As many of you have noted, I have some coding glitch that forces the FRL comment box to slide go way, way, way down on the page. I’ve temporarily addressed the problem in part by reducing the number of books displayed in the right-hand nav bar, a change which should show up this morning after [...]
Some of you have asked about my MFA book project. I’ll probably modify this post when I’m more mellow, but it has been a heckuva day not even including work, which was bone-breaking (car to shop; car dashboard finally fixed; ride to shop MIA; panic: class time; drove Sandy’s car in horrific rush-hour traffic; Sandy’s [...]
LITA Councilor Report, Karen G. Schneider
ALA Midwinter 2005, Boston
(Updated 3-9-05 to address John Berry’s comments about LITA CE)
On the non-tech front, Council at Midwinter 2005 was relaxed, orderly, and productive (Council III, on Wednesday, ended early–I don’t know when that last happened). Boston was colder than a box of frozen beans, but the venue was [...]
Tensions between bloggers and the terminally unclueful escalated on March 7, when North Korea denounced Boing Boing, saying the popular blog was “inconsiderate” for linking to their website and thereby driving up traffic.
Boing Boing backed down from its hyperlinked aggression and met North Korea’s demands to load the content on its own site.
Thanks [...]
Are you a LITA member? (Or would you like to be one?) Do you like to blog? (Or would you like experience blogging?) Do you like to write? (Would you like me to stop posting these parenthetical questions?)
LITA is considering establishing a blog, which could be used for many things but would likely start [...]
The entry I’m linking to contains a podcast about the “F-word” by Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, and it’s not as risque as you might think. Jeff uses the magic of digital cut-and-paste to insert responses to the commissioner’s questions as if this were an interview. Amusing and mind-broadening! A great diversion on a day [...]
This is a light reading (and heavy writing) week for me, but that’s deceptive. For my nonfiction literature class, in the last couple of weeks I’ve had the joy of seeing Wyoming through Gretel Ehrlich’s essays of place in The Solace of Wide Open Spaces, and I’ve re-read John Agee’s essay, “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” [...]
Updated 8/13/05; added current page lengths.
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Here is the current (and ever-evolving) outline of the collection of essays I’m writing for the MFA program. The book-length collection, my final project, is due August 2006. I have enough essays planned to fill the minimum word count requirement, but I’m still combing my brain to see if [...]
LISNews has a good roundup on Gormangate, a bibliokerfuffle that continues to trickle through blogs in and out of librarianship. Blake’s post itself is amusing reading. In the arena of things not observed, as I predicted, ALA News didn’t cover Gormangate at all this week or last.
I didn’t review blogs this week due to [...]
Ouch! Bloggers (and the First Amendment) just lost round 1 of a legal fight about protecting confidential sources.
“In a case with implications for the freedom to blog, a San Jose judge tentatively ruled Thursday that Apple Computer can force three online publishers to surrender the names of confidential sources who disclosed information about the [...]
