Jessica helps demystify why my site wound on as Feedster’s Interesting Feed of the Day a few days back. I am still waiting for the day when my hand-coded RSS feed from jessamyn.com makes it there.
Author: jessamyn
still national library card sign up month
It’s still National Library Card Sign Up Month. Here is a somewhat weird article about, in general, what your library might do for you. I am a bit creeped out by numbers 14, 17 and 19. [lisnews]
How the War on Terrorism Affects Access to Information and the Public’s Right to Know
More delightful anti-USA PATRIOT Act reading from Homefront Confidential. This one focuses more on journalists, but really, isn’t it about all of us? Lots of good data in this article.
I’ve read at least one good thing a day on this blog
Top ten reasons why anti-spyware legislation is dumb, from the new blog that I’ve been reading a lot of, Technology Liberation Front written by Adam Thierer over at the Cato Institute.
whoops! talk to me about emerging tech
Whoops, my talk on emerging technology is in Newport New Hampshire, not Newport Vermont. If anyone wants to drop me a line and give me some good examples of emerging technology in libraries besides the obvious [blogs, RSS, IM, virtual reference] I’d love to hear about it.