It’s been a week or so since I started using the RSS reader, and del.icio.us. I have to say, I’m fond of NetNewsWire and I feel that I don’t use del.icio.us nearly as much as I thought I would. The RSS reader has its drawbacks, mainly the fact that, like Capitalism or Communism, the whole system works better if everyone is on board. As long as I still have to hop on to the browser to read 1/2 the weblogs and other content I read, it’s less useful. For delivery of straight-up news, it can’t be beat. For any content I want to interact with [LISNews, blogs that I comment on] it encourages non-interaction and I’ve gone back to reading those web pages instead. As far as del.icio.us, I just don’t want to go through the extra steps for what I need to use it for, which is organizing links to add here and send other places, temporary stuff. Usually, I just drag the browser icon to my “add me” folder. Now I have to go to a web page, enter comments, hit submit. I can handle the lack of metadata and honestly, most of the stuff I’m likely to link isn’t really showing up a lot of other places. It’s a great tool, just not for me.
Author: jessamyn
recommended feminist books for youth
The Feminist task force of SRRT has come out with their 2004 list of recommended feminist books for youth. [juice]
Seattle Public toilets
Seattle Public Library opened their new renovated Capitol Hill branch but no one is allowed to use the toilets because of excessive drug activity. Do you think you would be more outraged to find a needle in the bathroom, or to not be able to use the bathroom in the first place? [thanks hannah]
Patriot Act, the game?
As the above episode illustrates, sometimes our profession can be guilty of a lack of creative thinking. Here is an interesting creative twist on all our PATRIOT Act activities: The Patriot Act Game. And, of course, it has its own web site. [thanks barbara]
hi – 06feb
Hi. I have the day off today which means that I can stay home, mess with cars, watch it snow and not have to shake my fist at the weather. I have been working on the library web site for the past month and it’s almost ready to go live. If anyone would like to take a peek at it and give me some feedback, I’d appreciate it. My goals are to have the site use all CSS for layout, be accessible to people with low vision or who use screen-readers, be standards compliant [I am still doing some retrofitting to make this work, like closing my [li] tags] and have stuff be easy to find. On the back end, I’ll be running Movable Type on Lishost so it will have a series of templates and stylesheets that can be ignored as content is updated. Things I could not control includes the inclusion of images, the boxy logo and most of the content, which came with it. Here’s the old site and the new site. My goal is to improve on the old site which was not terribly bad to begin with, but hard to update and maintain, and to make it one of the best public library web sites in the state of Vermont.