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"You Two! We're at the end of the universe, eh. Right at the edge of knowledge itself. And you're busy... blogging!"
— The Doctor, Utopia


Monday, January 25, 2010

Bye bye Blogger. It was fun while it lasted.

image I’ve been using Blogger since before Google owned it. This blog has been published using Blogger since day one. Yesterday I found out the the geniuses at Google have decided to abandon the .5% of their user base that knows what they’re doing and using FTP to publish to their own domain. Guess what? This blog is part of that .5%.

So, with the help of Blake and Karen, this blog should be moving to WordPress in the next few weeks. How will you know when it happens, well, I’m sure I’ll announce it for those of you reading the feed, and the few of you that actually visit this site will see a completely new template. (Just using a new WP template is much easier on the conversion than to try and convert the Blogger template.) So, if you’ve got any template suggestions feel free to leave them in the comments.

(If you’re interested in the gory details as to why, start with this article from Quick Online Tips and follow the links for even more details.)

Oh, and this completely fracks up the Blogger chapter of the 2nd edition of my Blogging & RSS book which is currently with my editor. This should be fun to fix this late in the process.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

Apologies for repeats

For those of you reading this blog via the feed you've probably received a bunch of old posts this morning. This is a result of fixing some invalid code in my template forcing a republication of the whole blog. These republished posts are then considered "new" by your aggregator. I believe this mini-project is done. You may now resume your regular feed reading.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Blogging from Scottsbluff

This morning I'm in Scottsbluff, NE teaching 11 area librarians how to blog. Of course, nine of them are sitting in the back row. Only two brave souls are sitting in the front row.

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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Blogger weirdness

Why is Blogger doing this?I've noticed lately that when I publish a new post sometimes the publishing happens quickly, sometimes very slowly. The difference seemed to be in whether I included labels (categories) with the post. (For example, when creating a post with BlogThis! you can't add labels so posts are published quickly. When posting via Blogger, I add labels and things publish slowly.) Well, the image at the right (shrunk since it's huge,) "explains" the problem. Whenever you publish a new post with a label, whether one label or a dozen, Blogger republishes every page for every label you've ever used. So, in this example, I wrote a new post with one label, "blogosphere", yet several hundred files were created, and SFTP'd to my server. All that should have been published are the four files: the post's page, the main page, the archive page, and the page for the one label I used.

I'll be submitting this to Blogger and will follow up here with any response I receive.

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Thursday, May 24, 2007

Blogging in the afternoon

Hello from blogging session #2 at the Omaha Public Library.

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Blogging in the morning

Hello from the Omaha Public Library where I'm teaching my blogging workshop.

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Monday, April 30, 2007

In-service Day

On Friday I was honored to attend and present at the Lincoln City Library's In-Service day. I haven't had a faster or more fun Arbor Day in my life. I was great to meet so many librarians from my new home town and to see how excited you were about all the new technologies I was presenting. At one point during my Flickr presentation someone asked for more specific examples of how to use Flickr in a library. Well, here's one. Use Flickr to post a slideshow of an event on the library's blog/Web site.

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Blogging 101, take 3

And this morning 13 more Nebraska librarians are writing their first posts to their new Blogger blogs. No mutiny in sight.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

CIL2007: Trends in Mobile Tools & Applications for Libraries

Megan Fox, Simmons College, (fox@simmons.edu) web.simmons.edu/~fox/mobile

  • Patrons want and demand mobile on-demand services
  • Mobile Market
    • [I lost the stats I typed in...]

  • Latest Devices
    • iPods
    • tablets
    • PSP
    • Blackberry
    • m300 smart watch

    • Treo
    • Samsung B470
    • Nokia N93
    • HTC S710
    • iPhone
    • MyOrigo
    • HTC Advantage and Shift
    • Ultra Mobile PC - Q1 Ultra
  • Mobile Web / Transcoded Web
    • .mobi
    • mobilelearn
    • winksite
    • volantis
    • roundpoint
    • mobiSiteGalore
    • Freemont PL has a .mobi version
    • zinadoo
    • NYT
    • National Weather Services
    • Digg
    • PubMed
    • Hoovers
    • Ball State University (Looks like Gopher)
    • Mobile Optimized OPACs
      • III AirPac
    • LibraryThing
    • Ready Reference On the Go
      • Tucors
      • handango
      • dictionaries
      • almanac
    • Mobile Answers
    • eBooks & eAudio
    • Transcoding
      • Optimizing for the mobile environment on the fly
      • May remove content so somewhat controversial
      • Blogger on the Go
      • mobilicio.us
    • Databases on the Run
      • Factiva
      • LexisNexis
    • Mobilize your content
      • via RSS then to SMS
      • MobiFeeds
      • xFruits
      • feedbeep
      • hubdog
      • GoogleReader
      • Text onto the iPod

  • Mobile Search
    • Google
    • 4info
    • Yahoo!
    • AOLMobile
    • Ask
    • [Presented on this earlier in the conference]

  • SMS for content
    • GoogleSMS
    • Yahoo
    • AskMeNow
    • Biblioteche di Roma (answer w/in 48 hours, ugh!)

    • 411
    • Meriam Webster
    • Life's a Pitch - 1st chap via SMS
    • Harper Teen
    • Citysearch

  • SMS for communication
    • Simmons College Reference Services
    • Altrama (SMS Virtual Reference)
    • teleflip
    • gizmoSMS
    • MagicMessage
    • MobileU
    • AIRBaruch
    • Class in Hand

      • Text Feedback Link
      • Feedback Meter Link
  • Mobile audio & multimedia
    • downloadable audio
    • mobile tours - guide by cell

    • instruction
    • story hours
    • video tours
    • mobile tv
    • mobile YouTube
    • mobile Second Life
    • Ball State University training videos & promotional videos
    • Video downlaods

  • Applications for staff
    • Stats - bar code readers
    • Sirsi PocketCirc
    • Wireless Workstation

  • What's Next?
    • txt & video ads (you must approve & get a discount on your bill for viewing)
    • MasterCard & Visa via your phone
    • Hardware displays
      • glasses
      • eink/epaper
      • project to wall
    • ZenZui
    • Microsoft Live Labs Deepfish
    • Photo2Search
    • Thrrum
    • mobile visual interactions - qipit
    • spoken interactions - GotVoice
    • GPS Location Interaction
  • [showing pics from my Library Signage flickr pool!]

