Last Friday a colleague of mine (who also happens to be a fellow UIUC GSLIS alum — GSLIS alums are plentiful where I work!) gave a lunchtime presentation introducing the social web to other colleagues in our library organization. We only had an hour in which to present a broad overview and as a [...]

On the way to work this a.m. I decided that I would pull the plug on the majority of the social networks that I’ve participated in.  This includes Facebook, MySpace, and some others including Twitter and LinkedIn.  I’m not going to go into the reasons why except to state that they are many and varied.  [...]

Call me cranky. Say I am just not willing to write anything positive about this organization. Whatever. I inwardly cheered when I read Tim Spalding’s (LibraryThing) critique of OCLC’s latest report. It is right on target. By way of contrast, Andrew Pace gushes about how “this is our report; we [...]