In concert with its findings that technology users fall into different categories (those researchers… always ahead of the curve!) Pew has released a quiz you can take to measure what kind of technology user you are. I fell into the “omnivore” category, even though I disagreed with statements such as ” I believe I am […]
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For some time now, Sandy’s church website has needed some radical TLC. I baldly admit, I have avoided getting involved in this for reasons understandable to anyone who has worked with any low-tech committee-run organization on a tech issue. But since I suddenly have time right now to do something other than my day job, […]
Thanks to our ace editor, Tom Peters, my review of David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous is now up on ALA Techsource, just a handful of hours after I drafted it. (If the formatting looks a little funky in your browser, bear with us–the blogging software we use at Techsource is one of those one-of-a-kind, ALA-had-to-get-something-different […]
I still wake up most Thursday mornings feeling that I’ve misplaced something. It’s a hangover from when Thursdays were the center of my week. We had very distinct work products at my Former Place of Work Minus One (FPOW-1). While some projects were multi-year activities (funding and migrating to a new search engine, doing the […]
I’m hustling off the grid for the rest of today to work on my review of Everything is Miscellaneous–quick preview: miscell-delicious!– but wanted to note an important warning to MFA in Writing students in a post at Politics, Technology, and Language. If you have even the slightest urge to publish through traditional channels–an essay in […]
As an aside related to Bell’s article, Dorothea asks at Caveat Lector, “What am I, chopped liver?” If she were, that wouldn’t be so bad. I adore chopped liver. I used to make it, before I learned about cholesterol, and no, you can’t make good chopped liver without piles of schmaltz, preferably rendered by hand […]
Another reminder to feed subscribers: the new feeds are here… I would recommend subscribing to rss or rss2, and the comment feed: https://freerangelibrarian.com/comments/feed [comments] https://freerangelibrarian.com/feed/rss/ https://freerangelibrarian.com/feed/rss2/ https://freerangelibrarian.com/feed/rdf/ https://freerangelibrarian.com/feed/atom/ Spending a lot of time today off the grid, working on a new essay and submitting older pieces. Bookmark to:
Several people have asked me what I thought of Steven Bell’s recent post about a lack of “rigor” in library discourse. It’s a hard piece to discuss because its locus is undefined; it seems to be trying on arguments the way I try on clothes at Talbot’s, rushing in and out of outfits hoping to […]
This being a household-errand sort of day, I’ve been watching CNN off and on as an alternative to NPR (I loathe the Diane Rehm Show; I’m sorry, I just do) and I have heard Governor Corzine say over and over that by not wearing a seatbelt he set a bad example for young people. Frankly–and […]