Library Shenanigans

Tue 2 Mar 2010, 1:25 pm

Library Shenanigans, a new blog by my friend, Jessy.

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Jenica on identity

Wed 6 Jan 2010, 1:11 pm

Jenica Rogers’ post about online identity and the library profession is smart and spot-on.

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Fifteen things about me and books

Tue 5 Jan 2010, 1:12 pm

My contribution to an old meme that we resuscitated for the History and Future of the Book class.

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The Jason Scott Sabbatical and Kickstarter

Mon 9 Nov 2009, 10:20 am

Jason Scott is trying to use his unemployment as an opportunity to get stuff done, assuming he can get $25,000 in pledges for his “sabbatical.” I think it’s worthwhile, and I also think the site he’s using to do this–Kickstarter–looks useful.

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Four years of me doing whatever it is I’m doing here

Mon 17 Aug 2009, 10:18 am

Four years and still going. Thanks for being here with me.

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Clinical Reader: from zero to negative sixty with one bogus threat

Mon 13 Jul 2009, 1:58 pm

About an hour ago, I had never heard of Clinical Reader. Now, I would never use, trust or recommend them, and am happy to share my opinion with you, dear reader.

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Uncontrolled Vocabulary going on hiatus

Tue 24 Feb 2009, 7:04 am

Unvocab is going on hiatus so Greg Schwartz can clear his head and be more of a family man.

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“Do it now” revisited

Wed 24 Dec 2008, 2:31 pm

Revisiting my “do it now” post from the spring with a few more inspirational bits.

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How to Annoy Librarians: A One-Act Play

Mon 17 Nov 2008, 9:47 pm

A little scene involving “Al,” the performance artist behind the Annoyed Librarian.

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Hello Ranganathan

Thu 7 Feb 2008, 9:57 am

A WordPress plugin for the library geek.

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Note to self: don’t update the blog after 11PM

Tue 5 Feb 2008, 12:19 am

I nuked the blog. But it appears to be back now.

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Trumps

Fri 1 Feb 2008, 5:28 pm

Life trumps blogging, getting sick trumps everyday life, and so on.

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Sensibility

Mon 21 Jan 2008, 10:47 pm

What makes a blog worth following?

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Meme roundup

Sat 22 Sep 2007, 10:11 pm

Just catching up on a few recent topics of conversation.

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Happy second blogversary, See Also…

Fri 17 Aug 2007, 12:58 pm

Two years of See Also…! Thank you all for reading, commenting, and making me think.

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Goodbye diglet

Mon 18 Jun 2007, 4:55 pm

My first blog–on its third or fourth owner–calls it quits.

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365 Library Days and the League of Awesomeness

Tue 10 Apr 2007, 11:58 pm

Sign me up for the 365 Library Days project on Flickr (thanks, Libraryman). Also, learning in public via the League of Awesomeness Internship.

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This blog could be your life

Thu 5 Apr 2007, 11:50 pm

My five library blogging heroines and punk rock. Blogging changed my life.

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Five non-liblogs

Wed 21 Mar 2007, 11:04 am

My entry in the five non-library weblogs meme.

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[insert pun on "Twitter" here]

Fri 9 Mar 2007, 5:00 pm

Twitter: who cares? Me, kinda.

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Weird little pixel blog thing

Mon 5 Mar 2007, 10:55 pm

This is my life:

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If you can’t read this, raise your hand

Thu 22 Feb 2007, 10:55 pm

I screw up the blog, salvage the blog, and shuffle away from the computer.

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Chaucer’s V things

Sat 13 Jan 2007, 2:14 am

You may recall that when I opted out of the “five things you don’t know about me” meme, I still went ahead and tagged a few notable bloggers, namely “Steve Jobs,” “Geoffrey Chaucer,” “Samuel Pepys,” and “Mel Gibson.”

Now, as arby points out, Geoffrey Chaucer has responded:

Ich shalle vse thys meme to telle sum detayles of [...]

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So what did we learn this week?

Fri 12 Jan 2007, 1:41 pm

Don’t feed the trolls, and I’m a pathetic drama junkie nerdboy.

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Drama vs. criticism

Mon 8 Jan 2007, 9:37 am

An appreciative reading of Rachel Hartman’s “Politeness? Overrated.“, in which I pledge to be less argumentative and more critical.

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Just another WordPress weblog?

Sun 10 Dec 2006, 8:40 pm

See Also… and the other Tutt Library blogs are on Movable Type. This is mostly by default; when I first started Bookends and my old personal blog on the College’s academic technology server, that is what was already installed. When we decided to upgrade, they didn’t have PHP running on college servers yet, so WordPress [...]

