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XML 2007 Last-Call Deadline

The XML 2007 talk submission deadline is looming; there’s only one this year (and it’s this Friday, August 31st!), so if you miss it, you miss out. I’m one of the reviewers. If you want a high grade if I’m assigned your paper to review, read these hints on writing good abstracts first.

Since the [...]

Home from Oxford

As usual, the trip to the XML Summer School in Oxford was excellent. I learned a lot and met some interesting people and had fun too, even though I’ve decided that two trips to Europe, with a one-year-old, in 26 days, is a little too much travel in a short period of time. The XML [...]

Summer in Oxford

Most years I get to speak at the XML Summer School put on by CSW in late July in Oxford, England. Last year I didn’t go since I’d just had a baby 6 weeks before and the family succeeded in talking me out of it. This year I’m going again. It should be a lot [...]

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SLA

Last night I was part of a panel speaking to the SLA WCC. This is an interesting bunch of people, the librarians for various companies, government departments, and of course universities. The panel (everyone else was a librarian) was speaking about blogs and wikis and how they are being used within their organizations. To [...]

Northern Voice Weekend

The weekend is going to be full of Northern Voice, I can just tell. The must-dos for me are the dinner on the Thursday evening (sorry, sold out), the unconference day on the Friday (I’ll be going to the session on identity and privacy of course, and whatever else takes my fancy once I’m there), [...]

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Northern Voice Almost Sold Out

As the title says, the NorthernVoice conference, to be held February 23 and 24 at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC, is almost sold out. As of Friday, there were only 50 spots left, and I’m sure at least some of those are now gone. So if you want to be there, now’s the time [...]