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Library Geeks 003 - The Thing You Do

August 31st, 2006 | posted by dchud
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Abby Blachly and Tim Spalding of LibraryThing joined me last week for Library Geeks episode 003 - The Thing You Do. The goal was to have it posted in time to sync with LibraryThing's first birthday, but, better late than never. Happy birthday LibraryThing!

Our conversation covered a lot of ground, from privacy, tagging, and bookkeeping to Cutter codes and, yes, even marshmallows. Even edited down some, it's well over an hour, but I hope you'll agree that their project and what they have to say about it is so compelling that it's worth the extra time.

Unfortunately the first thirty minutes of the audio carry a lot of extra noise. It seems a poltergeek visited us, pounding on a phantom keyboard and leaving a steady stream of noise ("ambient annoyability"?). I'm sorry about this - hopefully you'll find it bearable, and, I promise, poltergeek goes away around the thirty minute mark.

Get it through the iTunes Music Store, or directly from the podcast feed.

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On 8:49am, September 7th, 2006 Paul R. Pival (not verified) said:

Suggested Interviewee

Hey Dan, have really been enjoying these interviews, thanks. How about speaking to Chris Zagar of EZProxy?

On 11:22am, September 7th, 2006 dchud said:

Thanks for the tip

That's a great idea... I know lots of places are getting a lot of use out of his work.

Thanks for listening, and for writing in!

On 15:28pm, September 13th, 2006 Raymond Yee (not verified) said:

very enjoyable!

Dan -- great job with the Library Geeks podcast. I listened to some of podcasts so far and am impressed with the quality. Keep up the good work!

On 21:05pm, September 13th, 2006 dchud said:

watch out!

Thanks Raymond! Maybe you can come on the show sometime... :)

On 6:03am, September 14th, 2006 Paul Miller (not verified) said:

Open Data

Dan

happy to do as Tim suggests in the call, and sit down around a virtual table for a discussion of Open Data...

Nice podcasts, btw; a regular part of my in-car listening now, and I look forward to episode 4...

Paul

On 9:52am, September 14th, 2006 dchud said:

You beat me to it :)

Hi Paul, thanks for writing in, and, yes, I was going to get in touch with you. I'll follow up over email soon. You'll be at Access, too, right? Maybe we could do something while we're there.

Thanks for your comments, and for being an inspiration! :)

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