I’ve decided to give a new commenting add-on for this blog a try. I read the following article that reviews several similar services. I’ve tried coComment but haven’t been satisfied for a number of reasons. I decided to give Disqus a try. Let me know if, as a result, you have [...]

I really like this statement by Jeremiah Owyang, The Web Strategist, in a post discussing the new My Starbuck’s website:
“The future of corporate websites enable customers to submit, define, and vote for next-generation products in collaboration with product teams.”
Man, wouldn’t it be nice if this was what we in libraries could experience with our vendors? [...]

I’m still getting used to corporate lingo and ways of doing things. Frankly I often try to suppress the instinct to roll my eyes with a lot of it because there is quite a bit of nonsense in it. Or else corporate types run around looking earnest and thinking they’re inventive by using [...]

If you’re one of the small group of people who regularly reads my blog, you may be wondering what’s going on here right now. Well, after several years with one web hosting company, last night I switched to a different one. So far I am quite pleased with the decision. However, I [...]

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I have randomly selected 5 of you below to be tagged and I hope that you will similarly publish this post in your blog. You will have to tag 5 other bloggers and just keep adding on to the list. (Do not replace, just keep on adding! Yes we hope it will be [...]

I’ve been reading Kevin Clarke’s blog for a while now and I’ve really enjoyed his writings particularly about his family and the challenges of moving to a new place.  His recent post about not wanting to be apart from his family really resonates with me.  I feel the same way and I also have irrational [...]

I was thrilled to read last night that LibraryThing’s latest hire, Sonya Green, is a UIUC GSLIS grad.  Way to go Sonya!

The news that Newsgator was giving away its software suite for individuals — including FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, Newsgator Go, and others — gave me the incentive to give their offerings a try.  I have been a loyal fan of Google Reader (or Bloglines — hey, I’m fickle) for several years and didn’t see any substantial benefit [...]

In Peter Scott’s blog I read yesterday morning that the latest issue of Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship is now available. I had heard of this publication before but hadn’t really looked at it. (It is “a quarterly publication of the Science & Technology Section, Association of College & Research Libraries.”) [...]

This weekend I got into a bread-baking craze.  My whole family loves bread and nothing — really, it’s true — beats good, homemade bread.  I’ve always enjoyed making it but the time spent doing that has been infrequent for several years.  We have an old bread machine that we’ve used for a long time and [...]