Quickly, this being a rahhhhhther busy week for Ms. FRL, is my one blog of note for this week. (It’s really a site with a feed for its formal reports.)
Did you know 36 million Americans have downloaded music? Who else would tell you that except Pew Internet and American Life?
Pew regularly publishes balanced, well-written, [...]
Tags: Blogs Worth Reading
Did you ever get a bad feeling you’d made a mistake? Yesterday’s post about search capabilities on MPOW was intended to be posted tomorrow or Friday, after usability testing ended. I post-dated the entry but failed to select “Future” for publishing. I even woke up today thinking I should take out some of the [...]
Tags: MPOW
The Media Bloggers Association (MBA), an right-leaning advocacy group for bloggers, has launched a boot camp for bloggers to learn computer-based research skills designed to teach bloggers how “to cut through the PR cant and spin to get to the real underlying news on public policy issues, using publicly available databases and statistical research techniques [...]
Tags: Blogging and Ethics
(Update: Part 1 of at least 2 posts.) This is a long, nerdy post about search engines, so if you read FRL for the book reviews, you may want to pass this up.
I’ve had an idea for MPOW percolating for a very long time and recently decided to blog it, but embargoed this post for [...]
Tags: MPOW
As found on the California Library Association blog: “A coalition of community based groups has scheduled a 24-hour Emergency Read-In at the Cesar Chavez Library, 615 Williams Road, Salinas on April 2-3, 2005 to draw attention to the funding crisis in library and to help people recognize the cost of war to communities.”
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Tags: California Dreamin'
Rebecca MacKinnon, whose own RConversation blog is well worth following, has an article in The Nation summarizing “Webcred,” the Blogging, Journalism, and Credibility conference held at Harvard in January 2005 (which FRL attended). MacKinnon even uses the L-word: Webcred was a “group of fifty journalists, bloggers, news executives, media scholars and librarians trying to make [...]
Tags: Blogging and Ethics
I got up way too early with a case of migration anxiety about the roll-out for MPOW’s new site. (For those of you new to this blog, MPOW is an acronym for “My Place Of Work.” I should do a glossary for this site.)
Here’s my short list of quicky stress-busters:
Turn on NPR and get some [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
Yes, LITA will have a blog! Thanks to Steve “Library Stuff” Cohen and Andrea Mercado for generously sharing the materials they developed with PLA’s Kathy Hughes to support a blog. LITA members with experience installing and configuring Wordpress and Movable Type are evaluating these products for use within LITA.
Personally, I’m unmoved by the argument [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
I was deep into a beautiful essay by Nabokov (a redundant phrase), wondering why the words felt so familiar, when I glanced at a footnote on the main page and realized the essay I was reading was the precursor to the beginning of Speak, Memory. I last read Speak, Memory in college, which means more [...]
Tags: FRL Spotlight Reviews
I received my ALA ballot–at last–and started voting. I like that I can stop and return to my ballot, and with the length of the Council ballot, frequent breaks are necessary.
If you haven’t sent in your ballot yet, please consider my choices. This is a short list, and it could be much longer if [...]
Tags: American Liberry Ass'n