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Scratchpad mentioned in LISNews’ This Week in LibraryBlogLand June 11, 2007

Monday, June 18th, 2007

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 News Division […]

National Free Culture Conference, 5/26, Harvard Law School

Friday, May 25th, 2007

The National Free Culture Conference happens at Harvard Law School on Saturday, May 26. Registration is free and it probably should have been in advance.
Addendum 5/26: Free culture in the sense of this conference and organization deals with free software, movements against digital rights management, the dream to be able to share software and music […]

Lloyd Alexander, Fantasy Author, Died

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

On Thursday, author Lloyd Alexander died in Pennsylvania. Famous for The Prydain Chronicles, of which The Black Cauldron is one, he won two National Book Awards and a Newbery Medals. His next book will be published in the next few months.
You might not believe this statement, but I actually read The Black Cauldron and have […]

Internet Access on Flights

Friday, May 18th, 2007

As quite a few of us are preparing to travel to many of the large library conferences happening in the next few months, I thought this post by Todd Underwood on the Renesys weblog about Internet access on flights and how he was able to track his Internet connection over the Atlantic Ocean by watching […]

Invention of the Camera Phone

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Gadgets like camera phones are changing how people do all sorts of tasks, from blogging to catching criminals to showing friends that cute someone noticed on the street. The January 6 Weekend America asks the camera phone inventor, Philippe Kahn, why he felt the need to create the gadget while his wife gave birth and […]

Today is my fourth blogiversary.

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

That’s a long time and it’s not a long time all at the same time. Lots happened in the last four years. I’ve been lucky enough to have seen more good come from blogging than bad.
This year’s blogiversary is marked by the death of the server where I began blogging. Well, it is April and […]

Manila Server Timeline–Get Your Stuff by End of Wednesday, 4/18

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Some of you who have content on the Manila server run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for the last four years have been wondering what’s next. Wonder no longer. The server administrators posted a timeline. People have through the day on Wednesday, April 18, to get their content. After that, the URL […]

More Manila –> WordPress Multiuser Migration Notes

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

I’ve spent way too much time these last few weeks moving blogs from Manila, the platform Harvard’s Berkman Center used to offer as a blog platform, to WordPress Multiuser, the platform they’re now using. Here are a few notes to help those of you also dealing with the migration.

Since WordPress doesn’t always deal well with […]

Reminder: Migrate off Manila, oh, NOW

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

A reminder to those of you blogging on the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Manila blog server: The server is getting shut down. Migrate, backup, copy, etc., your content on that server before the April 11 deadline.

Harvard Manila Server Clarification

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Based on some off-blog exchanges I’ve had with people regarding the Harvard Manila server situation, I feel the need to clarify a few things here.
What I’ve been describing is mostly a problem with just the server Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has been running for the last four years to support weblogs using […]


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