Dan “I don’t play gotcha” Kleinman

Dan Kleinman, the man behind the curtain in Ginny Maziarka’s Oz in the West Bend Library book challenge (update and info), does not (according to his SafeLibraries blog) “play gotcha.” As he astutely notes, “…nobody is a computer and is expected to remember everything they ever said.” This is certainly a fair and diplomatic assertion.
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how to react poorly. always.

I get it. I’d be upset to. I’d be trying my hardest to keep people from walking away from me. Any business should feel threatened when its customers move away from them and profits drop. But… the music industry can’t seem to not look idiotic. Ever.
Take the latest, for example. BI Norwegian School of Management [...]

UWM School of Information Studies Statement of Support for the West Bend Library

Proud to be a UWM-SOIS student today:

UW-M School of Information Studies Statement of Support for the West Bend Library
April 14, 2009
In recent weeks, two citizens of West Bend, Wisconsin have petitioned the West Bend Community Memorial Library to remove gay-themed books from a section designated “Young Adults,” arguing the books should be reclassified and placed [...]

diverted streams

There’s quite a bit of discussion (not here yet) of “data portability” (DP). DP involves a user creating and controlling specific data, able to move it from place to place with ease. The idea is novel and forward-thinking.
Also, there’s what @alisamleo has labeled, a “paradigm of streams.” Basically, the web is becoming less place, more conduit as [...]

To Catch a Misconception—Online Sexual Predation

From Ars Techinca (which, sadly, looks to have been hit hard with layoffs recently): A newly released report demonstrates that online sexual predation doesn’t look like what everyone thinks it looks like.
The most pronounced change the study found was in the profile of the adult offenders. The proportion of younger adult offenders, aged 18-25, rose [...]