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The view from the Great Middle

Mon 14 Aug 2006, 11:47 pm

[Warning: we are entering the first anniversary week for See Also, so expect more navel gazing than usual this week. -SL]

In my first post to See Also, almost a year ago, I wrote about Walt Crawford’s first biblioblogosphere survey in Cites & Insights. I finished with this:

So the next time Crawford does his [...]

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Are you blogging this?

Tue 1 Aug 2006, 2:13 pm

[Embedded YouTube video of David Lee King's "Are You Blogging This," wherein David sings an uptempo little number about web 2.0-ish stuff. Funny, geeky, catchy.]

Yes! I am blogging this! Now stop yelling at me!
(David Lee King celebrates two years of blogging. Looks like he filmed this at work: way to go!)

Tags:
david_lee_king,
youtube,
funny

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Solvitur Ambulando

Sun 30 Jul 2006, 10:13 am

I see from a pair of links in the post Why it matters from Dorothea Salo at Caveat Lector that Bess Sadler is blogging at Solvitur Ambulando*

Bess is my wife’s cousin, and while I can’t claim to know her very well, I can say that I’m excited at the prospect of her blogging. She’s a [...]

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Cheating with another blog

Fri 14 Jul 2006, 9:38 am

Edited 2006-07-24: I have no more invites. The ones I had are all gone. Any “refills” I get in the future I plan to send out to people I already know, either in real life, or from online.

Edited 2006-07-19: Sorry, I wasn’t very clear about something. Anyone can look at my Vox blog (or anyone [...]

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Bibliodyssey

Mon 12 Jun 2006, 10:33 pm

Wow, what a cool blog! Bibliodyssey, which just came to my attention thanks to boingboing, is so visually rich, I don’t know that I have read a word of it, so busy have I been looking at the images. Each entry features one or more scans of illustrations or book pages. This one comes from [...]

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New OPAC flair for your blog

Mon 12 Jun 2006, 11:41 am

Apparently inspired by our exchange in the comments on A biblioblogger visits the local branch library, K.G. Schneider, my favorite gay, Christian, left-handed, MFA student / blogger / librarian / gadfly, has come up with a nice new piece of flair:

You can put it on your blog, or the home page of your institution (your [...]

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A biblioblogger visits the local branch library

Wed 7 Jun 2006, 9:25 pm

If you know who shameless self-promoter and alpha geek Cory Doctorow is, and/or you read boingboing, you may find the little skit Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack funny. I know that I did. (If you don’t know who he is, skip it. It’s one big inside joke.)

As soon as I read it, I thought, [...]

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Share without reservation

Wed 7 Jun 2006, 11:22 am

I have blogged about edublogger Stephen Downes before (see my posts The read/write web in academe and Online Learning Daily on Hiatus). One of the things I like about reading his Online Learning Daily blog is that just when I feel like I know where he is coming from, he challenges me a little more.

Take [...]

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A Library 2.0 skeptic’s reading list

Fri 26 May 2006, 8:34 pm

Walt Crawford recently offered an “apology” of sorts on his blog Walt at Random for being the only person that the Library 2.0 proponents tend to cite as a Library 2.0 critic or skeptic. His January 2006 survey of the state of “Library 2.0 and ‘Library 2.0′” (link to pdf or html; it’s long, so [...]

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Swearing off the web for a week

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 times [...]

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New spam approach: whitelisting

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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I love the self-promoting over-prolific alpha librarians

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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Back it up, bloggers!

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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New anti-spam plugin installed

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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Today the Wall Street Journal; tomorrow Today?

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 on [...]

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Naked day at See Also

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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No Foolin’

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 Fools [...]

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Is the Medium the Message for Library Blogs?

Fri 31 Mar 2006, 3:26 pm

[Note: the post below started out as a comment on Library Juice, but I decided to move it over here as it got a bit too long and wide-ranging for a comment. Besides, I have been doing a lot more commenting than blogging lately (to the point of being a virtual squatter in one thread [...]

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Carnival of the Infosciences Number Twenty-Nine

Mon 20 Mar 2006, 2:55 pm

OK! Step right up for the Carnival of the Infosciences number twenty-nine! Keep you hands, feet, and laptops inside the ride at all times, and don’t get cotton candy on the keyboard. And absolutely no refunds!

I’m very happy to be hosting the Carnival for the first time. I had a bit of a week last [...]

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Carnival on snow delay schedule

Mon 20 Mar 2006, 7:41 am

The Carnival will be held a little late today. We are on a snow delay schedule.

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Submit to Carnival of the Infosciences!

Mon 13 Mar 2006, 3:16 pm

Centripetal Remix

Originally uploaded by MindSpigot.

