Last week I was at the offices of Lincoln Public Schools to present on LibraryThing. During some free time in the lab I wanted to catch up with some online articles I’d been meaning to read. I fired up del.icio.us and started clicking on some recently bookmarked sites. One was titled 60 Photography Links You Can’t Live Without. Here’s what I was presented with:
Turns out any site, in this case the blog "Camera Porn" is blocked as being porn. Check the link, it’s not porn in the traditional vein. Good to know that these sites are vetted by real live people… Not! I’m guessing science students won’t be allowed to look at Space Porn or Astronomy Porn either.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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