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Daily Archives Thursday, August 2006

LinkedIn.com

Like MySpace and Friendster and Facebook and Orkut and who knows what else, LinkedIn is another social networking site.  This one appears to be more focussed on jobs and career-type networking than the more informal, non-profesional networking that the other sites do.  It's got lots of great features but unfortunately, it's not great (or I'm […]

Posted 24 August 2006 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Call for Papers – Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research

It's short notice but if you have a paper you're particularly proud of, it's worth submitting to this journal …

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Library Research Seminar IV – Call for Papers

I'm posting this mainly as a head's up to future students who might have an opportunity to be involved in this conference as a volunteer or in some other way (if you're brave, why not submit a proposal to present at the conference?)  John Buschman is the closing plenary speaker and that's almost enough to […]

Posted 24 August 2006 § LibrarySchool § Main Page § Travel ‡ Comments (0) °

Can You Pinpoint the Single Happiest Moment of your Life?

The guy who runs Metafilter and AskMetafilter has added a few new features recently including the ability to see who have marked either your posts or comments as their favourites.  I was kind of surprised to see that one question I asked requesting people describe their “perfect moments” (what someone else compared to Maslow's “peak […]

Posted 24 August 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (2) °

Some Other Thoughts & Highlights from the Fred Eaglesmith Picnic

– I have a theory that every time you go to a music festival, one artist will become a revelation.  That theory held true at the Fred Picnic last weekend.  Sam Baker was an amazing discovery in his Saturday night closing set.  Beyond his music, how's this for a backstory: while touring in Peru, he […]

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