Fri 28 Apr 2006, 3:31 pm
I love the web. And I love the “biblioblogosphere.” But I am getting repetitive strain injury from hitting command-R in NetNewsWire to refresh my RSS subscriptions. And I stay up late reading Metafilter or trying to get my Second Life avatar just the right shade of blue instead of doing the dishes. I read ten [...]
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Fri 28 Apr 2006, 1:40 pm
I spent the morning in high dudgeon about this news item from the LibraryJournal.com “Breaking News” feed dated today, April 28, 2006: Colorado Legislator Would Ban Library Purchase of Books in Spanish. It was actually worse than the headline suggests, as it would ban the purchase of most materials in any language other than English [...]
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Thu 27 Apr 2006, 3:01 pm
I just installed the Email Whitelister plugin for Movable Type and populated it with the email addresses of all the folks who have already commented on this blog. So if you have ever left a message here before (and you use the same email address as you have in the past), your comment should be [...]
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Thu 27 Apr 2006, 7:38 am
HigherEd BlogCon didn’t end with the end of the library track. This week has been the websites & web development track, and my presentation, Know Enough to Be Dangerous: Tools for Taking Control of HTML and CSS, is up today. A few thoughts: The screencasts I made with Camtasia turned out to be much larger [...]
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Wed 26 Apr 2006, 10:49 pm
I hung out on Second Life a little more on Tuesday night. I’m getting a little better with the navigation, though I did jump off the roof of the library at one point. I met a few more people and am now officially Second Life “friends” with Planetneutral Fackler and Max Batra (or my avatar, [...]
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Wed 26 Apr 2006, 10:13 am
I have often thought that Library of Congress Subject Headings for fiction were kind of funny in they way they can reduce a complex work of art into a few words. And the “– Fiction” part just seems funny to me, as in “Middle-aged men — Fiction.” So here is a a little quiz: nine [...]
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Tue 25 Apr 2006, 6:49 am
So that’s my Second Life avatar, Hatchibombotar Stein, standing in front of the horse statue that is outside the Second Life Library 2.0. I may end up making him blue like Krishna or Dr. Manhattan or a Smurf, but he’s OK for the time being. If I ever have some time to burn, I might [...]
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Fri 21 Apr 2006, 3:38 pm
About a week ago, Michael Stephens mentioned parenthetically “I think I need a way to offer comments as a feed….“. Since I have a comments feed for See Also, I copied my template, made a few small changes and sent it to Michael. He seemed to appreciate it. So I thought that other Movable Type [...]
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Thu 20 Apr 2006, 3:58 pm
My friend, colleague, and occasional commenter on this very blog, Jessy Randall, has a new little project: Library Shenanigans, a list of library pranks and other silliness. My new favorite is “Reading On a Dream,” the musical-theatre duet sung in the middle of the library to an audience of unsuspecting students (apologies for all the [...]
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Thu 20 Apr 2006, 2:20 pm
If you have been reading library blogs this week, you have seen the discussion on “shameless self-promotion” and the like. Meredith Farkas’ Shameless self-promoter at Information Wants to Be Free is the latest one I have seen, and she recaps the previous posts, so you can start there and work backward if you have missed [...]
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Thu 20 Apr 2006, 1:01 pm
Time to back up your blog database. Do it now! I just did (thanks for the reminder, guys). You’ll want to be able to show the kids in seven years.
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Mon 17 Apr 2006, 4:52 pm
Edited 2006-04-28, 06:45: So far so good. If you try this on Movable Type, don’t forget that you still need to get a free WordPress API key via WordPress.com and fill it in under the settings for the Akismet plugin. If you forget that step, and you disable your other spam blockers as Akismet suggests, [...]
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Thu 13 Apr 2006, 9:02 am
[Warning: whining and complaining ahead. -SL] I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by: Comment spam. Like Walt Crawford, I’m getting hammered with stupid comment spam. It isn’t the amount as much as it is the seemingly innocuous nature of the spam is making it past my filter. I want to make it so that if you [...]
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Wed 5 Apr 2006, 11:01 am
As Michael Stephens has pointed out, putting yourself out there on the web can lead to strange and interesting encounters. On Monday, I got an email from Jessica E. Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. She was writing an article about how people use online mapping services, and had come across my See Also post [...]
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Tue 4 Apr 2006, 7:15 pm
When I saw that Dorothea Salo at Caveat Lector was going naked today, I thought I should join in. It’s all for a good cause, and goes nicely with my presentation for HigherEd BlogCon, where I’ll be talking about how to get dressed with style.
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Tue 4 Apr 2006, 3:41 pm
Coburn Library Originally uploaded by Colorado College Tutt Library. My friend, colleague, and occasional commenter on this very blog, Jessy Randall, has posted a photoset to Flickr of historical photos of Colorado College libraries. Some of the photos may just be interesting to Colorado College folks, but who wouldn’t love Coburn Library, shown here, with [...]
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Mon 3 Apr 2006, 4:43 pm
HigherEd BlogCon starts today, with the teaching track running this week. (That means I have two weeks before I have to have my piece for the Websites and Web Development track completed. Whew!). This is a free conference: free as beer, free as in Creative Commons-licensed presentations. What is not to like about that? The [...]
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Mon 3 Apr 2006, 12:19 pm
I was going to complain about the lack of April Fools jokes in the “biblioblogoswhatevertheheckwearesupposedtocallit.” About the only one I’d found on April 1 was the Library Journal Booze, Beads, and Beignets story (librarians + jello shots + pastries = a new disaster for New Orleans), which was pretty good. I had planned an April [...]
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