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

CIL2007: Using Social Media for Community Engagement (Tuesday Keynote)

Andy Carvin, National Public Radio (www.andycarvin.com/complibraries.ppt)

  • Head of NPR's Web 2.0 streategy
  • Traditional Media Production
    • publisher
    • broadcaster
    • billboard owner
    • drag a sign from a plane
    • hold up a sign at a sporting event
  • Web 1.0
    • read instead of produce

    • HTML
    • Programming
    • Graphic design
    • hosting ability
    • promotion mechanisms
  • Web 2.0
    • new software makes content creation easy
    • people focus on ideas and creativity rather than technical know-how
    • "the read-write web"
    • "we media"
  • Social software and the democratization of content
  • Content production: All the cool kids are doin' it
  • The Web 2.0 Universe
    • geotags
    • blogging
    • aggregation
    • podcasting
    • folksonomies
    • rating
    • vlogging
    • community discussions
    • tagging
    • IM
    • SMS

    • mashups
    • RSS
    • wikis
    • citizen journalism
    • online social networks
  • Most famous examples: Blogs
    • early days: online geeks have personal homepages
    • blogging software made it easy for everyone
    • fill-in-a-form publishing
    • today: 60-100 million+ blogs online
    • perception: a media-blogger war of attrition
  • The media hates bloggers
    • can't trust trust them to get it right
    • have agendas/biases
    • mob mentality
    • don't respect journalists
    • don't do hard news
  • bloggers hat the media
    • you can't trust old media
    • claim their unbiaser
    • dominated by soundbites
    • don't respect the public's brains
    • always pandering to lowest common denominator
  • Today: Happy Internet, the war is over
    • concerted attempts at finding understanding between the media and the blogosphere
    • media/blog collaboration now more common
    • greater emphasis on "networked journalism" (Jeff Jarvis)

    • finding ways for the media to work with "the people formerly as the audience" (Jay Rosen)
  • Why are media outlets embracing Web 2.0
    • improving journalistic transparency
    • creating a public dialogue
    • tapping into public knowledge and creativity
    • new collaborative opportunities with affiliates
    • maybe it's profitable, too?
  • Open piloting
    • inviting the public to help create new broadcast programming
    • sharing rough drafts of shows before they're ready for prime time
    • a focus group, but everyone's welcome
    • examples: Rough Cuts, Bryant Park
  • Radio Open Source
    • "a blog with a radio show"
    • not about open source software
    • opens editorial process to the public
    • invites users to submit & debate program ideas
    • users recommend guests & questions
    • asks users to participate on-air
    • Similar: TOTN, WHYS
  • BBC Have Your Say
    • centralized forum for discussion news
    • only select stories covered
    • two-tiered moderation
    • users can rate each others' comments
  • CNN iReport
    • http://www.cnn.com/exchange/
    • CNN citizen journalism project w/ blip.tv
    • users submit photos, video for specific stories
    • best clips included on air
    • published early video from VT shootings
    • "tell your friends, iReport for CNN"
  • USA Today
    • embedding social networking across the site
    • note balkanized to a special section
    • users can comment
  • OhMyNews
    • english.ohmynews.com
    • Korean online news service
    • dedicates 20% of its space to citizen journalism
    • ones that submit consistently get paid
  • Global Voices
    • bridge blogging
  • Vote Guide
  • Minnesote E-Debate
  • NewAssignment.net
  • So What Should You do?
    • community blogs & discussions
    • more...
  • bathroom in South Africa photo

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Friday, March 30, 2007

Look, a gopher!

Index of gopher://gopher.quux.org/

The funny part is that Blogger gave me a bit of trouble when I tried creating this post.
"invalid scheme"

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Monday, February 12, 2007

Migrating to the new Blogger

For those that have old-school Blogger blogs and are looking for some information on the hows and whys of moving to the new version (you'll have to do it soon) here's a short PPT that provides the information you're looking for.

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

New site design

Those of you that read the feed you won't have noticed this but I've got a new design for the blog and the rest of the site. The blog's been converted and the rest of the site is coming along. Stop by, check it out, and let me know what you think. (Yes, I got the template somewhere else and then modified it a bit. I needed a change but was too tired to design something from scratch.)

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Of Combined Log-ins

I generally follow my own advice when it comes to creating somewhat memorable passwords. I have a phrase that I abbreviate to create the base of my passwords then I add a few additional characters based on the system I'm creating the password for. With this system, if I'm unable to remember the specific password I've used to log into a particular site, I can probably guess the correct one within one or two attempts.

However, in the past few days I've been forced to "integrate" two of my log-ins with the site's parent company: Yahoo! in the case of Flickr, and Google in the case of Blogger. I already had log-ins for both Yahoo! and Google but those passwords reflected those services. Now my Yahoo! password is my Flickr password and my GMail password is my Blogger password. My system is now broken as those passwords don't follow my rules.

Maybe I'm complaining a bit too much but I do find it bothersome. Anyone else?

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Sunday, February 04, 2007

New Blogger

This evening I went to delete a spam comment from one of my blogs and I was finally forced to upgrade all of my blogs to the "New Blogger". Everything seems to be working and I do notice that there are a few differences in the interface between blogs hosted on blogspot and those hosted on third-party servers (such as this one). I'll post more on this in the next few days.

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Blogging irony

I had to get through this:
Blogger error
to be able to blog this:

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Monday, December 11, 2006

Turn your blog into a book

Use Blog Slurper to turn your blog into a printed book. (Something I'll actually investigate once it supports Blogger.)

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Friday, December 08, 2006

Technology to Michael: "You're not the boss of me!"

