Over the holiday weekend, Dick Kaser, ITI’s VP for Content, posted a comment to my post about SWIFT, the not-so-swift “2.0 platform” ITI had invested in for its conference attendees.
In 418 words, Dick explained that stuff costs money. Thing is, we know stuff costs money. Everything costs money — even “free” stuff, like kittens or [...]
Tags: TANSTAAFL
“At other conferences I’ve attended, I’ve had many moments–including during actual presentations–when all I’ve wanted was to get online to check my email and feeds. Not today.”– Joshua Neff, from The Goblin in the Library, reporting on his experiences at Library Camp Kansas
I’ve been watching these library unconferences pop up hither and thon and thinking, [...]
For Computers in Libraries 2008 (common tag: CIL2008), where I’m the emcee for a two-session program, “From Woepac to Wowpac,” I’ve received several messages encouraging me to “start adding content to the SWIFT platform.” Like slides, blog posts, delicious tags… the stuff I generally post here.
I took a look at SWIFT when it was first [...]
Tags: Get a Grip · Librarianship
I scribbled ideas for next year’s Creative Nonfiction conference on an evaluation form before heading to L&M for one last meal that had me squealing over the sustainably-farmed locally-made chorizo, but assuming the forensic scientists at CNF gave up trying to analyze my bad handwriting, I thought I’d also share my ideas here.
Again, CNF 2008 [...]
Tags: Writing · Writing for the Web
Our friend Gail just received a kidney/pancreas, after what felt like a decades-long wait.
If you “mean to” get around to ensuring you’re a donor, please do it. Someone’s decision gave Gail a new lease on life.
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Tags: Family Values · This and That
(Sorry, I just had to rhyme.)
Library Journal has announced its annual Movers and Shakers, and it’s a very good batch. Unfortunately, LJ’s website is so kabobbled that you’re best off exploring M&S 2008 through Jessamyn’s short list or Connie Crosby’s longer list.
I was the “second” on the nomination for Tim Spalding, so I’m passing out [...]
Tags: Gender and Librarianship · Librarianship
[update: Mr. Baker apologized -- see comment below. That was very nice of him.]
I was laughing in spite of myself through Nicholson Baker’s essay about Wikipedia (agreeing with him on many points, and yet irritated that such a biblio-retro could make me chuckle) when I read:
Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue—a bin of broken dreams where [...]
Tags: Librarianship
I’m not really driving a hybrid (not that I would object if Santa put a forest-green Prius in my stocking this year); I still have my 1993 Honda Civic, which gets a respectable mileage for its 4-mile commute to my office. So the title of this post is a metaphor for how I’m approaching Lent [...]
Tags: Family Values · Flori-duh · Tallahassee Living
One of the trips that didn’t make my schedule was a very sudden trip to Hartford to present at the Trendspotting III conference held Friday by the Connecticut Library Consortium. I left Thursday late afternoon and am flying back today (Saturday).
It was an interesting gig; the WALDO consortium recently signed up Liblime, so the air [...]
Tags: Librarianship
Still careening through homework, but the fire got turned up when I found myself attending the Connecticut Trendspotting forum this Friday to talk about open source. Gotta be done 2NITE! Or 2morrow, at the butt-crack o’ dawn! Hence a lunchtime link-love post…
(Why can’t we give St. Patrick’s a makeover and turn it into “Talk Like [...]
Tags: Linkalicious · Uncategorized · Writing