On Friday, September 9, and Monday, September 12, I presented information about weblogs and feeds to MAHSLIN, a group of medical and science librarians in Massachusetts. The outines for my talks are linked from the dates. My notes about how the talks went, what I forgot to say, etc., follow.
When I’m presenting, I really enjoy [...]
Jessica Baumgart
j’s scratchpad:
Jessica Baumgart
Harvard University’s Office of News and Public Affairs
j’s scratchpad:
So, I, uh, never told you about the rest of Votes, Bits, and Bytes in December. Don’t I suck? Call it procrastination. Call it being way too busy. Call it needing time to digest what happened and formulate thoughts. Call it lots of things. But it hasn’t been knocked off my to do list, so [...]
Julien Pain, Head of Internet Freedom Desk at Reporters Without Borders, spoke at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society luncheon series on Tuesday, July 19th, at 12:30 p.m. at the Berkman Center. My original post of his talk
Below are some highlights from his talk.
Dictators have to control the Internet to control information. Their [...]
I think I’ve spent enough time healing, procrastinating, and pondering what to say that I should just go ahead and tell you about the course Blogging for News I taught at the Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference. I don’t mean for this to be a rant; and, I’m not trying to lay blame. [...]
Tysen Kendig, assistant director of public information at Penn State University, discusses why he decided to start using RSS at the university in this interview:
"We were seeing a rise in the popularity of blogs and news readers that utilized RSS technology, and had a feeling that this might be the next “big” thing when it [...]
Jessica Baumgart
Harvard University’s Office of News and Public Affairs
j’s scratchpad
Special Libraries Association 2005 Annual Conference Continuing Education Course Blogging for News
Introduction to Blogs and Feeds
Sunday, June 5, 2005
blog post pointing to this story
Liz Donovan’s presentation
Follow-up notes
This presentation is on the Web at: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/stories/storyReader$3640.
Tucows generously donated some of their Blogware blogs for us to use during [...]
Here are some links to posts about comments and other potentially useful information about comments and membership on j’s scratchpad and Manila.
Comments, like other places on this weblog, can handle HTML code. A Manila bug prevents comments from displaying properly in the comment window without HTML paragraph tags and line breaks, but they do usually [...]
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 [...]