O.k., so we didn’t go to Paris, exactly; I snapped this picture at the San Francisco Arboretum, which we trotted through en route from Sonoma County back to Palo Alto before we went to Hollywood and Palm Springs. But I did sprawl in a fat armchair in our suitably rustic Guerneville cabin, reading nice [...]
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Free Range Librarian is taking a lovely Parisian-style late summer break from now through August 28. Enjoy the last taste of summer, and I’ll see you around the biblioblogosphere!
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Interesting post on BlogHer about BarCamp, a response to an oh-so-exclusive O’Reilly conference called FooCamp. I missed the whole kerfuffle, forsooth in homework mode I was, and did not quite catch what Blogless Genny Engel was talking about when she dashed off a note to me about attending Barcamp. But BarCamp, which concludes today, sounds [...]
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Given my earlier post, I was startled to see that San Francisco Chronicle magazine section features an article about MFA writing programs, with the full-paragraph title, “Great Expectations: Might one get published — or just enjoy a couple of years off from reality — in one of our many packed creative writing programs?” I am [...]
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This hasn’t been a real summer anyway, with all the work related to the new MPOW, but summer officially ended for me around 2 p.m. yesterday, when I received an email asking if I would be one of the hardy volunteers to turn in an essay on the first day of my fall writing workshop.
For [...]
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“We should do this more often,” said the woman to my right, and others murmured and nodded in agreement.
Tonight over 50 people from my neighborhood gathered at a busy intersection in Palo Alto for one of several vigils for Cindy Sheehan held in this zip code alone. So many people showed up–the majority middle-aged [...]
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It’s All Good is usually brimming with edgy but interesting ideas I nearly always agree with, so I was surprised to read yesterday that Alane had strapped on a flight suit, jumped on the deck of The Good Ship LibraryLand, and declared, “Digital Divide: Mission Accomplished!”
Earth to Alane: not so fast, not so fast. The [...]
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I usually read my political mail and file under “nice to do–if I had the time,” but I woke up when I read about the vigils being organized this Wednesday evening on behalf of Cindy Sheehan’s protests.
I have been simmering about this issue since this morning, when NPR read a letter from a listener [...]
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In yet more proof that we are descending into a living version of The Handmaid’s Tale, a radio station at the University of Kentucky cancelled Writer’s Almanac, that nice daily tidbit, for using such gross obscenities as the word “breast.” Hello, UK SLIS: are you posting?
I know it’s fashionable in some circles to snub [...]
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Part Two of a thread about the U.S. Copyright Office’s request for input asking if “persons filing the electronic-only [copyright] preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.” (Also see coverage by news.com.)
I’m hoping that by [...]
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