One of my favorite blog readers e-mailed me about The Hollywood Librarian: A Documentary Film by Ann Seidl and the above interview. (Thanks!) The film features the use of images of librarians and libraries in American cinema. With interviews of librarians, library users, and trustees, it hopes to be entertaining and educational. I read that [...]
The Dowbrigade writes about the challenges of categorization on blogs, especially when blog platforms aren’t conducive to robust category systems. I’ve been considering buidling some hierarchical categories in Manila manually, like Blogging–Corporations or Blogging within Libraries, then depicting them nested in the category list. To the user, it would look nested. The software shouldn’t care [...]
Here we go again on another quest to find a blog post. Search engines, categories, and patience can only get us so far. I remember reading it. The blogger remembers writing it. Why can neither of us find it now? One of my fears, of course, is that the server ate it and no one [...]
Indeed. I wonder what happens if I do this. Or how about this, this, this, and this simultaneously?
I couldn’t believe my ears the other day when a fellow blogger told me /I don’t spend enough time blogging/. (Yes, Mom, read that again. Tis true.) He also expressed annoyance at my weblogs scattered to the wind because he actually wants to read many of them. He prefers people who blog in one space [...]