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Baby Personal

Eliza is 2

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On this blog, I don’t often wax poetic about my family. On Twitter and over on Brand New World, sure, but I usually keep this area for stuff about some aspect of my life outside of my wonderful wife and amazing daughter…professional, if you will. But today, Eliza turns two, and I thought I should pause for just a moment and just make sure that everyone knows:

IMG_8842 She is fucking awesome.

I hope that someday she’ll be able to look at the things that I’ve written and the photos I’ve taken and that she can feel even some of the love that I have for her. She’s my monkey, that daughter of mine, and she gets more amazing every day.

Daddy loves you, Eliza Rhea.

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Gaming

Social Cataloging

A great presentation by Tim Spalding called What is Social Cataloging?, from the LIANZA 2009 conference in New Zealand. I recommend it if you’re at all interested in metadata, LibraryThing, or, I suppose, Tim Spalding.

Concluding Keynote at LIANZA 09 in Christchurch, NZ. Covers LibraryThing, tagging, personal cataloging, sharing, social networking, implicit and explicit social cataloging, collaboration, what’s wrong with OCLC and other exciting topics.

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Books Media

Delaying ebooks

I was going to blog about the recent article describing how publishers are going to be slotting ebooks into their traditional Handcover-then-Paperback release schedule. I was going to point out that treating digital objects like physical objects has never worked, will never work, and to expect it to work is a fundamental error of modern media.

I was going to do that, but then Chad Haefele over at Hidden Peanuts did it for me. Go read it.

From his post:

Scribner has created an ecosystem where piracy is literally the only option for potential customers who would otherwise line up to give them money, AND that piracy delivers what’s actually a superior product with no DRM.

Yep, that’s pretty much what they’ve done. And, like the music industry, they are going to shoot themselves right in the foot.

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Books Gadgets Writing

Drowning in eReaders

I’m in the middle of writing an issue of Library Technology Reports on Gadgets in your Library, focusing on personal electronics (eReaders, personal media players, cameras, audio recorders, etc). I’ve been drowning in electronic readers lately, starting with the Barnes & Noble Nook finally shipping and going all the way through a myriad of hardware vendors that are jumping into the eReader space. A few of the eReaders that might not be on everyone’s radar:

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(Future) Top Chef




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Originally uploaded by griffey

Eliza is really, really into playing with her little kitchen, plastic food, and play pots and pans. So today, when we let her “help” us bake Christmas cookies, she was in heaven.

She stood on a step stool for no less than 45 minutes in complete and total concentration: pouring flour, sugar, and salt from one bowl to another, stirring, adding cinnamon, feeling it with her fingers, trying out the measuring cups and spoons, having an absolute blast. She got herself (and the kitchen) so messy, but it was so interesting to see her so focused and so joyful.

Maybe she’s a famous chef in the making? Nothing would make us prouder, I believe!

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MPOW

More UTC Library Rave videos

More videos collected from YouTube…these all from a single user, in the last couple of hours.

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MPOW

UTC Library Rave – Fall 2009

Looks like another flash mob/flash rave happened at MPOW, UTC Library, last night. From the footage already up on YouTube, looks like this time someone convinced the powers that be to let the students into the library instead of pepper spraying them outside of it.

Here’s the early footage:

EDIT: More videos coming online now

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MPOW

Groundbreaking!

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So exciting! The ground has officially been broken on the site of our new library! This is a minor start, really just moving some telecom equipment around, but still…there’s a hole in the ground, and in 18 months we hope that it’s filled with a beautiful new library.

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Some day they’ll both kill me for this




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Originally uploaded by griffey

Here’s the post-Thanksgiving aftermath, Eliza and her cousin Parker taking a bath. Eliza thought it was hilarious. Parker just sort of sat in the corner and wondered how he got there. Luckily, they get along really well, despite Eliza’s bossy bear tendencies.

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Decorating for Xmas



Decorating for Xmas, 2009, originally uploaded by griffey.

Eliza doing her first Christmas decorating, helping Mom and Dad trim the tree. She loved it for about 15 minutes, then got bored.