The Carnival of the Infosciences will be here at See Also one week for today (on Monday, March 20)! For those of you who know what that means, don’t let me down. Submit your stuff early and often to slawson@coloradocollege.edu or [...]

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The read/write web in academe

Sun 12 Mar 2006, 4:19 pm

A while back, I said that someday soon, we won’t be talking about the “read/write web” or “Web 2.0″; instead we will just say “the Web” and mean exactly the same thing. As more and more people take advantage of social software and create their own content online, the less we will settle for top-down [...]

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The Century Mark

Fri 3 Mar 2006, 9:51 pm

map symbol – 100

Originally uploaded by LeoL30.

This is post number 100 on See Also, coming about six and a half months since I started this thing. We hit 100 comments a few days ago with this comment from Lorcan Dempsey (Lorcan has won a free [...]

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Carnival of the Infosciences no. 25 at …the thoughts are broken…

Mon 20 Feb 2006, 9:52 am

The Carnival of the Infosciences no. 25 is being hosted this week by
Mark Lindner at …the thoughts are broken…. The Carnival was almost broken this week, as Mark got only one submission, and that from yours truly. And today is his birthday!

But Mark makes lemonade with a nice collection of links he had to [...]

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Technorati charts

Thu 16 Feb 2006, 10:11 pm

Posts that contain "library 2.0" per day for the last 90 days.

This may be old news, but I just noticed it. When you do a search on Technorati, part of the results is a graph of “mentions by day” that shows the frequency of occurrence of your search terms over the past 30 days. Click [...]

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Michael Stephens to Tame Academe

Tue 14 Feb 2006, 3:38 pm

This card has now become very collectible, as Michael has been traded to Dominican University’s GSLIS

I say Michael will “Tame Academe” as a play on his blog’s title, Tame the Web, but if anything, he will be shaking it up. Michael announced today in his post, Reinvention, that he will be leaving his job at [...]

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Writing without hyperlinks

Sun 12 Feb 2006, 10:07 pm

I’m getting close to the deadline for that Library 2.0 article for Colorado Libraries that I have mentioned before, and I’m finding it a bit of a challenge to break my habit of writing for the web.

I’d like to write a paragraph or two about the current state of the ILS and the online catalog [...]

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TextWrangler, Markdown, and the BATF: writing and publishing tools

Mon 6 Feb 2006, 11:44 pm

So Walt Crawford did a post the other day about how he composes his blog posts, titled The joys of real-time wordsmithing.
I have been meaning to do something along those lines to talk about the tools I use, so here goes. Warning: serious geeking out ahead.

TextWrangler

I write just about everything in a file called notes.txt [...]

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Eleventh-hour HigherEd BlogCon submission

Mon 30 Jan 2006, 10:46 pm

OK, I squeaked my proposal for HigherEd BlogCon in at about the eleventh hour. I had a lousy week last week (though not as lousy as my son Luke, who had pneumonia (he’s fine)), so this got put way on the back burner.

If you care to see it, I ended up submitting it to [...]

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Keeping up with the Carnival of the Infosciences

Fri 20 Jan 2006, 11:17 pm

ferriswhell at night by foverversouls on Flickr. Posted here thanks to the Creative Commons.

TangognaT was kind enough to link to my Library 2.0 hangover post in the “Editor’s Choice” section when she hosted Carnival of the Infosciences #20 on Monday.

After some confusion months ago, I finally understood that the Carnival was a weekly wrap-up of [...]

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A non-library blogroll

Mon 16 Jan 2006, 4:33 pm

I don’t keep a blogroll here for various reasons–lack of space, not wishing to alienate bloggers who don’t make my list (though I can’t imagine anyone would care too much), not wanting to have to maintain the thing as I add and drop blogs. I don’t make my Bloglines subs public because I only use [...]

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A Library 2.0 hangover

Tue 10 Jan 2006, 1:58 pm

Alternate titles for this post:

There is no such thing as Library 2.0 and this is a blog post about it. (Apologies for bastardizing the first line of Steven Shapin’s book The Scientific Revolution.)
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And are pin-dancing angels really Library 2.0?

I have spent the last week [...]

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Library 2.0: groping toward a definition through comments

Thu 5 Jan 2006, 9:29 pm

I have been continuing to think about Library 2.0, whatever it may be (aren’t we up to library 2.0.1 or something?), but still don’t have a nice juicy post put together for See Also yet.

I have, however, been quite busy with the comments on other blogs. I hope this isn’t too cheesy, but I thought [...]

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My year in review, 2005

Sun 1 Jan 2006, 8:20 pm

I didn’t really intend to take the time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, but that’s how it worked out.

