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One of my favorite authors is Ray Bradbury. His manic enthusiasm for life, art and what many people consider “trash culture” (like monster movies and carnivals and comics), his approach to writing, his beautiful beautiful prose, his wide-eyed race towards tomorrow. I love the 10-year-old boy in the old man’s frame. His novel Fahrenheit 451 [...]
I’ve been blogging for 5 years now, and I’ve only just started to really think about why. No, that’s not entirely right. In 2001, you didn’t need a good reason to blog. In 2006, I think you do, and with the premiere of MPOW’s blogs, I’ve been thinking about my reasons and the reasons for [...]
Last night, I went to a “Wikipedia meetup” organized by Brenda Hough and attended by Erica Reynolds, Dave King and a bunch of other smart library types. So many good questions were asked, so many good points were raised, it’s going to take me some time to talk about everything I want to talk about [...]
John Blyberg has more thoughts about the Lawrence anti-library piece. He’s got a point: we should be listening to what people like Mark Hirschey have to say, even if their conclusions are completely off. That being said, the library can’t be all things to all people, and some folks will never be on our side. [...]
At this point, I’m sure everyone who reads this blog is aware of the opinion piece “Libraries are limited, obsolete” in the Lawrence, KS, Journal-World. The piece breaks my heart and angers my soul. But, honestly, talking about it in blogs doesn’t really do much good. (It’s not “strategic,” to quote Karen G. Schneider.) This [...]
Stephen Abram points to this post on best practices for user-centered innovation, which is what “beta” is all about, right? There are some really good ideas here, some things I want to push at MPOW.
That chic geek Michelle Boule has a dandy of a post on the ALA Techsource blog that riffs off of the Library 2.0 principle “beta is forever.” I think the principle is an important one. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that “beta is forever” is the defining principle of Library 2.0. [...]
Jessica the Cool Librarian is closing down her Library Talk forum due to lack of participation. I feel bad about this because I’ve been meaning to register there and start posting, but I simply kept forgetting about it. The thing is, I quite like bulletin board forums. I’m a member of some others (not library-related) [...]
A while back, I was griping about not being able to chat via IM at work. Well, the times they are a-changin’ at MPOW. Thanks to one of my coworkers, we’re starting to use IM at work. It started with the adult reference staff at the main library, then I jumped on, and now they’ve [...]
