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“blog people” respond

I’ve read a few really good responses to Michael Gorman’s blog people article that are worth sharing. Michael Stephens, Kevin Smith, Jason Griffey and Steven Cohen have written lengthy responses on their blogs. I hear all the hot action is going on on Web4Lib where Blake from LISNews chimes in with some perspective, as does Roy Tennant. This reposting from a Slashdot discussion made me laugh, as did this one.

Gorman obviously has a lot to say. If only there were some tool available to him that would facilitate his putting it online, perhaps with a way for those interested in it to receive a notification when something new was available, and to respond with lively, rough-and-tumble comments…

TTW: Libraries Doing Cool Things with iPods

Posted on 23Feb0504Mar05 by jessamyn

Of course if you’re aksing questions like “how can I use this nifty technology in my library?” you know Michael will have something to say about it.

a few shorter links

Posted on 04Feb05 by jessamyn

A few other worthwhile links that came in but don’t require too much in the way of explanation: A Librarian’s Alphabet & Jinfo [from the folks at Free Pint].

librarianavengers: Designing for hyper-attentive cyborg children

Posted on 26Jan05 by jessamyn

I have two confessions to make. 1. I never did like the International Children’s Digital Library much. I want to, I just don’t. 2. I haven’t been reading Erica’s LibrarianAvengers blog enough [now added to my RSS feeds]. Today’s post about the ICDL made me laugh out loud.

We need to run everything we do through a filter that asks: “If I click on this without an MLS, will it piss me off?” We need to acknowledge that design matters. We need to remove ourselves from our collections. We need to design websites that don’t mock the resources they contain. We need to do these things because otherwise all of our efforts are worthless. We need to design websites that don’t suck, because otherwise the kids that we care so much about are going to wander off and smoke crack. And it’s going to be our fault.

reading lists redux

Posted on 21Jan05 by jessamyn

I have a somewhat hard time keeping my reading list updated. Sometimes it’s a choice between writing about one book, or reading another one. Patricio on Flickr has found another way of keeping track of his reading for 2005.