Results from the last survey: “What’s your favorite FRL feature?” Book reviews: 3 9.7% Blog reviews: 6 19.4% Indepth reporting on issues ending in “gate”: 22 (71%) This week I’m asking “How long before publishers stop publishing in paper?” I think it will happen, eventually, even though this is a week when I requested fifteen […]
Some of you who commented in the past ten days, or who read comments on this blog, may feel that you’re in a time warp. In viewing my Comments function in Movable Type I saw a good dozen trapped among the garbage. I pruned over 100 bad comments and made a pile go active (including […]
FRL has picked up a lot of subscribers in the last few weeks. This is another reminder that if you read FRL with a blog reader such as Bloglines, I recommend you subscribe to FRL’s RSS 2 feed. That way you’ll see comments on posts as they’re added, see posts when they’re updated (sometimes I […]
Today is a holiday, tomorrow is frantic post-holiday catch-up, but as the week gets saner I’ll roll out a book review, intros to a couple of blogs, a discussion about the triumvirate of usability, accessibility, and code testing for MPOW, updates to my ALA schedule, a plug for the LITA blog, and a review of […]
Since last night I have had beef short ribs marinating in the fridge with my special top-secret Korean bulgogi sauce (it comes in a jar at Trader Joe’s). I have wiped down the outdoor chairs, refilled the bird seeders, and swept the patio. To clear the deck for a leisurely Decoration Day weekend evening, I […]
Today I was interviewed for a radio show, Open Source, which debuts May 30. The topic was Wikipedia. I’m on Pilot 3, which would be… Wednesday June 2? I have no idea! My main schtick is summarized here, but it’s nothing new to anyone who follows me. I am always up-front that my life work […]
Top tunes I write by these days: Aretha Franklin, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” Dixie Chicks, “Cowboy Take Me Away” Eva Cassidy, “Fields of Gold” “Down to the River to Pray,” on the songtrack for “O Brother, Where Art Thou” Alison Krauss, “New Favorite” Emma Kirkby, “Time Stands Still” Joni Mitchell, “The Hissing of […]
(Update: I’ve set up the wiki so all pages are viewable and also taught myself a little about linking.) After a week of rain, the sun is splashing puddles of light on the patio, my miniature roses are shyly unfurling their first buds (appropriately, Sunny Day is the first to flower each spring), and the […]
(I cannot mention having a cold without commenting how much I enjoyed Annette Bening in Being Julia. She particularly shone in a wickedly funny ending that involves a stage character with a cold. Bening makes me proud to be middle-aged.) My joy on Mondays is to talk about what I’ve been reading. I do have […]
I had a boffo time at the New Mexico Library Association, talking about the new MPOW to a very engaged SRO crowd (in a conference center with free wifi). Sandy and I then hitched a ride to Santa Fe with Miriam Bobkoff, blogmom to the nifty Icarus blog from Santa Fe Public Library, and an […]