A few weeks ago I decided to give Google Adsense a try.  I put one small piece of advertising in a widget on the lower righthand column of FML, just to see what happened.  I have a lot of ambivalence about advertising.  Have I sold my soul to…Google?  I really don’t know what to think.  [...]

Scientists Use Google Widget to Improve Image Labeling on Wired Science
The article (linked above) is quite an interesting read.  I found it interesting when I read the words “cataloging” and “metadata” — in Wired Magazine, of all places!
The system developed by scientists at UC San Diego sounds practical and promising but…The reality is that [...]

There are many things I’m still getting used to in terms of corporate vs. academic librarianship.  One of the differences is the types of information/current awareness sources that can sometimes be found in the corporate environment.  For example, I regularly read reports from Outsell, Inc. and find almost all of them very useful and instructive.  [...]

I don’t pay as much attention to blog traffic for FML as I probably should. I know there are a lot of things I could improve if I paid more attention to the various details. Instead, I tend to look for trends and broad numbers and that’s about it.
This evening I checked summary [...]

Last night I watched the 20 minute introductory movie for the iPhone. Pretty interesting! (Although the presenter was, to me, a little freaky. Just personal opinion.) The amount of hype and attention given to the iPhone is overwhelming and threatens to actually turn me off of it. Nevertheless I was [...]

Ann Ercelawn, a dear friend and co-moderator of the SERIALST discussion list, posted a survey on that list yesterday that asked for responses to a series of questions relating to how we keep current within the LIS field. Below is the response I sent her. It’s not as detailed or complete as it [...]

One of the things that came up in conversation a few times when I was at NASIG this past weekend was that last year I made a proposal to UIUC GSLIS for a new, advanced course on electronic resources management. My intent in proposing this new course was that an existing course that I [...]

[Updated 5/29/2007: I did something unbelievably stupid and deleted the original version of this post accidentally. Here it is again thanks to Google's cache.]
This morning, Walt Crawford made public the fact that he no longer has a job with OCLC. I fail to understand the whys and wherefores here. All I know is, I wish [...]

I just came across an insightful article by Michael Calore of Wired News that describes his attempt to transition away from desktop-based office applications in favor of Google’s web-based applications. Mainly this involved switching from tools like Microsoft Word in favor of Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets web application. See the link at the [...]

A belated note that UKSG has a conference blog open for their annual conference and they are already reporting some good summaries of conference presentations from today’s session (today is the start of the conference). Check it out at http://liveserials.blogspot.com/index.html. I was particularly interested to read the summary of the opening session featuring [...]