Archive for November, 2009

Edublog Award Nominations

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

In this post I’m just registering my nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards. My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are: Best New Blog – In the Library with the Lead Pipe (just over 1 year old; hope that counts as new!) Best resource sharing blog – The Distant Librarian Best librarian / library blog [...]

This is not my blogosphere

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

One of the things I always loved most about social media was the transparency it created. If a product, service, hotel, etc. was terrible, you could be sure that you’d hear about it from plenty of bloggers. On the other side of things, small companies and talented individuals were able to get noticed because of [...]

Constructive criticism

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Let this be a lesson to you — never write a comment on a blog post while you have a baby on your lap who is simultaneously grabbing at your laptop and spitting up on your pants (yes, this really happened, I have the stained jeans to prove it). Trust me, what you write will [...]

Shades of gray

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Ever since the news of LibLime’s enterprise version of Koha and whether or not their actions consisted a fork of the code, I’ve been thinking about how black and white some of us (me included, at times) tend to see library products and library vendors. Stephen Abram’s “position paper” on open source ILSes got me [...]