The Valley News, a newspaper in New Hampshire, made one of the most embarassing mistakes a newspaper can make. Earlier this week, it misspelled its own name in its masthead. Thanks for sharing, Rob.
The Consumerist.com blog has a posting called “7 ways your public library can help you during a bad economy”: 1. You can get pretty much any book at the library: A book habit can be expensive. Even second hand books can add up if you read a lot. Even the smallest library can access inter-library loan, [...]
WCVB-TV Channel 5 in Boston reported on June 23 that 30 million defective tire valve stems are on old and new cars: “BOSTON — A small 50 cent part for your car could have a critical safety defect. Team 5 Investigates reported Monday there could be more than 30 million of these parts on the [...]
Aimee Mann will be performing at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Saturday, July 26 at 8 pm. Tickets, I believe, are still available. I have been a fan since her Till Tuesday days. Her concerts are very good if you can get chance to go to one. I still think she got robbed [...]
Today’s buzz in the Web 2.0 world is about TechCrunch’s latest report on Google’s efforts to buy Digg, a very popular site where people can share and vote on content, much like Babbledog, the site on which I work. The article in C|Net made me think of some of the conversations we’ve had about media [...]
Imagine you are a public librarian. Police come to you to ask to see the library’s computers because a missing girl might have used one. Per your library’s policy, you ask them for a warrant. They don’t have one. What would you do? Aid the police in their investigation in case they can quickly find [...]
Today, the Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study about changing newsrooms that found that shrinking staffs are hurting the quality of newspapers. It also discusses several other industry trends, increasing online news, and challenges to the traditional newspaper revenue model. “It has fewer pages than three years ago, the paper stock is thinner, [...]
Hey all you Web app developers out there: Babbledog is sponsoring another WebNOB meeting at Jillian’s in Manchester, NH, from 6-8 pm on Wednesday, July 16. RSVP and more details (I can’t believe my extreme lack of inspiration to blog sucked that one out of my head. We planned it weeks ago and and I [...]
I would like to wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors, and the Scratchpad readers a safe and happy 4th! You should try to take out the movie 1776 from your local public library, if you get a chance. It’s a musical loosely based during the Declaration of Independence period in Philadelphia. Cheers [...]
At the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference in New York a few years back, a fellow, who if I recall correctly worked for a news organization in Dallas at the time, who is very tall and African-American graced us with his presence. He says he gets lots of weird looks when he tells people his [...]
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