I’ve been invited to submit an article on Friefox Search Plugins for the inagural issue of the Journal of Web Librarianship. Unlike my previous articles on the topic, this one would be a code-filled how-to. I’ve been wanting to write one of these for a while now and this would be my first contribution to a peer-reviewed journal so I’ve happily accepted. The due date is July 1 so I’ll need to get cracking. (But not until after this week as I’ve got to focus on the book first.)
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Writing, writing, writing
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Jun 2006
I took this week off from the office to work on my next searching book which is due in August. Content is being created as a somewhat slow yet steady pace. Two full chapters are done along with the introduction. The chapter on Wikipedia should be done by noon today. The first draft won’t be complete by the end of the week but I’ll have established enough momentum to get it (the first complete draft) done in time.
Also, I’ve suggested that the title be changed from what the publisher came up with The Reference Librarians Guide to Mastering Internet Searching to Searching 2.0. This is because this is my second book on searching and, more importantly, since much of what I’m writing is very influences by both Web 2.0 and Library 2.0 I keep thinking that the book is teaching the reader how to search Web 2.0 using Library 2.0 strategies, hence Searching 2.0. Any comments on the new title are welcome.
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…like I need a hole in the head!
07
Jun 2006
This past weekend I visited my best friend Laura and her 12 year old daughter Gwynneth in Phoenix. The best part of the weekend was taking G to get her ears pierced. After a lot of walking around the mall and a good amount of drama in convincing G that it wasn’t going to hurt, she finally got it done. The photo here is from before anything actually happened. At this point the woman hasn’t even marked her ears yet. The look on G’s face is priceless. You can also see photos of immediately before and immediately after the piercings. G survived and finally has her first set of earrings. (G, I’m proud of you.)
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A first
07
Jun 2006
If you don’t look at my flickr photos you may not have noticed that I take a lot of photos of custom license plates. That’s because I’m adicted to the Hot Plates pool. So much so, that I’m the number one contributor right now. Well, a funny thing happened with this truck…
As far as I can tell no one had ever noticed me taking a photo of their plate. At least if they had, no one had ever cared enough to let me know they’d noticed. In this case I too the photo and then contiunued to drive down the highway even getting ahead of this truck. A few miles down the road I was on my off ramp and the truck pulled along side on my left and beeped his horn. I looked up and there was the driver with his digital camera taking a picture of me! I laughed and waved and he waved back. I wonder if that photo is somewhere in flickr…
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Postcards!
07
Jun 2006
For the past three years I’ve been sending postcards to my best friend in Phoenix from all the towns I’ve visited. She’s been hanging them up in her office. (This gives her a better view than what she typically sees out her office window.) They bug her office mate a bit but the boss likes them as he did instruct everyone to “personalize” their office. Yes, she’s totally out of room but they’re moving into a new building later this year and she hopes to get some more wall space then.
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