habitually probing generalist

This a followup to my Iowa Library Association Conference post from last week, which was written on an iPad (at home), about the use of the iPad at the conference. All in all, it worked great. Thankfully, there was fairly reliable wifi in both the hotel proper and the conference center portion of the Coralville [...]

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Tomorrow morning we head halfway across the state for the ILA conference in Coralville, next to Iowa City. We are looking forward to it for assorted reasons, but a little networking is near the top of my list. What is at the top, though, for both of us, is checking out Iowa City. We got [...]

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Wilson, M. L., & Elsweiler, D. (2010). Casual-leisure Searching: the Exploratory Search scenarios that break our current models. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 22 August 2010. Presented at the HCIR 2010, New Brunswick, N.J. Retrieved from http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ryenw/hcir2010/docs/HCIR2010Proceedings.pdf When clearing out my aggregator a [...]

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[This post title is, for me, multi-meta in that it refers to several things.] It has been a long time since I’ve been here. Part of me is sad about this fact and part of me thinks that is just fine. A lot has happened since I last wrote here: I quit my job as [...]

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In Vancouver, BC for ASIST 2009 Annual Meeting: Thriving on Diversity: Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World. Today is the 20th SIG-CR (Classification Research) Workshop: Bridging Worlds, Connecting People: Classification Transcending Boundaries. 1st session, which I’m in now, is titled: Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Indigenous Knowledge Organization. Moderator: Hope Olson. Papers are: Language, Text and Knowledge [...]

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Change of blog name I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope. 3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to WordPress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of [...]

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He’s incommunicado No comment to make He’s saying nothing at all Yeah but in the communique You know he’s gonna come clean … [Communique - Dire Straits] Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ. None of those are entirely [...]

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I am at The Ethics of Information Organization conference in Milwaukee for the next two days and I am really looking forward to the presentations. Hopefully I will find time to blog about this soon; unlike so many other things. With any luck the conference site will have wireless available. It is in the public [...]

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[Update 3 Nov 2008: Just uploaded a revised PPT with updated Notes which are much closer to what I spoke from. Although, they clearly are not what I said verbatim.] ASIS&T is going well.  I arrived late Saturday afternoon in Columbus (OH) and am getting along fine with my roommate whom I met over the [...]

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Today is Christina Pikas’ (of Christina’s LIS Rant) birthday.  Seeing as I’ll be seeing her in pretty much exactly a month at ASIS&T and she’ll be able to personally kick me for this, I decided to write her a little birthday ditty. Tis just a wee fuss for my friend Pikas I awoke this morning [...]

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