Blogs

The Real Paul Jones

  • Blog of Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, UNC associate professor, and resident poet.

PomeRantz

  • Blog of UNC assistant professor Jeffrey Pomerantz. The blog's primary focus is Pomerantz's ever-fascinating takes on library and information science topics. (And yes, you sceptics, LIS can be *very* fascinating.)

Unit Structures

  • Blog of Fred Stutzman, Ph.D. student and co-founder of claimID. According to social networking guru Stutzman, this blog is about "information, social networks, identity and technology."

A Blog Around the Clock

  • Blog of Bora Zivkovic, Online Community Manager at PLoS-ONE (Public Library of Science). A Blog Around the Clock makes "strange connections between science, religion, brain, language, and sex."

Spellbound Blog

  • Blog of Jeanne Kramer-Smith, MLS student at the University of Maryland. Although it can cover diverse topics, the blog's primary focus is on archival studies, especially the intersection between archiving and IT.

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog

  • A must-read. Dempsey's blog on libraries, services, and networks.

blog.pmarca.com

  • Highly informative financial blog written by entrepreneur Marc Andreessen, co-author of web browser Mosaic.

Techno-Thanatography

  • My first foray into blogging. This blog is a venue for musings on technology, society, and identity, and a repository for the sometimes odd thoughts and experiences that would otherwise pass invisibly through my mind and life.

Digital Preservation Websites

National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)

  • Highly influential and visible program managed by the Library of Congress, to enable large scale digital preservation research and projects.

The VidArch Project

  • This project seeks "ways in which to preserve a video work's context and highlighting its essence, thus making it more understandable and accessible to future generations."

LOCKSS

  • "LOCKSS is open source software designed to ensure that important scholarly assets remain available in a distributed, self-repairing, robust, digital preservation system."

The Web at Risk

  • A project managed by the California Digital Library to "develop tools that enable librarians and archivists to capture, curate, preserve, and provide access to web-based government and political information."

For Fun and Entertainment

Lisa Eakin's Artwork

  • My stepdaughter's fantasy art.

Fatalnocturne on Deviantart.com

  • My nephew Adam's art.

Forests Forever

  • Incredible photographic site depicting forests around the world. Sometimes slightly slow to load pages, but well worth the patience.