I'm in the Eastern Iowa Airport (Cedar Rapids, IA) using the free WiFi to get caught up from this four day trip to Iowa City, IA for two days of BCR workshops and an afternoon speaking to the staff of the Iowa City Public Library about the Social Web as part of their in-service day. Today went well and everyone enjoyed it including myself. The previous two days however, if it could go wrong it did. Cases in point:

  • For the blogs class, Blogger finally decided to send everyone creating a new blog to the beta version. This meant that many of my handouts didn't match what they were looking at on the screen, didn't match the screen I was projecting and there were new/changed features that I wasn't prepared to discuss.
  • In the RSS workshop, FeedXS finally convinced me that it's useless for class purposes and I was pretty much forced to just tell everyone to skip it and ignore that part of the handouts.
  • I taught my podcasting class for the first time and, instead of ending up with a short list of things to tweak for the next time out, I need to redo about 50% of the workshop and change the focus for the second half of the class. And, the BCR FTP server decided that it kept wanting to drop my connection so I couldn't upload the students' MP3 files to the server to get to work with the software I was trying to teach them.
  • During the wiki class I instructed all eleven students on how to create a Wikipedia account, something I've done many other times. This time, six of them were able to create accounts while the other five got error messages informing them that six accounts had already been created from that IP address and no other new accounts would be allowed for 24 hours. Turns out that to the outside world all of ICPL's computers are represented by one IP address. Great for the network architecture and for security reasons but it causes problems with Wikipedia's security. A good portion of the class was from that point on a demo instead of hands on.

Needless to say it's been a long week and I need a few solid nights of sleep before getting back to the office on Monday and updating the material for those classes before teaching them again in January.

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Friday, November 10, 2006

CAL2006: Keeping Current with Technology: How Popular Trends in Technology Can (and Should) be Put to Use in Your Library

Steve Lawson, Colorado College & Emilee Satterwhite, Mesa County Public Library
  • http://keepingcurrent.pbwiki.com/
  • Blogs
    • Website that displays postings in reverse chroological order...
    • How are blogs useful for librarians
      • professional development
      • keep current
      • get ideas for the library
      • generate discussion
      • How do you find the time to read them all?
        • use and aggregator such as Bloglines
    • How are blogs useful for libraries
      • Blogging Libraries Wiki
      • communicate between libraries and users
      • internal communication
      • readers' advisory
      • don't let the possible problems keep you from doing it
    • How do Emilie and Steve use blogs?
      • Blogger
        • mcpldteens.blogspot.com
        • librarianslove.blogspot.com
        • bookleggerlibrarian.blogspot.com
      • Moveable Type
        • library.coloradocollege.edu/bookends
        • /colospgslibs
        • /program
        • /steve
        • /news
  • Wikis
    • What is a wiki?
      • Web page any one can edit
      • new pages and links created automatically
      • HTML knowledge not necessary
      • collaborative
      • revision history
    • Wikipedia
      • the site librarians love to hate
      • or is it hate to love
      • an encyclopedia can edit
    • Wikis for keeping current
      • Library Success
      • LISWiki
      • IRead Wiki
      • Library Instruction Wiki
      • futurelib
      • Blogging Libraries Wiki
    • A wiki at your Library
      • Michael Sauers on "blogorwiki"
      • Intranets
      • Conference planning
      • Subject guides
      • Colloborative space
      • Committee space
      • Community Wikis
    • Setting up your Wiki
      • Choose software
        • wiki farms
        • wiki software
        • WikiMatrix
      • give it some structure
      • set people loose
  • Feeds
    • What is the point
      • keep up with blogs, news, weather, etc.
      • need a feed reader
    • RSS or Atom
      • different flavors of the same thing
    • Consume Feeds
      • Online readers
        • bloglines
        • google reader
      • stand-along readers
        • NetNewsWire Lite
        • Sharp Reader
    • Find Feeds
      • Look for the icon
      • Other
        • Library Elf
        • Package Tracking
        • Photos
        • wiki changes
        • legislation
        • weather
    • Convey Feeds
      • Publish info via feeds
      • Examples on presentation wiki
    • Create Feeds
      • Run blog through FeedBurner
      • Generate out fo your courseware
      • Out of your ILS
  • Podcasting
    • What is podcasting
      • audio blogging via feeds
    • why should we be podcasting
      • outreach
      • patrons may already be confortable with listening to them
    • how are libraries currently podcasting
      • book reviews
      • poetry
      • storytime
      • adult news & reviews
      • video podcasts
      • events
    • how to find or listen
      • iTunes
      • Juice
      • podcast search engines
    • what equipment/software is needed
      • recording software
      • microphone
      • odeo studio (online hosting)
    • basic procedure
      • igure out what you're going to say
      • say/record
      • publish

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The hazards of letting people use your flickr photos

PBS blog post featuring one of my library sign photosWhen I tell students in my blog and RSS workshops that I have set up a number of "ego feeds" (feeds that search on my name and blog address so I can read what others are saying about me) I usually receive some titters from the crowd. But, in all honesty, this is the only way I'll ever know how what I've published online is being received and (re)used. In this case, a Bloglines citation search on my blog's URL that led me to this PBS blog post shown to the right.

The post is a long one about how people are rude when it comes to cell phone use in today's society. Something I do agree with. In it are comments from many others about when and where cell phone use is appropriate. In about the middle of the post someone writes "And in the worst-of-the-worst category, don’t use a cell phone... While in the library." Next to this text is a copy of a recent photo I took in Wichita, KS of a sign from Friends University that states "Please turn off cell phones in the library".

The use of my photo is a mostly legitimate one as it follows most of the rules of the Creative Commons license I assign to all of my photos: Attribution (I'm given credit at the end of the post), Noncommercial (It's a PBS blog, we're cool there), and Share Alike (Well, they don't exactly pass along this license, but they don't specifically change the license either. A link to the photo on flickr would have done this but instead they linked to my blog. Eh, close enough for me.) However, this not where my complaint lies.

Where I have a problem is that the use of my photo implies (to me, let me know if it doesn't to you) that I agree with the statement that the photo is illustrating. Those of you who know me (or at least read my blog) know that I'm not in agreement with policies that ban cell phones from libraries. I agree with banning bad behavior, which may or may not involve a cell phone, but not with banning the technology because people are rude. Sure, ban them in theaters since talking has been banned. But unless you're banning talking from your library, there's no logical reason to ban cell phones.

Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered that a blogger at PBS felt my photo worthy of inclusion, and I don't want this post to cause the blogger to feel that the photo should be removed. The point of this post is two-fold. First, to point out to readers of the PBS post that I do not agree with the comments made in association with my photograph. Second, to remind people that do follow my advice to post their photos to flickr and let others use them, that once you do so, you will loose some control over your work and need to be able to live with that.

