Free Range Librarian

(Thanks, Jenny, for the heads-up!)
See: http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/
Major points off for the surprisingly geeked-out one-sentence “explanation” of RSS, but kudos for the super selection of Times feeds.
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http://www.softwaregarden.com/products/listgarden/
Spotted on Dan Gillmor’s blog, this looks fascinating. From the product description:
Creates and maintains RSS feeds
Produces both XML and optional human-readable companion HTML
Runs either on your PC or on a web server
Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Open source
Requires no knowledge of XML or the RSS data format
Tuned for quick manual additions of new items [...]

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http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=15079&c=130
Big news today in the free speech community: “The Supreme Court today struck down the Child Online Protection Act as an unconstitutional government attempt to censor free speech on the Internet. ‘Today’s ruling from the Court demonstrates that there are many less restrictive ways to protect children without sacrificing communication intended for adults,’ the ACLU [...]

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I’ve been quiet because my MFA classes started this weekend; between work and school, readings and written homework, blogging was just not approachable. But yesterday afternoon I had a wonderful Librarian Experience I wanted to share, so I’m squeezing this in before class, while I wait for the student cafe to open so I [...]

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The books I’ve read are bolded. (Where is… oh, never mind! This is just a trippy little meme.) I picked this up from icontemplate. Note: I’m not distinguishing between books I read and remember, and books I know I read and couldn’t tell you a thing about any more (and I have a bad feeling [...]

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I was driving home tonight and had a great thought, so profound and important I wanted to record it, and thought to myself, my Treo has microphone and sound input; why can’t it do this? By the time I got home, the thought had vanished, but my desire for recording had not.
Within five minutes [...]

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Some anonymous blogger stole LII’s name, and LIS Blogsource immediately posted this blog without stopping to ask, “gee, is this name familiar?” I am in close contact with LII leadership, and they advise me LII is not responsible for the six-post blog (which should be immediately apparent when you read the introduction).
My guess is [...]

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(Updated; see Verichat/Mundu problem resolution)
After a series of unfortunate events that would have been resolved much faster if I had better connectivity away from the office, I finally broke down and got a Treo 600.
The Treo has already changed my life, and largely for the better. I have checked an airline’s Web site [...]

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Am I the last blog-reader on the planet to catch that two days ago David Winer announced the suddenly imminent closing of weblogs.com, which will orphan literally thousands of blogs? (Read a transcription of his audio explanation here.)
For the Wired article, look here. For an excellent analysis of how not to close down [...]

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I’ve been busy as a bee at MPOW, doing all of that year-end stuff and getting ready to give a talk at LAPL tomorrow, but I caught Library Planet’s post about the new Movable Type licensing structure, which Six Apart had told e-mailed about last night. The new structure is quite generous for personal [...]

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