Here, one day late, is my personal wrap-up of 2005.

Blogs

I started this blog back in August, and so far the experience has lived up to my expectations. I haven’t posted as often as I’d like [...]

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2005 Non-Required Reading

Tue 20 Dec 2005, 9:58 pm

I love the year-end lists. (If you love year-end lists, you surely know of the exhaustive annual Fimoculous meta-list). I have put together a little year-end non-required reading list of the library-related stuff I have read this year that has really stuck with me; that I have read and re-read, or recommended to others, or [...]

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Keep up, Libraryman style

Tue 15 Nov 2005, 4:05 pm

Keep Up! Workshop Packet

Originally uploaded by libraryman.

Well, I had just been blabbing about how I’d like to do a “keeping up” session for librarians at next year’s Colorado Association of Libraries conference, and now Libraryman has pre-emptively kicked my ass. You can’t get all the [...]

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The Audience at "Teach an Old Blog New Tricks"

Sat 12 Nov 2005, 11:28 am

The Audience at "Teach an Old Blog New Tricks"

Here is the excited audience of Colorado Librarians listening to me!

Edited to add: I feel like the session went quite well; we had somewhere around 50 or 60 people there. None of my fears about internet or projector problems came true. [...]

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CAL2005: Blog on: What is a Blog and How do I Create One?

Fri 11 Nov 2005, 10:56 pm

Shelley Walchak of CLiC gave a great intro to blogs and blogging to an SRO crowd, and she kept right on going with the offline version of her presentation when the internet connection conked out–blog on, indeed! (You can bet that I immediately started double-checking the offline version of my presentation.)

She concentrated on Blogger, as [...]

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Teach an Old Blog New Tricks: presentation for CAL2005

Wed 9 Nov 2005, 10:10 pm

As I mentioned earlier, I will be presenting at the Colorado Association of Libraries conference on Saturday, along with my colleagues Gwen Gregory and Robin Satterwhite.

Our talk is called Teach an Old Blog New Tricks and is designed to encourage librarians to go beyond thinking of blogs as links-plus-commentary or online journals, and think of [...]

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Blog people, stand up and be counted!

Wed 2 Nov 2005, 10:27 pm

As you probably know by now, Michael Stephens of Tame the Web is doing a survey called
Who are “the Blog People?” A Survey of Librarians and their Motivations for Blogging. It’s part of his Ph.D. research, and should make an interesting compliment to the work already done by Meredith Farkas at Information Wants [...]

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Some new (to me) blogs and the death of the blogroll

Sun 30 Oct 2005, 3:20 pm

A list of links to blogs from Internet Librarian bloggers I met in Monterey, plus thoughts on why the blogroll is losing ground.

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Internet Librarian; Marketing the Weblog

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 3:52 pm

Jill Stover of Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book presented on how to adopt a marketing mindset, from the moment you start conceiving of a blog until after it goes live. She had a lot of good information and links; I’m sorry that I didn’t get her link at the end for her slides. I’ll post [...]

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Internet Librarian: Library Blogs–Ethics and Guidelines

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 2:35 pm

Karen Schneider of Librarian’s Internet Index and Free Range Librarian

Again, K.G. Schneider has already posted to her blog about this talk, and links to her PPT slides there. So I’ll just hit a few points from her very good talk here.

Her talk focused on five major areas:

Be transparent
Cite source
Get it right
Be fair
Admit mistakes

Why do ethics [...]

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Internet Librarian: What’s Hot and New in RSS, Blogs, and Wikis

Tue 25 Oct 2005, 12:22 pm

Well there is not much point in me taking bullet-point notes on this, since Steven M. Cohen has posted his notes at http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/BlogsWikis. I’ll stick to stuff that is new and exciting to me.

He put up the URLs for the open IL wiki and open IL blog

The “news” in “Google News” or “Yahoo! News” may [...]

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Ready to blog Internet Librarian 2005

Wed 19 Oct 2005, 2:50 pm

I’ll be there, trying to type and listen at the same time, along with about 15 others; I may not be unique, but I am certainly in good company, even if I am at the bottom of the list (hey!).

According to Nancy Garman of Information Today, we will have a “press room” at our disposal [...]

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Get psyched for Internet Librarian 2005

Tue 4 Oct 2005, 10:51 pm

Starting to get excited for my trip to Monterey for Internet Librarian 2005.

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Current Awareness sidebar powered by del.icio.us

Mon 5 Sep 2005, 9:17 pm

Setting up the sidebar to display posts to http://del.icio.us/bevedog/see_also.

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Getting dressed in public

Thu 18 Aug 2005, 2:50 pm

On starting a design from scratch when the site is already up.

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