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

BCR 2.0

BCR (MPOW) launched its new Web site this morning and the recently launched BCReview is now a blog powered by Blogger. Be sure to check it out and send any comments that you may have on the new look.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

How to keep users from subscribing to your feed

Feed VersionsIn my RSS workshop I explain to my students that there are multiple versions of RSS available for them to use, never mind that fact that there's also ATOM which everyone lumps in with RSS since it accomplishes the same exact thing but with a built in stylesheet. I make the case that you use ATOM if your blog is created with Blogger because that's what Blogger generates. If you're podcasting, use RSS 2.0 since it supports the required <enclosure> element. Beyond that, don't worry about which version the software you're using generates since it doesn't matter to the user as long as it's working. So, why of why, would a site offer multiple links to their feed and specify which language and version each link goes to?

Take the image in this post as a perfect example. I was surfing through the SciFi.com Tech blog and noticed that they offer four versions of their feed. One is ATOM, two are RSS (versions 1.0 and 2.0) and the fourth is "RSD" which, to be honest, I've never heard of before? (According to Wikipedia it's "Really Simple Discovery" which I've now read about and still don't understand. Anyone want to help me on this one?)

I subscribe to over 300 feeds, teach people how to use and create feeds, and wrote a book on the subject and I'm not sure which one I should choose... O.k. I generally default to the highest number available in situation such as these, therefore I'd choose the RSS 2.0 version, but I'll be damned if I could explain exactly why should someone ask me.

As it is there's a move afoot to stop using the terms RSS and ATOM when it comes to presenting this technology to users (look at IE7 and you'll see what I'm talking about, the word RSS doesn't appear anywhere,) and just stick to the term "feed". KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid. Take a look at your blog/site. Are you offering more than one version of the exact same feed? If so, I'd strongly suggest you think about getting rid of all but one of them. Your users will thank you.

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Hello from Boise, ID

Everyone in the room is now writing their first post in the blogging workshop. As usual we're using Blogger to do this.

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Friday, August 18, 2006

Blogger Beta

In having my students create their first blogs today using Blogger, one of them managed to create an account in the new "Beta" version of Blogger. It look different and works a bit differently too. (I did notice that "password protected" blogs is one of the new features.) You can use it but not with an existing account. To play with it you'll need to sign up for a new Google Account.

The down side to all this is that my Blogs & RSS book is slated to come out in October. Knowing my luck, this beta version will become the liver version just about the same time thus making all my screenshots and instructions out of date and inaccurate.

Blogger Beta

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Hello from Post Falls, ID

We're now writing our first posts in my blogging workshop. We're using Blogger.com.

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Filters

Most of my long-time readers will be familiar with my opinion of filters. Well, for the past two days I've been teaching workshops in a computer lab for a local school district. Being a school lab, I was subject to the district's filtering system. Luckily, I was given the password to get around it, which worked most of the time, but the level of filtering astounded me. I was teaching blogging and RSS and Blogger was blocked. So was Flickr. (This made showing my blog interesting as the text would appear but the images, hosted on Flickr, would not be loaded.) Even my e-mail was blocked since lishost.org was considered a blockable "forum" which not even my use of the secret password would let me get through the filter. whatsmyipaddress.com was blocked, yet whatismyipaddress.com was not. (Go figure.) As one librarian said at lunch today, "let's teach highway safety buy closing the highways".

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Monday, August 14, 2006

Hello from Blackfoot, ID

I'm currently having my students write their first blog post using Blogger. I'm getting a few blank stares.

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Friday, June 30, 2006

A problem with numbered lists in IE

Lists in Firefox
Lists in IE
I'm getting some odd results in IE right now (both in IE6 and IE7beta3) that I just can't explain. Here's what I'm talking about:
  • unordered list
  • unordered list
  • unordered list
  • unordered list
  1. ordered list
  2. ordered list
  3. ordered list
  4. ordered list

The first list is coded with <ul> and displays the bullets as expected. The second list is coded with <ol> and displays the nubmers one through four as expected, but only in Firefox. IE is not displaying the nubmers. The really odd part is that it only seems to be happening in my Blogger posts, but not with test files sitting on my hard drive. I've repeated this on multiple computers and would appreciate someone confirming this problem. If you have a solution and/or explaination I'd love to hear it.

UPDATE: As you can see, the CSS edit suggested by Steve in the comments fixed the problem. Thanks Steve!

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Monday, May 22, 2006

"wee blog" follow-up

I was planning on writing a clarifying follow-up post anyway, but this recent comment pushed me to make it now instead of later this week.

"Might I suggest you get on the Pronunciation 2.0 bandwagon with the rest of us 21st century libraians?[sic]"

Considering this comment was made anonymously I'm not sure how seriously to take it. The "pronunciation 2.0" part makes me laugh (I'm assuming a certain level of sarcasam in such a label,) but the anonymous nature of the comment and the rest of the comment's content makes me think this individual is seriously suggesting that I give up caring. Well, that leads me to what I was going to clarify anyway...

I will admit that I'm fighting a loosing battle, nor any battle at all really, since I'm not necessarily trying to correct anyone (i.e. telling them to stop mispronouncing the word) but do not mispronounce it myself thereby encouraging the practice. The big issue for me is that I'm a trainer & teacher and I believe that one of the core roles of a teacher is to provide accurate information. If someone wants to take the accurate information and do something else with it, that's out of my hands once they leave the room. So, in my blogging workshops, I tell my students that it's correctly pronounced "we blog" and then continue informing them that most people pronounce it "web log" anyway. (Mostly since, as the commenter pointed out, many have "have never in my life heard 'wee blog' and honestly it just sounds silly.") I then continue to use the word "blog" and its derivatives and say neither "we blog" or "web log" the rest of the class. Nor do I ever correct anyone during class. (Maybe I should but then I'd be fighting that battle I'll never win.)

What caused my rant was my listening to the first group of ALA Library 2.0 program podcasts in which the instructors kept saying "web log" over and over again. (I'm only listening to the podcasts so I have no additional comments regarding the other complaints that have been made about the program as a whole.)

I've always said that I do what I do because I want to know "how" and "why" things work, which has led me to the firm belief that understanding the "hows" and "whys" of something along with the story of where something came from makes everyone better able to understand how to use that something to its fullest potential. As part of that, I believe that I must as an instructor, provide accurate information, even if "everyone else" is doing it another way.

If that puts me in the minority, so be it. (I'm used to it.) But being in the minority is rarely a good reason to change when the facts back you up.

