By way of Salon.com I found this chance to vote for a Tom DeLay billboard, from Howard Dean’s Democracy for America website. My choice: “When Ethics Get Hammered, The Voter Gets Nailed.” What’s yours? Bookmark to:
I’ve just been informed by a highly-placed source that Librarians’ Index to the Internet has launched its annual survey! Don’t be the last on your block to fill out this action-packed, fun-filled, easy-on, easy-off 15-question survey that will change the face of librarianship, put hair on your chest, or take it off, depending on your […]
I’ve been deep into my own writing; research for the latest piece includes a 1932 Army cooking guide, a history of Civil War military food, and Paul Dickson’s 1978 book, “Chow: A Cook’s Tour of Military Food,” not the best writing but served up with love, detail, and plenty of photographs. However, last week for […]
Six Apart just announced a plugin for Movable Type called Workflow that adds much-needed functionality to this blogging product. But it’s not free: if you want a supported version–and if you’re a library, of course you do–it’s (sit down) $250. (Though you also get a chance to be listed on the developer’s website as a […]
I’m blogging this while Mary Minow talks. great panel! more later. (Updated) Mary (see comments, below) is right. Although I do have a camera on my Treo, but I just chose not to use it in a room with so many lawyers! Bookmark to:
My piece on blogging and ethics just came out in Library Journal’s NetConnect. I tried not to be a public scold, and–I hope the article makes clear–I respect my blogging buddies. If my article’s not clear in any way, or you disagree, please share your thoughts. I was having a hard time this week deciding […]
On the RFID in Libraries blog, Laura has done a devastatingly good job of dissecting a Berkeley Planet editorial by EFF’s Lee Tien and tireless community gadfly Peter Warfield. She points out that, first, it’s misleading (it appears to be an “article,” not what it is, a bare step above a letter to the editor […]
(N.b. This piece was victimized by a publication date that made it invisible to those who read the blog through the site. So I munged the pub date. Bon appetit!) We had usability testing done on the forthcoming new website for MPOW (My [thinly-disguised] Place Of Work), using real subjects representing a range of people […]
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
In yet another dispatch from the What Were You Thinking Department, ALA’s website has an egregious fiction splashed on its front page insinuating that ALA has awarded the First Lady with a “citation.” “ALA” didn’t award Bush anything. The first anyone on Council heard of ALA’s citation was through the announcement on the website. It […]
For a while, I’ve been meditating over a rather flattering request to provide a list of 5 to 8 of my favorite books for the next edition of the Whole Library Handbook, for a section on books chosen by Famous Librarians. “As before, the term ‘book’ is defined as loosely as possible, so you may […]
