Wednesday, June 4, 2003

avoiding blogging burnout Gone. Now Jonathon Delacour and Mike Cohen have stopped blogging, too. What's this - some kind of disease? How many more of my favourite bloggers will disappear in the next few weeks? ... [The Aardvark Speaks] This is sad news. Will there be more of this as the novelty factor of blogging recedes? Or as the blogosphere becomes more stratified? My own way of avoiding blogging burnout is to be very undisciplined about it - to treat it as something I enjoy doing rather than a chore. It also helps to take a hiatus from it, whenever I feel like it. 8:17:06 AM

I'm both of these, as well as being an accidental blogger Accidents Do Happen. If you're not an Accidental Systems Librarian, perhaps you're an Accidental Webmaster. I'm sure one of your many hats is accidental.... [via beSpacific] [The Shifted Librarian] 8:06:54 AM

now that Buffy's over, I'm looking forward to Ripper Glad to play Librarian. Anthony Steward Head says he is blessed to continue to be associated with his role as Giles, Librarian and Mentor... [LibraryPlanet.com] 8:01:45 AM

contact your Representatives and Senators about the Public Domain Enhancement Act reclaiming the public domain. We have launched a petition to build support for the Public Domain Enhancement Act. That act would require American copyright holders to pay $1 fifty years after a work was published. If they pay the $1, the copyright continues. If they don't, the work passes into the public domain. Historical estimates would suggest 98% of works would pass into the pubilc domain after 50 years. The Act would do a great deal to reclaim a public domain. This proposal has received a great deal of support. It is now facing some important lobbyists' opposition. We need a public way to begin to demonstrate who the lobbyists don't speak for. This is the first step. If you are an ally in at least this cause, please sign the petition. Please blog it, please email it, please spam it, please buy billboards about it -- please do whatever you can. And most importantly, please help us explain its importance. There is a chance to do something significant here. But it will take a clearer, simpler voice than mine. [Lessig Blog] 7:54:29 AM