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-----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brett Bonfield Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Library News (à la ycombinator's hackernews) On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:02 AM, BRIAN TINGLE <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure how many of y'all read hackernews (news.ycombinator.com, I'm > addicted to it) but I just saw on there that there is a similar style site > for Library News that somebody launched. > > http://news.librarycloud.org/news I'm addicted to Hacker News as well, and for a long time I've wanted something similar for librarians. I even worked with my colleagues at In the Library with the Lead Pipe to try to start such a community, using SlinkSet (since acquired by Posterous) as the backend. We had some activity for a while, but never really got it going and ultimately decided close the site rather than fight the spammers. So... what's it going to take for Library News to make it? Brett
