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Comment on Non-harassing protest of SOPA at ALA Midwinter by Putting our protest coupons where our hearts are « Tiny Glass Houses

Putting our protest coupons where our hearts are « Tiny Glass Houses — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:32:03 +0000

[...] creators, to modify at will. Lots more details about the Midwinter plan are also available, at Non-harassing protest of SOPA at ALA Midwinter, and ongoing ideas about how to use these coupons keep popping up in the Library Society of the [...]

Comment on Non-harassing protest of SOPA at ALA Midwinter by Protest SOPA, anywhere your vendors are | SLA Academic Division

Protest SOPA, anywhere your vendors are | SLA Academic Division — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:45:22 +0000

[...] be found. These specific coupons were designed for vendor exhibits at ALA Midwinter, and you can learn more about that protest plan on Iris’ blog. However, since Iris has released these coupons under a CC0 license, anyone can rewrite them for [...]

Comment on I will manage these passwords if it’s the last thing I do by Anna

Anna — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:35:13 +0000

I’ve been using LastPass for the past year or so. It’s great for both storing passwords across browsers/platforms, but also generating secure passwords. I have both personal and work stuff in it, and believe me, I have plenty of the latter, what with each publisher/platform having their own admin login.

Comment on I will manage these passwords if it’s the last thing I do by Whither Said Account? – Hedgehog Librarian

Whither Said Account? – Hedgehog Librarian — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:47:29 +0000

[...] the end of last year, my friend Iris mentioned that she wanted to get her online passwords under control. I was very interested because I know that mine have also gotten a bit [...]

Comment on What I learned from the reference interview about solving problems by Tops in 2011 | jkbeitz

Tops in 2011 | jkbeitz — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:30:23 +0000

[...] Librarian, What I Learned from the Reference Interview About Solving Problems. Because this woman has my dream job – working at the library of my alma mater – and [...]

Comment on Wikipedia Sucks! by Scott

Scott — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:50:35 +0000

…and I don’t think wikipedia is the devil. Just use your head.

Comment on Wikipedia Sucks! by Scott

Scott — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:44:54 +0000

The problem with wikipedia articles is that it is difficult to determine the credentials of the authors. I see your point Iris, and this is why people should seek out peer reviewed journals.

Comment on Wikipedia Sucks! by Scott

Scott — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:34:11 +0000

Wikipedia articles are constantly being cited in colleges and universities as “scholarly” sources. Many professors are allowing this to continue, which promotes this misinformation. I’m glad there are others out there aware of this. Let’s spread the word.

Comment on Wikipedia Sucks! by Iris

Iris — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:31:26 +0000

Again, I refer you to my previous comment. Understanding how Wikipedia articles come to be is important, just as it’s important to understand the motives of the authors and publishers of any resource. It’s less useful to think of sources as inherently “good” or “bad” than to think about how well they are suited to a particular context.

Comment on Wikipedia Sucks! by Neil Slade

Neil Slade — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:11:32 +0000

I learned long ago that Wikipedia exhibited a very biased look at things, that was neither factually neutral, nor factually accurate.

It comes about as close to neutrality and accuracy as dropping a bomb from a moving jet fighter over a rice paddy in Viet Nam.

I made this observation looking at articles in two subject areas in which I am an “expert” (and I use the term “expert” reluctantly, as I have often found experts to be woefully narrow minded, as well as wrong). However, given my broad knowledge in these subjects, both of a scientific nature, one of them also somewhat political, I was quite dismayed to find the Wiki articles quite bent and subjective, rather than objectively neutral, as well as very conservative to the point of deliberately omitting my editorial updates.

I.e., the Wiki articles mirrored a conventional and horribly uninformed and outdated conventional line of thought and opinion.

At that point I realized that it was a terribly flawed resource. I could make an educated guess as to how many other misguided articles and flat wrong facts it was spreading if these two areas of “discussion” were any indication.