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Friday, May 19, 2006

A rant about pronunciation

Folks, it's pronounced "wee blog" not "web log". First, just think about it. If the word was pronounced "web log" then why would it ever be shortened to "blog". Second, and probably more importantly, ask the guy who came up with the concept.

"Suddenly a community sprang up. It was easy to read all of the weblogs on Cameron's list, and most interested people did. Peter Merholz announced in early 1999 that he was going to pronounce it "wee-blog" and inevitably this was shortened to "blog" with the weblog editor referred to as a "blogger."
— "Weblogs: A History and Perspective" by Rebecca Blood, September 7, 2000 as published in we've got blog Perseus Publishing, 2002.

Even better, I found a blog entry from Mr. Merholz that backs this up!

As such, it's weird to experience how my love of words and wordplay has actually made an impact. Sometime in April or May of 1999 (I can't say for sure when I exactly did it), I posted, in the sidebar of my homepage:

"For What It's Worth I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee'- blog. Or "blog" for short."

I didn't think much of it. I was just being silly, shifting the syllabic break one letter to the left. I started using the word in my posts, and some folks, when emailing me, would use it, too. I enjoyed it's crudeness, it's dissonance...

I realize that I might be fighting a loosing battle here but it's just like Greg Schwartz ranting about when people use the term podcast to describe plain ol' downloadable audio content. (In fact, hearing "web log" over and over in the ALA Library 2.0 podcast that Greg was complaining that led me to write this post.)

Additionally, and least importantly, pronouncing it correctly is what makes the title of my blogging workshop funny. ("I blog, you blog, weblog!") Usually one person in the room gets it without explanation. Everyone else gets it about 10 minutes into the class, once I've explained it.

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Student Blogs

The day two assignment for my online blogs workshop is to create a blog using Blogger. Here's the results. (Obviously some are thinking that their work is for the long-term while others are not.)

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Offline Blogging with Performancing

My only problem with using Blogger as my blogger platform is the fact that offline blogging is not as eash as it should be. Typically my options have been to use notepad and manually add the markup or use Word and clean out all the extra markup if gives me. Well, I've found a better solution, and it's something I've mentioned before: Performancing for Firefox.

Performancing is a blogging extension that seemlessly integrates with Blogger and other blogging platforms. Why I'm finally sold on it is the fact that I can use it while not online (such as durring conference sessions with no WiFi in the room) and save my posts as a "note". Once I'm back to a location with connectivity I can pull up the note and click publish. Additionally, posts written with Performancing allows me to write in WYSIWYG without the unnecessary markup created by word.

Problems solved!

(It seems that even before I posted this I convinced both David King and Greg Schwartz of the usefullness of this solution. Both already had Perfromancing installed but weren't using it. I know they both blogged at least Lorcan Dempsy's session with it.)

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CIL2006: Thursday Keynote

Planning for a Handheld Mobile Future
Megan Fox, Web Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College
9:00-9:45am


Note: This is the second time in a week that I've heard/read someone that "mobile" is the future. Sorry, but it's already here.
  • Planning for is no longer an option, it's a necessity
  • 1.4 billion in the world have mobile phones
  • 62% of users use SMS
  • 350 billion SMS messages per month world wide
  • Devices
    • PDAs
    • Tablets
    • iPods
    • eBook readers
    • Smart Watches
    • Blackberry
    • Smartphones
    • Gaming Devices
  • "PIN numbers" ARGH!
  • eBook readers
    • digital ink
    • less than 9oz
    • 80 books on internal memory
  • Ultra Personal Computer
    • OQO
    • Vulcan Flipstart
    • Looking to vertical markets instead of consumers
  • Ultra Mobile PC
    • Microsoft Oragami
      • WinXP Tablet
      • 7" or smaller display
      • 400x800
      • 60gb hard drive
      • WiFi Bluetooth
      • Touchpad program
        • Appropriate for fingers
        • customizable
        • onscreen thumb-based keyboard
      • New font: Cambria (Times New Roman replacement?)
  • Mobile Optomized Web
    • Web sites intended for large screens, busy, multimedia content
    • Reduce content
    • Remove graphics
    • Word wrap
    • Narrow
    • Examples
      • TV Guide
      • Google, Personalized Google
      • National Weather Service
    • Conversion
      • iyhi
      • sqeezer
      • google
      • Might loose wanted content when using 3rd party conversion
      • Can't translate flash
      • Mobile Blue
        • Flickr
      • Mobiledelicious
    • Native mobile content
      • Splash Blog
        • Moblog
      • mob5
        • hosted mobile web space
      • Blogger on the go
    • Top mobile content
      • Weather
      • Yahoo mail
      • hotmail
      • google
      • ESPN
      • Mapwuest
      • CNN
      • dining
  • Traditional Library content
    • opac (I do this with the Aurora Public Library)
      • III: AirPac
    • ebooks
    • subscription content
      • dictionaries
      • encyclopedias
      • Oxford American Dictionary
        • PDAs
        • Smartphones
    • Look on Tucows for mobile content
    • Handango
      • 240+ reference titles for smartphones
    • Handmark
      • Tools toys for a mobile generation
      • Cell phone downloads
    • Mobile Genealogy (blog)
    • Popular books
      • Overdrive
      • NetLibary
      • ebrary
    • Audible Air (Audible)
      • download recordings
    • Medical Health database vendors leading in mobile access to databases
  • Point of need answers
    • Yahoo! Go
    • AOL Mobile
    • Google Mobile
    • Types
      • Definitions
      • phone numbers
      • geographical information
    • 4info
      • SMS to 44636
      • Searching shortcuts
    • Medio
      • "answers instead of lists of links"
      • preferences, location, device to personalize results
    • Answers.com mobile interface
      • Have a librarians section
      • "pre-research market"
      • Don't want to step on librarian's toes
    • gada.be
      • mobile metasearch
      • builds search into URL
    • Search software packages being built into phones
    • SMS-based search
      • Google SMS (46645)
        • send "shortcuts" to get list of commands
      • Synfonic
      • AskMeNow
      • Yahoo! Go
        • Voice messages
      • Text alerts
        • scheduled once or ongoing
  • Reference IM
    • Typically computer to computer
    • Reference via SMS
    • Altarama
      • Converts SMS to e-mail
      • Overdue notices
    • Teleflip
      • Free txt messages
      • Cell#@teleflip.com
    • RSS
      • Talis, patron account data alerts
      • LibraryElf
    • Wake Forest, MobileU
      • voice activated commands
      • checking laundry in the dorm
    • Montclair State U, Dawgtel
    • Stephen King's Cell (I did this)
  • Other services
    • Feedalot
    • Mobdex
    • feedbeep
    • litefeeds
    • UpSnap
      • search
      • live mobile audio content
      • sports
      • faith
      • magic 8 ball
    • iPods
      • circulating shuffles
      • podcasts
      • local tours
      • ebooks
      • subway maps
      • spark notes for iPod
      • Test prep
      • iPods @ GCSU
      • All audio reserves on every iPod
      • storyhour
      • instruction sessions
    • Mobile video
      • mostly due to video iPod
      • "mobisodes" mobile episodes
      • mobitv
      • LocationFree TV
    • Guide by cell
      • Self guided tours via mobile phone
  • For library staff
    • Sirsi PocketCirc
      • Check out from anywhere
    • III's Wireless workstation
      • 10 libraries currently using
  • Glimpse of the future
    • Shopping price comparrison
    • Yahoo! Shopping (testing)
    • Froogle (testing)
    • Fandango
      • movie times, reviews, buy online
      • tickets sent to device w/ barcode
      • barcode read off of phone
    • e-version of Bonita Daily News
      • Small version
      • SMS alerts
      • video highlights
    • New business models
      • free ebook reader w/ content membership
      • ESPN phone
    • mobot
      • take pic, send in, get song
      • mobile visual search
    • Resources
  • web.simmons.edu/~fox/pda

