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Five Things Google Could Learn From Wikipedia1. More Isn't Always Better. Wikipedia is like a streamlined Google and more and more frequently, provides the quick factual answer to any question you might have in a way that Google no longer does. Do I need to know that my search for “GW Bush” returned 250 million […]
The co-op placements were announced yesterday and it sounds like a lot of people got their first picks so that's awesome! A big Classmate of the Day to everybody going on co-op. It's going to be weird next semester with the majority of my cohort gone and doubly so because I'll be gone by the […]
So I went and got really drunk and did some social drinking (that sounds better in case my mom reads this!) with a bunch of first termers after the course meeting. Then I ended up hanging out with a bunch of PhD students. So my promise of thoughts on the course offering goes unfulfilled for […]
…the course outline for “The Public Library In The Community” (see below) gets you overly excited! Anybody know anything about this prof? E-mail me off-blog with any thoughts (but she'd have to be pure evil to keep me from taking this class. ) The course information session is tomorrow and I hope to post some […]
Someone on the 501 mailing list forwarded this Unshelved comic strip to me…
This is all over the web today – I saw it on Boing Boing this morning and Metafilter tonight (which was cited as being found on Digg.) Here’s the Top 5: 1. Reclaim the term ‘hacker’. If you tinker with electronics, you are a hacker. If you use things in more ways than intended by […]
I don't know if I've had a day in the last six-plus months where library school didn't occupy my mind at least partly – either becasue I was thinking about it heavily or it was lurking in the back of my mind. Today was close though. I have no pressing assignments so I went down […]
Overnight, one other person voted for deletion of the Spirit of Librarianship article I put on Wikipedia as well. So now it's four votes to delete, none to keep and so if you're going to look at the original article, you should do it soon since I'm not sure if it'll exist “behind-the-scenes” once it's […]
Other than a couple minor edits, I've never done anything major on Wikipedia, even though I think it's an amazing resource (“a streamlined Google” is how I like to think of it) and use it all the time. So tonight, I decided to try and do something a bit more substantial. I don't know if […]
