Perhaps someone with a better understanding of these things can help me understand why Songza and Rdio work in Canada, but Pandora and Spotify do not.
Digital Strategy for Libraries: The Library Website
Where does your library website fit within your organization? Is ownership and maintenance the responsibility of one department (or one person), or are responsibilities spread throughout the organization? Is it considered part of systems/IT, or was the responsibility tacked on to another tangentially related department because they had the capacity to handle it? These days,…
Preaching to a Choir of One: On Evangelizing Myself
A while back, a colleague and I submitted a proposal for this year’s Internet Librarian conference in Monterey, CA. We’d planned to talk about creating hackerspaces at libraries, but the organizing and review committee had a different (and better) idea. Instead, we’ll be appearing on a panel of experts titled “Transforming Roles: Who Do You…
Changes Are Afoot
Feeling like it’s time to shake things up and start again. Stay tuned.
Manually Adding Kobo's Adobe Digital Editions DRM Files to Your iOS Device
Recently I ran into a small problem where all of the titles I purchased through Kobo, a Canadian-based e-book retailer, disappeared from my iPad and iPhone. The titles still appeared on my Kobo Touch reader, and oddly enough, I traced the disappearance to about the same time that I synced all my titles to the…
Hold On
This will be brief. On Monday of this week, my doctor diagnosed me with rheumatoid arthritis. RA is a disease that affects the joints, causing pain, swelling, and stiffness. It can also cause fatigue, exhaustion, and insomnia. Emotional problems (from having to cope with constant pain) are also a possibility. I’m slowly typing this out…