Thursday, November 13, 2003
(Thursday’s entry was a victim of a very bad technology siege involving a motherboard. Don’t ask.)
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Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Since CIPA was upheld, I’ve been asked to write and present about filtering, to help libraries make choices. Finally, after a lot of thought, I’ve turned down all these requests, and it’s because I have to be true to myself, and continue speaking the truth as I know it. My best advice hasn’t changed [...]
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
From Politech: this past Sunday, the Chicago Sun Times reported that “Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble conducted a secret RFID trial involving Oklahoma consumers earlier this year. … Customers who purchased P&G’s Lipfinity brand lipstick at the Broken Arrow Wal-Mart store between late March and mid-July unknowingly left the store with live RFID tracking devices [...]
Monday, November 10, 2003
Yesterday I spent a good chunk of time horsing around with the new MT Plugin Manager, which offers vastly simplified installation and one-stop management for a slew of plugins available for Movable Type.
I used the Plugin Manager to install four plugins; I implemented one, Entry, which I used to create the “Current Hot Topic” feature [...]
This is sort of a con-grunt from Internet Librarian 2003, but not specific to any one program. I heard repeated reference from presenters and keynoters to the significance of Amazon’s new “Search Inside the Book” feature, confirming my own gut reaction that this is big, really big, in ways we don’t yet understand or [...]
Tidbits from other programs…
The Webmaster Program
Saw a terrific javascript trick for spamproof email… it temporarily eludes my grasp… but I bet it starts making the rounds.
Recommended “Designing with Web standards,” saying it is “a good book for arguing about working with standards.”
Reading: Adaptive Path: short essay on the business benefits of standards [...]
Saturday, November 8, 2003
Today is Marylaine Block’s birthday. I only found this out because Library Stuff reported that it’s MY birthday. Hey, those young’uns can’t tell us old farts apart! Happy Birthday, Marylaine!
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Saturday, November 8, 2003
The sad news was Gary Price couldn’t make it to IL 2003, due to a hospitalization (he won’t miss his gall bladder, and he’s feeling much better).
The good news was his replacement, Rich Wiggins, gave a boffo talk. I can’t replicate the whole talk, of course–Wiggins is his own dynamic universe–but here [...]
This was one of the best ideas that came out of IL 2003… an lii.org toolbar! Jenny and Steven suggested this over dinner. I mean, doesn’t that just scream mini-grant? What librarian wouldn’t love an lii.org toolbar?
They also liked my idea of a federated search functionality–so that a search in lii.org could [...]
