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http://cavlec.yarinareth.net Reader Beware! Fri, 09 May 2008 14:24:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So here's the deal. I may be able to sneak into next week's Project Bamboo meeting in Chicago, but I am not doing so at the behest of MPOW, and so I've got to dig up my own accommodations. Which is, um, expensive. Is someone going who might be willing to ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/05/09/i-can-haz-crash-space/ So while I've been on my moviemaking-induced blog semi-hiatus, a lot of things have been happening in open access: We have a new Open Access Directory wiki, with real institutional backing (doesn't surprise me that it's Simmons, either; they're good people there) and real wiki gardeners. I'm mildly worried about the ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/05/08/buying-the-drinks/ I'd like to welcome my good colleague Shane Beers to the biblioblogosphere. Shane took over my duties at George Mason, and has done a lot better with them than I ever did. I'm happy to see other repository managers blogging, and thrice happy to see Shane. He brings up something that ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/05/07/on-repository-rat/ A courteous interface is a marvelous thing. It gets out of the way. It intuits what you want, squeezing every tiny bit of information possible out of whatever tidbits you feed it. It doesn't bother you with its nasty little internal troubles. It's Jeeves, there with a pick-me-up when you've ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/05/06/courtesy-2/ If I've sounded stressed the last few weeks, it's only because I have been. I really, really needed a good day off… and today I had one. We did a weekend rent-a-car thing, as we have taken to doing every now and again, and after yesterday's dutiful errand-running, today we drove ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/05/04/happy-day/ So, I promised a look at the latest beating-things-with-rocks project. Voilà tout. This took me a heck of a lot of time, considerable beating things with rocks, and of course I'm not completely happy with it—but for a first try at video making, it's not half bad. Next time, I'll turn up ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/05/02/video-with-rocks/ So y'all remember what was making me cranky a year ago? Proof's in the pudding, and the author copies are in my hot little hands: Now my mom can quit bugging me to go write a book already. Okay, okay, so I really only wrote slightly less than half of one. ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/04/29/ou-book-let-me-show-you-it/ Michael Stephens started it, and I'd hate to miss a chance to evangelize the awesomeness of Flickr's wealth of Creative Commons material, so: Image ganked from here, and found via the slick and useful Flickr Storm search engine. Nothing particularly gnomic about this utterance, so I won't insult intelligences by explaining it; ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/04/27/passion-quilt-meme/ I inadvertently let the textartisan.com domain expire. I've renewed it, but until DNS catches up, my regular email address is nicely hosed. If it has to get to me, use dorothea dot salo at gmail dot com. Yeah, don't start, okay? It's been a bad week. http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/04/26/email-temporarily-hosed/ We had a lovely presentation at MPOW today, by a well-known academic in the messy intersection of science and education, about a new open-access journal he's helping launch. The presentation has been advertised for a week, sent out to the big library listserv at MPOW at least twice, and put ... http://cavlec.yarinareth.net/archives/2008/04/24/a-datapoint-useful-to-those-gauging-the-degree-of-engagement-of-academic-librarians-in-open-access/