http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga "We live in a beautiful world. Yes, we do. Yes, we do." --Chris Martin Fri, 09 May 2008 06:39:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Library Revolution had the following interesting post about the 2008 Computers In Library talk on Newspapers and Politics: "Libraries can learn so much by looking at what other industries have done, the challenges they have faced, and the concerns they are thinking about when building these online community interfaces. Especially helpful ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/09/cil-2008-learning-from-newspaperspolitics/ David Lee King, digital branch & services manager, Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library gave a talk called Managers listen up!: why social networking and Web 2.0 is important for your library: Some people think change means: fresh breeze at beach or screaming at the laptop why pay attention to change There are ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/09/masslib08-david-lee-king-managers-pay-attention-why-social-networking-and-web-20-is-important-for-your-library/ David Weinberger, author of Everything is miscellaneous and member of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society gave the Wednesday keynote talk called the Miscellaneous Knowledge, which he changed to The Smell of Knowledge at the 2008 Massachusetts Library Association conference in Falmouth, Mass.: Bought up the fact that letters used ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/09/masslib08-keynote-speaker-david-weinberger-miscellaneous-knowledge-or-the-smell-of-knowledge/ Instead of doing lots of little posts about upcoming conferences, I'm going to be slack and do a list in one post. I can't remember for certain if I've written about these before in this space, so forgive me if I'm repeating myself. MacCamp Boston, Saturday, May 10: A free forum ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/08/upcoming-gatherings-maccamp-510-webnob-513-berkman10-515-16-barcamp-boston-3-517-18/ Here are some notes from James Grimmelman's presentation Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: Old Problems and New Solutions. Grimmelman teaches at New York University's School of Law (and puzzles with Codex). Many sites give access to legal information, like justia.com. The state of Oregon got upset with them for ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/07/james-grimmelman-copyright-technology-and-access-to-the-law-old-problems-and-new-solutions/ I attended the Massachusetts Library Association ILS Pre Conference on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Marshall Breeding gave the keynote speech called The Future of the Integrated Library Systems: Moving toward new models and open systems. My notes and handout info: (Need to take better notes ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/07/masslib08-marshall-breeding-future-of-integrated-library-systems/ Oh, the things I learn from reading Babbledog at work. John Palfrey, who has been the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for years, is leaving his post to become the new vice dean of library and information resources at Harvard Law School. While Palfrey's new ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/05/palfrey-to-leave-berkman-new-law-school-vice-dean-of-library-and-information-resources/ RSS4LIB had the following posting about May 1 RSS Awareness Day: "Thursday, 1 May 2008, is RSS Awareness Day. There's a grassroots effort to increase the awareness and use of RSS (and syndication tools in general). On the RSS Awareness Day site, it is claimed that "Feedburner recently reported that they ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/05/01/may-1-rss-awareness-day/ Via Babbledog, I learned May 1 is RSS Awareness Day. Spread the feeds! Thanks for sharing, Ken! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/04/30/happy-rss-awareness-day/ I'll be talking about Babbledog at blog group on Thursday, May 1. Stop by to learn more about the site and what I do for it. 7 p Berkman Center for Internet & Society 2nd Floor Conference Room 23 Everett Street Cambridge, MA http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2008/04/30/babbledog-at-blog-group-thursday-51-7-p/