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I was going to try to explain reddit in a snippet in the title of this post, but I can’t quite figure out how to do it. It’s a site where contributors submit news items, like links to articles or blog posts, that get ranked based on popularity. I met two of the guys behind [...]

C-Span’s program Q & A hosted Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales. The program and a transcript are available via the above link. Maybe I’ll have time to watch it before lunch. noticed on Library Link of the Day

What I plan to do at Thursday’s blog meeting is to get some ideas about what kinds of nifty things about feeds I should showcase to the audience of librarians and information professionals. I’m going to show off what’s on my list right now, which I’m hesitant to share in this space because I’d like [...]

The humorous newspaper The Onion helps us realize it’s wise to consider whether a wiki is the proper technology to host a document. Thanks for sharing, Garrett!

Last night, I finished The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier–one of the books I’m reading for Banned Books Week. It took me a while to figure out why people might not like this book. I’ve decided part of the anxiety may stem from the possibility that high school is very different these days than what [...]

The Special Libraries Association Rhode Island Chapter has details of their special dinner for library and information science students on their Web site. This event is also the next opportunity for folks near Rhode Island to attend one of my presentations about blogs and feeds. (I’ll just be giving a brief case study at the [...]

Bill Ives reports on this Global PR Blog Week item giving reasons why company leaders should blog. It includes some interviews with CEOs.

So, it looks like another gathering I meant to blog, but didn’t, is the Wikipedia meeting that happened on Monday, September 26. Wikimedia founder and Berkman Fellow Jimmy Wales is in town this week for a conference at MIT and was rumored to plan to make an appearance at the meeting. He didn’t, but we [...]

Bill Ives is preparing to give a fabulous talk for the Berkman Center’s Fellows Luncheon Series. The audio link is: http://h2odev.law.harvard.edu:8000/. Gee, I thought I blogged that he was speaking a while ago, but now I can’t find whatever announcement I might have placed on this blog. Forgive me if I didn’t … Bill is an [...]

Everyone seems to be trying to get some of Wikimedia Founder Jimmy Wales’ time while he’s in Cambridge, Massachusetts this week. ALife Boston, a group dealing with “artificial life, synthetic biology, digital evolution, molecular systems biology and other related disciplines,” is having lunch with him on Thursday, September 29, at 1 pm at Bertucci’s on [...]