Archive for October, 2005

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

Universal Service

The Wikipedia definition is a bit sparse, but universal service is the idea the everyone should have access to telecommunications. Classically this idea has only been applied to basic telephone service, it’s why 99% of the United States has the ability to have a land line telephone. This Slashdot discussion talks about the problems with [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Library & Information Science by Dan

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Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Looking for web services job postings

I’m starting some research into web services librarianship (or related job titles). Here is my research question, gap in the current research and outcome. Research Question: What are the perceived duties, needed qualifications, etc. of a web services librarian? How does the position announcement compare with actual job functions? Research Gap and Outcome: Since web [...]

2 Comments » - Posted in Libraries and Library & Information Science by Dan

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Saturday, October 15th, 2005

My car is back

My car is finally back. It took a little more work and a few more parts than expected to remove the electronic shifter box and put my car back to normal. Shifting with the regular shifter is a little awkward right now but nothing practice won’t fix. And it is nice to know that my [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Thoughts on Life by Dan

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Sunday, October 9th, 2005

RSS readers and a change in thought

I like RSS. It theoretically lets me absorb a lot more information than I would just browsing blogs. Trouble is I could never really make myself use RSS. I’ve used Feed Demon, the RSS support built into Thunderbird and Firefox and the Sage extension for Firefox. I don’t know why I’ve never tried web based [...]

Comments Off - Posted in Information Technology and Library Monk News by Dan

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