Matt Hampel | matth.org

• Annoyed Librarian: Go Where the Users Go!
  The walls over the urinals can still have our newsletter, and we can send in any male librarians to slap “users” on the back, look them in the eye, and ask if they have any questions. I’d do this myself, but I’m afraid of what the questions might be.
  (tags: library uh-huh slap)
• Annoyed Librarian: A Librarian’s Anti-2.0 Manifesto
  (tags: yeah-bitches)
• Brad DeLong’s Semi-Daily Journal: Slouching Towards Utopia? The Economic World of the Twentieth Century: Chapter 7.2: The World in 1900: Poverty
  (tags: history economics via:kjyaroch)

• Alan Gutierrez: When The Saints Go Marching In – Politics on The Huffington Post
  Yes, I want you to get behind this bill. No, I don’t think it looks promising. No, we can’t wait until 2009 for this support. Yes, we probably will.
  (tags: via:alangutierrez neworleans development fema government law politics aid grassroots)
• Local History Blog | Ann Arbor District Library
  The Library’s new Local History page now features a local history blog with contributions by local historians.
  (tags: aadl superpatron library history arborwiki)
• Mondo Concreto
  (tags: video google annarbor development MONDO CONCRETO SMASH)

• About the Book – Designing Interfaces
  (tags: interface analysis design book toread)
• el barrio – the enzyme
  Later: This morning, after I wrote this post, as I walked down the street a jogger decked out in a professional-quality track suit passed by two emaciated stray dogs and a crowing rooster.
  (tags: mexico juarez theenzyme blog)
• Cyburbia | 11 subdivision name generator sites
  (tags: subdivison development names generator via:bkerr)
• 10 Free, Innovative Web Analytics Tools
  (tags: analytics tools webdev via:sam.jones)
• Gochujang – Google Image Search
  bi bim bop sauce?
  (tags: bibimbop food a2b3)

• Flickr group: RC, The Residential College
  (tags: therc umirc umich residentialcollege sharing-is-caring flickr photos be-my-friend-pleez?)
• bop2007.org
  The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at Cornell University are pleased to host Business with Four Billion: Creating Mutual Value at the Base of the Pyramid. This conference will be h
  (tags: business conference annarbor si michigan umich cornell)
• Bottom of the pyramid – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Prahalad proposes that businesses, governments, and donor agencies stop thinking of the poor as victims and instead start seeing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs as well as value-demanding consumers
  (tags: baseofthepyramid umich cornell worldchanging conference money poverty)
• Base of the Pyramid Conference 2007 – The William Davidson Institute
  The conference builds on the growing global interest in enterprise-based strategies for serving the four billion poor at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP). We expect to bring together the leading BoP business managers, policy makers, social entrepren
  (tags: need-funding change conference umich cornell economics baseofthepyramid)
• Tapan Parikh’s Home Page
  I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington. My research focuses on the use of computing to support sustainable economic development across the World.
  (tags: bop berkeley si umich sustainability information the-academy)
• Technology Review: TR35
  This story demonstrates an easily forgotten idea: relatively simple improvements in information and communication technologies can have a dramatic effect on the way businesses and markets work. That idea is central to the work of Tapan Parikh
  (tags: bop baseofthepyramid bottomofthepyramid tr si information cellphones india microcorrespondence microcorrespondents microfinance micro-everything major-change)
• Intellectual Property Workshop
  will feature presentations from scholars conducting research on intellectual property law and policy. At each weekly meeting, an invited speaker will present his or her work in progress.
  (tags: umich intep lecture series law property)

• Dexter Cider Mill – ArborWiki
  Open this weekend
  (tags: dexter bikerides apples cider donuts michigan fall)

• YouTube – Victor Borge – Inflationary Language
  (tags: video)
• Lunch in a Box: Building a Better Bento ” Guide to bento packing and gap fillers
  Need to track down a thermos eventually
  (tags: japanese lunch photography blog bento cooking via:vielmetti)
• QDB: Quote #795779
  everyone’s first vi session. ^C^C^X^X^X^XquitqQ!qdammit[esc]qwertyuiopasdfghjkl;:xwhat
  (tags: yep)
• Z E M I : THE LEGO BLOG – Lego room
  look, see, I’m not that bad
  (tags: lego)
• Brian Kerr | Links for “Facebook: putting the social network to work”
  (tags: bkerr facebook $ advertising promotion change leverage next-action via:bkerr)
• NSIT Suppport – Browser Setup for NSIT Web Proxy
  This will redirect the URL you are on through the proxy; you will be prompted for your CNetID and CNet password, then on to the original URL. That’s it! (Once you’re through the proxy, you can re-bookmark the destination
  (tags: uhhhh something-wrong-with-LDAP? stupid uchicago walls crazy proxy attack crumbling security)

