Monthly Archives: July 2006

And Now This Is Happening?

July 31, 2006 – 9:41 pm

When a gossip site has a picture of Mel Gibson that looks more like Ted Kaczynski, and a story about drunken, anti-semitic ravings, I think ?eh.? But somehow I get more interested agitated when I learn the cops might have sanitized the police report of the whole affair.
update: ooh, what about his endorsements?
arrest, arrested, [...]

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Dooce and BlogHer

July 31, 2006 – 12:42 pm

Bob, the occasional cultural affairs correspondent here, took me to task:
how could you not?
no link to Dooce.com??
nor to BlogHer.org???
What can I say? My immediate reaction was that he’d found proof of Danah Boyd’s point that male bloggers only link to male bloggers.
Anyway. The BlogHer conference just wrapped up, but as Ryan notes, I don’t [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy | Comments (1)

Wal-Mart Trying To Ape MySpace, Seriously

July 30, 2006 – 3:08 pm

I just got a heads up on an Advertising Age story that Wal-Mart is trying to be MySpace (and, yeah, I aped their headline, too).
Here’s the lead:
It’s a quasi-social-networking site for teens designed to allow them to ?express their individuality,? yet it screens all content, tells parents their kids have joined and forbids users to [...]

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Stage Two Truth

July 30, 2006 – 8:48 am

Arthur Schopenhauer is suggested to have said:
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is violently opposed, in the third is regarded as self-evident.
If the reaction to Karen Calhoun’s report to the Library of Congress on The Changing Nature of the Catalog and [...]

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Richard Cheese’s Lounge Against The Machine

July 29, 2006 – 3:55 pm

Richard Cheese’s lounge-core renditions of pop favorites (and some not-so-favorites) have been cracking me up every time they chime into the mix on random, but I didn’t know what the guy looked like until I spied Beatnikside’s photo of the man in among his Vegas people set.
?Cheese,? of course, is a pseudonym for LA comedian [...]

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Two Events, Two Coasts

July 28, 2006 – 12:05 pm

Matt Mullenweg announced WordCamp in San Francisco, then ten days later Abby announced the LibraryThing cookout in Portland (Maine). Both are set for August 5. The LibraryThing event promises free burgers and potato salad, while WordCamp attendees will enjoy both free BBQ and free t-shirts. I’d like to go to both, but rather than have [...]

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Be Romantic And Smoke His Brains Out

July 27, 2006 – 11:25 pm

This photo from Tsunaminotes appeared in Ende’s photo stream and reminded me instantly of all the cool things I’d never done because I was born too late and cool stuff is what I saw in black and white photos from years past. Of course, Flickr says the photo was taken July 5th, and the photographers [...]

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Pretty Little Thing

July 27, 2006 – 8:50 pm

Fink’s Pretty Little Thing is this week’s free download at iTunes, and I have to say I like it. Pretty Little Thing is not usually what I would listen to but i found the song to be new and interesting, very “fresh”! Fink’s Pretty Little Thing gets a 7.5 on pies listening pleasure [...]

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Tags, Folksonomies, And Whose Library Is It Anyway?

July 27, 2006 – 4:33 pm

I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. The MP3 is already posted and, as usual, it makes me wonder if I really sound like that. Still, listen to the other participants, they had some great things to say and made [...]

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WordCamp

July 25, 2006 – 11:13 pm

As noted here, I’m going to WordCamp in SFO in early August.
Matt describes it as a BarCamp-style event (where ?’BarCamp-style’ is a code phrase for ‘last minute’?) with ?a full day of both user and developer discussion.? I’m just going for the free t-shirt, of course, but I can imagine a number of folks will [...]

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…It’s How You Use It

July 25, 2006 – 12:46 pm

Not A Pretty Librarian has kicked things off well with a first post titled ?It Is Not A Tool,? covering an argument about which has more value to a teenager: a car or a computer.
On one side is the notion that ?She can?t drive herself to work with a computer.? While, on the other side [...]

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bsuite Bug Fixes (release b2v6)

July 24, 2006 – 12:39 pm

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

Contents:

bsuite Features
Fixed/Changed/Added
Installation
Upgrading
Commands
Options
Tag Support
Using bsuite Functions
Known Bugs

Update: bugfix release b2v7 available.
It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. I’d been hoping to finish up a series of new features, but those have been delayed and this is mostly just a collection of bugfixes. This update is recommended [...]

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It’s Official

July 23, 2006 – 3:56 pm

WPopac, a project I started on my nights and weekends, is now officially one of my day-job projects too.
We’ve been using our WPopac-based catalog as a prototype since February 2006, but the change not only allocates a portion of my work time specifically to the development of the project, but also reflects the library’s decision [...]

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33.3

July 22, 2006 – 7:06 pm

The music has been on random for weeks now, but 33.3’s ?Joanne Will,? from Plays Music played this afternoon as soundtrack to the summer rains. Brent Sirota may struggle to tell us how bad it is (while also giving it a 4.5 rating), but this ?easier to listen to jazzy than to listen to jazz? [...]

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BeerMapping.com

July 21, 2006 – 11:04 am

In yet more geolocation news, beermapping.com’s maps to breweries will make my travel planning easier, and my travels boozier.
Hey, it’s casual Friday, take off early and go find a new brewpub for lunch.
beermapping.com, brew maps, breweries, brewery, brewpub, casual friday, geolocation, mapping, maps

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