scratchpad jr. (2nd import)

Bob Stepno writes some nice thoughts about National Public Radio’s segment with Nancy Pearl, model for the action figure librarian, who shared the first lines of books.

Verity’s new version of Ultraseek, a search engine marketed to organizations with intranets, is able to include content from weblogs. It may be among the first enterprise solution search engines to do so.
On the ResourceShelf

Jessica Baumgart
Harvard University’s Office of News and Public Affairs
j’s scratchpad
Special Libraries Association Wisconsin Chapter
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
This presentation is on the Web at: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/stories/storyReader$1635.
My notes from this presentation, including some questions people asked and my responses to them, are at: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/stories/storyReader$1671.
The World as a Blog
My experience with blogging: I’ve been blogging since April 2003 and [...]

Someone asked me something fairly straightforward about the history of a university. Just out of curiosity, I went to Wikipedia’s page on the school to see if it had the answer. It didn’t. When I found the answer, I went back to the page and added it and some other basic information about the institution. [...]

Reminder: Friday, September 10, is the deadline to register for the talk about blogging I’m giving for the Special Libraries Association Wisconsin Chapter at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of LIbrary and Information Studies on Wednesday, September 15th.