Archive for October 12th, 2004

New Image with this Blog in Feedster

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Those Feedster people make me laugh. While I wasn’t watching, they switched the photo of the totally hot redhead that was linked to this blog for a piece of my knitting. (Yes, the sidebar on this blog is an actual piece of my knitting I scanned in and lightened. The light-weight, cotton sweater was a [...]

Hewlett-Packard Asks Sun’s Schwartz to Stop Blogging about Them

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Bill Ives told me about this incident when I saw him a few days ago. Sun Microsystem’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has been criticizing some of his competitors on his blog. A few are responding via their blogs, but Hewlett-Packard sent him a legal letter asking him to stop. An October 4 Fortune article covers the [...]

Law in Cyberspace Presentations

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Berkman Center for Internet & Society Executive Director John Palfrey’s presentations on law in Cyberspace he gave at Cornell University look interesting. spotted on the ResourceShelf

Trends and Comparisons in Scholarly Journal Prices

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

The ResourceShelf points to this article analyzing the prices of 6,000 journals from twelve scholarly publishers. LISU, a research center based at the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom, did the study.

LexisNexis to Provide Factiva Content to Law Firms

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

This agreement is particularly noteworthy since these two major database and information vendors are competitors. seen on the ResourceShelf

Why I Haven’t Been Blogging

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

I couldn’t believe this. Today, I had a phone message from a sometimes-reader concerned because I haven’t been updating several of the blogs I contribute to. The reason is really quite simple and does not involve any vehicular accidents. (Sorry, you’ll have to run over that likeness of me again.) The modem on my laptop [...]

Keeping Track of Digital Photos

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

LIS News highlights this Wired article about the problems of caring for digital photos. It begins by describing the Bettmann photo archive, then talks about some companies of the digital world, like Corbis and Picasa. It does not address photo archiving in commercial organizations, like a media outlet, nor does it mention any of the [...]

Blogging Course Approved for SLA 2005 Annual Conference

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Great news: The Special Libraries Association has approved the SLA News Division’s proposal to offer a half-day continuing education course about weblogs, blogging, and feeds at the Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference in Toronto, June 4-8. Professional development chair Jim Hunter hopes toh lots of hands-on learning to a group of about 25 participants. [...]

Upcoming Blog Talk, Saturday, October 30, Mt. Holyoke College

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Registration is now open for: Blogging and Feeds: What Every [Information Professional] Needs to Know* When: Saturday October 30, 2004. Registration and networking with refreshments: 12 -1 pm Program: 1 – 5:00 pm. Where: Willits-Hallowell Center, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (Directions) Speakers: Jessica Baumgart, Garrett Eastman, Shimon Rura, and Josh Ain Moderator: Kris [...]

Congratulations, Wendy and Joey!!!!!!

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

Y’all, it’s finally official: Wendy and Joey are getting married. For those of you who don’t know the story, Wendy and Joey met at BloggerCon I back in October 2003. They’ve been blogging about their relationship (among other things) and have quickly become one of the blogosphere’s most popular couples, if not /the most popular [...]