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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

The "four things" meme

I've been tagged...

Four jobs you have had in your life:
1. Internet Trainer
2. Writer
3. Bookseller
4. Clerk @ a Bed, Bath, & Beyond

Four movies you would watch over and over:
1. Labyrinth
2. Brotherhood of the Wolf
3. Chasing Amy
4. High Fedelity

Four places you have lived:
1. Rochester, NY
2. Albany, NY
3. Las Vegas, NV
4. Aurora, CO

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. 24
2. Bones
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Doctor Who

Four places you have been on vacation:
1. London, England
2. San Francisco, CA
3. St. Louis, MO
4. Phoenix, AZ

Four websites I visit daily
1. Bloglines
2. Blogger
3. del.icio.us
4. flickr

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Sushi
2. Cheesecake
3. Pizza
4. Garlic Nan

Four places I would rather be right now:
1. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn
2. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn
3. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn
4. Anywhere but a Holiday Inn

Four people I will tag thinking they will respond.....
1. I do these but I don’t pass them along…
2.
3.
4.

Four things I always carry with me
1. Pen
2. Treo 600
3. Wallet
4. Keys

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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Hello from my Blogging workshop

This is a post demonstrating how Blogger works when creating a new post.

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Monday, February 27, 2006

Conference Blogging: An alternate view

I was talking with some of the other speakers at Saturday's Spotlight on Your Career mini-conference when the concept of blogging conference presentations came up. One of the other speakers mentioned that she didn't like people blogging her presentations. When asked why, she gave the following two reasons:

  1. Many time her presentations deal with the "latest tips and tricks" on her subject. Having someone transcribe them onto the blog creates an archive of the presentation. Since her presentation is rarely the same twice, she doesn't want anyone finding outdated information online.
  2. She felt that if enough bloggers posted the information from the conference this might lead to reduced attendance since potential attendees might feel that since the information will be blogged, there isn't as much of an incentive to attend the conference.

My inital response was that on the first item, maybe she had a point. She is also an independent so she's giving these presentations to make money for herself and her business, not just for professional development and some extra cash.

On the second point I'm more hesitant to agree with her. As a conference blogger I feel I'm giving those that couldn't attend the conference a window on the events I attend. I'm not so sure that anyone has ever said, "Well, since there'll be bloggers there, I don't need to attend." Maybe in the future this will happen but I doubt that it will happen enough to noticeably reduce the number of attendees at a conference.

Anyone else want to chime in on this one and share their opinion?

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Thursday, February 16, 2006

"B-list"

Chris Zammarelli has pronounced me a "B-list" blogger. All I need now are a guy and a couple of robots to add a running commentary to my posts.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

BlogThis! is a realy useful tool.

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Friday, December 23, 2005

Performancing for Firefox

I think I've finally found my dream blogging Firefox extension.

"Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox. Just hit F8 or click the little pencil icon at the bottom right to bring up the blog editor and easily post to your Wordpress, MovableType or Blogger blogs.

"Performancing for Firefox is for Firefox 1.5 and above only. We've made use of a number of cool new features within Firefox 1.5, so you'll need that version of Firefox to try it."

via The Social Software Weblog

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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Sorry 'bout that

It seems that my idea to create my conference posts using OpenOffice in Linux (booting to Linux uses less battery power than booting to Windows) and then post them to blogger as MSWord files didn't work out at well as I'd hoped. Those of you using Firefox saw basically when I wanted. Those of you using IE saw some very funky code. Well, I've cleaned it all up and added the photos I had so everything should be hunky dorry now.

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Friday, November 11, 2005

CAL2005: Blog On: What's a blog and how to I create one?

Shelly Walchak, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)

  • What is a weblog
  • Components of a blog
    • Comments
    • regularly updated
    • reverse chronological
  • History of blogs
    • Origins
    • rise to influence
    • the first controversy
    • Trent Lott / Strom Thurmond comments
    • Documentation
    • blogging goes mainstream
  • Definitions
    • Blogger
    • Blogosphere
    • Blogstorm
    • Blogrolling
    • Splog
  • Types
    • Organizational
    • Political
    • Corporate
    • Personal
    • media blogs
  • Steps
    • blogger.com
    • create an account
    • name your blog
    • choose a template
  • Next steps
    • Settings
    • Posting
    • Publishing
    • Permissions
    • Members
    • template

