Archive for August 19th, 2004

Books for Soldiers

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

A local newspaper highlighted this organization’s efforts to encourage donations of books, DVDs, and other materials to members of the United States military stationed overseas. This Web site gives the names and addresses of service men and women requesting items as well as providing a place for people to add their own names and addresses [...]

How to Pick Blog Software

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

Beginning with a question of whether blogs can be hosted on a specific Web site, a colleague of mine wondered if I’d give him some suggestions about getting started blogging. Here’s a version of the answer I e-mailed to him.
It is entirely possible to incorporate a blog within an existing Web site. Blogger, for example, [...]

Bob has a Rather Amusing Post about Encouraging Students to Read Newspapers in Print

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

"I want to get the students to read newspapers, and this [blackout] was a perfect way to point out the ‘portable, wireless, no batteries required’ advantages. Not only could we read the headlines and stories, I rolled up an advertising section to jam the door open in case the power came back on and tripped [...]

Eli has an Awesome Post Describing the Pressures of News Librarianship

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

Eli Edwards’ internship at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is over. It seems like she’s going to write some more about it. For now, she writes about the pressure of being a news librarian:
"The idea of making a mistake that might be seen by over half a million readers was bad. The possibility of making a mistake [...]

The Blog Server was down again for More than Twelve Hours.

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

It seems to be back up now. I appreciate your patience during these outages. There isn’t much we who blog on Harvard’s server can do during these extended down times except wait patiently for the server to return.
As much as I rag Shimon about sneaking a copy of the scratchpad onto Frassle’s server, I was [...]


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