…Your brain does not obey Moore’s Law. It’s aided by it, for sure. But the truth is. there’s only so much you can pack in there… (from Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion)
Despite my fondest wishes, I have finite attention, limits on how much can be stored in short-term memory, and requirements for getting stuff into long [...]

Last night I set up activeCollab on my website. I did this for two reasons.
1. Backup. I’m uploading each thing I work on to my webspace every day anyway. Now I will just do it through activeCollab, and it will be more organized because of…
2. Simple version control. I’m the only one working on these [...]

Quote from Bascha’s interview with Cory Doctorow:
And when you look at what the protracted term of copyright coupled with the impossibility of legally digitizing large courses of work is giving us, it is a slow-motion burning of the library.
  affective state: stomach-hurtyauditory stimulation: the rattle of the air filter

Andrew Pace says that Bibliographic Control Has a Future. I hope so. What we do know is that it has a working group.
I am, of course, very keen on harnessing the power of computational analysis of data to create richer, better forms/methods/systems of bibliographic control. But I have a hard time believing that computational [...]

Note to myself about how to make footnotes with Footnotes 0.9 Plugin for WordPress 2.0.x:
wrap the text you want to be a footnote in the following markup (without spaces): ( footnotebegin )1 ( footnoteend )2.
activeword: f [↩]activeword: fn [↩]  auditory stimulation: felix da housecat - short skirts

This is what, like, my fourth attempt to keep a LIS/academic blog?
It seems that I get so busy doing work that I never want to write about the work I’m doing. Previously, writing a post for a blog of this nature has taken forever and I have ended up deciding that maintaining the thing is [...]