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I went to the Sunset Magazine annual open house today, a marvelous event in Menlo Park, and due to bizarrely unseasonal rain, it was… soggy. The rain pounded down, visitors huddled under tents (such as were available), and vendors looked forlorn.
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As stated earlier, I am already done blogging about the ALA L2 Boot Camp, largely for these reasons:
1. I had said my say
2. I have other things to write about, on-blog and off
3. I didn’t want “Otter Group” showing up as the most prominent phrase in my word cloud
4. The class is going on [...]

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So I went over my Major Project with my Major Project Advisor, sure that she would agree that close to half the collection of fifteen essays really wasn’t up to snuff, which would leave me with a slim volume of fairly well advanced essays to quickly buff up this summer, perhaps while I reclined on [...]

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So I finally got around to registering for ALA Annual Conference this afternoon… only to have the system insist that I’m already registered. (I’ve had my room for months–wanted to be sure to get one early so I wouldn’t end up at the Bates Motel, as was my well-deserved fate at Midwinter.)
I either have [...]

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A Wandering Eyre reports from inside ALA’s Library 2.0 “camp” :
“ALA wants to make spaghetti. It is cheap, easy, and can feed a crowd, but they do not take the time to look around and realize that anyone can make spaghetti. ALA thinks that all good things come from companies and big dysfunctional organizations, so [...]

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Update! You can also head over to Library Garden to RSVP–not necessary, but will make sure they buy enough food and drink to last through a party!
(Please feel free to cross-blog this item. Leslie is hoping to avoid the paper-invitation route and I think we can cover bases pretty well within the biblioblogosphere.)
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Update: read Pete Bromberg’s intelligent post on Library Garden about Kelly’s article.
if:book has a post linking to…
1. A must-read interview with if:book’s Ben Vershbow in (or perhaps that should be “on”) Library Journal, discussing e-books, copyright, and if:book’s forthcoming product, Sophie, an e-book reader
2. An intriguing article in the NYT by Wired’s Kevin Kelly about [...]

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Folks here and there have observed that Michael Stephens and Jenny Levine are doing a bang-up job leading instruction in an innovative Library 2.0 Boot Camp, complete with blogs, wikis, podcasts, and bards, but as Greg over at Open Stacks notes, something is a twee awry with the technical environment they were provided. [...]

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Update: a serious omission… Note that American Libraries was on this story Friday. Thank you, AL!
The irrepressible education advocate Andy Carvin has a great summary of DOPA, which is federalese for “Scared of MySpace.” Like CIPA, the Deleting Online Predators Act is FUD-riddled, flag-waving legislation, this time built on the dubious premise that when instant [...]

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