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29 June 2006 @ 4pm

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state of the library blogosphere, 2006

Michael Stephens emailed me a few days ago asking about the number of public library blogs on the wiki. I did a quick copy & paste into Excel, some fast arithmetic, and sent some rough totals his way. We were both blown away by the numbers (I think the word “hot” might have been mentioned, [...]


upgrade

I promised myself that after about 10 straight days of being attached at the hip to my laptop, I’d take to-day off and clean the house and read a book and have a relaxing “unplugged” day. Well, I cleaned the house, but then decided that I really needed to upgrade to WordPress 2.0, so [...]


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30 January 2006 @ 9pm

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op-ed

word clouds

I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading into social bookmarking, tagging and folksonomies for an article I’m working on, so imagine my delight when I came upon SnapShirts. Enter your URL and it generates a word cloud, which you can then have printed on a T-shirt. Brilliant! The image at left is [...]


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7 January 2006 @ 4pm

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bwal.net feed

Thanks to Greg for letting me know that my feed redirect wasn’t working (the one I changed about a year ago!). It looks like it’s redirecting properly now, but for anyone still subscribed to the old feed (feed.xml), the new one is at http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/wp-rss2.php. I plan to keep the redirect going for a while, [...]


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11 August 2005 @ 10am

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welcome

Thanks to an article in the current issue of School Library Journal, I’ve been getting plenty of emails about library blogs that I never knew about. Welcome, SLJ readers! Don’t forget to let me know about your library’s blog if it isn’t already on one of the lists. Cheers!


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