You may be wondering why I’ve been quiet for the last week or so - or maybe you knew that I was on vacation. In honor of my last day before starting work again, I’m going to share what I’ve learned on my vacation.

Boston is a great place to go for a weekend (if [...]

Apparently this program was left out of the schedule for ALA - make sure you add this to your calendar of events at ALA!!
ALCTS CRG Forum in Anaheim Focused on Careers for Public Librarians in Technical Services
Sunday, June 29, 8:00-9:30 a.m., Disney Paradise Pier Hotel, Pacific C/D
Want to get the scoop on the advantages and [...]

This via Infobib:
After receiving overwhelming positive resonance from our readers and our LibWorld authors we would like to publish a book with updated LibWorld articles. And now we are searching for the ultimate LibWorld book cover!
When you are inspired by the idea of connecting global librarianship and maybe you are a bit talented in graphics: [...]

I wanted to try Wordle again. I decided to put in my resume from LinkedIn and my Publications & Presentations to see who I was according to Wordle.

My Wordle
Originally uploaded by nengard
I see this as an addicting little toy … what else can you create a Wordle tag cloud with??
Technorati Tags: wordle

This handy guide from Lifehacker may help you customize your newly installed Firefox browser.
Learn how to:

Shrink the Super-sized Back Button
Adjust the Smart Location Bar’s Number of Suggestions
Delete Mistyped URL Suggestions and Other Auto-complete Entries
Ditch Obselete Extensions
Revert the “AwesomeBar” with Oldbar
Trick Out Your Smart Bookmarks
Set Gmail as Your Default Email client—Without an Add-on
Say Hello to the [...]

It’s finally here! After tons of hard work, the Koha community has announced the release of Koha 3.0 RC1. This from the many Koha mailing lists:
You can download from the usual location:
http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-stableRC1.tar.gz
http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.00-stableRC1.tar.gz.sig
You can check the integrity of the package; either by verifying the provided GPG signature (.sig) or by comparing the MD5 checksum:
5cc0914c5e8250c2491f4dbcf27d4301 [...]

This from Rachel Singer Gordon. I’m no artist … but you may be:
LISjobs.com is seeking submissions for a new logo that reflects its mission of job hunting and career development for librarians and info pros. This logo will be featured on the upcoming redesign of the LISjobs.com website, as well as in additional print [...]

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
(tags: visualization cloud words generator)

HelloTxt
Send out status updates to several social networks at once.
(tags: microblogging aggregator mashup)

Toluu
Toluu is a free service for sharing the feeds you read and discovering new ones.
(tags: aggregator rss feeds blogs)

my del.icio.us tags
Originally uploaded by nengard
I decided to play with Wordle. I didn’t have a paper or article that I wanted to use, so instead I decided to generate a cloud for my del.icio.us bookmarks.
I think this is the perfect image of me - open source and libraries being my biggest terms!!
This [...]

Zoomii.com - The “Real” Online Bookstore
(tags: bookstore amazon books shopping)

Screencast: How to Select Multiple Lines of Text in Firefox 3
(tags: firefox)

Keeping Found Things Found [KFTF]
(tags: informationoverload pim information productivity organization)

For the last presentation of my first SLA, I got to hear William Jones author of Keeping Found Things Found talk about Personal Information Management (PIM).
William decided to change the title of his talk - and made us all giggle “The world is at my doorstep … and the house is a mess: putting our [...]

This panel was very very insightful. The panelists were all recent grads of the University of Washington’s iSchool. They were Alex Berta, Rebecca Blakewood, Ann Glusker, Elizabeth Gould, and Beth Sanderson. Joe Janes and Nancy Gershenfeld professors at the iSchool gave us an intro.
University of Washington was the first school that decided [...]

I’ve noticed that my bookmarks haven’t been posting for a few days … today I see that my PHP script has an error … which probably means that my PHP version has been upgraded on the server … I’ll try to fix it ASAP.
[update] Fixed. [/update]

It’s Firefox day … where is Firefox 3? I want to download it!!
Technorati Tags: firefox

While this talk was presented by Springer and had a Springer bias (which the speaker warned us about) it was very interesting and enlightening to hear a publisher speak about how they’re enabling 2.0 tools into their products.
Olaf Ernst, our speaker for this talk, mentioned right off that integrated econtent is king - [...]

Okay, now this is a bit much! I started using Twitter, because I was on IM all day and it was easy to keep up with friends using the IM functionality. Now there is only partial IM functionality - I receive tweets, but can’t send them. I kept my faith that the functionality [...]

The the Opening General Session at SLA Annual, we got the honor of watching Charlie Rose interview Vinton Cerf!!
Charlie started by thanking us, “You are the masters of getting good information … and to show you how stupid I am - I didn’t know you had an organization.” He talked about how people in [...]

This from TechCrunch:
It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore … Both services are attracting around 115 million people to their respective sites each [...]

So, I thought it sounded like a great idea - no bottled water, no handouts and several other changes to have the SLA Annual conference put a smaller nature killing footprint on Seattle and the world. I was wrong!! SLA did not think this through. I have not been able to get through [...]

I just announced that I was published in a book - now I get to announce that I will be editing my own book!! Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data will be a compilation of chapters about library mashups!! This is going to be a very exciting project with a [...]

My first book contribution has been printed!! I wrote 2 chapters for Thinking Outside the Book: Essays for Innovative Librarians.
Description
Professionals in all areas of librarianship will find inspiration in the essays collected here—each of them innovative tips for increasing circulation, enhancing collections, and improving flexibility. With extensive experience in the nation’s top [...]

Facebook now has chat (if you hadn’t heard already). I don’t use it much because it means going to Facebook and keeping it open. Up til now I had only heard about one app that let you chat on Facebook - and that’s Digsby - but it doesn’t have an app for Mac [...]

Google AJAX Feed API - Dynamic Feed Control WizardEmbed a Dynamic Feed Control on your web page and let your users see customized views of the feeds. Customize how the dynamic feed control should be displayed, and this wizard will write the code for you.
WordPress ? OpenBook Book Data « WordPress PluginsOpenBook is for book [...]

Wide Open Wallet: 50 Awesome Open Source Financial Tools
LastGraphLastGraph lets you explore your last.fm listening history.
MiroFree, open source internet tv and video player
Turn FriendFeed Into Your Start Page With These Greasemonkey Scripts
Pdf Search Engine - Ebook Search
SwaptreeTrade books like a book swap or trade video games and swap cds or trade dvds
Netvibes.orgnetvibes.org is netvibes’ website [...]

Two great presentations from Sarah:

Methods for Staying Current (PDF)
Tools for Staying Current (PDF)