habitually probing generalist

Constructing my previous post, Books Read in 2010, was far too difficult.  Still. I keep a simple running list of books I read in VoodooPad, a personal wiki, on my laptop.  I record them by date started, author’s last name and title.  When I finish I add that date.  At some point I look them [...]

[Read more →]

This list of books that I finished this year is based on the date I started reading each book. Though they were generally finished in something close to this order, some books took much longer than others. I finished a total of 102 books in 2010. Five of these were re-reads. I read 85 print [...]

[Read more →]

How It Seems to Me: New & Selected Poems Phil Hey; MWPH Books 2004 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I have been wanting to try the OpenBook plugin for WordPress for a while now. When I came back to blogging a few months ago John Miedema posted on his own blog that he was working on version 3 [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

COinS I’m just giving up. There will be no more in my posts; at least for the citations I include. I’m tired of all the work I have to do to get the citations out of Zotero as HTML, open the source of the generated web page, copy the div with the COinS, paste it [...]

[Read more →]

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 [...]

[Read more →]

This post is for all of you running WordPress blogs. The short version: These guys rock hard! Buy this book! Longer version: In case you do not know it, there is a blog called Digging Into WordPress which puts out a lot of valuable information on all aspects of WP. A while ago they released [...]

[Read more →]

A friend who was unhappy with her previous attempts at book clubs, in-person and virtual, decided a book club where we each read whatever it is we want to read might work better. Thus, 12 Books, 12 Months was born. Here are the rules for the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge: Pick 12 titles from [...]

[Read more →]

[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 [...]

[Read more →]

29 January is the 5th anniversary of my public blogging. I had a Bloglines private blog for about 9 days before I got fed up with its lack of capabilities. That 1st proto-blog was called In My Secret Life… via Leonard Cohen. The 1st public-facing blog debuted on 29 January 2005 at bookmark.typepad.com and was [...]

[Read more →]