Organizational/Institutional Blogging Done Right

July 17, 2005 – 1:27 pm

Jenny Levine is talking about an example of The Perfect Library Blog over at The Shifted Librarian.
The posts are written in the first person and in a conversational tone, with the author?s first name to help stress the people in the library. The staff isn?t afraid to note problems with the new catalog, the web [...]

By Casey | Posted in Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology | Comments (2)



What’s a ?Blink? ?

July 14, 2005 – 10:47 pm

Stealing from Corante/Copyfight:
It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link, à la Kottke remainders. [It's] to share links to articles, resources, and websites of interest that do not necessarily require paragraphs of context or analysis. Enjoy!

tags: blink, blog, post a link, remainder

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bStat Features

July 9, 2005 – 5:37 am

UPDATE: bstat has been updated.
bStat is a hit and search term stats tracking plugin for WordPress. In addition to reporting lists of popular stories and popular search terms, it will report recent comments and a unique ?pulse? graph showing the activity for a story or the entire blog over time.
The documentation for the current release [...]

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LibDev Launched

July 5, 2005 – 5:43 am

LibDev launched today. From the Welcome message there:
LibDev is a site for those interested in libraries and networked information. Want to find a way to apply tags or social bookmarking to library content? Interested in how Wikipedia can serve libraries? Want to find a better way to do patron loads or talk about what [...]

By Casey | Posted in Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (0)

The Difference Between Progressive and Conservative Bloggers

June 16, 2005 – 1:16 am

David Rothman points to a Daily KOS story that points to a MyDD story titled ?Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating.? What’s the point? Of the top 40 political blogs, more than half are ‘liberal,’ and more importantly, they support community involvement — including basic features like comments — that the conservative blogs shun.
of the five [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy | Comments (7)



Throwing Google A Bone For Cliff

September 23, 2004 – 8:54 am

Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. Here, Google Google.
Solaris Docs: Migrating Veritas Volume Manager disk groups between servers
Solaris Docs: Solaris Disk Partition Layout
Solaris Docs: Copying A Boot Drive Between Disks With Different Partion Layouts
If you’re [...]

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Fox and Conservative Pals Out Spreading More Slander and Libel

July 13, 2004 – 10:24 am

Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it.
Here’s my theory, and it’s supported by stories in Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media and Al Franken’s Lies: conservative groups [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy | Comments (7)