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Can’t write a word?
Clive Thompson at collision detection posed an interesting question in his blog today: "can you think better when you're typing?" I've found, at least for the past 10 years, that…
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Get your feed out there
For those who have an RSS feed for their blog, you can now easily submit your feed to 15 aggregators using Feed Submitter by Thomas Korte. If you find that…
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Spamfighters
Is referrer spam getting you down? Killing refferer spam has become an obsession for Dorothea at Caveat Lector over the past week, and she shares some useful tips on how…
The Max Power way
According to Techdirt, a California state senator has introduced a bill that threatens developers of file sharing applications with jail time. John Borland at CNET, writes, “if passed and signed…
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On the hunt…
I will be flying up to freezing Chicago next week for a second interview for a job I am absolutely dying to get. I'd have to be VERY interested in…
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Testing information literacy
According to the New York Times, ETS has developed a test to measure a college student's level of information literacy in order to determine how well schools are preparing students…
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Encouraging discussions at ALA
While I'm kind of bummed about not making it to ALA Midwinter, I've gotten to hear all about it from the PLA Blog, Library Techtonics, and It's All Good. A…
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Folksonomies: Listen to Jessamyn
Jessamyn said "learn this word: folksonomy" and I make it a point to always listen to Jessamyn. :) Actually, I've been hearing quite a lot about folksonomies lately, between my…
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A new corporate approach to intellectual property
IBM is making 500 of its patents available for free to people doing open source projects. Rock on! From the New York Times: I.B.M. executives say the company's new approach…
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User-centered technology implementation
David King wrote two responses to Michael Stephen's 2005 library tech predictions. The first one highlights the importance of user-centered technology planning and implementation. This is something that cannot be…
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Web design resources
I just discovered Spectacle today. It is a gorgeous site with lots of links to the coolest web design resources. From there, you can see Forty Media's web design predictions…
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PLA blog is up!
The PLA Blog is now up and running! It will have some great public library-related reports from the ALA Midwinter Conference by some very familiar faces in the library blogging…
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Michael Stephens’ crystal ball
I find myself often linking to Michael's posts on Tame the Web. So much so that I would urge all of my readers to subscribe to his blog (most of…
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Serving two masters at the ALA
Dorothea has written a very interesting post comparing the ALA to the guild system in the Medieval world. She makes some great suggestions and observations about the ALA's mission and…
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Blogging about blogging about blogging…
Wow! This has got to be one of the most useful sites I've seen in a long time. Susan Herzog, a librarian at Eastern Connecticut State University, has created BlogBib,…
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Archiving Digital Images from Film: My Approach
I'd mentioned in a previous story that i've set out on the horrid task of digitizing about 5,000 - 6,000 of my family's 35mm slides, dating from the early 1960s…
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Life gets in the way
I may not be online too much over the next few days. My grandfather is in the hospital, probably with a stroke, though they haven't figured it out yet. When…
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The impact of open access
Peter Suber at Open Access News pointed me to a very interesting pre-print article about the citation impact of open access journal articles. Citation Impact of Open Access Articles vs.…
Questioning information literacy
Here is an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that has been causing some controversy on the library-related listservs. Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions rails against the…
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Alternative economic model for online publishing
John Batelle offers up an interesting model for generating revenue with online open access publishing in an article in this month's MIT Technology Review. Batelle makes the suggestion for "an…
