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Is Twitter Dead Yet?

I'm so sick of hearing about Twitter. On the Media Hype Index™, it's reaching Krispy Kreme proportions*. ____ *(then, now)

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So Where's the Cake?

So the email goes out: "pumpkin nut/raisin bread" in the Reference Workroom.Sounds nice, huh? So what's left when the Saturday crew finally shows up? You're looking at it.Outrageous!

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Drupal now the "Cool Thing to Do"?

It's nice to see Drupal mentioned in the context of "cool thing to do" but I don't think Cindi Trainor in her piece on Sacred Cows in Library IT gets exactly what you can do with it:Experimenting with...

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Facts Charles Osgood Ought to Know

Charles Osgood indulges in a bit of unjustified cynicism while reporting on an overdue library book that was returned to the New Bedford Public Library after 99 years.The book is called, "Facts I...

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Rumors of the Web's Demise are Greatly Exaggerated

The NYT OpEd "The Death of the Open Web" by Virginia Heffernan is making the rounds.I just wish that in order to get published in the NYT, you actually had to have some insight into the subject you're...

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Worst People In The World : Edwin Mellen Press

So because someone on the blog The Scholarly Kitchen writes a post or two criticizing publisher Edwin Mellen Press (EMP), EMP sends their lawyer after the blog with the equivalent of a...

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