Posted in Blogging on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
I’ve decided to move this blog to a different host. At the same time, I’m going to rename it. I’ve got a name I’m happy with, and I’m down to two contenders for hosting. Mostly it’s a matter of finding a combination of features I’m comfortable with, and adequate spamming protection. The change should take [...]
Posted in Career, Conferences, People, Scary, Travel on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Like the author of Chronicles of Bean, I have a hard time mingling fluently. Two days ago, I decided to stop worrying and registered for the Internet Librarian 2007 conference in Monterey, CA in October. I’m excited: the program has almost too many interesting panels and talks, I’ll get to hear some people whose blogs [...]
Posted in Conferences, Library 2.0, Web 2.0 on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Note to self: remember to check out the Social Software Showcase presentations [wiki].
“The Social Software Showcase is an online unconference occuring around and during the time of ALA Annual 2007.”
Posted in Searching, Web 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Another interesting link from What I Learned Today:
SearchCrystal searches across five engines, and arranges the results in a visual grid (if you can call a circle a grid). Each engine is color-tagged. The links (text, images, video, blogs, news, or tags) found by more than one engine get a multi-color blob next to it, and [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Grabbed from the What I Learned Today blog: Blaise Aguera y Arcas talks about Seadragon and Photosynth [video] These programs take images and link them for viewing, or to create a representation of an environment. They, with Microsoft’s table computer [video], made me gasp. Just think what we could do if we had people with [...]
Posted in Humor, Library 2.0 on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I appreciate the humor, and the issues are quite real in Andrew Finegan’s Vision of Library 2010 [video].
Posted in Career, Library 2.0, Searching on Monday, June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Discovered via Stephen’s Lighthouse (Jun 11, 2007):
A listing of learning resources for Library 2.0 and related professional development. I’m going to be using this list!
Posted in Career, Studies on Monday, June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I was stupid.
I had an indexer job lined up, via a classmate, for the summer and possibly for the forseeable future. An interesting one, too. Just perfect considering that I took Information Technology, Knowledge Organization, and Online Searching and Services this spring.
I didn’t get the job because the company has some financial troubles. I didn’t [...]
