Archive for April, 2008
« Previous EntriesUncontrolled Vocabulary #40 - Don’t Self-Deprecate Yourself
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Uncontrolled Vocabulary #40 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
Laura Carscaddon, University of Arizona
Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries
Connie Crosby, Leisure Girl
Laura Crossett, Park County (WY) Library System
Tim [...]
Episode 40 tonight
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008This is the excerpt of your first post template…
Welcome 6POS fans!
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Just wanted to welcome anyone who is stopping by after seeing the link from Mitch Joel’s Six Pixels of Separation, my new favorite podcast. Mitch generously played my audio comment in episode 101, which was released earlier today. Thanks to all of you for stopping by.
You’ll find the most recent episode of our show [...]
RSS feed issues - testing
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Last night, I switched my Wordpress blogs over to a Subversion setup at the same time that I upgraded Wordpress to version 2.5.1. One or both of those things may have rendered the UV RSS feed dead. This is a test post to help troubleshoot that. Pardon the feed reader spam, but that would indicate [...]
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #39 - It works, but who cares?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Uncontrolled Vocabulary #39 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
On the call:
Greg Schwartz, Louisville Free Public Library
David Bigwood, Lunar and Planetary Institute
Christa Burns, Nebraska Library Commission
Mary Carmen Chimato, North Carolina State University
Mickey Coalwell, Northeast Kansas [...]
Episode 39 tonight
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008This is the excerpt of your first post template…
Facebook Group > Facebook Page
Sunday, April 20th, 2008In case you are likely to read only one or two sentences of this post, here’s the moral: I’m asking all Facebook users to join the Uncontrolled Vocabulary Facebook Page, which, for all current members of the Facebook group, means migrating over. Thanks. (For the thirty or so people I just invited to the Facebook [...]
Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38 - Sandy Berman gone bad
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Uncontrolled Vocabulary #38 is now available for download. Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
You can subscribe to the podcast (as well as this blog) via the following feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/uncontrolledvocabulary
A million thanks to Mary Carmen Chimato for taking over the show this week. As you’ll hear, she did a fantastic job in my stead.
On the [...]
Substitute
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008When I woke up this morning with my throat in mild pain, I expected to fight my way through and host as usual tonight. My sense of propriety (also known as my wife) has helped me realize that what I need to do is recover as quickly as possible. That means prioritizing my health over [...]
Episode 38 tonight
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008We’ll be recording episode 38 of Uncontrolled Vocabulary live tonight at 10 PM Eastern.
Topics for tonight’s show will likely include (although subject to change):
War Declared on Library of Congress by Venezuela
The state of libraries: Funding down, but gaming up as way to attract young people
Blogs May Be Rendered Obsolete by New Technology
Would robot librarians do [...]