Update: I was too hard on the WSJ reporters. Read my explanation. I won’t change this post, but I shouldn’t let my contempt for Gorman obscure my sense of fairness. It’s All Good reports that Michael Gorman again went after Google (in re the project now called Google Book Search) in an article in the […]
[I’ve belonged to IPG for, I don’t know, years now, since right at the end of my gig as the Internet Librarian columnist for American Libraries. Not only does this letter dress down Forbes Magazine for egregious writing, it’s an account-by-proxy of a larger press travesty, the drubbing of Pamela Jones, whose blog, Groklaw, is […]
Christine Boese did a really good job linking to everyone at last Friday’s IF:Book meeting. I’m glad, because I’m still dog-paddling through my homework, with no relief in sight. Tonight, two more chapters of Sebald after I finish this week’s workshop critiques. (I love getting into the mind of the other writers in my class. […]
Clifford Johnson, a rather sparkling physicist who has a delightful blog about science, has pictures and a nice summary from Friday’s IF:Book meeting (or the academic blog salon, as it were). He links to blogs I would be linking to had I not spent most of the weekend rewriting the same three paragraphs. (I feel […]
I’ve spent the day working on My Craft and running household errands, and tonight we’re having caesar salad with grilled shrimp as a healthy but celebratory dinner to mark my return from Five Trips in Two Weeks. (That means “we” have to be in the kitchen by 7:15 to pull together the salad, which I […]
Just in case you’ve tried to email me, Fastmail has been down since Thursday afternoon. I’ve loved their service for over a year (reliable, good IMAP support, nice Web client), so I’m dismayed by the restoration schedule. Three and a half days to get my mail back? In any event, I just had one of […]
From a flurry of good articles about a recent talk by Stephen Abrams (who is doing a terrific service to LibraryLand by playing Resident Scold on All Issues Technological), I winnow out this Abramism caught by Tame the Web: “Everyone under 25 has an IM account but most librarians over 30 don’t. This needs to […]
I have returned from a day-long discussion held by the Institute for the Future of the Book. I left very reluctantly, sorry not to be dining with the people I had shared the day with, but glad I was close to concluding the fifth business trip in two weeks and could spend the weekend catching […]
“How do individual voices establish and maintain integrity on the web? How can that effort be encouraged and supported? How can several voices be aggregated in a way that expands both the audience and the interaction with readers without sacrificing the independence of the individual voice? What are the strengths and weaknesses of blogs in […]
Sarah Houghton posts her good gloss on the Gorman talk on his home turf, but I felt a little frustrated because I wanted to know how the crowd responded. (Or do I?) Bookmark to: