Amanda Etches Johnson did a post today where she mentioned the “Top 10 Blog Usability Mistakes”. I'd seen this before and intended to do something in response but never got around to it. But there's no time like the present.1. No Author BiographyWell, contrary to some people who think this blog is purely an exercise […]
My absolute favourite project at library school last year was a presentation I did for a class called “Shaping of News & Information Through Technology”. The seminar-style course was offered jointly with the journalism department so we had about 16 LIS students and 6 or 8 journalism students. Given the title of the course and […]
Found this via another site. It uses the number of sites linking to your blog to calculate a value for that blog. (I guess my IPO will be a bit longer in the making. LibrarianActivist on the other hand… ) Head Tale My blog is worth $7,339.02.How much is your blog worth? LibrarianActivist.org […]
This is a bit of an old story by now but Time magazine recently named “You” as their “Person of the Year”. Many people reacted to the decision negatively saying it was a cop-out and the ultimate gimmick to sell magazines from a magazine that arguably hadn't chosen the proper newsmaker of the year since […]
As I've mentioned before, my favourite web site on the Internet is MetaFilter – a community weblog where any member can post and comment on stories which range from technology to news to pretty much anything else you can think of. The site has members from around the world who encompass all worldviews but tend […]
So it's 3:45am on December 28 and I'm back in my own bed after a few days of riding the sleigh around SE Saskatchewan (well, to Shea's parents in Weyburn, my parents in Indian Head then back to Regina today.) Right now, I'm surfing around to catch-up on my regular blogs and here's some of […]
Here's a big surprise – I love lists! And the end of the year, is the absolute best time for them. A web site called Fimoculous has compiled links to various online lists of best movies, music, books and various other categories for the past few years. Here's a direct link to the Books section […]
I mentioned the idea of (re)starting an alumni association in the “50 Ways To Improve FIMS” post a couple days ago. Someone wrote to let me know there is a group that exists online via Western's Purple Cirlces community portal. The MLIS one is called (in very logical fashion) MLIS Alumni Network. I don't think […]
Is 92-year-old Donald Crowdis (former host of the Candadian TV program The Nature of Things) the world’s oldest blogger? Even if he isn’t his blog is terrific. He’s funny and astute. Here’s an excerpt from a recent entry he wrote on cannibalism: [T]he best food, or at least the best protein, is that which is […]
With apologies to Mike T. for stealing his t-shirt slogan for a mostly inaccurate blog post title, I just wanted to post a note that I have around 250 unattended messages in my in-box right now and will get to them, hopefully by the end of this week. I don't think there's anything life and […]
