Please see TangognaT’s schwag wrap-up, this is the sort of thing I love reading blogs for.
Author: jessamyn
rememberance of Noel Peattie
I am very sad to tell you that librarian, poet, and Revolting Librarians [and Redux] contributer Noel Peattie passed away yesterday. He was an amazing man and a wonderful contributor to the field of librarianship. My colleague Chris Dodge has written a remembrance of him which I have posted here.
learn this word: folksonomy
What do you call a classification system where everyone gets to be a creator? Metadata by community? Grassroots free tagging? A folksonomy, of course. Systems like this are being used at places like Flickr and Del.icio.us and unalog. I’ve seen this term hitting the blogosphere but not really getting a foothold on the library blogs yet so here are some links for further reading. Can you say “user oriented”? I bet you can.
– peterme from Adaptive Path [who coined the term weblog] waxes folksonomically
– slashdot, naturally
– a neat little bullet-pointed list
ala news via RSS
Steven reminds me that he posted a workaround way to get ALA news via RSS while I was away.
wireless whatfor at ALA
Andrea has a wireless fyi about how to get wifi at or near ALA if you’re not one of the Councilors who will [hopefully] have wifi at the conference.