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Thursday, February 14, 2002 |
"Glenn recaps his Google analysis (which was very well done). What I would like to see is a Google product that combined external search (what they currently do), search of the corporate LAN, and desktop search. Put one keyword in and get multiple folders of results -- Web pages and images (they can leave out groups and especially that sub-par open directory project -- I would substitute K-Logs and Wiki-Wiki)." [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
Another "me, too" post on my part. As I continue investigating portal solutions for SLS, it's become painfully clear that no one product is going to do everything I want and/or need it to do. So now I'm approaching this as a puzzle for which I have to find the right pieces, figure out how they go together, and make them into a coherent whole. All for a price a Library System can afford, without exorbitant consulting fees because dammit Jim, we're not programmers. If the Google product described above was available, I would have given it serious consideration as one piece of the puzzle. And while I don't feel the need to include Wikis at this point, I desperately want to figure out how to add K-logging to the equation.
9:46:42 PM 
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Tuesday, February 12, 2002 |
Chris Pirillo has posted a Blogger's Manifesto, which I'm sure he worked on with his wife, Gretchen. Both blogs (actually, all of Chris' sites, too) make great reads, so I highly recommend them. They're in my RSS feed, but I should really have them listed in my blogiography, too. Time to change that. Eventually I'll list everything I subscribe to so you can play along at home.
10:08:36 PM
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Here's a good offset to the rotten NBC coverage of the Olympics - it's the CSMonitor's Winter Olympics 2002 blog! I want to read all of the links about last night's figure skating controversy since the rest of the coverage I've seen this morning has been sparse at best.
2:53:42 PM
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I haven't visited Kottke in a few days (bad Jenny!), so I'm overwhelmed by new things to read and play with from his site. A sampling:
9:13:18 AM
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Zhikr.org is too interesting for me to write a one-sentence summary. Looks like good stuff on the Net Generation and on Islam. Must read tonight. [via Kottke.org]
8:49:05 AM
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A Matter of Trust: "Blogging should be mandatory for every CEO. Screw insider trading disclosure, open up the walls that shrould Fortune's top 500 in secrecy. For never again will I trust the words of an analyst, accountant or spokeperson. if it doesn't come from the horses mouth, it just doesn't cut the mustard." [CurryDotCom]
For those of you non-librarians out there - and actually for you librarians, too - here's the thing. You do trust libraries, even if you haven't used one in a while. Librarians have a built-in trust with the public because of the great service we provide (I'm talking customer service here), the great service we provide (I'm talking housing, organizing, and disseminating information here), and the great service we provide (I'm talking the consistency day in and day out - we're still here, what about all of the .coms that were going to replace us?).
If you go to the Librarians' Index to the Internet, you inherently know you can trust what they present to you. Actually, don't go there, and just think about what the title tells you. You can't count on companies, politicians, or the media anymore, but you can still count on us. Just try and find someone who has never once used a library as a child, a student, a parent, a person. Go on. I dare you.
So if you haven't used a library in a while, come on back. You'll be surprised what we have to offer (still). And librarians, let's build on that trust that's been sitting in the back seat and continue asserting ourselves in our domain - information. We need to get our message out to the masses that we're still here - better than every, thank you very much - and you can still trust us.
7:10:45 AM
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Comments by: YACCS
© Copyright 2002 Jenny Levine.
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