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Drupal at AADL Talk

A little late to be posting, but today (Sept 24) at 7pm, Eli from AADL will be talking to the Ann Arbor Drupal Users Group. The title is “Implementing Drupal in the case of aadl.org”.

Anonymous

I’ve seen various discussions that have confused or equated privacy (or freedom) with anonymity. Things such as social DRM which marks items with some unique information. There a nice article by Schneier on the differences and relation to security that is worth reading.

As the name implies, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are anonymous. You don’t have to [...]

Arr

As most who probably read this blog know, it was recently talk like a pirate day. Like the pirate bay usually does, Flickr changed their logo a bit. Via Waxy I found that there were at least a few that were not amused, from those who thought the interestingness was lacking to those who thought [...]

Some Nerve

(My Violent Wife by Jesse Gardner from Flickr)

Guns, I am told, are dangerous. But women are dangerous, too.

I’ve always enjoyed reading K.G. Schneider’s writing (and presentations) and her essay for Nerve is no different. If you haven’t already given it a read you should. I’ve been an occasional reader of Nerve and they tend to [...]

Eco-Lib

AADL has tried a few things in the eco area though I haven’t looked into it as much as I probably should. A few I know about are the tree removal at the new branch site and the change to reusable bags.

A couple things that came across the reader recently were Eco-Libris (via LibrarianInBlack) which [...]

Serialized or Time-release Syndication

The Librarian in Black has a post about a service that provides time-released RSS which they call AutoResponder. The price seems a bit steep but it is centered towards business.

A number of potential uses are listed on the service’s website, some of which might be useful for libraries: delivering a training course one chunk at [...]

Laptops and Meetings

A good article on meetings whether or not you agree with the use of laptops

All this focus on laptops as the problem is a red herring. Whether you’re running a meeting with a rampant laptop problem or sitting in a meeting where you have no role, the actual problem is that someone doesn’t understand the [...]