Reviving D-Lib
The Loon, not ordinarily a sentimental creature, shed actual tears of loss and disbelief from her beady red eyes when she learned in July that D-Lib Magazine was ceasing publication.…
Read moreIn 2017
It is a strange and dire time to continue a predictions series, is it not? The Loon considered bypassing this entry altogether. However. During her workplace’s most recent accreditation go-round,…
Read moreAda Lovelace Day: Ayla Stein
It is perhaps small surprise that the Loon should wish to honor Ayla Stein this Ada Lovelace Day, as Ms. Stein’s areas of expertise roughly parallel the Loon’s own. Ms.…
Read moreNo deed goes unpunished
The Loon thinks that Jimmy Wales has diagnosed the decline in search-engine traffic to Wikipedia correctly: search engines have gotten better at using Wikipedia and other sources to do what…
Read moreReversing the exodus (or: will the Loon ever return to libraries?)
Some years past, the Loon left an online library-technology pond she had been frequenting after a series of sexist incidents, one entirely public, made her so angry and suspicious and…
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