesterday, another announcement on our discussion list brought bad news of workforce reductions that will impact some of our colleagues. We’ve been discussing the low turnout and missing many of [...]


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