Monthly Archives: October 2005

Keegan has a “revolution”

Last night at the dinner table, Keegan announced, somewhat breathlessly, that he had had a “revolution.” Michele and I just kind of looked at him, wondering what on earth he meant. He said, “Yeah, I had a revolution…I found out … Continue reading

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Yet more new features from Google? [Updated again]

I was reading John Battelle’s blog just now in which he reports on what appears to be yet another new feature from Google that provides travel information if you input two cities, e.g. Madrid London. I tried it out with … Continue reading

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The new Sherlock Holmes with Rupert Everett

Several months ago I read about the filming of a new Sherlock Holmes series starring Rupert Everett. I looked forward to seeing the first episode, and was able to see it last night. The episode was entitled “Sherlock Holmes and … Continue reading

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Marketing to evangelicals

Though successful as fiction writers, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins have not been able to convert their bookshelf success to box office profits, or as the WAPO reports in an article entitled ‘Tapping Congregations’ Power:’ Similar to this blog … Continue reading

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A friend lands an interesting job

ALA | ALA Editions names Bloss RDA Project Manager I was pleased to see that a friend of mine, Marjorie Bloss, has landed an interesting job at the American Library Association. She will be spearheading development of a new standard … Continue reading

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Flock: some first impressions [Updated]

I was excited to get an invitation late last week to download a preview (developer’s) release of the Flock web browser. (If you want an invitation so as to be able to download it, drop me an email at s … Continue reading

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Tagyu, an automated tagging assistant [Updated]

Tagyu :: Your tags, smarter Getting back once again to the topic of tags and tagging, about which my own personal jury is still out, I thought it worthwhile to mention a new web service called Tagyu that offers an … Continue reading

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My sister in the news

“becky hickmott” – Google Search My mother alerted me to the fact that my sister, Becky, was recently featured in the newsletter for the Canterbury (New Zealand) District Health Board. Becky recently began a new position for the health board … Continue reading

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RSS for UIUC GSLIS

At the outset of this semester, UIUC GSLIS introduced a radically redesigned website. As part of the website redesign, I was really pleased to see that they offer RSS feeds.

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Roy Tennant to give Windsor Lecture at UIUC GSLIS

Roy Tennant, well known columnist, speaker, moderator of Web4Lib and Current Cites and (last but not least) fellow Mac lover, will be giving the Windsor Lecture at UIUC GSLIS tomorrow (October 21). His talk will be on the topic of … Continue reading

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