I can’t believe I just wasted time doing this on a busy week before the state conference, but I generated my blogger code: B5 d+ t+ k+ s u– f i+ o+ x- e l c Oh, and here’s the decoder (thanks to Eclectic for pointing out this omission). And here’s this blurb from the […]
http://shirky.com/writings/group_user.html “The assumption that the computer is a box, used by an individual in isolation, is so pervasive that it is adhered to even when it leads to investment of programmer time in improving every aspect of mailing lists except the interaction that makes them worthwhile in the first place.” As a long-time list co-moderator […]
Just yesterday morning someone with my exact same name rewrote the Librarians’ Index RSS tutorial (remarkable coincidence, isn’t it?). The tutorial which is based on Bloglines, a free, Web-based RSS reader. See: http://lii.org/search/file/liirss/ There are any number of good aggregators around, including other Web-based readers. The advantage of promoting Web-based aggregators to library users is […]
I attended the ARL usability Webcast held October 28. Well done! Thanks to Infopeople for negotiating a low-cost price for Californians. The webcast was conducted with a surprisingly light touch, including a few well-chosen cartoons, examples grounded in everyday librarianship (such as library doors with handles that lead users astray), and quotes such as “Know […]
(Originally posted to Web4Lib in slightly different form) With all the biblioblogbuzz about OpenWorldCat, folks on Web4Lib brought up RLG’s RedLightGreen. So I walked it around the block once or twice. I was impressed with the theory behind RedLightGreen, and with many of the features. I really liked the related subjects, ability to scope within […]
Vivisimo just rolled out Clusty, a new search engine (so much MORE than a search engine, yada yada yada). Gary Price tipped me off that it has an MPOW feature, which had just a couple of problems: 1. The first three or four times I tried to fiddle with it I couldn’t get the LII […]
I’m talking about Dan Gillmor talking about Doc Searls talking about podcasting, or RSS-fed Web radio, which seems so novel except I’ve been doing a primitive version of that, more or less, ever since NPR began making its news programs available almost simultaneously with their broadcasts. Still, glad to see the geeks naming it, making […]
Well, I see the flacks have done a good job of promoting A9 to the free world, because it’s all the yackety-yack in the biblioblogosphere, not to mention that hotbed of information theory, the Washington Post. Which is a story for another day: how innocent librarians can become less vulnerable to flacks and spin (even […]
Such a kerfuffle in the blognation about Wikis, following an article in a Syracuse newspaper in which readers were warned from Wikis much as I was warned about marijuana in high school (in other words, the article did more for stirring curiosity and interest in wikis than it did for warning anyone away). Full disclosure: […]
Michael Stephens said he wanted to see blogs on ALA’s site. On Jessamyn’s blog, she responds that ALA still needs to fix its search engine and content management system. They’re both right: ALA needs to move forward, and it needs to fix what ain’t working. If I bundled the comments together, I’d say that ALA […]