Archive for June, 2004

Talk of the Nation on Blogging

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004

On Monday, the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation discussed blogging with Lev Grossman, who wrote the article for Time magazine Meet Joe Blog, Dan Gillmor of The San Jose Mercury News, who was at BloggerCon, Steve Rubel of the blog Micro Persuasion, and Ana Marie Cox of wonkette.com. Another blogger and the [...]

Interesting Use of an Orkut Community (link will only work for Orkut members and may require logging in)

Monday, June 21st, 2004

A guy named Chris is using an Orkut Community to try to organize a meetup of people in the Boston area who use Orkut. Does a face-to-face meeting negate the purpose of online networking? (That’s a joke I shouldn’t have even tried.)

PowerPoint Presentations

Monday, June 21st, 2004

I am considering using PowerPoint for my presentation to some business school librarians on Friday. I happened to uncover the June/July American Libraries containing the article End PowerPoint Dependency Now! A former student of the author’s rants against his use of PowerPoint in class. I saw some negative buzz among librarians in the blogosphere about [...]

The Internet Scout Project’s Weblog

Monday, June 21st, 2004

Where have I been? I’ve known about the Internet Scout Project and subscribed to their report for years. Today while doing an Internet search, I stumbled across their weblog. Thinking it was something new, I thumbed back through its pages and kept going and going. They’ve been blogging for years, apparently. Why I hadn’t noticed [...]

The Tampa Tribune Profiles Their Archive & Research Department

Monday, June 21st, 2004

This recent Tampa Tribune column provides a look at their Archive & Research Department and their role within the news organization.

Blogging in the Business World

Monday, June 21st, 2004

I am talking to some business librarians on Friday about blogging, so I’m collecting resources and ideas of things to show them and talk about. I appreciate any suggestions anyone out there might have. Here are some resources I might highlight: What a Blog Can Do For Your Small Business Blogging for Business Dan Bricklin [...]

Blogs 6 and 7

Friday, June 18th, 2004

Today I began blogging on two more blogs. One is for a hobby no one wants to read about on my other blogs. It’s a group blog for a bunch of us involved in a summer project and it gets one blogger-wannabe blogging and may suck a few others into the blogging world. The other [...]

IBM Tries to Block Journal Article

Thursday, June 17th, 2004

IBM is interfering with the publication of a scholarly article about a higher incidence of cancer among some of their employees. Now the authors of other articles scheduled to be published in the particular issue of Clinics in Occupational and Evnironmental Medicine are withholding their articles to protest Elsevier’s decision not to publish the article. [...]

Password-protected, Secure Blogs?

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

Someone asked me about using password-protected, completely secure blogs. She wants to start a blog for some of her clients, but she’s worried their competitors will be able to get to the content. I replied that I don’t know much about that sort of thing, but would ask around. A friend of mine tried using [...]

Rip-Roarin’ Discussion about Blogs on Newslib

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004

Some innocent postings about something else deteriorated into a nifty discussion about weblogs and blogging on Newslib, a discussion list for news librarians. It was great. Non-bloggers were asking all sorts of good questions and more bloggers besides me were responding. All this was happening while I’m involved in three or four discussions about professional [...]