If you are reading this, then you’re not using Internet Explorer 7. Yesterday I discovered that my pretty Twitter and LibraryThing and Google Reader javascript widgets weren’t loading in IE, and so I started trying to fix things. In good news, the site parses as valid XHTML. In bad news, it absolutely will not render at all in IE.

Working on it.

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This is my friend Laurel Snyder’s beautiful book Inside the Slidy Diner. Isn’t it gorgeous? It’s available at Powell’s.

I put it here with a slightly involved but not difficult combination of the Google Book Search Preview Wizard, advice from this post, the Inline JavaScript plugin developed by Volcano, and the Role Manager plugin. And, of course, thanks are due to WordPress.

James Moses posted to the SHARP-L list some interesting numbers from the Primary Research Group’s new report on library and museum digitization projects. The first one was probably the most surprising to me: 60% of the funds for digitization projects come from the library’s budget; in the U.S., the number is closer to 64%. I’d have thought grants accounted for a lot more of that.

You know what would be interesting? To see whether Google and Microsoft’s digitization projects were cheaper in real terms. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that they’re more efficient and knowledgeable and therefore wind up spending less in order to digitize comparable amounts.