Looking back at my first take on the Open Worldcat toolbar last November, I have to wonder what alien invaded my body and led me to categorically conclude that I didn’t trust this tool and wouldn’t use it. Re-reading my post, it might have been titled, “I say it’s spinach, and I say to hell […]
Thanks to Michael Stephens for the inspiration and and Greg Schwartz for the perspiration! Here’s my banner–feel free to copy it and put it in your site. Later when the day settles down I’ll give this link a permanent spot on my blog. Following other examples, I’m linking it to the must-read satire, “Revenge of […]
Just a brief ten minute mid-morning break to note that though I respect my colleague Michael Stephens, I disagree with his comments and conclusions in his post about iPods in libraries. I am working on a longer post about audiobooks and DRM, inspired by my jaw-dropping Moment of Zen last Friday when I downloaded audiobooks […]
I’m bone-weary from three days of work on a major workshop piece due tomorrow–make that today–but here’s some fun reading while I let a post about the California Library Association’s new blog steep in its pot for a day so I can be sure I say what I mean to say, not more or less. […]
I hardly ever do “here’s the news” entries, but the Pew Report released today stands almost without comment for anyone following podcasting and related technologies. “We just got the results of the survey we took between January 13 and February 9 and for the first time asked a question to find out how many American […]
Have they no shame? AT&T is using ads on their own calling cards to lobby against the E-rate in an oily attempt to weasel out of $160 million they owe the public. The ads must be listened to before the hapless dialer can continue placing a call. AT&T’s calling-card advert–described off-line as a lengthy “diatribe,” […]
(Link to Friday’s Presentation, Old Wine in New Bottles) Friday and Saturday I presented at the Ontario Library Association “Superconference.” What a fabulous experience! Friday was one of my all-over-the-map talks about Librarians’ Index, audio ebooks, podcasting, the roles of librarians in society, and just about anything else I could shovel into an hour-long talk. […]
A response I made on a recent Web4Lib thread about lists versus blogs… ———– Web4Lib continues to be an excellent resource for me, but I have found that when I post something here, it stays here, and when I post something to my blog it grows legs and walks into what I call the biblioblogosphere, […]
Jenny “Shifted Librarian” Levine and I got a link from Jay Rosen’s Pressthink, as he exhorted newspapers to open their archives. Jay’s exhilarating clarion call to open newspaper archives won’t get any argument (and could possibly get quite a bit of support) from Libraryland. It just needs development and refinement. He could continue his discussion […]
Dear folks, note February 1 deadline on this important survey. Internet connectivity scholar and all-around good guy John Bertot just sent this to me to send to PUBLIB, and I thought I’d give it some extra legs from this blog. Please share as widely as possible. (If you’ve ever wondered how his name is pronounced, […]