Cliff July 16th, 2007
I’ve been gone for a week on vacation, and I’ve come back to a pile of papers and emails. Vacation always gives me dreams of retiring early and spending my days making stuff and hosting giant dinner parties with all my friends. </ sappiness> For the next week I’ll be sorting through everything and getting back up to speed (and recovering from a root canal which I’m getting tomorrow morning–yipes!). Now that I’m a little more rested, I’m hoping to have some witty banter, innovative library ideas and sparkling commentary for you to read in the near future.
Cliff June 26th, 2007
Wow. After having lost a video file to the aethers, I was forced to dig through my home hard drive to try to find it. Well, no such luck, but I did come across a bunch of video files I had forgotten that I ever took! It makes me wonder what all those lifelogger people are thinking. So here, in attempt to make up for losing important academic material, I present cute puppies playing and fighting over rawhide. Enjoy!
PS–I fixed the broken presentation and blogroll links. Leave me a meebome message if you see anything out of place!
Cliff June 25th, 2007
Looks like I’ve been cited–somewhat accidentally.
A couple of months ago the Librarian In Black discovered a video that I had put up on YouTube for my Tantalizing Technology workshop. It was designed to show how faculty could use online videos for their classes or departments. My original response to Sarah is here.
A couple of months ago I was consolidating my online identity, and decided to delete the YouTube dummy account that contained the solitary video, since it was intended to just be an example, and was not formally “adopted” by the library. Today, I received an instant message from Heather at DePaul University, who pointed out that the video had been cited in a College & Research Library News article. Uh-oh! When she typed in the URL, it says the account was deleted due to terms of use violation (which is untrue, it was just plain deleted).
Sarah’s original response to the video raised questions about where information desks should be placed. This new development raises new questions for me:
- How will we manage our online identities throughout our lifetimes?
- What do we (as librarians and indexers) do about media that is constantly being updated/moved/deleted?
- Where is that darn video?!?
If it still exists at home somewhere (I’ve searched all my work stuff), I’ll repost to my “official/personal” YouTube account, and link it here. Otherwise, it may just be lost forever.
Cliff June 19th, 2007
I make stuff. It cheers me up!
This is an 100-page journal with a piano spine.
The paper is 35% post-con recycled, acid free. Pages are 8 1/2″ x 11″. Spine consists of wooden dowels bound with black hemp (with a little moon goddess charm to cutsey it up a bit). Covers are black cardstock.
Cliff June 7th, 2007
I can only imagine my parents’ surprise when I tell ‘em I’m a girl! I had no idea Cliff was such a gender-neutral name…
Cliff June 2nd, 2007
After several weeks of putting it off, I spent this afternoon updating the look of clifflandis.net. I’m still fiddling with things, so if you notice that something has broken, please let me know. Enjoy!
Cliff May 10th, 2007
Last night I dreamt about MySpace and Libraries. I’m writing a book chapter for an upcoming book on NextGen reference services, and for the past week I’ve had writer’s block. I didn’t think that this was something that a technical writer could get, but sure enough, the words I wrote sounded strained and contrived. After three days of writing and deleting, I had a paragraph. Singular.
So I wasn’t surprised this morning when I woke myself up dreaming about brilliant things to say about MySpace and libraries–I often dream about stuff that’s on my mind. Rather than scuttle about in a stupor trying to find paper, I just rolled over and let more brilliant thoughts come and go. Of course they’re all gone now, but I’m hopeful that they were prophetic and I will have some insight as I settle down to write in a few minutes.
I’m sure that in our modern world, one of the Muses must preside over technical writers of all kinds. Let’s hope that was her handiwork this morning.
Cliff May 3rd, 2007
There’s nothing quite like the beauty of an empty inbox.
I hope to resume my consumption/production of Library 2.0 Goodness in the next few weeks. I have a lot of catching up to do…y’all have been busy!!!
Cliff April 2nd, 2007
This week’s first PostSecret is precisely why I want to adopt deaf kids. I want to raise them in an ASL household, where they will never be made to feel abnormal, imperfect, or like a burden. It pains me to know that there are many deaf children who may end up emotionally and/or mentally stunted just because their parents refuse to learn sign.
