January 2012
2 posts
Elsevier & My Rights as an Author
I’m working on a column that will appear in a title that is an imprint of Elsevier. Once again, there was quite a bit of Elsevier bashing at the recent American Library Associations Midwinter conference in Dallas over their rights and permissions allowed to authors and their support of the Research Works Act. So, I’m looking at these rights as I’m sure to have sign something for...
Why SOPA is bad news for libraries →
The unintended consequences of the Stop Online Piracy Act is that it has the potential to stop U.S. libraries from serving a local audience with global resources. Our government, in trying to cater to a specific business interest, is in essence re-creating the isolationist doctrines prevalent in this country during the leadership of Woodrow Wilson. Let’s hope that President Obama can see...
September 2011
4 posts
Wondering
How much Pandora airtime REM got yesterday. Where could you find that out?
Information Wants to Be Reasonably Priced →
Not a Joke Party →
Which side are you on? →
August 2011
2 posts
Join in the conversation →
My appreciation of The AWL just quadrupled →
July 2011
8 posts
This Week's Top Ten Thus Far
1. Husband & daughter
2. Cats
3. Friends
4. Friends & family on Facebook
5. Interesting professional career
6. MacBook Pro
7. IPad
8. Dependable bus service
9. Berries growing in my backyard
10. Beer
German Nudists Members Shrink →
Just couldn’t help myself
Quote of the Day →
Celebrating the "folklore of the industrial man" →
Quoted often and just as often misunderstood & misinterpreted, here’s to you, Herbert Marshall McLuhan.
Shout Out to Anna Creech →
Her photo is used for this piece
JSTOR & MIT Crack Down →
The most [airquotes] telling [airquotes] statement form this article:
“This makes no sense,” said Demand Progress Executive Director David Segalin a statement provided by Swartz to Wired.com before the arrest. “It’s like trying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking too many books out of the library.”
Social Discounting on Magazines →
Also from Folio, Zinio, an online magazine resource, utilized Groupon to provide discounted subscriptions to various popular magazine on mobile devices. For those of you in my age bracket and older, think of it as an online Columbia Records House deal for your popular magazines. Since getting my IPad two weeks ago, I’m really enjoying reading magazines online now but have only added two...
A Social Media Curated Magazine: UTNE's ALTWIRE →
Just read via Folio that UTNE has created an online magazine using a social media tool to bring together various articles from the underground & alternative media sources. It’s an interesting use of social “influencers” to promote the sources they are influenced by…
June 2011
3 posts
The ER&L Conference to return to Austin, thus I... →
The 2012 Electronic Resources and Libraries conference committee is pleased to annouce that the meeting will once again take place in Austin, Texas at the AT&T Center with the support of our UT Austin hosts. The conference dates are Monday, April 2 through Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Stay tuned for more program, attendee and exhibit information coming in early June 2011.
Personal note: Going...
What We'll Miss in Texas
All our pals here in Austin/San Marcos/San Antonio—we will be back to visit!!
The rivers/fresh water spring pools in the blaze of summer & tubing with friends on the stolen weekday.
First Friday bike rides in San Antonio that start at the Alamo & take you all over the city with a mass of friendly & fun cyclists.
Tex-Mex food: especially nopales/nopalitos & the quick runs...
Returning soon after the big move
Sorry for the Internet silence of late. There have been many life changes afoot & a huge project delay that has caused the disruption. In professional news, I’m moving to Portland, Oregon & beginning a job as the Collections Librarian at Portland State University in the near future. In personal news, I know have a beautiful daughter, Pearl.
Expect more traffic here in the near...
May 2010
1 post
February 2010
1 post
Atomized Library Concept →
This project describes a future iteration of public information spaces.There’s an unreadable block of text about librarian on board four. Too bad there isn’t readable copy available. It would be interesting to learn how librarians inter-mesh with information pods.
December 2009
1 post
YBP has bought out Blackwell North America →
November 2009
1 post
Forthcoming Library Project: TERMS
watch this space for your chance to participate next month
October 2009
3 posts
Hulu to start charging for content in 2010 →
Can a free service transition to a fee service and still maintain traffic? Guess it depends on the following:
1. Can you pay only for the shows you want to watch as opposed to a pre-selected menu of options?
2. What the monthly subscription fee is and how this this fee compares to monthly cable charges?
3. What competitors emerge between now and January 2010.
September 2009
5 posts
Great, now I have a Lionel Ritchie song stuck in...
Hello!!!, I am hellen, I saw your contact , and i was deeply moved.I think that you are a very interesting person.So I decided to use the chance to get to know you.i dont think that the age appearance is so important. The most important is what is inside you and how do you feel about the life. I know this life from many sides and I am rather mature already to know how to make a man...
Can a Smart Phone Make You Stupid?
Let us start with two quotes:
The first is from a FAQ that Tim Berners-Lee wrote on the semantic web in September 1998 (Yeah, 11 years ago) “The concept of machine-understandable documents does not imply some magical artificial intelligence which allows machines to comprehend human mumblings. It only indicates a machine’s ability to solve a well-defined problem by ...
August 2009
5 posts
Precision--not so much →
This is an intriguing tool being developed at MIT that uses keywords from web page descriptions to map your name. It also includes descriptions of people who share your name and creates sort of an uber-persona type based on the compsite descriptions. Watching it as it worked, it took a word like “elected” and ascribed the category “politics”. In this case, the description...
Finding Things on the Internet →
See you can find everything on the Internet—-including yourself when you forget who you are!
Really Damn Dapper
Pal: I just saw my first seersucker suit IN TEH Wild. Balla
Me: Man or woman?
Pal: Dude. Magnificent.
Me: Female would just be mindblown 70's action. Guy seersucka is classic old school props/Lucky u!!!
Pal: It's blue w yellow tie and shoes
Me: We need pictures of such a magnificent display of finery--only thing missing is the straw boater hat!! With matching ribbon!!
Pal: I'm@ jury duty. Don't want to catch the ire of the judge
Me: Actually take that back--the ribbon should be yellow dotted Swiss!! Yeah--don't ire any judges.
Pal: Did I mention he has a mustache?
Me: Handlebar?
Pal: Actually it's Colonel Sanders goatee but not waxed
Me: Brilliant. Gut?
Pal: No he's slim.
Me: Hairstyle?
Pal: Neatly trimmed bald. BTW there IS a handlebar mustache here. He's not dapper tho.
Me: Handlebar more Lemmy-looking? Seersucka does sound really damn dapper!
Pal: No it's a real one. Curled and everything
Me: Wowsa--you're having a fine morning!!
Pal: I heart jury duty.
July 2009
8 posts
Musical Metadata
I’ve been using Pandora on my iPhone quite a bit lately. It’s great in the car when the radio isn’t delivering anything you are really into listening to and you’ve got a long-ish drive ahead of you. We also tend to spend long stretches one day during the weekend listening to Pandora via the home stereo while working on other things or reading. Given this amount of time...
The Politics of Eating
While having breakfast cereal with strawberries on Sunday, I posed the following question to Dennis: “Is it more ecologically correct for us to eat strawberries grown in Mexico or California? Do you think they travel fewer miles from Mexico or California?”
Dennis responded: “Strawberries from Mexico have probably traveled a shorter distance but the workers are probably treated...
Into the Groovy
As you can tell from the photos and scarcity of entries, I took a minivacation from the grid. However, there are a number of things percolating round the synapses that I hope to wrangle into conhesive missives to share here. I’m still working on determining the intent of this blog and the information streams that it feeds into and the expressions with which to sally forth. The storm is...
June 2009
8 posts
People Who Understand Hyper-Text →
