Speaking of concerns about students blogging, the Electronic Frontier Foundation now has an FAQ for student bloggers, focusing on students below the college level.
The Berkman blog post has more links of interest.
Of course, I’m thankful for all of you blog readers and visitors. I’m especially thankful for people like Rich and Amy and many others who constantly bring things to my attention for this blog and its audience.
Here’s another great item from Rich I probably wouldn’t have seen had he not sent it to me. [...]
It’s been quite a while since I’ve written anything about broadcast media. Tuesday morning, I caught a National Public Radio news story about the media giant Clear Channel, radio stations, and the future of radio. Years* ago, I wrote about what could happen when the same companies start to take over the airwaves. NPR touches [...]
beSpacific mentions the Nielsen/NetRatings studying showing online newspaper readership increased 11% (.pdf) in the last year, despite news organizations’ efforts to block readers by forcing them to reveal things like their annual incomes when they register for access to their sites. (I’m attempting humor with that last part. I know news organizations aren’t really trying [...]
Jessamyn reports EBSCO is providing free access to their database Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts.
Jessamyn, you were at least second to last to know about it because I hadn’t learned the news, either.
A collaboration involving library and information science researchers and several professional associations will examine the future of librarianship, including looking into the rumored shortage.
from the ResourceShelf
(It’s a little weird to think about a shortage of librarians when in news librarianship, there’s still a lot of downsizing and talented people looking for work for long periods [...]
On Monday, November 28, at 5 pm in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School, Brad Smith, General Counsel of Microsoft, will address “The Future of Software, the Internet, and Innovation.”
Congrats to Ken Varnum for the ResourceShelf highlighting his blog, RSS4Lib.
Newslib, a discussion list primarily for news librarians, usually hums. This past week, rising above the daily melody was a serious tone about the downsizing of yet another news library, that of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. Reports on the discussion list indicate ten years ago, fifteen people provided news library services to [...]
At some point today, I realized I forgot to put my presentation from last Monday online.
I’ve been so happy to just have one left, I’ve already forgotten about the other seven. ha ha ha