Free Range Librarian

Through various means — social software, personal email, conversations — I’m getting the distinct impression that many newer  librarians don’t care for email discussion lists (listservs, MailMan lists, etc.).
I’m not fighting this; in part, as a social software kind of gal, I understand it, in a blurry personal sort of way. My own take on [...]

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The Defrag conference, which took place over two days in December (!) November, featured speakers and panelists such as David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Esther Dyson, Marti Hearst, and a constellation of other digirati and hopefuls. There were a few interesting exhibits — Yahoo, AOL, and Siderean were there, among others.
I have the usual core dump [...]

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My voice-over for this talk included a few facts about community colleges and libraries, plus a mention of Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, a game I learned from Andy Havens of OCLC. Using WorldCat Identities, I can get from David Weinberger to Francis Bacon in four steps!
(Also, the Flickr tag data is courtesy of [...]

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I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 because it was a “security” upgrade, meaning that after the One True Upgrade was released, people found holes in it. But I’m now experiencing very peculiar editing problems (that naturally mess with my ability to do my presentation through WordPress… Satan is in my software this week).
The big problem is [...]

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Something is amiss with CommentPress; the blog I set up for my presentation won’t display the posts. I’ve installed CommentPress before on other sites, so I’m assuming the latest version of CommentPress isn’t playing with the latest version of WordPress.
Ohhhhkayyyy. I’ll make sure I have the boring, predictable, but safe PowerPoint, but I’ll also do [...]

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Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for November 4th:

homophobic-senator.gif (GIF Image, 569×650 pixels) -
LawLibTech: Folksonomies & Tagging (Internet Librarian 2007) - Blog dump of Tom Reamy’s IL2007 talk.

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I got up far too early, pulled the Times from the sidewalk,  and opened the Styles section to its “Weddings/Celebrations” section to count the gay marriages. Imagine my delight to see an announcement of the civil union for Larissa Cheney Brookes, SJSU LIS student, and her EPA-lawyer partner, Elizabeth La Blanc. You go gals!
Then I [...]

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(Postalicious is still acting a little odd… we’ll see if it catches up.)
These are my del.icio.us links for through November 3rd:

littera_abactor: I Has a Sweet Potato - Very funny LiveJournal post about a dog and a sweet potato.
YouTube - The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ownage - Lord bless teh interweb.
someecards.com | ecards for [...]

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I have worked places where filing travel receipts almost made me cry, or where I had to grovel with some extremely unpleasant person who would scold me for minor infractions. So when I said today I wasn’t sure how to file my travel receipts, imagine my delight when someone from MPOW came into my office [...]

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I’m in a friend’s lovely, lovely, lovely home. But what makes it the most utterly loveliest place of all? My Peet’s French Roast, hot and sweet on the bedside table.
In five hours I’ll be airborne, and by just after midnight I’ll be home. Then I leave Sunday on another junket, headed to the Defrag conference [...]

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