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29 November 2007

Comcast blocking Ann Arbor District Library email

UPDATE: Email problem (aka "comcastrophy") fixed now.

Submitted by eli on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 10:59am.
Attention Comcast Customers: AADL Emails Blocked!

Hello Comcast Email Subscribers! On Wenesday, 11/28, Comcast decided that AADL was spamming their customers and began blocking our emails. We have already applied to be removed from the blocked senders list, but in the meantime, comcast.net addresses cannot receive email from AADL. This means that you may miss a notice that a request is ready to be picked up, or a reminder that an item is due or overdue. Please check your myaccount page to view the current status of your account until we get this resolved. We hope to hear back from Comcast today, and we will keep you posted right here as we continue to work on the problem.

Thanks for your patience, and as always, please contactus or comment on this post if you have any questions.

eli

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  • So you've got Ed exploring the possibility space, and John working to enlarge that space, and together they've created a virtuous cycle of innovation. Now this is obviously an extreme example. You are not going to find a superpatron of Ed's caliber and a superlibrarian of John's caliber in every town. But I think the dynamic at work there can apply more broadly. And if it does, it will matter that these patrons and librarians are situated in a local context. (Jon Udell, Remixing the Library, GRL2020)
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  • How come only some books in the Google Book Search have “find in a library” links next to them? Diglet asks, and gets an answer, sort of a lame one if you ask me. update: Kevin mentioned in the comments that it would be great to see this for all books in Google Books. I went to bed thinking “Oh yeah, I should look into that….” and while I was sleeping, Superpatron, aka Ed Vielmetti solved the crime, er problem, and created a Greasemonkey script (a plug-in that you can run with Firefox) that does this for Ann Arbor and can be modified for any library. (Jessamyn West)
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  • When I wrote him back, I called him the “AADL Super Patron,” which is very coincidental, since he has been planning to create a blog with almost the same name. Today, Superpatron is live and I’m sure it will quickly be filled with Ed’s terrific ideas about making libraries more responsive to patrons’ needs. So hurry up and subscribe already, ok? (Meredith Farkas)
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  • Last fall, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I gave a talk entitled Superpatrons and Superlibrarians. Joining me for this week’s podcast are the two guys who inspired that talk. The superpatron is Ed Vielmetti, an old Internet hand who likes to mash up the services proviced by the Ann Arbor District Library. That’s possible because superlibrarian John Blyberg, who works at the AADL, has reconfigured his library’s online catalog system, adding RSS feeds and a full-blown API he calls PatREST. (Jon Udell)
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