habitually probing generalist

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 Organization: One [...]

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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 blogging at [...]

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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 Internet [...]

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Is anyone looking for a roommate for ASIS&T 2008 in Columbus, OH this October?
I am a reasonably quiet, non-smoking, male, old enough not to be partying late into the night.
Sharing a room is pretty much a necessity since I’m still a student, work for hourly pay and the entire cost of the conference is on [...]

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Taking a cue from someone else’s post which I saw a month or so back here is a list of the books which I have read in the 1st half (plus) of 2008. I imagine I missed recording one or two and I know I failed to record one or two which were re-reads. I [...]

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What a question. I feel like I need a recap of some of it myself sometimes.
I hope to have some semi-substantial blog posts and/or Flickr sets for some of these but I’d like to get them mentioned before they all become old news.
[some kind of division]
Been watching a fair few movies, started running (4x 5x [...]

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Note: Not much read due to being at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee until Wed. evening.
Wednesday, 24 Oct
Shepherd, Simon. “Concepts and architectures for next-generation information search engines.” International Journal of Information Management 27(1), Feb 2007: 3-8.
This is a short, but interesting article in a copy of a journal I picked up for free at [...]

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Sunday, Oct 21
Who Is Tagging Information? – Edward C. Lomax (Georgia State U), Hsin-liang “Oliver” Chen (U of MO-Columbia), and June Abbas (SUNY-Buffalo).
Lomax spoke about Social Tagging in K-12 Education; Chen spoke about Social Tagging and Newspapers; Abbas spoke about Tagging and Libraries and Museums.
The panel was down two members so that had some impact [...]

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This was an all-day workshop focusing “on the enduring aspects of classification/subject analysis and the presence of those aspects in commonly used methods, especially those we encounter in our daily lives” (program). Papers are available in DLIST.
Welcome from Joan Lussky, Program Chair.
Keynote, Hope Olson, “Cultural infrastructure: the story of how classification came to shape our [...]

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[This was started and mostly finished early Friday morning, with some additions Saturday morning.]
Things are normal here—great in some areas, horrible in others.
I am almost completely exhausted after Dr. Hjørland’s visit (more in a moment). I have not been sleeping well, and despite it going well it has been a strain. I have come home [...]

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