Feel free to “meme” this post far and wide… The motley gang involved in building the LITA blog and getting it going by ALA Annual in Chicago is seeing it take shape… we have four designer/page coders (all ladies, interestingly), two installers, any number of kibitzers (and kibitzing is invaluable when you’re crafting policy), blogging [...]
To paraphrase a lede from a post on the blog for the new radio program Open Source, the Internet just got male again. Guest gender breakdown for the first week: 7 men, 2 women. Female techies: 0. Women on debut show: 0. Bookmark to:
Today is a holiday, tomorrow is frantic post-holiday catch-up, but as the week gets saner I’ll roll out a book review, intros to a couple of blogs, a discussion about the triumvirate of usability, accessibility, and code testing for MPOW, updates to my ALA schedule, a plug for the LITA blog, and a review of [...]
I had a 70′s-style “click” a couple of days ago when I went to the Creative Commons site to investigate a CC license for the forthcoming LITA blog and was assailed by so many pictures of men and reference to works by men I began to wonder if CC is actually copyright for the XY-chromosome [...]
Since last night I have had beef short ribs marinating in the fridge with my special top-secret Korean bulgogi sauce (it comes in a jar at Trader Joe’s). I have wiped down the outdoor chairs, refilled the bird seeders, and swept the patio. To clear the deck for a leisurely Decoration Day weekend evening, I [...]
Last week I was one of four people interviewed about Wikipedia for a pilot show for Open Source, a new radio program for Boston’s WGBH produced by the inimitable Christoper Lydon and premiering Monday, May 30. Actually, to call Open Source a radio program is a gross understatement; it will have a web and mobcasting [...]
Nearby lives a guy with a garage band. Unfortunately, he also has a garage. Sometimes he plays in the band. Other times he plays with himself. A lot. Mostly with the guitar, unfortunately. We call the police. A lot. But he has the rules down pat, and we only call when it’s clear he is [...]
Trying very hard to included Advanced Poll in my Movable Type blog. I got it to work on my website; But below I think you’re just seeing a scrap of code… Oh no wait! It works in both places! Oh, ponder ponder. Which to use? The entry or the side template? Off to Costco to [...]
Roy Tennant got some good press from Steven Bell in the latest Library Journal. Bell, tilting after something he calls “Google-style librarianship,” said Tennant’s aphorism, “librarians like to search, everyone else wants to find,” “suggests that librarians are out of touch with popular culture.” Bell presses on, “But can you really find anything without searching [...]
In his first piece about blogging, Blaise Cronin, dean of Indiana’s SLIS, insulted bloggers in a low-power imitation of Gorman’s earlier cerebral flatulence. Both pieces had the same elements: a mocking definition; wild, vague critiques of blogs; an unfamiliarity with modern technology alarming for a major figure in librarianship. Both pieces grew legs and walked [...]