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

IL05: Blogging @ the University

Susan Herzog, Eastern Connecticut State University http://il2005.blogspot.com/
  • What is a blog
    • Brief informational posts in reversed chronological order
    • Frequently links to additional content
    • Timestamp for each post
    • Archives of previously posted content
  • Library Weblogs
    • Diary
    • News service
    • Collection of links
    • Book reviews
    • Project reports
    • Photographic record
  • Anatomy of a typical post – www.tarheelbloggers.org/thb/resources/blogging101/parts.html
  • Why read blogs?
    • Personal & Professional
    • Keep current
    • No spam! (hopefully – i.e. comment spam & splogs)
  • Why create blogs?
    • Professional publishing
    • Personal publishing
    • Provide information
  • Why blogs
    • Easy to
      • Create
      • Update
      • Publish
      • Collaborate
    • No
      • HTML
      • Web page creation software
      • FTP
      • $$$$$
  • Pew Internet & American Life Report: The State of Blogging - http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/144/report_display.asp
    • Does your library have RSS yet?
    • More importantly a blog?
    • Don’t be left out in the cold
  • University Blogs
    • PR
    • Intranet
    • Outreach
    • Portfolio
    • Recruiting
    • Collaboration
    • Communication
    • Course management
    • Knowledge management
  • Academic Library Blogs
    • PR
    • Intranet
    • Outreach
    • Library news
    • Subject blogs
    • Virtual Reference
    • ILL
    • Systems
    • Cataloging
    • Preservation
  • First steps
    • Find academic library blogs
    • Start reading blogs
    • Blogging presentations @ conferences
  • Find academic library blogs
    • Google search: blog university library
  • Creating a library blog
    • Why
      • To communicate w/ your users
      • To communicate w. your staff
  • For user communication
    • Library news
    • Recent acquisitions
    • Announce new services
    • Recommended research sources
    • Supplement/replace library newsletter
    • Book/movie/web site recommendations
  • For internal communication
    • Announcements for staff
    • Project management
  • Benefits of library blogs
    • Easy, no HTML required
    • Quick – Blog This!
    • Free – software purchase not required
    • Innovative, cutting edge
    • Attracts younger users
  • Steps for creating a library blog
    • Consider purpose & audience
    • Choose software
    • Develop policy
    • Select a template
    • Educate staff
    • Post content
    • Market your blog
  • Audience
    • Students
    • Faculty
    • Staff
  • Software
    • Blogger
    • Moveable type
    • Radio Userland
  • Develop a policy
    • Be sure it reflects well on your library
    • Guidance for bloggers on what is and is not appropriate
  • Select a template
    • Features
      • Archives
      • Blogroll
      • RSS feed
    • Choose color schemes and style
    • Test in multiple browsers
  • Educate staff
    • Who will post
    • One person or team
    • Train staff on the software
  • Post content
    • Develop a consistent style
    • Use your own voice
    • Check spelling and grammar
    • Post often
  • Market your blog
    • E-mail
    • Press release
    • etc… (see previous session)
  • Examples

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Sunday, October 23, 2005

Internet Librarian 2005: Day 0

Spent most of the morning wondering around Fisherman's Wharf looking for souvenirs and postcards. After completing that successfully, off on a boat for a three hour cruise (luckily the weather didn't start getting rough, nor was the tiny ship tossed) to do some whale watching. We did spot a whale or two and there was a significant amount of tail wagging (by the whale, not us) but while we were too far away for my digital camera to do any god. This is the best shot I got. The conference officially starts tomorrow and I've been told there's free WiFi in the conference halls. Providing it works as advertised, I should be posting regular updates during/after each session. For those of you reading along and at the conference be sure to drop me a line so we can meet up. My basic schedule (subject to change at any moment) is Monday: Track B, Tuesday: Track B, and Wednesday morning: B301 then D302. I'm also signed up for the Blogger dine-a-round on Tuesday night.

Oh! And I found JellyBabies in town. Levis & More: The British Store has two more packages ($5.50 for 215g) on the rack. They're located in the Portola Plaza Hotel plaza.

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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Bloggers for Internet Librarian 2005

Will you be blogging IL05 in Monterey next week. If so, be sure to get your "blogger" ribbon and join the Blogdigger group. Andrea has all the details.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

BlogThis! Problems

Have any other Blogger users noticed any problems with the BlogThis! bookmarklet lately? I have and I've finally figured out what the exact problem is. If I use the bookmarklet and I'm am not logged into Blogger is asks me to log-in (as expected) and then I get the usual BlogThis! window with the correct title of the item I'm attempting to blog (sometimes, as theis example didn't give me a title,) but without and post content. However, when I use BlogThis! and I am logged into the Blogger system, everything works as it should, giving me both the correct title and the correct link in the body of the post. Does anyone have any ideas as to a solution? I'm using Firefox and I have reinstalled the bookmarklet several times. Reinstallation has failed to solve the problem.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Blogger for Word

This is a test of a post from the new Blogger for Word plugin.

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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

One problem fixed

Well, the folks at Blogger never responded to my query about the odd bit of CSS that was automatically being inserted into posts which broke my layout. So, I finally changed the layout to overcome the problem. You may not notice much of a difference but now the posts do not wrap underneath the menu on the right. Oh well...

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Wednesday, June 29, 2005

MIT Blogger Survey

Take the MIT Weblog Survey If you're a blogger, why not take ten minutes and help the folks over at MIT out?

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Monday, June 27, 2005

Blog errors

Yes, there's a problem with the layout. The title's up there and the content is down here. It seems that Blogger is inserting a bit of XHTML/CSS that's causing the problem. Since I'm not the one entering the code, I can't get rid of it. I've put in a request for assistance with the folks at Blogger and hope that they can offer me a solution.

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Thursday, April 07, 2005

Bad Blogger...

Yes, Blogger's been acting up and it's getting press. Here's the view of the Blogger Dashboard that I received earlier today.

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Follow-up: say goodbye (again) to pop-ups!

I posted about the new Popups Must Die! Firefox extension yesterday and it did sound like a good idea at the time. Earlier today I uninstalled it because it was too strict. For example, Bloglines' BlogThis! bookmarklet no longer worked since it causes a a pop-up. In order to use it, I had to create an exception to every site I wanted to blog about.
Recommendation: install only if you want no pop-ups at all, no exceptions. For you, it'll work exactly as advertised.

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Monday, January 31, 2005

The government funds piracy of the publishing industry on a massive scale.

Sarcasam at it's best from a guest blogger on Stupid Evil Bastard: The government funds piracy of the publishing industry on a massive scale.
Warning site does contain one or two potentially offensive words.

