Monthly Archives: November 2005

Opportunity Knocks

November 30, 2005 – 11:31 pm

Message from Jenny Levine: opportunity knocks. Some people hear it, others claim it’s just squirrels on the roof.

tags: jenny levine, opportunity, opportunity knocks, squirrels

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OPAC Web Services Should Be Like Amazon Web Services

November 30, 2005 – 3:25 pm

No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2.0.
Once upon a time, the technology that displayed a set of data, let’s say catalog records, was inextricably [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (6)

Talk Big

November 29, 2005 – 9:56 pm

If I lived in Seattle, I’d look to Beatnickside’s photos for clues about where the fun is. Here’s his photo of the ?Iron Composer? competition at The Crocodile Cafe.
seattle, washington, seattle wa, crocodile cafe, iron composer, microphone, scream, photo, big, oversize, surreal, big brother, fright, frightening

By Casey | Posted in Photoblog | Comments (1)

Dance Dance Revolution, NYC

November 29, 2005 – 1:05 pm

I caught the following story on NPR’s All Things Considered (RealAudio stream) last night:
New York is known for its vibrant nightlife, yet in many bars and restaurants it’s illegal to dance. Now, a law professor is challenging the ?Cabaret Laws,? claiming they violate a dancer’s right of free expression. The city says dancing by patrons [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Style, Fashion and Food | Comments (1)

bsuite WordPress Plugin (b2 release)

November 28, 2005 – 9:52 pm

redirect: http://maisonbisson.com/blog/bsuite

Contents:

bsuite Features
Changes
Installation
Options
Tag Support
Using bsuite Functions
Known Bugs

The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat. The name change reflects that fact that the plugin is doing a lot more than simply track page loads. The most exciting new feature is a module I can’t help but call [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (110)



CMS Pitfalls

November 28, 2005 – 1:45 pm

Everybody wants a content management system, but there’s little agreement about what a CMS is or what it should do. Even knowledgeable people often find themselves struggling for an answer before giving up and defining a CMS by example.
The problem is that we know we want better websites, and we know technology should help, but [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (1)

Theories of Information Behavior

November 28, 2005 – 8:49 am

Via Librarian Way I found the LiS Radio webcast of a conversation between Sandra Erdelez and Karen Fischer, two of three editors of Theories of Information Behavior from ASIS&T and Information Today.
Unfortunately, the interview focuses on how the book came to be more than the content, but the description reads:
overviews of more than 70 conceptual [...]

By Casey | Posted in Books, Movies, Music | Comments (0)

bsuite Is Coming

November 27, 2005 – 9:23 pm

I’m about to release a public beta of my WordPress plugin over at MaisonBisson. Information about my favorite new feature, bsuggestive, online now. bsuite started out as bstat, and continues to offer rich stats tracking features.
update:  bsuite b2 is out!

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bsuggestive and bsuite Tag Support

November 27, 2005 – 8:45 pm

bsuite, the follow-up to bstat, now includes a module called ?bsuggestive? that recommends related posts based on the current post’s tags or alternate posts based on your search words when you arrive from a recognized search engine.
That is, bsuggestive does two neat things:
First, visitors will see a section in each post with links to other [...]

By Casey | Posted in Technology | Comments (6)

Wayfaring.com

November 27, 2005 – 5:13 pm

Wayfaring:
With Wayfaring.com you can explore maps created by others, or create your own personalized map. Share them with friends or the whole world.
Now imagine it with Earthcomber integration. Wouldn’t that be neat.

By Casey | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (0)

Raging Arguments About The Future Of The ILS

November 27, 2005 – 10:29 am

I hadn’t seen Ryan Eby’s post at LibDev that connected ILSs with WordPress before I posted that library catalogs should be like WordPress here. It connects with a my comment on a post at Meredith Farkas’ Information Wants To Be Free. My comment there goes in two directions, but I’d like to focus on the [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (12)

Rollyo Metasearch

November 26, 2005 – 5:12 pm

Rollyo:
Roll your own search engine. Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Relevant. Reliable. Rollyo.
They call them “searchrolls”

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Library Catalogs Should Be Like WordPress

November 26, 2005 – 10:32 am

Library catalogs should be be like WordPress. That is, every entry should support comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks. Every record should have a permalink. Content should be tag-able. The look should be easily customizable with themes. Everything should be available via RSS or Atom. It should be extendable with a rich plugin API. And when that [...]

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Infrared Photos

November 25, 2005 – 5:27 pm

Among the infrared photos at PBase.com is this plantation infrared collection by Joseph Levy. Above: part of the collection by Richard Higgs.

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Blog Value

November 25, 2005 – 1:11 pm

The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. Tristan Louis did the math and put the sale value into perspective against the number of incoming links the the Weblogs Inc. properties. It’s an interesting assertion of the value of the Google Economy, no?
The various properties [...]

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