I’m an “expert” who will be presenting at LITA’s Top Technology Trends this coming weekend (Sunday, 8:30-11, Sheraton Constitution BR). The trends are those that affect or are important to libraries (that’s broad, huh?). I have my own ideas for trends, but what do YOU think? Here are a few of my ideas, to get […]
Technology journalist Dan Gillmor has left the San Jose Mercury-News to work on initiatives in citizen-journalism. His new blog is wonderful reading and is a great source of news. Today I read about New York attempting to prevent people from taking pictures in subways, citizen-journalism and tsunami reporting, and On the Media’s new podcasts. Add […]
Here’s the catch: BookQueueToo and Movable Type dynamic publishing are apparently incompatible. Six Apart pointed me to a Knowledge Base entry that discussed the type of error message I was seeing with the MT entries (“The requested page could not be found. Smarty error: [in evaluated template line 17]: syntax error: unrecognized tag ‘MTBookQueueEntries’ (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, […]
BookQueueToo was creating some major problems on this site, although I suspect it wasn’t the plugin so much as some code gremlin that slipped in. Murphy’s Law being what it is, BookQueueToo works just fine on the test blog I set it up on and tested all day. Rather than make myself crazy, I’ve just […]
I made it all the way through the Movable Type upgrade to-do list for this blog, and then some. It’s no Picasso, but the colors are clearer, the fonts are larger, there’s more navigation, I enabled scheduled posting (cron jobs), and I’ve (re-)installed MT-Blacklist for better spam protection. I also made sure that the RSS […]
I replaced the mt-comments.cgi file, upgraded to MT-Blacklist 2.04-beta, and removed any old MT-Blacklist files (from versions 1*) I could find. Now comments appear to be working. I’m strongly considering upgrading the RSS feed on this site to 2.0 to enable updating when new comments are available, if that interests anyone. If I’m up to […]
Comments are again not working. With MT-Blacklist inactive, comments work fine; with MTB active, comments can be previewed, but fail on posting. My apologies; I didn’t test the comments feature after I installed MT-Blacklist (however obvious that might seem to some of you). I put a note on the MT-Forums and will see where that […]
The responses from some corners of the Wikipedia community were predictable when Larry Sanger, part of the team that developed Wikipedia, published a long article on kuro5shin arguing that “anti-elitism” and “trolls” were undermining this user-contributed “encyclopedia”–or as Jason Scott nailed it in an earlier article that inspired Sanger’s cry in the desert, “a low […]
I woke up this morning with flu symptoms: aches, fever, exhaustion, headache, stuffy nose, and cough. Even though common wisdom is that there isn’t much to be done for me that I can’t do for myself, this unfortunate, but fortunately rare, event–I haven’t been sick for at least five years–was my cue to belatedly get […]
Hah! One minute after I installed MT-Blacklist, it killed its first sp*m: MT-Blacklist comment denial on ‘Free Range Librarian’. Author: Takaraka; Email: @un.com String matched: free-online-poker Assessment: nice, slick interface; carefree maintenance; automatic updates to the list (my bane in the past was keeping this updated). If you haven’t used MT-Blacklist in a while, take […]