Balloons in Tallahassee Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian …at least for now. Obviously I wasn’t on the road the entire time, because I took this picture of balloons at the market one Saturday while I was home. But the balloons mirror how I feel. Hello home! Hello family! Hello Sandy, cats, and Weber grill! Hello, also, […]
David Pogue, tech enthusiast for the New York Times, is shocked, shocked that Amazon yanked Orwell’s books from the Kindle. But as Tim Spalding pointed out over on Web4Lib, it’s naïve to focus on Amazon and the Kindle. “People need to get over the idea that ebooks are ‘just’ books,†Tim wrote. “Just because you […]
Free Kittens!! Originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian This September 12 I will be giving a reading at the Babylon Salon in San Francisco. I’m so immersed in my day job that I haven’t sorted out WHAT I am reading, though I think it will be from the essay “Falling In” from the collection Powder. Then again, […]
Note: be sure to read this post if you AREN’T going to ALA Annual — because there’s some free (as in zero-cost) participation opportunities here. For this conference’s LITA Top Technology Trends, I am part of an online team honchoed by Cindi Trainor that will facilitate a concurrent online discussion. I will post to here, […]
I lift my informal blogging sabbatical (I’m writing too much to blog, if that makes sense) to note that a few weeks back someone I’m related to (I don’t even want to admit how closely) forwarded a hysterical email composed of various paranoid forwards that postulated, incorrectly, that the federal government was hell-bent on limiting […]