The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is hosting a special lunch for Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia/Wikimedia this afternoon. I am lucky enough to have gotten an invite. I will probably do some live blogging. Since it’s over lunch, my notes may not be that great because I’ll want to eat, too. sj is here [...]
Just a word about the comment form because the info it asks for and what it does with it is a bit misleading. Name Email Web site Comment Manila requires an e-mail address from people to post a comment. It doesn’t have to be a valid e-mail address; the blank just has to be filled [...]
I told someone who thinks I’m being a bit elusive that I should be either the first or second hit for “j Baumgart” in Google. I don’t think he believed me. It’s true–at least for the time being. I’m competing with a nursing scholar and a lawyer. There’s a bad joke in there somewhere …
*j imagines lots of readers flocking to Orkut to view the picture. I’ve had a stack of photos for scanning for a while. When I went through them looking for another photo, I paused at one and asked, “Why wouldn’t this work?” I couldn’t come up with a good answer, so there it is. I [...]
A few scratchpad readers dropped me some lines about their impression of a talk American Library Association president Michael Gorman gave at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies. I linked to Amanda Robertson’s comments because she summarizes what people told me about the event. The students, who have strong interests in [...]
Finally! The confirmation we’ve been waiting for! In their note about Jimmy Wales’ appearance at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Tuesday, April 26, the Berkman Center describes him as an incoming fellow. Of course, they probably acknowledged his rumored position weeks ago, but my aggregator ate it. By the way, sj has a [...]
Yes, they all blend together. Not only might there be entries in Wikipedia about knitting, IRC (here: Internet Relay Chat), and Yenching, but that pretty much sums up Tuesday evening. Dinner at Yenching before Jimmy Wales’ talk about Wikipedia at 8:30 p in 101 Pound Hall at Harvard Law School Knitting with a friend If [...]
I haven’t done anything with my Orkut account in forever. I was a little surprised to find that it’s still there. Probably a good thing since I founded the News Librarianship community. I’ve been meeting a lot of people in various social situations lately. Just for fun, I decided to look one of them up. [...]
Well, a link to this blog is on Google’s first page for j blog, but it’s disguised via someone else’s weblog. A direct link here is on page 5, slipping from page 4 a few months ago. j weblog returns slightly different results. The scratchpad first shows up on page 3 hidden in another weblog. [...]
Hiawatha Bray of The Boston Globe and the Associated Press’ Ken Maguire update us about the vetting of Michelle Delio’s work in several publications, including MIT’s Technology Review. Her work came under criticism after Technology Review staff discovered a source she used had misrepresented himself to her. Bray tells us what other publications for which [...]