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Archive for April, 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Library Thing

Added Library Thing to my right sidebar. Seems to slow down my page loads a bit. Is it noticeable enough to be a bother? Does anybody read this blog anymore?

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Thursday, April 10th, 2008

On Twitter

I’m realizing that Twitter has given my blog a new lease on life. Making my tweets display on the front page definitely keeps the blog more on my mind since I use twitter and twitterific heavily these days. Pondering a Library Monk redesign now, but I have lots of other projects on the to-do [...]

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Doug Raber - Public Library Director

Doug Raber, a friend and former advisor of mine at both Tennessee and Missouri, is leaving academia to be the public library director in Ferndale, Michigan. The local paper there has the story.
Best of luck Doug, dress warmly.

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Updated to WordPress 2.5

Updated Library Monk to WordPress 2.5 The backend is very different. I especially like the automatic plugin updating feature. That caused me to update a few really old versions of plugins I was using.
Also added my tweets from Twitter on the main page.
More later..

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Written by Dan Greene, web designer and library geek. Topics covered here include Library and Information Science, Information Technology, web design, and maybe even a monk or two (more...)

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