Free Range Librarian

Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for August 31st:

Homosexual Tearfully Admits To Being Governor Of New Jersey | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source - My favorite Onion headline, and so apropos!

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I’m hardly the gentlest person in the world… I can be cranky and caustic and snappish. Sometimes, quite frankly, I’m a bitch and a half with a cherry on top.
So I hope my response to Annoyed Librarian’s complaint about “twopointopians” doesn’t sound cranky, because she’s certainly entitled to her opinions, and she is walking the [...]

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Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for August 28th:

Blackboard Awarded Patent on e-Learning Technology ~ Stephen’s Web ~ by Stephen Downes - Good roundup of reaction to Blackboard’s patent filing and lawsuit against Desire2Learn.

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Don’t let the door hit you in the butt.
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These are my del.icio.us links for August 27th:

Harvard Business School CIO Stephen Laster on Web 2.0 Technologies … CIO.com - “Wikipedia is a controlled and managed environment. There’s a community [that manages it] and a de facto hierarchy in the community…”
Software maker spreads wings … IndyStar.com - Angel Learning has grown 70 percent in last [...]

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These are my del.icio.us links for August 27th:

Harvard Business School CIO Stephen Laster on Web 2.0 Technologies … CIO.com - “Wikipedia is a controlled and managed environment. There’s a community [that manages it] and a de facto hierarchy in the community…”
Software maker spreads wings … IndyStar.com - Angel Learning has grown 70 percent in last [...]

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I tinkered with the feeds for this site yesterday (and also for the new church site).
First, I installed Feedsmith, a Feedburner plugin which almost does what I want it to do. It redirects my main feed and my comment feed to Feedburner, and it also bundles my main feeds into one Feedburner feed, and that’s [...]

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These are my del.icio.us links for August 25th:

Edge; DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism - Jaron Lanier’s discussion of Wikipedia, among other things.
Dealing with “Digital Maoism” in web 2.0 … Advice and Opinion - Christopher Lynch writes about Jaron Lanier’s discussion of Wikipedia.
The Ignorance of Crowds -
Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron - Wikipedia, the [...]

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These are my del.icio.us links for August 24th:

Peter Suber, Open Access News - Peter Suber’s explanation of PRISM, which is basically an anti-open-access effort from the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
PRISM -
Shifting Mind Postalicious Plugin for del.icio.us - Automatically posts del.icio.us links to your WordPerss blog. Although del.icio.us offers this capability, it’s fairly limited and [...]

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Quite often, I really love librarians, and this is one of those times. The Scholarly Publishing Office at the University of Michigan Library has ported the intriguing Ithaka Report into CommentPress to make it easier to engage with the text.
In the words of the authors, “this paper argues that a renewed commitment to publishing in [...]

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