Sarven Capadisli has some great tips for hiding your email address from spammers on his site. I’m currently using number vii on the Jenkins site, and I’ve seen some of the others around – but there were some I hadn’t thought of. Thanks for the tips!
What I Learned Today…
Web 2.0 and programming tips from a library technology enthusiast, What I Learned Today… covers blogs, rss, wikis and more as they relate to libraries.
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Plogs
There are a bunch of posts sitting in my Bloglines folders today about Plogs. What is a plog? It’s a project management blog.
When we were redesigning our Intranet we wanted to make sure that project related communication wasn’t lost in our email boxes – so we decided to create a blog for each project we were working on. So before there was a word for it – we had plogs on our Intranet – how exciting 
Web 2.0 companies
Steven Cohen has started a list of Web 2.0 Company blogs. Right now it’s hosted on bloglines at http://www.bloglines.com/public/web2point0.
I think this is a great idea – and a big undertaking! If you know of something he’s missing just let him know.
Follow the Carnival
The Carnival is up and running at The Laughing Librarian. Don’t miss it.
Not a Librarian – Yet
That’s right folks, I’ve decided to take the plunge and get my MLS. It’s been a while since I’ve been in school – so this should be an interesting step and huge adjustment for me.
Back in December I posted about not being a librarian – but after reading through the comments and doing a little research I have decided that getting my MLS is a step I want to take. So I’ve started the application process and the hunt for money. For those of you who have recently gone through this process, feel free to share any resources you may have to make this easier for me 
No he didn’t!
More to the point, why are librarians, whose professional training concentrates on mastering the use of the Dewey Decimal System, making any decisions that affect law enforcement?
That’s right ladies and gentlemen (most of whom are librarians – at least in my audience) all you do is spend the day mastering the Dewey Decimal System! Well that’s what Richard L. Cravatts, a lecturer at Boston University thinks. I guess that means I can assume that Mr. Cravatts spends his days doing nothing but listening to himself talk?
In an article in the Boston Globe yesterday titled “When librarians protect terrorists” Mr. Cravatts talks about a library director’s refusal to let law enforcement agents search computers for evidence of a terrorist threat.
Now I have to be honest – I don’t know where I stand on the whole Patriot’s Act issue – I’m not a strong advocate or dissenter, but to have the nerve to demean all librarians because of what this one woman did seems a bit wrong to me.
It did bring up questions in our library about what our privacy policies are and it made me think do we (as a membership library) event count as the “public marketplace”? I don’t know – but it has made me start to think.
Read Mary’s post at the LibraryLaw Blog for more on this topic.
Article Trumps Blogging
I have been rushing to get my article about our Intranet redesign project done before my deadline – sorry I haven’t been posting much – but I really want this article to be great so that it can help the rest of you out there design collaborative Intranets like ours.
Creature of Habit
That’s what I am – a creature of habit. As you’ve probably read, Gmail now had a Delete button – which it should have had from the beginning – but didn’t. This meant that I had to get used to using the pulldown menu and choosing delete from there. Now that there is a delete button I keep using that silly pull down menu – only to realize that there is now a delete button.
I just wanted to rant a little – I’m done now.
