It looks like the Dowbrigade, one of the bloggers who received Democratic National Convention credentials, and his wife might be in New York City on Sunday to take a look at some of the protests of the Republican National Convention. That could be fun. Maybe I’ll join them. Hopefully he has this crucial piece of [...]
This library is working on providing access to its collection based on the color of the book. There’s long been a discussion that is sometimes meant completely in jest about being able to locate books by visual cues. At first, it seems like an odd thing, but my time working in bookstores made me realize [...]
LISNews points to an article in the Syracuse Post-Standard criticizing Wikipedia and following up to an earlier article suggesting the encyclopedia as a good source. A high school librarian says "Anyone can change the content of an article in the Wikipedia, and there is no editorial review of the content. I use this Web site [...]
Bob Stepno points to this article about a news director at WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, who might be one of the few television journalists with a blog.
While I was looking for information about weblogs in newsrooms, I discovered this item from March on Poynter’s Web site discussing Wikipedia’s usefulness to journalists. A few of us have been writing about its reliability and content quality, like in this other post. Addendum 8/28: Bob Stepno shares this post.
Sabrina Pacifici of LLRX.com shares a few helpful tips for those people considering starting a blog.
I suppose in some ways, Manila is a cross between a blog and a file/document management system because it allows for the uploading of files, which someone can then point to from a blog entry, but I have something much more sophisticated in mind. Does anyone know if something like this exists? As I’ve been [...]
The Telegram & Gazette Library in Worcester, Massachusetts, has a relatively new blog aimed at the publication’s journalists and other library users. One of my esteemed colleagues shared the URL with me.
A colleague came to me all excited the other day, “I just got out of an intense LexisNexis course!” He gushed “I know jiu jitsu now!” I replied, “Do you really know jiu jitsu or do you just know how to find it?”
Library Planet writes some afterthoughts about switching from Movable Type to WordPress. There’s been some buzz in my circles about switching or choosing blog software. (For the record, I am not considering switching. I’m fairly happy with the three platforms I blog on and don’t have the time, energy, or patience to consider exploring a [...]