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 is, […]
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 […]
It’s been more of a wait than impatient l’il ol’ me would’ve liked, but the public blogs for MPOW are officially open! The main blog is called “Hoopla,” and we also have a Children’s Department blog (”Around the Corner“), a Young Adult blog (currently called “Teen Blog” until the winner of the YA contest names […]
In general, I find WordPress to be easy to use and a really nifty blogging engine.
But–I find editing and modifying the sidebar to be a major exercise in frustration and futility. Even reading the support docs and replicating the code, I can’t get the sidebar to do what I want. I’m trying to add a […]
The Kansas Libraries & Librarians Flickr group has gotten a mention on Library Stuff. Which is exceedingly cool.
I’m feeling sluggish and spacey this morning, and that’s not a good thing. It’s usually not a good thing, but today it’s a particularly not-a-good thing. This afternoon, I need to be energetic and…gee, what’s the opposite of “spacey”? “Earthy”? (What happens when Kevin Spacey meets Eartha Kitt? Wait, nevermind.)
This afternoon, I’ll be making a […]
My friend Gregg, who has recently started down the path of librarianship, ended his Livejournal a little while ago. Thankfully, he can’t keep his blogging mouth shut: he’s got himself a brand-new blog: Bookpusher. Welcome back to the intarwub, Gregg!
As I’ve previously reported, we’ve been establishing blogs at my place of work. A few months ago, we started a staff blog on our intranet (which I can’t link to, because…well, it’s on our intranet, hosted on our own server). It’s going over very well, all things considered. Few people on the staff besides myself […]
I’ve gone through with the Big Blog Change. I downloaded and installed WordPress, successfully imported my Movable Type blog entries, and am slowly getting this set up the way I like it. I’m still getting used to WordPress, after years of using Movable Type. Our staff intranet blog runs on WP, so I’m not a […]
In less than two hours I will be hosting a “Blog Breakfast” at my library, showing my coworkers how our intranet WordPress blog works, what the blogging guidelines are (as developed by the Web Committee), and how they can all contribute to the blog. We’ll have donuts and juice. I’m bringing my own coffee, because […]
