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? [...]

Something is coming to town…My town…and it’s not Santa. It’s Starbucks. My oh my, what a surprise. We live in a place that is on the outer edges of a large metropolitan area, far enough away from bigger suburbs to be affordable, but not so far away that we miss all of [...]

It is great to have high speed Internet again after being without it for over a week. We are settling in nicely here in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. We all really like this location and we are enjoying the many conveniences such as tons of places to shop for groceries and other [...]

We’ve been going through a lot of uncertainty about our move back to the Chicago area. For one thing the time it is taking to get our Indiana house ready to show to potential buyers is enormous. There is so much to do and it is overwhelming. My brothers Dan and Tim [...]