No Such Thing As Bad Publicity

Finding a 2007 blog post about a condom and a cheeseburger made a friend ask if student blogs should be moved off-domain. My flippant answer was “There’s no such thing as bad publicity.â€
His retort was simple and quick: “Tell that to the catholic church.â€
It stung. He had me, I was sure. It’s hard for many [...]

Instant Messaging in Libraries: Ten Points from Aaron Schmidt

Aaron Schmidt’s 10 points about IM in libraries include:

Instant Messaging is free (minus staff time)
Millions of our patrons use IM every day.
For some, not being available via IM is like not having a telephone number.
There are three major IM networks (AIM, Y!M, MSN)
Y!M and MSN will be interoperable at some point.
Trillian is a multi-network IM [...]