Lists. Lists are the secret to blogging during a panel while still paying attention. Watch. Best things about SXSW Interactive so far: The BlogHer meetup is described during the opening panel as “the biggest taco-fest in Austin” Vendetta, 1999 – a more modern version of the humanist Jenson typeface Consumating.com…

Good morning, all. I’ve been death-on-a-stick for a week, thanks to accidentally ingesting some sort of peanut bi-product last weekend. The Epipen plays hell with my immune system. The good news is, I’ve gotten a lot of very important America’s Next Top Model watched. So, that’s done. I am heading…

It’s 4 am and I’ve got some sort of low-grade headcold. I can’t sleep. The only advantage to being awake in my house at 4am is the cat is so! happy! to see me! He’s overcome his usual aloofness and has wrapped himself around my neck. We’re back from Austin,…

My ex-professor and information architecture guru Peter Morville is in town promoting his new O’Reilly book, Ambient Findability, which I’m going to buy and review, whether you like it or not. For all you digital librarians out there, he had a slide showing some attractive ladies that was meant to…

There was an attack of librarians at SXSW this year, with several library-related panels on topics like digital preservation, information architecture, and the Google Book project. Carrie Bickner-Zeldman, whom I just learned graduated from SI right before Chris and I, did some mad moderation in the digital preservation panel. The…

Liz Henry from BlogHer describes how to hide content on the Internet: “Obscurity through verbosity” I think this also explains the reason why many academic websites have trouble finding readers. Digital Librarians take heed! Avoid unnecessary words.

Thank you to Jenny Benevento, the resourceful librarian who saved me a few seconds ago as I desparately searched for a knife to cut moleskin for my poor beat up feet after a run-in with some sandals last night. It was a pretty weird coincidence, since I was literally in…

Just a reminder. Stop by for librarian buttons and bitching about metadata. Here’s the info.