Got TMI?

I was writing too much boring diary-entry crap here so I started a separate blog for that here.

There's still bound to be overlap, of course, and an inability to decide which blog to post to ... like today I was trying to think of a clever balloon-caption to add to a photo of my brother shaking Bill Clinton's hand at Google (something clever about Al Gore, but what??). I was surfing web logs about Gore, Clinton, Google, Norvig ... and I found this guy Kevin Fox's blog, and he had his "friends" blogs listed
and, hmm, how to explain? I KNOW these people ever so slightly, as nodding acquaintances -

Dinah Sanders (metagrrrl) was in my library science program at San Jose State. I ran into her briefly at Internet Librarian.

Derek Powazek started Fray, which made me sit up and take notice enough to go see him speak back in 1997 at some event put on by, I think, Webgrrls before they changed to Digital Eve.

Peter Merholz is, of course, well known as "the other Peter," in his efforts to clarify any shadow cast by Peter Morville, who was also at Internet Librarian, where I saw him speak in his thoughtful, calm, way. One time I drove all the way to Berkeley on a weeknight just to see Morville speak for free at an event put on by BAY-CHI. Thought about bringing my old copy of Info Arch for him to sign but it seemed indecorous ...

... the whole bay area user interface crowd seems so amazingly small, yet I feel an outsider, I guess. You see? I knew this should have gone in my personal blog ...

Hit Counter Bites the Dust

GoStats sent me an email over the holidays explaining that their database had been compromised. So the record of my 10 seconds of fame (hundreds, count 'em, hundreds of hits!) after having been blogged by someone else is no more. The hit counter was re-set as of yesterday, I think.

Mea Culpa

Just had to check in to see if I could even remember how to use this thing. There are a number of reasons why it's been so long since I posted. I won't bore you with the details. Car accident. Eye infection. Work.

I've got some analog stuff I've written offline that I hope to port over here one of these days. It will give me a chance to experiment with backdating stuff, and then I may set the archiving feature in motion.

Make a Fortune on Google!

Just when you think you would give up your firstborn son in exchange for not having to deal with spam, something comes along that tickles your funny bone. Now, instead of making a fortune on e-bay, I can make a fortune on Google! Amazing! I just have to buy a $50 e-book first. The extremely gullible part of me (my friends know and exploit it well) had to take a second look at the general concept just in case. Something about partnering with online sellers to write adwords for them. Hmm, wouldn't they be writing their own? Anyway, all I know is, if you do a search for AdWords on google, there are 8 sponsored links for other businesses that will also help you make a fortune writing adwords. Does that mean i can make a fortune telling people how to make a fortune? egads, it's all too recursive.

George Plosker weighs in on the "L" word

A colleague pointed me towards this article today. I only skimmed it but it was serendipitous as I had just been thinking yesterday how cool the phrase "Internet Librarian" is, how glad I am that that is what Information Today calls that conference, and how glad I am that SLA decided to keep their name.

I know the "L" word has more baggage than the combined total of all bags lost by airlines since air travel began ...

...but I don't want to be known as an "Information Professional." To me, that sounds dry as toast. I'm proud to be an Internet Librarian.