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	<title>A Passion For 'Puters</title>
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		<title>Apologies&#8230;</title>
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Well, a nice big spike of traffic during ALA, plus a bunch of people checking out my OpenID presentation on SlideShare (the MP3 is hosted on this server) meant that my site became a bit overwhelmed with all the activity. Hmph. My site&#8217;s a wuss - who knew? Anyway, I&#8217;ve adjusted things and hopefully this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eek!</title>
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Ok, not a terribly descriptive title, but I&#8217;m at my computer at 6:45am local time, going over my schedule and trying to access my library&#8217;s email and getting a bit &#8220;eeked&#8221; out over both. Last night, just before I went to the Facebook meetup (which was great fun - pics later), I got a text [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday overview</title>
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Whew - I&#8217;m exhausted - and I still have one more event before I can crawl into bed! I started off the day with an overview of Public Computing, where I finally got to put a face to Sarah Washburn&#8217;s name (of the MaintainIT Project) and then went straight to the Social Software Showcase where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformational Change: Evolving Library IT Departments</title>
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This was more of a traditional session than my first one - it was a panel (2 academic library folks and me) and we all gave a brief intro to our organization, then discussed the ways in which our IT departments are changing/have changed in response to changing technological realities. Carole and Terry - my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Software Showcase - BIGWIG</title>
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This was really fun! We gathered in a room that was WAY too small and proceeded to chat with each other about our various topics. Jason Griffey recorded the whole thing - it&#8217;s up at UStream already, with my little intro to my topic, OpenID, at the 13:45 minute mark. I was in the back, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Computing in a web 2.0 world</title>
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Once again – I’m blogging without Internet! In my own hotel. Where I’m paying $10 a day for Internet Access. This sucks. Oh well, so far, before the session has started, I’ve gotten a picture of the three lovely ladies leading this session (any alliteration is purely coincidental, don’t flame me in the comments for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lita Happy Hour</title>
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Last night, after the OCLC Symposium, I headed to the Hotel Menage to meet up with other LITA members and get 1/2 price drinks. The drinks were secondary, though it was a very nice thing for the bar to do for us! I got to meet a few of my Twitter buddies in real space [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8. Blogs</title>
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Hmmm, you are reading this, so do I really have to go into what Blogs are? Well, here&#8217;s a textbook definition:
Weblog (blog) - a web page that consists of separate, diary-like entries that are arranged in a reverse chronological order, with the most recent entry at the top.
That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s a blog. Of course, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCLC Symposium - Mashable Libraries</title>
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Mixing It Up: The Mashed Up Library (OCLC Symposium)

Lots of round tables (easy laptop blogging – if there was free wireless) and people in a big room. Sitting down, we each got an OCLC bag – way prettier than our orange ALA bags – and a packet of information. Andrew Pace started it off with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALA Time!</title>
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I&#8217;ve arrived and settled in! I registered today, got me one of these neon orange (actually it is safety orange, I believe) ALA swag bags and checked out the conference area. I&#8217;m about a mile out from the conference, but it is a nice walk (and they have lots of shuttles running as well&#8230;) so [...]]]></description>
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