In-between days (and projects)

March 4, 2008 at 6:44 pm (Learning 2.0, Library 2.0, Meebo, access, blogging, databases, humor, philosophizing, website redesign)

Eleventh Stack has received just under 1,000 hits in less than one week. Even adjusting for friends and well-wishers, that’s still an impressive bit of traffic!

When not obsessively monitoring Estack stats, I’ve been helping fix remote access issues that cropped up in the website redesign. Some of them are access-related, some of them are cosmetic, and almost all of them are fixed!

And now, I’m ruminating about the next steps. It’s never good to rest on one’s laurels, of course. Meebo is still on the table, and talks are in the works. But what next? It’s back to newsreader perusal, sifting for trends, trying to envision what would make the library a better place for everybody to be.

So, an in-between period. But, as I’ve been tagged for the Six-Word Memoir meme by Don (wordsmith extraordinaire from, among other places, The Lilliput Review, I gladly comply:

Sought greater light on the daily.

That will make a fine obituary too, many, many, many years from now!  In the more immediate future, though, more library things, as I figure them out.

6 Comments

  1. eleventh stack said,

    March 4, 2008 at 9:28 pm

    we should be xistack, not estack. as xi is the roman numeral thingy for eleven, and e-anything is soooo early 2000s.

    - amy, whose home laptop is convinced that she is xistacking.

  2. LAV said,

    March 5, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Ooh, and then there’s the cunning tie-in to the Greek letter xi! I like it…

  3. renée said,

    March 5, 2008 at 10:59 am

    “Sought greater light on the daily” hit me like a suckerpunch. May I borrow that for my email signature? (Properly attributed, of course!)

    Also, a fancy addition for xistack could be librarything widgets for each depatrment that uses librarything. No javascript on wordpress, so they’d be image-less, but still cool.

  4. LAV said,

    March 5, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Go for it, Renee! Glad you liked it.

    I agree, the widgets would be a smashing idea. Did you want to futz around with that a bit and see how it works?

  5. eleventh stack said,

    March 6, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Sure, I can futz with that next week!

  6. LAV said,

    March 6, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Excellent! Thanks!


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