Zotero: Should I Take The Plunge?

I'm thinking hard about diving into Zotero. This could mean big changes for me. First, I'm a fan of Internet Explorer. Second, when I do things like this, I go full in: I'm committed. Third, I have no prior experience with EndNote or related citation software. So here are some questions for my predecessors in this endeavor:1. What are my alternatives?2. What problems have you encountered

What's Happening Here? Oh, Not Much...

My relatively slow posting rate in the past week---or four---derives from three events:1. I've been preparing for the USIH conference. It starts tomorrow and will be in Grand Rapids. The CFP went out in November 2007, so tomorrow is the culmination of a load of work (e.g. proposal reviews, administrative issues, hundreds of e-mails, research, paper writing, panel chair searches). Even after

A Positive Development---Or Useless Information Of The Day?

"Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru [Bill Tancer]." Source: Yahoo! News, Sept. 16, author: Belinda Goldsmith.