Today I was part of a panel session about Web 2.0 tools for the GMC/PCMA Greg Fine - Association Forum showed some of their Association Professionals throughout History video showed the map of online communities from 2007 (”gulf of youtube”) social media is about building community, and ...

Sweet wounded Jesus. Florida State, Where Talent Goes To Die, will be killing once-promising players off fast and furious in 2009, with eleven 2008 bowl teams on the schedule. …hang in there? Mark Richt is a dirty damned liar. Or the NCAA is full of terrible small men who make terrible small r...

Ask and you shall receive or at least find. It seems ALA was on the ball and has been active in asking for funding for libraries. Include Public Libraries in Recovery Funding! is a page where you can send an email to your senators. I've used it to send mine a message....

Its Top Tech Trend time again. Every time I’m asked to come up with trends I sort of get a pit in the bottom of my stomach. How to choose trends? Should I choose tech things that have changed they way I think about technology this year? How specific or narrow should my trends me? How accessibl...

We are about 20 minutes from getting underway with the OCLC Symposium. The room is filling up nicely, and our speakers are getting ready. I forgot I had moved my photo download pointer to the new 500 Gig hard drive...so I will have to post photos up after that fact. Make your way over, if you're in ...

We have an anonymous account of the poor, wretched sorority girl who beshat herself at the national title game, and we found it intriguing both for its clinical description of the situation, its veracity, and its sympathy for the poor girl involved–whose picture may no longer appear on Georgia...

The yearly tweaking of the rules is now on the docket, and let us humbly propose one rule in sore need of tweakage: the transfer rule, a bit of earth-salting schools may use on recruits who transfer out of programs. Robert Marve received an especially poxy variant of the treatment, with Miami refusi...

So the ALA is taking a hint from the US Presidential elections and taking questions from YouTube…with some caveats. Here’s the email that went out to ALA members: Members Invited to Submit Questions to ALA Presidential Candidates via YouTube Do you have a question you’re dying to ask t...

He is clearly allergic to Brandon Spikes, but most football players on the offensive side of the ball share this medical condition. Now what we’ve found yet another way to express our undying love for Brandon Spikes, it might help you to know that the offensive lineman featured in that video, ...

Today, I wrote my last post for ALA TechSource. I felt that I had to leave given my sporadic posting and it is so hard to sit down and write these days. Time to write is not the only problem. It is hard to write about tech trends when you never have time to read about the trends. ALA TechSource has ...