The Carnival of the Infosciences is coming to Manila!

Von of Filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com will be hosting the Carnival of the Infosciences No. 81. (more details there)

So get your blogs ready!

I wore a shirt that read:

"Ang isip,
tulad ng aklat,
ay mainam kung bukas."
It's the UPLSAA shirt. And the message on it was very appropriate for the afternoon.

Von, Zarah, Juned, Arnold, Charles and Igor all came together for Pinoy Biblioblogosphere.

It's all about building a network with resources devoted to reading materials, reviews, libraries, librarianship and librarians. A lot of ideas were tossed around and we all agree that it's time for something like this. It's definitely feasible.

This is also a call for pinoy librarians to start writing about the profession. We all have a lot of ideas and stories to tell and it's time to start now. As Von puts it, and we agree with him, no one is going to write about the profession except us.

Related to that, ahehehe, it was mentioned that me, Igor the gorilla, being a gorilla-of-all-trades, has a blog that is a blog-of-all-trades. O_o;; Ahehehe... The gorilla is just like that: librarianship, linux, pc hardware, web, retro and weird computing, dreams, theater, fire and skill toys, stuffed toys, graphics, manga, comics and what-not. But it had me thinking on the way home. Maybe it's time for a "re-focusing", as Arnold puts it, since I've chosen to devote a majority of my life and time to LIS again. That doesn't mean I'm abandoning the other things that make Igor into the gorilla and http://gokitomo.com into Monkeywrench. So just expect a blog revamp / redesign (Monkeywrench 2.2? 3.0?) for http://gokitomo.com to address this focusing. And since I frequently cross-post at "The Multiplying Gorilla" at Multiply.com and "Igor and Other Stuff" at Vox.com, I'll probably keep those for aggregated posts.O_o;;

Sidenote: I had a dream about this last year. A group was talking to me about my blog content and tags. Though I don't remember the faces of the people in my dream, I think this may be related to that dream. O_o;;

Other Pinoy Biblioblogosphere posts: (more to come)
Zarah's "Live Blogging : Pinoy Biblioblogosphere" at her blog School Librarian in Action
Arnold's "When Pinoy Blograrians Meet, A Mafia is Born" at Aczafra.com
Charles' "One Library Article Every Week (a.k.a. Homework) at Bibliophile Stalker
Juned's "Oh Saturday!" at 1read2.org
Von's "Pinoy Bibiliblogers' Mafia" at Filipino Librarian

Pinoy Biblioblogosphere

A Different Bookstore,
Serendra, Taguig, MM.
September 15, 2007.

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