Are we slackers or are we tough cookies? Can we really be both? What am I talking about? I just read this article from Fortune on Attracting the 20-something worker.
One minute I’m happy to be a 20-something (even if I am closer to 30 than 20 now) - and the next I [...]

Yesterday we had a meeting with a vendor - I should clarify - we had a meeting with a non-library vendor. When asked if our peers were using this new product, the vendor asked a pretty straightforward question, “Well, who do you consider your peers to be?” What’s your answer? Other libraries? That’s [...]

There is an interesting discussion going on at Cataloging Futures. The question is how do we upgrade our Cataloger’s skill sets? How do we prepare them for cataloging of digital collections?
Most catalogers have the important skill set already: experience with structured data and standards, good analytical skills, the ever necessary discipline of [...]

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Of course I didn’t see this over the weekend when I could fix it - but it looks like images in my posts aren’t displaying with this new template. I’ll see if I can figure it out later today.
[update] Okay, it’s not the template. Somehow, when I downloaded a copy of my site [...]

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Meredith has a lively discussion going on over at Information Wants To Be Free about friending people on social networks - feel free to weigh in.

I just read that Google is considering buying FeedBurner. At first it didn’t really surprise or worry me - but then I read this:
With this deal, Google can integrate both AdWords and, soon, DoubleClick into FeedBurner’s feeds as well as create more sophisticated RSS search tools.
I have just one thing to say - if [...]

I found this on the OPAL list of events today (which hasn’t had much of interest to me lately) and wanted to make sure you didn’t all miss it!!

Wednesday, June 6, 2007 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time,
1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 6:00 p.m. GMT:
Interview with David Weinberger, Author of Everything [...]

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.2 and figured it was time to upgrade my template as well (the one I had was very very very old).
I keep meaning to do something custom, but I just don’t have the time - or the design skills necessary. So, bear with me while I make customizations. [...]

Hack Attack: Automatically upload a folder’s photos to Flickr - Lifehacker

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I will be presenting at PALINET for a NFAIS event on June 29th entitled “User-Generated Content and Social Media”:
1:15pm - 2:45pm: The Collaborative Information Workplace

Nicole Engard, Metadata Librarian, Princeton Theological Seminary

Barbara Brynko, Editor-in-Chief, Information Today, Inc.

This session will focus upon the effective use of collaborative communication tools within the workplace. The speakers [...]

I have to be honest - I didn’t want to be tagged in this one I don’t know if I can come up with 8 things - anyway Rachel tagged me.

I was in the color guard in high school

I moved every 3 years as a kid cause my dad got bored - now, [...]

I’ve been talking to a lot of new people lately - students and librarians alike - and in those talks, something has become very clear to me - no one is teaching people the simple techniques to keep up with our profession. I’m not talking about the power user style of keeping up (subscribing [...]

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I was listening to the most recent Library Geeks Podcast yesterday and wanted to share one thing that I learned (I learned a lot - but I want you to go and listen to what Gary Price has to say).

I learned about Ask City, a map search by Ask.com. This is not just another map [...]

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David Weinberger did a talk at Google about Everything is Miscellaneous. It borrowed a bit from the keynote I heard last year at KMWorld - and is just as exciting. I highly recommend that you watch it if you have some time to devote.
David is a great speaker and just draws you [...]

LibLime has just announced the addition of an editions tab to the Nelsonville Public Library’s catalog (powered by Koha). In short - Koha now has FRBR!
There's been quite a lot of talk lately in library tech circles about OCLC's new commercial xISBN web service as well as similar free services available from LibraryThing and [...]

Sorry - I couldn’t resist
Apparently Google is planning on offering a Universal Search:
Universal Search means that standard Google searches will draw results from separate Google properties that target information about books, local information, images, news, and video, Mayer said.
“It’s breaking down the silos of information that have been built up. It’s a broad, [...]

Everything is MiscellaneousDavid Weinberger at Google talking about Everything in Miscellaneous
Review: Voice In Second Life Gets Two Thumbs Up — Second Life — InformationWeekVoice in Second Life, due to go live May 23, will fundamentally transform the virtual world. We tried out the beta version, and were extremely impressed.
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This is my 1000th post!!! And what a crazy ride it’s been getting here.
It started with me trying to find my place among a group of bloggers I respected and had learned so much from. In November 2005, I wrote 65 posts (a number I only topped 6 times in the last year [...]