• ITCS: M-Community Enterprise Directory Services Home Page
  The MCommunity Project is creating a new system for identity management, roles, data sharing and reconciliation, and directory services—an enterprise directory system for the University of Michigan.
  (tags: umich itcs future directory)
• U-M Music Library
  Now blogging
  (tags: library umich michigan superpatron)
• Web 2.0
  You’ve probably heard that the Medical School purchased an island in Second Life earlier this year. Wait. They did WHAT?
  (tags: blog education library librarian pfa ho-crap)
• nidchaud’s blog
  There is no doubt that I often wondered if I was truly helping the students or just confusing them even more. But when their faces would glow with excitement everyday and they would pinch my cheeks lovingly
  (tags: uhhhhhhhh okay mblog)
• YouTube – Book Cart Drill Team-The Pitt Crew
  (tags: superpatron bookcart library hit-the-stage video)
• Blueprint Grid CSS Generator
  (tags: css script blueprint via:mitten tools webdev)
• BIG TRUCK DAY
  (tags: best-idea-ever library superpatron big-trucks)
• rcalumni : Residential College Alumni
  Join us to keep in touch, hear what’s happening across the world, and discuss the nature of a liberal arts education.
  (tags: therc residentialcollege michigan umich alumni discussion network)
• Free HTML Form Builder – Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations
  (tags: webdev form cheap-and-fast ducttape)
• Multicolored Hand Appliqued Pillow
  Women in Pakistan still face significant discriminatory cultural and legal practices. Barriers such as social stigma, legislation that punishes victims, economic dependency, and lack of access to information about their rights prevent women and girls
  (tags: buy product-description-replaced political shopping change ecommerce via:rcackerman)
• Deki Wiki/Release/Hayes – MindTouch OpenGarden
  (tags: wiki hayes download webdev)

The U of M libraries have a multi-user Movable Type license and offer free blogs to UM students under a service called mBlog. There are quite a few mBlogs now, and a surprising number are blank or have been abandoned. (or perhaps this is the normal abandon rate for blogs?)

In any case, a couple are fairly interesting:

• WCBN posts its board meeting minutes with some regularity.
• Virtual Sites is an interesting new project that allows easy remote access to Umich apps. Sam (of ArborForums) posts occasional updates.
• The School of Nursing has actually branded their events blog. (only noteworthy because everyone else seems to stick with the good ol’ default layout. SI careers is branded, too)
• As with every blogging service, your favorite pills store is represented. (more spam blogs here, here, here, here, here, and here)
• There’s one about brownies. With weekly recipes.
• Someone we know posts about things with wings.
• There is no doubt that I often wondered if I was truly helping the students or just confusing them even more. But when their faces would glow with excitement everyday and they would pinch my cheeks lovingly…
• Human-powered submarine!!

• flowchart-2007.png (PNG Image, 706×880 pixels) – Scaled (71%)
  (tags: @MERIT engineers mah-inernets MERIT michiga)
• Parking 2.0
  mimics larger projects in Chicago’s Millennium Park and Munich, Germany’s automated parking decks under its streets.
• TED | Talks | James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia (video)
  The message is: we don’t give a fuck
  (tags: city civic design architecture mainstreet usa annarbor patternlanguage patterns spaces relationship nature-bandaid theoretical-pedestrians)
• Arbor Forums – Intensive Cheese Seminar
  Eve cheese expert Ari Sussman discusses and offers taste samples of various cheeses, paired with wines.
  (tags: INTENSIVE CHEESE)
• City of Ann Arbor: Accessibility Features
  fails WCAG priority 1.
  (tags: wcag failed-redesign fuckup annarbor webdev 508 accessibility city civic)
• Merit Network Downtime, Outages and other Events Archive – January 2007
  (tags: MERIT michigan networks internet connectivity reference)
• Trapped in the Closet – Google Search
  (tags: hip-hopera via:treebjen)
• Vault of Midnight – ArborWiki
  (tags: burning-desire midnight-passion love heat-sharing)
• J. Michael Bailey – Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege – New York Times
  director of the Kinsey Institute said to Dr. Bailey, “Michael, I have read your book, and I do not think it is science,”
  (tags: gender academic-attack science hard soft umich chicago)

• Iconfinder – The best icon search engine
  (tags: icons via:sam.jones webdev search ajax not-visual)
• Mark Maynard – ticketing the people biking on sidewalks instead of the prostitutes walking on them
  (tags: cycling ypsilanti safety biking laws crime)
• Flint Journal – mlive.com
  Flint Journal recent blogs: recent sentenceings… circut court sentencings… sentencings…
  (tags: flint blog mlive sentencings)
• Arbor Update: Hieftje in running for State appointment
  My usually reliable sources close to the appointment process say that Hieftje’s out of the running. There was an AFL-CIO screening process, and he didn’t do well, so he’s no longer being considered, I’m told.
  (tags: microcorrespondent report annarbor mayor hieftje energy green)
• UM Library: MLibrary Labs: Mirlyn, OAIster and Deep Blue Search Plug-Ins
  (tags: firefox search plugin umich library)
• What is reCAPTCHA?
  Digitize books with captchas. © 2007 Carnegie Mellon University, all rights reserved.
  (tags: captcha mediawiki extension spam digitize mechanical-turk Carnegie-Mellon)