A post by Greg Schwartz on his Open Stacks blog directed me to a post by Mitch Joel on his Six Pixels of Separation blog, and after reading it, I have to say, “Ditto.” Except for the number of followers & following, and the bit about Twitter on a Blackberry, my experience and reasoning is similar to Joel’s.
I started off on Twitter with a small handful of connections, mainly from the same organization. Their interest fizzled out quickly, but it left me poised for the Great Librarian Twitter Invasion of ‘07. Soon, I was following and being followed by more and more people. When my following number hit triple digits and the rate of tweets increased to several per minute, I knew I had to do something to keep Twitter from taking over my life.
As an experiment, I went public with my tweets for Computers in Libraries , and I have left them that way ever since. Periodically, I will go through and weed out those that I follow, mainly keeping people I kn...
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There isn’t much difference between what appears in a small newspaper’s print edition and online. Many photographs make it online that don’t make it to print, and the AP stories are usually a widget feed from the AP. However, in order to maximize search engine traffic and the reader’s satisfaction, newspapers need to rethink their approach to online content.
Online marketing specialist Mitch Joel knows how to get Google hits. Dubbed the “rock star of digital... more
My father recently attended the 2008 Ohio State Sacred Harp Convention . Over the past nine years or so, he’s become one of the shape note ( Sacred Harp in particular) fanatics who will travel all over the region to attend big singings. He loves it, but I find those types of singings to be terrifying.
When I began to sing shape note music, it was with a small Sacred Harp group in Lexington (Kentucky) that met monthly. They were very casual and spent time learning... more
Recently, Dorothea Salo was bemoaning the lack of technology skills among librarians . I hear her, and I agree, but I don’t think that the library science programs have as much blame as she wants to assign to them.
Librarianship has created an immense Somebody Else’s Problem field around computers. Unlike reference work, unlike cataloguing, unlike management, systems is all too often not considered a librarian specialization. It is therefore not taught at a basic level in some librar... more
My review of the documentary Darkon has been published on Blogcritics . To be honest, I was surprised by how good it was. The cinematography is often quite stunning, and whomever they had doing the animation knew their stuff. Sure, it’s edited with a bit of a slant, and as the commentary track reveals, some things happen in the gameplay that might not have had the cameras been absent, but all in all, it comes off as a fair representation of the LARP game and players.
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The past week has been a mix of good and bad, along with an overwhelming volume of “stuff what must be done,” and the end result is that I neglect the blog. In brief: Hit a F-150 in my (new) car two days before I moved into my new apartment. Discovered that my insurance doesn’t cover rentals, so paying for that out of pocket. On the upside, no one was injured. On the downside, experiencing unexpected and expensive transportation costs. As for the move, it was a sc... more
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