Archive for December 6th, 2004

Another Reason to Enable Blog Comments

Monday, December 6th, 2004

I swear this isn’t meant as the cheap dig you might think it is intended to be.
rte writes about his quest for finding a new PIM or PDA. If he allowed comments on his blog, people who have experience using these tools could easily chime into the discussion.
He posted earlier about why he doesn’t allow [...]

Feedster Developer Contest Entry Form is Now Available!

Monday, December 6th, 2004

A whole week before the new contest deadline, too! I guess some people lost that bet, eh.
Thanks, Scott!
What’s even more impressive to me is that a link to the form is on Feedster’s front page right now. It doesn’t seem to be linked from the blog posts.

Pew Surveys Musicians about the Internet & P2P Sharing (.pdf)

Monday, December 6th, 2004

A Pew Internet & American Life Project survey of almost 3,000 musicians finds many use the Internet as an important tool, think unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing should be illegal, and don’t feel online file sharing threatens their work in a major way.
another from beSpacific

FDA Uses Feeds for Recall Info

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Does this mean someone read my words? I didn’t think so, either.
seen in beSpacific’s feed

QuackTrack

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Steven Cohen writes about QuackTrack, a blog index he recently discovered. It seems there are more than three library weblogs in it.
The top 200 library weblogs are supposedly sorted by the number of incoming links, a way to measure popularity. The blogs you might expect to find on top are there: ResourceShelf, The Shifted Librarian, [...]

Bain Librarian Indicted on Embezzlement Charges

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Over a six year period, a librarian at Bain and Co. in Boston embezzled over $800,000 from the company.

Are Bookless Libraries in Our Future?

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Dennis Dillon of the University of Texas at Austin speculates on the future of libraries in this Chronicle of Higher Education piece. Beginning with a discussion of the possibility of outsourcing library services, Dillon examines scholarly publishing and library budgets and how if things don’t change, future academic libraries may not be able to afford [...]

Weblog Collaboration Blog

Monday, December 6th, 2004

I feel like I’m repeating myself here, but I couldn’t find another post about this new weblog focusing on "weblogs as collaborative business tools." So far, Scott Curtis’ posts about online collaboration and collaborative tools cover topics like blogs and knowledge management, wikis, and blogging in business.

First Gmail Spam

Monday, December 6th, 2004

I received the first spam e-mail in my Gmail account today. I can’t remember when I opened the account, but I’ve had it for at least 688 unread blog posts–at least that’s how many confirmation e-mails from a few of my blogs are sitting there. Sixty to seventy percent of the e-mail I receive in [...]

What?!? Only 3 Librarians Blog?!?

Monday, December 6th, 2004

Or maybe it’s just that there are only three worthy of an award.
You’ll have to read about this on Library Stuff, ’cause either I must not blog or I’m not a librarian. Take your pick.
::disconnects computer from the ‘net::


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