Go down Moses, way down in Grantistan! Tell your people, don’t forget to sign the form… It’s only 9:22 p.m. and after my final siege, a 14-hour marathon, I’ve finished and emailed off what I think is a coherent draft of our annual grant from the Powers that Be, complete with Budget, numbers that jive, […]
One of the moderators resolved my problem with my new camcorder by saying, before you do anything buy a Firewire cable and try again. I did, and that instantly worked. I reimported a file, processed it with Nero, and burned it. The video quality was better, as well, as promised, but the big deal for […]
I’m having growing pains with this camcorder project–and that’s a good thing. I’m seeing technology from the point of view of someone who just wants to push a button and make things happen. It all seemed so simple. Buy a camcorder (Sony DCR-HC96). Buy a DVD burner (Memorex 16x). Camcorder has software (Sony’s); DVD burner […]
100_1067, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. I started using stickers on my laptop after watching someone in an airport security line confuse my laptop with his. Like Little Black Suitcases, laptops are dangerously similar, particularly to people who don’t really appreciate the huge difference between a Dell Latitude 410 from a ThinkPad. (I think it’s about […]
Free Range Librarian Word Cloud, originally uploaded by freerangelibrarian. Several other folks out there have cooked up word clouds for their blogs through this t-shirt site, but when Lorcan Dempsey posted his… well, he’s the Man. I will say this cloud resembles FRL as I know it! Bookmark to:
Please take just a few moments to complete Michael Stephen’s brief survey about librarians and instant messaging. He’s doing some background work for a brief talk at Computers in Libraries 2006 as well as collecting some data for his upcoming Library Technology Report “Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software.” He’s interested to […]
What are the drawbacks of transparency and information? Can you really know too much about a contributor? Quite a few decisions about Wikipedia come from the strong personality of Jimmy (sometimes called “Jimbo”) Wales, who even after acknowledging in the aftermath of WikiGate that anonymous writers are a problem to be addressed, insists that user […]
(From a show that happened today, 12-5-05.) The show began with an intro by Christopher Lydon; the lede was, seems like a boon, until we consider the perils of privatization… a tantalizing opening. Then came a Google rep to present what Google Book Search does: how carefully they digitize (which I do not doubt). Siva […]
I remember Roy Tennant talking about this… now it is happening, and I believe the webpage when it says it is “*the* event for technologists building digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.” As Jessamyn notes, code4lib is a sort of a south of the border Access, one of the most bleeding-edge, ultra-hot, […]
I like to say that I heart user reviews on websites, but that’s not across-the-board accurate. I am smitten with the reviews on epicurious.com, even when they’re not that useful; I groove on the reviews on Amazon.com, as long as they are useful; I avoid the reviews on imdb.com; and I am unmotivated to add […]