I’m attending part of Information Online this week in Sydney. Today was a big day, starting out with the SLA breakfast at 7am where my good friend Alyson Dalby received her award for Australian and New Zealand Chapter Information Professional of the Year. I attended the conference from lunch and then met up with fellow […]
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Walt has two great essays in Cites and Insights this month, the first on conference speaking I’ve linked to in the wiki, and the second is all about achieving balance. Walt discusses the importance of vacations. I’m an enthusiastic supporter of vacation - I find that in the last few years that I have more motivation and […]
More on content analysis and libraries
Published by January 19th, 2007 in Research/Writing and Australia. 0 CommentsI came across another article today that covers some similar ground and scope to my unfinished librarians in the media content analysis:
Robinson, L T K, (2006) “Curmudgeons and Dragons? A Content Analysis of the Australian Print Media’s Portrayal of the Information Profession 2000 to 2004“, LIBRES, Vol 16, No. 2 (PDF)
Sensibly, Robinson has a much, […]
Spam Karma is asking for a Catchpa for comments on this blog, which I’ll try to remove without getting rid of the spam-blocking. I’m not a fan of the Catchpa method they are using as it impairs accessibility (IMHO).
I’m also working on the theme for this site, so you will see occasional tinkering!
Update: tinkering was […]
FOSS, experimenting and documentation
Published by January 10th, 2007 in Library technology, Open Source and rubyrails. 2 CommentsSomething I plan to do a lot this year is spend time experimenting: with FOSS, Ruby on Rails and repository/object management software. These are not things that I often have the opportunity to do at work. But since they interest me, and I think they’re important to keep up with, I’m happy to spend time […]
New journal: Open Access Research
Published by January 9th, 2007 in General and Research/Writing. 2 CommentsVia the ACRL Scholarly Communication list and Dorothea’s blog: Call for papers for the new journal Open Access Research.
Dorothea has the full call and contact details, and she’s also a member of the editorial board. This will definitely be a journal to watch.
Just one question: is the RSS module installed? OJS is great as it […]
Something I’ve been working on for some time is how authors develop communities using social software. That one is an article I intend to finish! As part of that article, about a year ago I started looking at the uses made of blogs in librarianship and other profession and came up with this list:
As a […]
Tag Clouds for Content Analysis
Published by January 5th, 2007 in General and Technology. 0 CommentsVia the Intelligent Agent blog, you can now use TagCrowd (Note: site currently down) to analyse a block of text for frequency of words much in the same way as you might for Tag Clouds.
One possible use for this form of cloud is content analysis. The article I posted below may have been much easier […]
Articles unwritten: How do they see us? A content analysis of the library sector in major Australian newspapers, 1997-2000(2)
Published by January 2nd, 2007 in General. 1 CommentFour years ago, I started collecting data for an article analysing libraries and librarians in Australia’s major newspapers. I never completed it due to the overwhelming amount of raw data. I got the idea to post some of my results and findings here from a blog that recently posted titles of ‘dream articles’ that remain […]
