I was going to review the Writers’ Marketplace database, and honest, it’s on the list. But I’ve been using Refworks for less than a week, and I am so dazzled by this product that if I don’t share this with you right this very second, I’m going to burst. As a writer and librarian, I […]
In the fog and friction of homework and pre-ALA activity, blogging has been hard to get to (ironically, since one of my distractions is that along with some folks reading FRL, I’m involved in setting up the LITA blog). But books… who can’t talk about books? Early Sunday evening I stopped working on the first […]
Results from the last survey: “What’s your favorite FRL feature?” Book reviews: 3 9.7% Blog reviews: 6 19.4% Indepth reporting on issues ending in “gate”: 22 (71%) This week I’m asking “How long before publishers stop publishing in paper?” I think it will happen, eventually, even though this is a week when I requested fifteen […]
Some of you who commented in the past ten days, or who read comments on this blog, may feel that you’re in a time warp. In viewing my Comments function in Movable Type I saw a good dozen trapped among the garbage. I pruned over 100 bad comments and made a pile go active (including […]
Well, two blogs. I skim Lee Goldberg’s A Writer’s Life, a highly quotidian walk with Lee through his writing adventures, and very much sans petard. It’s comforting to be reminded that most writers deal with ennui, lack of direction, frustration, and severe work avoidance–and still love what they do. Sounds like most work, doesn’t it? […]
For an essay I’m revising, I have been buried in the history of women in the military, from Civil War soldiers to modern-day aviators. Every night I read, I write, I read, I write. Tonight I’m going to plotz and blog for a bit (I’ll schedule this post for the morning). I love my research […]
(Adapted from a post to Web4Lib.) At My Place of Work, we have had an email list for close to a decade. The list now has 16,000 readers, and has all the problems email lists have–subscribers who get dropped, whose messages go into spam, who forget what address they are under, etc. We had our […]
Leave it to the New York Times to refer to the blog of its new public editor, Byron Calame, as a “Web Journal.” In a nod to its role as the de facto newspaper of record, the Times worked hard at diversification, replacing Daniel Okrent, an older straight white male from a large newspaper, with […]
FRL has picked up a lot of subscribers in the last few weeks. This is another reminder that if you read FRL with a blog reader such as Bloglines, I recommend you subscribe to FRL’s RSS 2 feed. That way you’ll see comments on posts as they’re added, see posts when they’re updated (sometimes I […]
Wow, what a great tip that almost-ALA-president-elect Leslie Burger has a blog. I believe it’s possible to be technically literate, a good leader, and not have a blog. But I love that she grasps her role as communicator and is flexing her blog muscle accordingly. (I supported Christine Hage for ALA president, and only regret […]