Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 17th: 60+ Semantic Web Blogs (List) – Blog – Semantic Focus – “These blogs are just a portion of the sources being indexed regularly by the soon-to-be-launched Planet Semantic Focus.” Bookmark to:
I’m delighted to report that Nerve just published my essay, “Range of Desire. (No, that’s not me in the hot pants. I haven’t had a bottom like that in several decades.) Nerve has an excellent pedigree and has published essays by people I would like to be. (I’d really like to be Steve Almond. Not […]
A few lucky devils get to Be Writers, and have daily schedules neatly arranged into writing, a light lunch, and more writing, followed, I guess, by lovely evenings spent catching up on other writers’ output, whilst the house help brings you champers and oysters to keep the edge off. But the rest of us squeeze […]
In a couple of places I’d mentioned that in response to various surveys of librarian blogs, I’d make my own list of my top 25 “favorite” blogs. On consideration, I won’t do any such thing, simply because I don’t have a list of 3, 25, 50, or even 100 “favorite” library blogs. Blogs become more […]
In 1990 I placed third in a lip sync contest at Suwon Airbase, Korea, for my performance of “You’re So Vain.” I do a pretty good Carly Simon (though top place went to a trio in drag who sang Supremes songs, and they were great). So now I’m tied for third place with my real-world […]
Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 6th: Open source in libraries: community = strength – Coffee|Code – A nice extension of my Techsource post about enterprise open source. Bookmark to:
O.k., maybe not THAT urgent… but two things: 1. The technology conference survey I posted today has a new URL. 2. My request for input about OPACs? If you prefer, you may write me off-blog at kgs@freerangelibrarian.com (some people already have…!) . I will guard your confidentiality. Bookmark to:
Note: over on Techsource, I wrote about open source OPACs this month — worth reading if you’re thinking about OPACs and such. Also see Marshall Breeding’s Library Technology Reports on Next-Generation Library Catalogs. A week from Friday, I’m giving a talk in Illinois called “The OPAC sucks” at at the Symposium on the Future of […]
Note: the URL for this survey has changed. I’m on an ALA LITA Committee that is trying to design better technology conferences. We want to know what you liked, did not like, or would like to see at a technology conference in the future. If you have ever attended a technology preconference, session, conference, or […]
Here’s my favorite del.icio.us link for September 4th: The GOP’s crowded closet … Salon.com – “…perhaps it is time for Republicans and conservatives to ask themselves an obvious question: What makes the Republican Party — and the conservative movement more generally — so attractive to closeted homosexual men?” Bookmark to: