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TechEssence and blog people generally

You probably saw it someplace else already, but I can’t get over the amazing list of superstars who will be contributing to TechEssence.info, a new site about “accurate, understandable explanations of important information technologies for libraries.” The site runs on drupal and is already an eye-catcher both in looks and content.

I’m envisioning some sort of future Laff-a-lympics that pitts the TechEssence folks against the LJ TechBlog team versus the ALA Techsource bloggers with their longstanding grudge match against the PLA Bloggers and the scrappy LISNewsters. I guess I’d be somewhere in the peanut gallery, someone will have to be there to blog about it, right?

a handsome and familiar site for the library association of ireland

Posted on 05Apr06 by jessamyn

One of the things that is a little mysterious to people who are new to blogging is how people you mention on your blog seem to show up in your comments whenever their names come up. Simple, we use Technorati; in WordPress it’s even built into the dashboard of the software. In this fashion, I found the WordPress hosted blog for the Library Association of Ireland. Pretty lovely and professional looking site, don’t you think?

linkdump 05apr

Posted on 05Apr0605Apr06 by jessamyn

Here are the websites that have been gracing my sidebar for the past few months, for those of you reading the site via your RSS reader. You can see all the posts containing these lists by exploring the linkdump tag I’m in the middle of trying to convert my personal site from hand-coded HTML to some sort of hybrid Blogger solution, please wish me luck.

on not working in a library

Posted on 02Apr06 by jessamyn

One of the best thigns about not having a job in any particular library is the fact that when I see job ads like this one that Michael McGrorty writes about, I can sit back and daydream about being that sort of librarian. Reminds me of one of my favorite Hal Hartley quotations about trouble and desire.

walt turns one

Posted on 02Apr06 by jessamyn

“Iâ€™m not going away. Itâ€™s fun around here.” so says Walt Crawford in his short post about the first anniversary of his blog. Welcome to town, you (relative) whippersnapper!