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 the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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