Note: the actual date of the EB conference call was 10/12, not 10/11. ALA had sent out a message in error but not in time to correct it for its digest subscribers. I still squint at that chronology, but what the hell.
So this morning I find out that ALA will, indeed, hold its annual [...]
Since the dawn of RSS time for My Place of Work, Bloglines has been a very good friend. We offer a tutorial (emphasizing that Bloglines is free! easy! web-based! etc.), but that isn’t all that’s involved.
The growth has gone from respectable to exponential. Here’s the end-of-quarter stats on MPOW Bloglines Subscribers:
9/30/04: 2400
12/31/04: 2900
3/30/05: 3600
6/30/05: [...]
This is a “virtual handout” for a presentation to the University of the Pacific, October 19, 2005, Stockton, California. It has been updated and expanded from a presentation to the CARL North Information Technology Interest Group, August 12, 2005, at the MLK Library in San Jose, California.
What’s a Blog, Anyway?
A blog is a website [...]
This month I am indeed a-wandering. Some days I’m a-wandering how I’m going to get everything done, but I manage. In six weeks I turned in four essays at school, rode herd over our massive (but massively successful) system migration for MPOW, began writing for ALA Tech Source, went to a couple of conferences, did [...]
Roy Tennant reported on web4lib, “OCLC today released the ability for readers to write their own reviews for books in OpenWorldCat. See Lorcan’s blog. Readers can also upload tables of contents or add notes as well. These are all stored in a wiki system (WikiD) outside of the catalog itself.”
Yummy! I’ve already added a review [...]
I couldn’t remember why I was so tired today (though getting up at 6 a.m. to write was some part of it) until I remembered I was at a conference all last weekend, worked all week (very long days, as we deglitched MPOW, a predictable outcome of such a big change), got up at 5:30 [...]
MPOW received this very nice basket today congratulating MPOW on the successful launch of our new site. (Emma pushed Dot away so she could get a better look.) When the delivery man came to the door, he looked at me in my bathrobe and said, “I thought I was delivering this to a business.” I [...]
The new site looks lovely, and aside from a few redirects that got overlooked in the haste to get a move on before the “old” site was closed down (we were down to the wire…), it’s going great. Plus nobody’s pacemaker will stop if a link doesn’t work until late morning tomorrow.
I had one [...]
