habitually probing generalist

Just finishing upgrading to WP 2.2.1. Please let me know if anything is wonky. The Contact Form should be working as it worked for me.

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If you won’t talk to your kids about indexing, who will? Originally uploaded by broken thoughts This bumpersticker is on Allen Renear’s bulletin board on the door to his office. You really got to love this guy! I also want to know where to find one. Other awesomeness arising from near the vicinity of this [...]

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Chris Zammarelli, at Libraryola, has a post about keeping up which I found via the LIS Students Ning. I left a lengthy comment, which I’d like to expand here hopefully. My comment:   I’m not sure I have a feel for what you are looking to keep up with, although I do see that your [...]

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  Your Score: Loser- INTP 33% Extraversion, 66% Intuition, 66% Thinking, 40% Judging Talked to another human being lately? I’m serious. You value knowledge above ALL else. You love new ideas, and become very excited over abstractions and theories. The fact that nobody else cares still hasn’t become apparent to you… Nerd’s a great word [...]

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  Your Score: Semicolon You scored 30% Sociability and 64% Sophistication! Congratulations! You are the semicolon! You are the highest expression of punctuation; no one has more of a right to be proud. In the hands of a master, you will purr, sneering at commas, dismissing periods as beneath your contempt. You separate and connect [...]

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I know it only makes sense that I have gotten physically ill, too. I’ve been fluctuating between various levels of despondency, hopelessness, depression, apathy and general ennui lately. There have been some good to great times, too, and I know I should focus on them. I do try. But one cannot make a life from [...]

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I read the following last night and while it will be included in this week’s “Some things read this week” post I wanted to comment on it now. Introna, Lucas D. “The (im)possibility of ethics in the information age.” Information and Organization 12, 2002: 71-84. Cited by Kemp (NASKO 2007) “Classifying marginalized people, …”, p. [...]

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DSC03211 Originally uploaded by MiddleEarthTraveller Photo by my friend, MiddleEarthTraveller, of the UIUC GSLIS booth at ALA Annual 2007. It looks like I made an appearance and didn’t even know it. Perhaps all of my friends who I missed—or at least UIUC folks—saw me here. Go Team Awesome! And “Hi” to all the other fine [...]

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Plenary: Issues in Knowledge Organization Research: An Interactive Panel Discussion. Joe Tennis, moderator. Tennis’ intro: Do we all come with the same purpose? Dow we all come with the same conceptualization of the problem space? James Turner, Professor, University of Montreal. Clare Beghtol, Professor, University of Toronto. Jens-Erik Mai, Professor and Vice Dean, University of [...]

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Conference photos here. More touristy photos here [includes some conference attendees]. Everyone’s photos here [which means jennimi and me.] Rebecca Green has a much better synopsis than I will produce at 025.431: The Dewy Blog. Plenary: Issues in Knowledge Organization Research: An Interactive Panel Discussion. Joe Tennis, moderator. James Turner, Professor, University of Montreal. Clare [...]

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