When I was in the Air Force, a popular tee-shirt read, “If you love something, set it free. If it doesn’t come back, hunt it down and kill it.”
The O’Reilly conglomerate–oh they of the nerdily useful tomes–donned that tee-shirt a couple of weeks ago when they went after a nonprofit for using “Web [...]
Here’s the source of all ills with Wikipedia: it’s those pesky “librarian types,” mucking up what was a perfectly good encyclopedia.
Or so says a commenter on a blog entry by danah boyd recounting the perplexing history of the Wikipedia entry supposedly about her: “I stopped contributing regularly [to Wikipedia] a while ago because keeping [...]
I could not figure out what the dilly-o was in San Francisco as I drove in 90 minutes late for Michael Porter’s Keep Up! presentation, even though I grew up in this city and have been watching the news pretty carefully. Another student turned to me and said, “Hello, it’s April 18!”
Some people celebrate [...]
Go down Moses, way down in Grantistan! Tell your people, don’t forget to sign the form…
It’s only 9:22 p.m. and after my final siege, a 14-hour marathon, I’ve finished and emailed off what I think is a coherent draft of our annual grant from the Powers that Be, complete with Budget, numbers that jive, [...]
One of the moderators resolved my problem with my new camcorder by saying, before you do anything buy a Firewire cable and try again. I did, and that instantly worked. I reimported a file, processed it with Nero, and burned it. The video quality was better, as well, as promised, but the big deal for [...]
I’m having growing pains with this camcorder project–and that’s a good thing. I’m seeing technology from the point of view of someone who just wants to push a button and make things happen.
It all seemed so simple. Buy a camcorder (Sony DCR-HC96). Buy a DVD burner (Memorex 16x). Camcorder has software (Sony’s); DVD burner has [...]
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100_1067, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
I started using stickers on my laptop after watching someone in an airport security line confuse my laptop with his. Like Little Black Suitcases, laptops are dangerously similar, particularly to people who don’t really [...]
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Free Range Librarian Word Cloud, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian.
Several other folks out there have cooked up word clouds for their blogs through this t-shirt site, but when Lorcan Dempsey posted his… well, he’s the Man. I will [...]
Please take just a few moments to complete Michael Stephen’s brief survey about librarians and instant messaging. He’s doing some background work for a brief talk at Computers in Libraries 2006 as well as collecting some data for his upcoming Library Technology Report “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.” He’s interested [...]
What are the drawbacks of transparency and information? Can you really know too much about a contributor?
Quite a few decisions about Wikipedia come from the strong personality of Jimmy (sometimes called “Jimbo”) Wales, who even after acknowledging in the aftermath of WikiGate that anonymous writers are a problem to be addressed, insists that user [...]
