Google Gives In

Google gave in to China's censorship demands and agreed to their terms. It's an agreement like this that reminds me to not fully trust the the licensing agreements librarians, and anyone with an e-reader, make with companies who are supplying digital content. They are businesses first and foremost and, like Google, will make decisions at times that run contrary to our values to further their current or future profit margin.


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LIS 2600 Portfolio

Here it is. This is the portfolio page. I've linked to it from my home page also (www.pitt.edu/~jkw21). It's nice to be done, although I may still tinker with bits and pieces of the portfolio for fun. It has links to the blog, Omeka, Koha, both fragments, a css page I used the external style sheet for the portfolio page, and then internal css for each of the pages showing the assignments we completed. It was interesting work, and at times frustrating, even the smallest mistake makes the style sheet not work properly. I am by no means an expert in html or css now, but I've learned that I can find the information I need to answer my questions, it's not as scary as it seems, and I am capable of learning it. I think I'm going to try the digital libraries course in the spring semester, and maybe information architecture or another info tech class after that. I enjoyed the work we did, even though it gave me a headache at times.

Pop Suede: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: with Cats

Pop Suede: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: with Cats
Another student posted this on their blog the Secret Ninja Club, and it originally came from a blog called Pop Suede. After a very trying day, it made me laugh out-loud. We took our daughter to see the movie the day it opened. This parody is better than the real thing. Hope you enjoy it immensely.

Think of the Zombies!!

This video was produced as a marketing campaign for a small library. After talking about marketing for part of this weekend's fast-track, I found it to be a fun and lighthearted take on the issue of library closings due to budgetary cuts. I think people are more likely to give you money if you make them laugh than if you try to guilt-trip them, especially if you are looking for money from community members. I hope this library raises a boat-load of cash and is able to continue contributing to the zombie food supply. Let's not always take ourselves so seriously.



Image courtesy kevindooley 8/2009