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June 27, 2007

A Nineteenth Century Insight for a 2.0 World

I love the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. No, not the TV series, but the books themselves. I've read them so often and for so many years that I can quote passages from memory. When I open one...

June 21, 2007

What Is Worth Publishing in Print?

The announcement is going around that the peer-reviewed e-journal Library Philosophy and Practice has published a special issue, Libraries and Google. This reminds me of last year's Google and Libraries issue of Internet Reference Services Quarterly (Vol. 10. No. 3/4)....

June 18, 2007

How Do You Pronounce It?

I'm in the mood for a little fun today. Lately, my library's Systems Administrator has been correcting my pronunciation of "Library 2.0." Fred Jeziorkowski is also a friend, and he enjoys telling me when I'm wrong. A little while ago,...

June 14, 2007

What Alternative Search Engines Can Teach Us

I'm a List Master. Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it. A while back, I was invited by Charles Knight, a former CEO of a search engine optimization firm, to join with a handful of other search engine experts to compile a...

June 12, 2007

Administrator Blogs Can Lead the Way

In previous entries, I've put in a plug or two for administrator blogs. I especially concentrated on this idea in my posting last fall about this topic. I've been thinking more about this matter since then. I've come to the...

June 04, 2007

Go Where Users Are - On Your Web Site, Too

I'm in the final stages of preparing a talk on social software tools I'll be giving on Thursday at the Rhode Island Library Association Annual Conference. As I prepare my slides about the concept of "going where users are," it's...