Archive | February, 2007

28 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Code4Lib: Breakout 1

I went to the Library APIs Breakout session today. It turned into a talk about Talis & their products & business practices. It was pretty neat Rob Styles (of Talis) went off on a pretty neat tangent/analogy. Rob introduced us to his 3 children. His 18 month old son is at a stage in his [...]

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28 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Code4Lib: My Recorder

For some silly reason I thought it would be okay to record today’s session on the lowest quality – now I’m having trouble hearing them. I’ll try and get some coherent summary posts up – but I apologize to all speakers in advance if I miss an important point or don’t get it quite right [...]

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28 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Code4Lib: First Impressions

First of all – my teammate at Jenkins said it sounds like geek heaven We have a room with tables where we can plug our laptops in – and have free access to wireless – with special extended rights!! But you all aren’t reading so you can be jealous You’re reading to hear about the [...]

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27 February 2007 ~ 8 Comments

In Georgia

Here I am in HOT Georgia waiting for tomorrow when I get to attend the Code4Lib conference. I didn’t know how to pack for this trip – and it turns out I did it all wrong! Anyway, I’m here – I’m alive – and maybe after a good night’s sleep I’ll be rearing to go.

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25 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

NFAIS 2007: Measuring Change

Today I got to hear Bette Brunelle of Outsell Inc. at the NFAIS 2007 Annual Conference in Philadelphia. Her topic was “Measuring Change: How Disruption Affects to Information Community” – nifty title. Bette provided us with a bunch of statistics from the Outsell database, but before that, she made a very important point. She mentioned [...]

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25 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-02-24

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22 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-02-21

PDFescapePDFescape is a new way to open PDF files. It allows you to open your PDF files right here on the web without downloading or installing any software. SlideShareShare and discover slideshows More of my links

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21 February 2007 ~ 15 Comments

Doesn’t mean a thing

ILS

Steven Cohen points us to III’s Flickr account. And Michael Stephens wonders if they actually have read the Cluetrain Manifesto. So, we have a vendor that is rather infamous in the biblioblogosphere adopting a 2.0 tool and some of the most unique and respected voices in our profession saying “Hey, vendors..wake up! The world is [...]

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21 February 2007 ~ 6 Comments

Spam Spam Spam!

Okay, I’m open for any suggestions. I have Akismet and SpamKarma installed on this blog. SpamKarma alone used to be enough and then I thought I’d add Akismet because SpamKarma wasn’t catching 100% of my spam (even though I have very strick settings on). I’m still getting about 3 comment spam posts getting through per [...]

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20 February 2007 ~ 2 Comments

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 2007-02-19

Tips for Locating Niche RSS Feeds Graphic and Web Design Toolkit Extension List Dumper | Firefox Add-onsThis extension adds a button ("Dump list") to the Add-ons window. When this button is pressed, a new window is opened with the list of installed extensions or themes (and its version number). YugmaFree Web Conferencing, Online Meetings and [...]

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