Don’t quit your day-job!
How can you possibly top the riveting reports on the >play Digital Media conference by Jim & Anne? Well, the blog has to go on, and while I can’t promise …
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Who took that picture?
A long commute of listening to NPR makes for a person who has a lot to contribute at dinner parties, and it also helps with the occasional blog entry. Here’s …
Read MoreMetaphors and Visions
If you like big metaphors and glowing visions of our technological future, I recommend that you read this article on Web 2.0. Even if you don’t enjoy that sort of …
Read MoreDigital Preservation / Libraries / Libraries Archives and Museums / Museums / Research Library Partnership
The Have and Have Nots
Did the headline for this NEDCC announcement make you break into a wry smile? NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER STUDY REVEALS NEED FOR PLANNING TO SUSTAIN DIGITAL COLLECTIONS I think everybody …
Read MoreSpace – the final frontier
If you thought the sky was the limit for Google, think again: NASA and Google have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that outlines plans for cooperation on a variety …
Read MoreWorks for me…
This blogging thing is really starting to work for me – no, I’m not talking so much about my own attempts at sharing my inner-most thoughts and insights with the …
Read MoreIndustrious
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had various experiences of interacting with the people from the other side of the fence – they’re usually called vendors, manufacturers, or “the …
Read MoreWhat the neighbors are up to
This isn’t brand-new anymore (it got published on August 31st), but it’s still funny – the Onion headlines “Google Announces Plan to Destroy All Information It Can’t Index.” “Our users …
Read Moreyou’re so not a book
As a “friend of UCAI,” I was recently informed that the project to create a Union Catalog of Art Images won’t continue past its research and development stage to spawn …
Read MoreMonday night epiphany
Sometimes a technology is just a technology until you have had that magical experience of basking in the rays of the light bulb which just flicked on over your head. …
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