2006 – Page 3 – Information Wants To Be Free

Do you know someone who moves? Shakes?

Library Journal is looking for nominations for their 2007 Movers and Shakers issue. They have an online nomination form that makes it wicked easy to nominate someone whom you think…

ALA Wikis

Why I wasn’t at Library Camp East

I had really wanted to go to Library Camp East since some of my favorite people would be there as well as people I have been dying to meet for…

librarianship online education

Female speakers in library tech: an interesting finding

Friday was the deadline for proposals from content creators for Five Weeks to a Social Library. At the beginning of the week, some of the planning committee was beginning to…

instruction reference

Zotero – is this what we’ve been waiting for?

I got my library a trial of RefWorks this summer (with the way our distance learners do school work -- often at home and work -- it makes much more…

librarianship RSS and Syndication Wikis

Coming Soon… Internet Librarian

I'm starting to get excited! Internet Librarian is coming in one month!!! Ok, maybe I'm a little bit more excited about the week before that which I will be spending…

Saying goodbye to Abuelo

I know it's been a while since I posted anything here. It's been a tough few weeks. For the past week, I've been in Florida at my Abuelo's bedside (Abuelo…

blogging RSS and Syndication

A rogue RSS feed

Today, I got an e-mail from a reader of this blog. She told me that she reads my blog through Bloglines and that every time she clicks on a link,…

blogging librarianship

Happy Blog Day!

Today is Blog Day, ostensibly because the date sort of looks like the word blog (3108) if you squint or perhaps are a really creative-minded person. It's a day where…

intellectual freedom Vermont

Why my (and probably your) congressman voted for DOPA

This is why. You've got to check out the actual ad; it had me half laughing half furious. I don't write much about politics on this blog, but I have…

librarianship

Confused thoughts on gender, libraries and tech

There's been a whole lot of hubbub about those crazy articles on Forbes.com about wives being compared to whores and the appeal to Forbes' male readers to not marry a…

free the information! librarianship online education

Introducing Five Weeks to a Social Library!

Remember way back when I was talking about wanting to do some sort of a free online educational extravaganza? Well, the wheels have been turning behind the scenes, but I…

Wikis

What are wikis good for?

Karen Coombs beat me to the punch with an excellent post on a Web4Lib comment I had noticed recently as well: "I am repeatedly impressed by how often, when librarians…

hi Wikis

Wikimania Day 2: What’s Cooking in MediaWiki

Brion Vibber is the CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation. OMG, there is a serious lack of women in this room! This talk was about improvements in the pipeline for MediaWiki,…

free the information! Wikis

Wikimania Day 2: Wikis: Enabling Library Knowledgebases

Our talk today went really well! Considering who we were up against (Yochai Benkler!!!), I was surprised and pleased that we had a pretty decent crowd at the talk. Update:…

free the information!

Wikimania Day 2: Library conference planners take note!

Can I tell you how nice it is to have free wireless EVERYWHERE at this conference? Not only that, but the seats are comfortable, and the desks or armrests have…