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my life in a tag cloud

Sorry to be so screenshot-y lately, but I couldn’t pass this one up. The above image is a tag cloud of my del.icio.us bookmarks generated by wordle. You should have heard the loud gasp that issued from my lips upon seeing this image. Why? Because IT IS MY LIFE represented in a tag cloud. Well, [...]

passion quilt

Michael Stephens tagged me for a pretty cool meme. Here’s the deal:
Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.

Original image here.
This is an image I used in [...]

the year in sentences

First spotted on Walt’s blog, and seen on many others since, here are the first sentences of the first posts of every month in 2007 here at bwal.net. The missing August and September? That’s not me forgetting my months of the year, it’s me being a hopelessly inconsistent and generally lazy blogger. Can you expect [...]

e-info global

Got back yesterday from the 2nd Annual E-Info Global Symposium at the University of Alabama Huntsville, which focused on technology, innovation and change in academic libraries. And what a great conference it was! Excellent speakers, fascinating conversations, and fabulously friendly people (those Southerners!). I did something I haven’t done in a good, long time: I [...]

LIS students rock

Today was good. I gave a quickie guest lecture at my friend Laura Anderson’s Intro to Reference class at the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. I mentioned in the class that I felt like I was trapped in a weird personal time warp because the last time I was in a [...]