Whoa, have I been sick. I’m finishing up some freelance work but in the meantime I had the flu, got better, got a cold, got better, went to disneyworld, and got sick, and got sicker (bronchitis). Honestly, I’ve been sick the majority of 6 weeks. Yes, I have been to the dr. better soon I hope.

The flu, bronchitis, the holiday Read More

–this is going on my christmas list — shockproof, waterproof, 10M, touchscreen…. I need a new little camera for snaps, because I can’t carry my big camera everywhere.

on my list Read More

sigh — this place looks pretty and peaceful, no? oh, well, maybe I’ll have time to visit next week.

all work and no play Read More

Just a short note:WizIQ (think Horizon Wimba) is a free online teaching/learning/conferencing tool. How cool is that? Thanks, Andrew! Btw, Andrew covered lots of cool tools (all my faves!) in his presentation about free alternatives to paid resources (think: openoffice, googledocs, gimp, etc.)Check it out: GA COMO-Free! Alternatives to expesnive technology View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: ga como)

the cool thing I learned about at GLACOMO Read More

Sounds interesting and I think this is okay to repost: The first 2009 Library Connect Newsletter issue (7:1, Jan. 2009), in P and E, will feature a Next Gen section. The issue will focus on the theme “Performance and Planning.” For the Next Gen section, I’m looking for three articles by upcoming information professionals. Are you interested? Just in case you are, here are the ...

Library Connect seeks Next Gen Librarians Read More

Desmoids are benign but aggressively invasive tumors. No treatment is 100% successful and there is no known cure. Until most recently there has been very little research done in the United States on Desmoids, and there was not even a foundation or organization to support such research or even to help those diagnosed with Desmoids. Current treatment is surgery (often removing massive amounts of tissue ...

Help change clinical research for sarcomas (desmoids, etc.) Read More

Open access webliography:http://www.digital-scholarship.org/cwb/oaw.htm

Open access webliography Read More

So, I’m probably (long story) taking this class focused on web2.0, scripting, etc. I’ve not taken an academic class focused on web2.0 technology, so I am excited about that. I certainly read enough about web2.0 and experiment with things (and can’t count how many conferences, seminars, etc. I have attended), but it will be interesting to get a more scholarly perspective on it. Who knows, ...

Acck! ebooks! Read More

Jonathan Harris on storytelling, reality, and documenting life. Among his projects is ” we feel fine”. His script picked up some of my blog writings a few year ago. I thought it was an interesting project. I can’t get the video to embed, but the link is here.

On collecting stories Read More

Okay, I’m not sure I see exactly why it would be better to post from googledocs to your blog (especially, if you use blogger and are already logged in via your google login), but here goes: did you know that you can publish directly to a blog via google docs? http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/07/live-blogging-with-docs.html One caveat, though: scheduling/future posts do not seem to work via this method. Even ...

Posting to blogger from google docs mostly works Read More