The Other Librarian

A little ways back, Meredith Farkas ran an article called “What Makes a Blog Successful?”
In it, she started a survey asking people to offer their three favorite blogs.
I love this idea just so long as Meredith reserves spot #22 on it for me. Please Meredith? Think of it as the [...]

I was absolutely astonished to discover that I am #22 on the Online Education Database’s list of the top 25 bloggers. All grains of salt are required about the numbers. A bunch of blogs were not included in the study that could easily kick my pagerank backside. To name [...]

For some reason, I have been receiving comments that have made it difficult for me to moderate.      That’s why I have found it necessary to create a “comment moderation policy.”   Feedback is appreciated.   It’s pretty standard fare, but necessary I think.   I would hate for someone to get scammed because of a link coming from [...]

UPDATE:
Thanks to all of you who tried the survey, so far.    I realized that I forgot “students” in the demographic information — apologies for that!    If you want to take the survey later, I will have a link to the survey on the right-hand column of the blog, in relative perpetuity (under contact [...]

Well, I don’t keep much of a collection of RSS feeds. Basically I use live bookmarks so I can pick and choose the headlines I like. I may go to Google Reader sometime to be more ritualistic and purposive about blog reading, but, well, I don’t want to right now.
That leaves [...]

I do not link to Kathy Sierra’s blog enough. She writes amazing and helpful advice about design, coding and well, just making your users happy.
But her recent post, “The Dumbness of Crowds” definitely has me thinking these days about gathering networks and growing yourself. In it, Sierra laments that [...]

One of my favorite Monty Python skits is the one where German and Greek philosophers are pitted against each other in a soccer match. They all line up for the competition, yet when the whistle blows, instead of kicking the ball they engage in a “philosopher pose” making for a hilarious, yet definitively [...]

IMSA, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, has published an article of mine that I called
The Critical Pastafarian: Evaluation by Authority in a Web 2.0 World (You may asked to create an account to access the article). Broadly, I try to tackle the issue of understanding authorship when [...]

I was working with a family member and I had the opportunity to be a librarian next to him/her.
The good or bad thing about being a librarian to a family member is that all that professional stuff goes out the window. This person did not enjoy a great reference interview, nor did they get [...]