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I love how when I print directions from Google Maps, the line showing the route doesn’t show on the print out. I imagine it’s just a printer issue, but I still think it’s hilarious.

Bwah ha ha ha!
I just report what’s out there. I don’t find errors myself … often.

I realized a few hours after Jimmy Wales’ talk at Harvard Law School was over that I completely forgot to post something in this space letting people know I was making a transcript on IRC. My apologies for totally flubbing that for those of you who might have wanted to tune in.
The transcript is now [...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on ways academic libraries are preserving, digitizing, and providing access to films. Some of the film collections come from local new stations.

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia/Wikimedia
Harvard Law School
Tuesday, April 26, 8:30 pm
IRC transcript of the talk
I did not realize when I began taking notes on IRC that I would be posting the transcript. Since people in the channel did not know ahead of time the transcript would become public, I edited it in several ways. I removed comments and [...]

One of the topics that came up at Jimmy Wales’ lunch talk at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society is that no one in the room besides Jimmy seemed to have Wikipedia entries. Seeing this item on Library Stuff about someone determining whether Jessamyn West, the librarian and blogger, deserves an entry or not [...]

Someone sent me a link to this blog by Steve Matthews, who does Web development and library and knowledge management for a Vancouver law firm. Some of his more recent posts deal with KM in law firms. I like his vacation policy.
Addenda: Check out what Steve wrote on his blog about me linking to him. [...]

I was laughing so hard after reading this one, I’m sure my coworkers wondered what I was doing.
I saw this in my aggregator. It’s the first time in weeks I saw a comic in my aggregator. Yea!

Beginning at 8 pm, sj will demo his birds project, which is what he showcased at the Boston Cyberarts Festival on Thursday. It’s great.
Jimmy Wales will still speak at 8:30 pm in 101 Pound Hall.

Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia/Wikimedia
Lunch at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Jimmy began by asking how many of the people in the room have edited Wikipedia. Most of the hands in the room went up. “Very good!” he exclaimed. He made a few jokes about sitting in a Wikipedia meetup without using meetup technology.
The [...]