Friday, July 22, 2005

Julie! Don't Get Fresh With Me!. Local-food devotees mistake good eating for good ethics. By JULIE POWELL. [NYT > Opinion] 9:01:19 PM    comment []

Mash-up Friday: Hiphop vs. Philip Glass = Glassbreaks [bOing bOing] 9:01:15 PM    comment []

Robin's Salon Blog Peeks: Time To Beam Up Scotty. I'm sliding into this, but tonight I begin what I hope will be a regular weekly feature, Robin's Salon Blog Peeks wherein I will offer you a quick look at Salon blogs and blog postings that I think deserve more eyes. This won't be a definitive roundup; just some new and random picks to broaden your blogosphere. The subjects may well be off topic, not the expected Girl in the Locker Room material. Hope you like the service. I begin today (actually inadvertently began yesterday with David Harris. See the Harry Potter posting below) with a charming posting on the passing of James Doohan, Star Trek's Scotty, by Birdie over at Beauty Dish: The Underground Adventures of an Avon Lady. Birdie is a gifted natural writer with an eye for the telling detail. If you like her Scotty story, you must read a mini-series of postings she wrote recently called The Table. She tortured us day to day and week to week as she spun out this tale, but now she's got it compiled in one long take. Savor it. [Girl in the Locker Room!] 9:01:06 PM    comment []

Daily Download: "My Tennessee Hills," Janis Ian. Dolly Parton harmonizing beautifully with Janis Ian [Salon.com] 9:00:46 PM    comment []

Julie! Don't Get Fresh With Me!. Local-food devotees mistake good eating for good ethics. By JULIE POWELL. [NYT > Opinion] 8:59:58 PM    comment []

New eBay phishing trick [bOing bOing] 8:52:37 PM    comment []

Rove and Libby's accounts don't jibe with reporters'. In the latest twist on the Plame affair, is Scooter a straight shooter? [Salon.com] 8:52:32 PM    comment []

20 Technology Skills Every Librarian Should Have. Last month, T.H.E. Journal posted an interesting article titled 20 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have and briefly defined each. Word Processing Skills Spreadsheets Skills Database Skills Electronic Presentation Skills Web Navigation Skills Web Site Design Skills E-Mail Management Skills Digital Cameras Computer Network Knowledge Applicable to your School System File Management & Windows Explorer Skills Downloading Software From the Web (Knowledge including eBooks) Installing Computer Software onto a Computer System WebCT or Blackboard Teaching Skills Videoconferencing skills Computer-Related Storage Devices (Knowledge: disks, CDs, USB drives, zip disks, DVDs, etc.) Scanner Knowledge Knowledge of PDAs Deep Web Knowledge Educational Copyright Knowledge Computer Security Knowledge It's a pretty good list, and it becomes useful for us if we substitute the word "librarian" for "educator" throughout, even for items like #13 about WebCT and Blackboard because you have to understand the distance learning you'll be supporting more and more in the future (speaking from a public librarian perspective). Of course, for librarians I would make it a top 25 list and add blogs, RSS, IM, wikis, and audio ebooks right from the beginning. I'd like to see MLS do a series of workshops, either online or f2f, that would help librarians learn all 25 skills. We could even do annual updates. [The Shifted Librarian] 8:57:07 AM    comment []

Who said it? A convicted terrorist/murderer or Bush's "base"?. Details here. [Leiter Reports] 8:56:49 AM    comment []