In a report presciently dated 11/27/2005, a day when most of us will spend our afternoon at the gym working off the pie and stuffing, Pew reports that lots more people use search engines these days: “[A]bout 60 million American adults are using search engines on a typical day. … These results from September 2005 […]
[I’ve belonged to IPG for, I don’t know, years now, since right at the end of my gig as the Internet Librarian columnist for American Libraries. Not only does this letter dress down Forbes Magazine for egregious writing, it’s an account-by-proxy of a larger press travesty, the drubbing of Pamela Jones, whose blog, Groklaw, is […]
From a flurry of good articles about a recent talk by Stephen Abrams (who is doing a terrific service to LibraryLand by playing Resident Scold on All Issues Technological), I winnow out this Abramism caught by Tame the Web: “Everyone under 25 has an IM account but most librarians over 30 don’t. This needs to […]
“How do individual voices establish and maintain integrity on the web? How can that effort be encouraged and supported? How can several voices be aggregated in a way that expands both the audience and the interaction with readers without sacrificing the independence of the individual voice? What are the strengths and weaknesses of blogs in […]
That’s the title of an email message in my mailbox today. Audible has some cajones asking me that question. I signed on with Audible one or two years ago, bought one book, downloaded it… and then ran into hellish problems with the Audible software, which one day blipped out for no apparent reason. I couldn’t […]
Part Two of a thread about the U.S. Copyright Office’s request for input asking if “persons filing the electronic-only [copyright] preregistration form prescribed by the Copyright Office will experience difficulties if it is necessary to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser in order to preregister a work.” (Also see coverage by news.com.) I’m hoping that […]
Update, several hours later: I want to clarify my concerns here. The problem is not that the Copyright Office is saying that its site will only be compatible with IE. The Copyright Office is saying that its site will not be compatible with HTML standards. It is also saying it purchased a production tool that […]
I’ve been so busy between the launch of the new MPOW, my own writing, and the sundry demands of summer, that Free Range Librarian has been hard to attend to. But the French have it right: taking a breather in August is a good idea. September will come, and with it the usual efforts. So […]
(Sorry, that title came from my military vocabulary…) I’m excruciatingly tired from two days of database training (complete with obscenely early arisals and late-night email catchup, because the job doesn’t disappear just because I do). Still, I was… excited! thrilled! transfixed! …to read that the Big O had made yet another VCR (very cool refinement) […]
Sorry that the PowerPoint URL was mangled. Here it is again: https://freerangelibrarian.com/presentations/stanford07052.ppt The owners of the fake Eichler we rent in Palo Alto are making their annual visit tomorrow, so after a day of MySQL training, I dashed home to work with Sandy in mopping and folding and scrubbing. We own a condo in Point […]