Free Range Librarian

I want to listen and absorb so I will gather thoughts later (or link to good writeups)… but here are some early BlogHer impressions:
A presenter said, with no trace of irony, that the attendees were primarily women, about 20% men, and that journalists were also in attendance.
Fun to be in a room that’s 80% [...]

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The BlogHer conference taking place tomorrow has a global chatroom. It’s Flash-based, which has sparked some controversy, but hey. Take a moment tomorrow and use the BlogHer chatroom to exercise your powerful feminine side (whether you are female or not).
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If you’re catching up from vacation and wondering what the heck happened to the design of FRL, the Blog Problems category walks you through some of the saga. In a nutshell, FRL usage went out of control, and to eliminate problems I put FRL in a very basic design and am watching usage. Dreamhost has [...]

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Yesterday’s presentation was a great deal of fun, and I’ll upload the pictures from my presentation to Flickr Real Soon Now, and on Sunday try to summarize some of the good things I heard from other speakers.
Meanwhile, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling poorly, not sure what happened (something I ate, [...]

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One of the ironies about Gorman’s comment that he wouldn’t go to jail on behalf of the Patriot Act because he’s an academic librarian (and 64 years old–not that much older than Judith Miller) is that the example was set for the rest of us over thirty years ago by you guessed it, an [...]

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Someone from ip address 152.15.100.8 sent an anonymous message referring to my previous post by saying “what a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars.” First, don’t be such a coward: sign your name. Second, not a nickel has been misspent from the very tiny pot of money we have had available to upgrade our site. In [...]

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I’m off to that big mysterious blob in the middle of Palo Alto for today’s really big show, The Internet Today and Tomorrow, to hear Vinton Cerf, eat lunch with venture capitalists and engineers, and give my ten-minute talk about whether books, CDs, or whatever are obsolete–a dumb question, but there you go. I have [...]

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Ok, I know I didn’t invent Skype… but I just discovered it. Finally came on my radar screen. Why have I not tried free conference calls before? What was I thinking? (Maybe that most people don’t have a PC microphone?)
I needed to conference with two technically-inclined people. One was a Skype fan. The other, [...]

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Sent in my annual report, sent out the list of prioritized gotta-have-to-go-live items, and spent a few minutes eating figs and reading Bloglines. Glad I didn’t have fig in my mouth when I read that Microsoft’s new mapping service doesn’t include Apple’s home in Cupertino.
What struck me was not this amusing omission, but the [...]

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It’s only one month into his regime, and I’m already wincing. An interview with Michael Gorman gives the impression his goal for the year is ensuring that “The Education for Henry Adams” isn’t digitized.
The sad part is I’m sure during the interview Gorman spent far more time talking about the Patriot Act than about [...]

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