Last Thursday’s presentation to the Stanford weenies went really well. (Plus that evening I attended a dinner at the Stanford Faculty Club where Bob Metcalfe gave a very funny speech while Vinton Cerf jokingly heckled him, and aren’t you jealous?) For my talk, I used a 24-slide Powerpoint that only had text at the very […]
Yesterday’s presentation was a great deal of fun, and I’ll upload the pictures from my presentation to Flickr Real Soon Now, and on Sunday try to summarize some of the good things I heard from other speakers. Meanwhile, I woke up in the middle of the night feeling poorly, not sure what happened (something I […]
Ok, I know I didn’t invent Skype… but I just discovered it. Finally came on my radar screen. Why have I not tried free conference calls before? What was I thinking? (Maybe that most people don’t have a PC microphone?) I needed to conference with two technically-inclined people. One was a Skype fan. The other, […]
Sent in my annual report, sent out the list of prioritized gotta-have-to-go-live items, and spent a few minutes eating figs and reading Bloglines. Glad I didn’t have fig in my mouth when I read that Microsoft’s new mapping service doesn’t include Apple’s home in Cupertino. What struck me was not this amusing omission, but the […]
So on It’s All Good I heard about the Microsoft Vista name announcement video. Go ahead and watch it. Except for the crowd scenes, the half-dozen actors in this presentation are all male (or at least very convincing female-to-male pre-ops, or male-identified). I was hoping Scobleizer would comment, since for an Astroturf blogger he seems […]
The title of this entry comes from a question my very smart, savvy sister asked me a year ago: “So what are these ‘globs’ you keep talking about, anyway?” Pew just issued an entertaining if not entirely surprising report demonstrating that the most au courant techno-words, such as RSS and podcasting, are only understood by […]
Jenny notes Proquest will be offering RSS feeds. Proquest also called me to ask a few questions about how to do this. You know, I never asked the question in the back of my mind: Why did they call me? Because of this blog? MPOW? Something else? But I gave them a good half-hour. It […]
I’ve been doing technology-related presentations for almost fifteen years now, and thought I’d stop to tell you what I like best when I do presentations. 1. When early on in the arrangements, the library, without any prompting from me, connects me with a tech guy or gal who holds my hand on the room setup. […]
I Say This Of My Own Free Will… California Digital Library is a very groovy organization. My Place Of Work has partnered with them on projects, and CDL folks are always a joy to work with. CDL collects some of the best brains in librarianship (or librarianship-friendly fields), at least those that want to live […]
(Adapted from a post to Web4Lib.) At My Place of Work, we have had an email list for close to a decade. The list now has 16,000 readers, and has all the problems email lists have–subscribers who get dropped, whose messages go into spam, who forget what address they are under, etc. We had our […]