The London Book Fair has added a new feature to the highly successful Academic, STM and ELT sector of the show. The e-Content Pavilion and seminar theatre will offer Information Professionals, Knowledge Managers, Librarians and Publishers the opportunity to view an exclusive selection of the very best online information management content all in one place Featuring: Blog: The Forest Gump of Literature
The Blog, The Press, The Media: Zephyr Teachout: The Valley of the Blogging Shadow
Once referred to as “possibly the world's greatest reference librarian?(American Libraries, February 1995 page146), Cecil Adams has been answering questions via his alternative newspaper column, The Straight Dope, since 1973...
Every year, the Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association puts out a best-of list of recommended free web reference tools. This year's list is full of gems, showing us that the web continues to offer richly rewarding FREE content to support a wide range of research topics. Every library that maintains lists of best-of-the-web for their users should review this list.
• Best of the Best Virtual Times [Blog Abuse: Will it ruin free speech as we know it? ]
• · Hey, you sound familiar Zephyr Teachout (not relation to Terry): Is Daily Kos the new Armstrong Williams?; Daily Kosts and Double Trouble: the Worst of the Worst of Virtual Times ; Blogging for Dollars: Hang Daily Kos, but not for taking money from Howard Dean ; [Have you, at any time, taken money from the Bush administration in exchange for promotion of the administration's policies? This column is not for sale ; Hewitt on Blog]
• · · A civil-rights group will try to deflect an "asteroid" from hitting bloggers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation said yesterday it would defend bloggers' right to protect anonymous sources who disclosed that Apple would release a product code-named "Asteroid." Bloggers' rights up for debate in Apple lawsuit; [Hard choices: researcher vs. blogger? ]
• · · · Instructional Headline of the Day: Iain Ferguson of ZDNet Australia points out that no matter how modest a blog may be deemed, the instant accessibility to potentially mass audiences that the medium provides calls for the blogger to exercise responsibility Blog today, gone tomorrow ; [Terminal Big Bad Bollandness of Being Dull Blog Modified version of course :-) ]
• · · · · We can't count the number of times various manifestos have been read to us by communists in our lifetime. A powerful good spirited global conversation has begun. Through the Internet, people are discovering and inventing new ways to share relevant knowledge with blinding speed, so begins the often quoted and influential book, The Cluetrain Manifesto. Light switches
• · · · · · A Bunch of Blogging Pastors: Mark Daniels observes that they're a more diverse bunch than some might expect, only proving C. S. Lewis's observation that when Christ enters people's lives, God gives them the confidence to be their own unique and quirky selves Are They for Real? Dive in and Find Out