In the past six months I’ve left a job because it wasn’t a good fit and stopped writing for a publication to pursue other interests. Yet after reading Walt Crawford’s post about honesty, I feel it oddly necessary to say, no, really: in my case, in this situation, that’s just how things went down. He [...]
Tags: Librarianship
Not too long ago I saw a sign in a store that asked (or at least I recall it asking), “Do you know what to do if a tornado is coming your way?”
My gut response was “Scream and faint.” Then, while pushing the cart around the store (randomly, so that I had to criss-cross the [...]
Tags: Hot Tech
My online presentation, “Death to Jargon,” went pretty good today, for a first-time-talk, though at one point I began stammering and I realized it was because I was talking to over fifty people I couldn’t see or hear. So I went inward and focused on the topic, as if I were presenting to myself, and [...]
Tags: Hot Tech · Librarianship
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Tags: Uncategorized · Writing · Writing for the Web
We’ve long needed a video on how easy it is to set up LOCKSS –software for digital preservation, called Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe. (I wrote about LOCKSS for Library Journal this summer.) Angela Slaughter of Indiana University pounced on this idea and has produced a video everyone should watch.
Around these parts, for [...]
Tags: Digital Preservation
Thing is, sometimes I think we don’t know what business we’re in.
A couple weeks ago, while I was in the cornfields discussing library software, the National Book Critics Circle had a panel discussion in New York City about the fate of small print-based literary journals. This grew out of writer Kevin Prufer’s plaint that his [...]
Yes, I’m two and a half years late to this thread, but tag clouds are indeed the new mullets! I couldn’t resist enabling the tag cloud widget for WordPress. You can see the tag cloud on the left of this blog, if you scroll the page. So far I’ve tagged three entries just to goof [...]
Tags: WordPress
I had other things on my plate today… but it was smart to upgrade WordPress 2.3 on a Sunday after church, because it broke, and that gave me several hours to focus on this problem. Things should be o.k. now, and there’s nothing wrong with WordPress 2.3; the error was between my ears.
Before upgrading, I [...]
Tags: WordPress
Do our paths cross, gentle readers (and writers)?
October 11, 11 a.m. ET: One-hour web presentation from the comfort of my office, “Death to Jargon,” for the Outagamie Waupaca Library System (no, I don’t know how to pronounce that)
October 18, 8:30-12: “Library 2.0,” Williamsburg Public Library, Virginia–this will feature Olde Tyme 2.0, New and Improved 2.0, [...]
Tags: Talks and Tours · Writing
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I could not resist blogging this photo of my friend Jason assembling a crib, and yes, there is a jargon tie-in (related to yesterday’s request for examples of jargon used by librarians, and thanks for the great examples so far).
All day long we drown in vast rivers of formulaic, jargon-turgid, [...]
Tags: Writing