Archive | October, 2009

27 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Tagging People in Flickr

Woo Hoo!! Just what Flickr has been misssing – the ability to tag people who appear in the photos! I was looking at pictures from Internet Librarian and a change in Flickr popped out at me – there is now a small link on the right hand side of the page that lets you list [...]

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20 October 2009 ~ 6 Comments

Open Source & the Letter of the Law

I’ve stayed mostly quiet on the issues that have been rearing their head regarding the newest LibLime software offering because of my connection to the company in the past. That said, I had to comment on Josh Hadro’s most recent post about the community uproar over LibLime’s Enterprise Koha. Josh starts his article by saying [...]

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14 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

My delicious bookmarks for 2009-10-12

PixlrFree online photo editor. More of my links

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13 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

I’m still here

Wow, how did 10 days go by since my last post? Anyway, I’m still here. It’s not that life has taken me away from my blog, it’s that writing my book and all of my presentations has taken me away from blogging. So a quick update. I’m doing great. The new job is great, the [...]

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05 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

My delicious bookmarks for 2009-10-03

dbWizdbWiz is an exciting federated search tool that allows users to select an appropriate starting point when doing research. More of my links

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03 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

My new career

On Thursday I started work with ByWater Solutions as the Director of Open Source Education. In my role I’m going to be working with the open source library world doing a little bit of everything. As mentioned a month ago I will be working with both ByWater Solutions and BibLibre on Koha. I’ll retain my [...]

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03 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

My delicious bookmarks for 2009-10-01

Useful Open Source Software Directory More of my links

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02 October 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Stop Arguing and Do Something

A quote from a friend who will remain nameless: “i swear to god, if the library world invested half as much time in doing things, as talking/arguing about things .. the world would be a better place” I have to agree with this quote – especially after reading the comments on the recent article about [...]

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02 October 2009 ~ 5 Comments

Computers rule our lives

Last night I was teaching future librarians about open source software. When we got to the part of my talk about the risk of choosing open source I mentioned that it doesn’t matter what software you pick – there is always a risk. Think about it – our lives are run by computers that in [...]

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02 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

My delicious bookmarks for 2009-09-30

Shitty First DraftsNow, practically even better news than that of short assign­ments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them. This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts More of my links

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