Update: MT 3.1 has been released, just 4 hours and 45 minutes before class starts. I’m drooling to install it, but It Shall Have To Wait. ————- This Just In, via e-mail from MT: “We’re happy to announce that this afternoon we will be releasing Movable Type 3.1.” I’m entitled to a copy of it, […]
Such a kerfuffle in the blognation about Wikis, following an article in a Syracuse newspaper in which readers were warned from Wikis much as I was warned about marijuana in high school (in other words, the article did more for stirring curiosity and interest in wikis than it did for warning anyone away). Full disclosure: […]
(Updated 1/05) As a sometime adjunct instructor at a couple of library schools, if I were teaching right now, I’d find a way to work “We the Media” into my syllabus, regardless of the class. For anyone remotely webby, “We the Media” is required reading. “We the Media,” by respected Silicon Valley journalist (now citizen-journalism […]
Dan Gillmor: We the Media Tara Calishain: Web Search Garage: The Definitive Guide on How to Best Search the Internet Both books have already passed the flipper test: I flip through the book, and if I have to keep flipping for at least three minutes, it’s got great potential. Serendipitously, both books are also by […]
Michael Stephens said he wanted to see blogs on ALA’s site. On Jessamyn’s blog, she responds that ALA still needs to fix its search engine and content management system. They’re both right: ALA needs to move forward, and it needs to fix what ain’t working. If I bundled the comments together, I’d say that ALA […]
By his own account, a human being with a wi-fi-enabled laptop was vigorously dissuaded by a police officer from using an open access point offered by a public library. See: http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001521.html and http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001521.html The blogger seems willing to let this slide, and that’s this person’s choice. Still, I’d like to hear the rest of this […]
I know, corny, much-forwarded… but I couldn’t resist! ————– REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION SCHEDULE New York, NY 6:00 PM Opening Prayer led by the Reverend Jerry Falwell 6:30 PM Pledge of Allegiance 6:35 PM Ceremonial Burning of Bill of Rights (excluding 2nd Amendment) 6:45 PM Salute to the Coalition of the Willing 6:46 PM Seminar #1: […]
The goskokie “hypercommunity” recently discussed by Dan Gillmor as an example of New Media is coming under a bit of good-natured skewering for not being updated. It turns out that wretched technology is to blame–something to do with php (which has to be good, because it’s open source! Is it time for me to launch […]
Yesterday, Christine Lind Hage sent the following message to Council list, asking for short-notice donations to help ALA meet a challenge grant for the Cultural Communities Fund (CCF), which “will support local libraries across the country in establishing community and cultural programs.” As a librarian who believes that programming is one of the skills that […]
http://www.wingedpig.com/archives/000169.html I sometimes think my management motto could be, “The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” So I was very struck by Mark Fletcher’s observations about how his role in his company is evolving from entrepreneur to leader-manager. I was hired for that kind of transition at MPOW. A […]