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Friday, January 28, 2005

Mobblogging @ CIL05

I've set up a blog for the upcoming Computers In Libraries conference. It's open to any attendee that wants to post. Posting will be able to be done both via Blogger.com and e-mail. If you'll be there and would like to post, visit the blog and click on my e-mail address to request access. I'm looking at this as an experiment (for possible inclusion in my Blog/RSS book) so the more the merrier.

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Thursday, November 18, 2004

IL04: some final thoughts

I'm sure I'll have some follow-up posts about the conference in the next few days, especially once certain folks start posting their photos (including myself,) but I'm on the flight home and I figured I'd make one last "official conference post" reflecting back upon the experience.

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Michael Stevens asked me last night what my best experience from the conference was. I'd have to say it was meeting a particular librarian, Irene, from Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. I met her Tuesday morning before the keynote and we started talking about blogs and RSS. She'd heard of them but still wasn't clear on what all the buzz was about. We talked a bit and I filled her in and explained how these technologies might assist her in distributing information to her patrons. Wednesday morning I was sitting in the same seat before the keynote, this time with a WiFi connection along with Karen and another woman with her iMac. Irene was also there and had said hello and Karen and I were discussing things, and posting to our blogs. At one point Irene said "listening to the two of you wants me to get back to my office and my computer." We asked her why and she told us that after our talk the previous morning, listening to us that morning and having attended most of the blogging track on Tuesday she was really jazzed about blogging and just couldn't wait to start one of her own. "Forget the library and administration. I'm just going to do one for myself." Now that made me feel good. All it takes in one person not only getting "it" but being excited by "it" that makes what I do worth while. That made the conference for me.

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I did catch up with at least one person so wasn't excited at all about blogs and RSS. That's their opinion and it's their right to have it. I'll even admit that this person had a few valid points. But, when it comes to blogs and RSS there is no excuse not to try. Granted, these technologies are not perfect for all situations but the cost of entry is practically zero and the potential benefits are much too significant to ignore. When it comes to RSS, again, the cost is near zero. Is it a replacement for e-mail? Not for everyone. However, no one can use it if you don't offer it. The belief that no one will use it before you've even offered it is defeatist thinking. Offer it first. If no one uses it, stop and focus your energies elsewhere. The only sure way to find out is to make it available.

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Regarding the imperfections of the conference, there are ways to deal with these things. I'll admit that when I found what I believed to be a problem with how the conference was working (or not working,) I blogged my concerns. (WiFi service anyone?) But, and this is a big one, I didn't just whine about it on my blog and left it at that. I talked to the folks in charge and made my concerns known. If I though something wasn't being done, I talked to the folks who would be involved if it was being done. There were plenty of opportunities to talk to anyone who could at least have made note of someone's concerns and ideas for the next time around, but I noticed a blogger or two complaining and not following through. Yes, by all means blog your ideas and concerns but that is not enough. The folks you can talk to about these things, in most cases, are speaking at the conference. Why is this important? Well, if they're speaking, they're on the schedule and you know exactly where they'll be at certain times. There's no need to rely upon trying to find them via their nametag in a group of 1000 people. Look at the schedule, figure out where they'll be and when, and go talk to them. Do something about it beyond your blog. I guarantee you, you'll have much better luck at getting the changes you're looking for.

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Well, I think that's it. If I have any additional thoughts I'll post them as usual. Thanks to everyone that made Internet Librarian 2004 an amazing experience. I hope to see all of you again at Computers in Library in March.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004

IL04: “making the most of the blogosphere”

Steven Cohen did a great job as moderator despite having practically no voice. Stephen did have a request of the attendees to “blog the track”, i.e. get as many of the people attending the blogging sessions to blog about the presentations as they’re happening. I’ll be doing that but I can’t post (due to a lack of a free connection) live, but all this was written live, just posted later. The two presenters were Jenny Levine and Greg Schwartz.

Jenny did a quick intro to blogging, trying to make a live post. Unfortunately, her copy of Moveable Type didn’t want to post. Ah, the joys of live presentations. Jenny’s main point, libraries are done with blogging 1.0, it’s time for blogging 2.0. Her suggestions: more personalization, more linking back to library services, more blogging that involve authentication, treat local bloggers as “the press” (send them your events and press releases) and get them to link black to you, more moblogging (photo blogging), blog your statistics and projects, start a library-hosted community blog, demand of you ILS vendors RSS feeds out of the catalog, ultimately, “show the fun/human side of libraries.”

Greg bit focused more on how blogs can help the end-user through blog-related tools. First, why should librarians care about blogs? Three reasons: diversity of authors and topics, the rate of update (much faster than the traditional media,) and their increasing influence.) Tools he focused on were Feedster, Waypath, PubSub, Daypop, Popdex, Technorati, Blogsnow, Blogarama, Robin Good’s Best Blog Directory and Submission Sites, Kinja and blogrolls (lists of blogs read by a particular blogger). I also need to give Greg a special thank you for encouraging folks to go to my bookmarklets Cybertour.

And, the question was asked during the session’s Q&A: “What is RSS?” CIL04 Déjà vu...

Because of these three, I have a lot to add to my blogging & RSS book. Damn them! ;-)

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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Ad-less

Hey, anyone else notice that the ads have disappeared from the top of the page? That's a new Blogger feature called the Navbar. I had nothing to do with it but I'm not complaining. Looks there are some color options too.

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Thursday, June 03, 2004

Fine!

O.k. Laura got the last one so I've changed the dates again. Unfortunately, I'm quickly running out of languages in the Blogger system that aren't painfully obvious, like Spanish. So, I've decided to include this one for her. Unfortuantely, the first word didn't translate at all...

Someday θα σας βρώ,
Σεληνόφωτο πίσω από σας,
Αληθινός στο όνειρο ονειρεύομαι.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Blog update

I've added an RSS feed link to the main menu. This is however in the Atom format that Blogger.com supports. Your RSS software needs to be Atom compatible for it to work properly.

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Monday, January 26, 2004

Spelling error

I didn't think fast enough to snag a screenshot but I just had to 'teach' Blogger.com's spellchecker the words 'blogging' and 'blog'

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Wednesday, September 10, 2003

This blog to go pro

It seems that since Google now owns blogger.com (host of this site) their "pro" features will become free soon. Watch for me to take advantage of them ASAP, especially the creation of an RSS feed.

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