Comments on: Changes certain, nature unknown

By: walt

walt — Thu, 25 May 2006 00:29:48 +0000

Update: I'm OK. While there are still uncertainties, I believe everything will work out (and in my case at least, for the best). For a little more, here's my new post.

By: walt

walt — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:46:20 +0000

vonjobi: I don’t really have answers to your questions, but you might check out my new post…

By: vonjobi

vonjobi — Wed, 10 May 2006 03:10:46 +0000

after seeing the library link of the day, i went to your blog. i hope you’re ok.

i always wondered about the relationship between oclc and rlg, and never quite understood it because i’m so far away physically and professionally (i haven’t used their services at all).

is this like google merging with yahoo? i’ve been through a merger myself, and there were quite a few warning signs. i wonder how they kept this one so quiet…

By: Peter Murray

Peter Murray — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:33:13 +0000

Hey, Walt. I heard about this on the code4lib IRC channel and immediately thought of you. Keeping an R&D group distant from the host organization is a good thing, if one is to believe Christensen’s “Innovator’s Solution”. Still, Ohio isn’t all that bad of a place to work…

-jester

By: walt

walt — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:45:49 +0000

Just a note in passing:

Thanks for all the kind words. (And thanks to the half-dozen OCLC folk who have variously welcomed me to the fold…although, as it turns out, none of them know any more than I do.)

Status at this point: Pretty much unchanged.

Except that I’ve finally been able to do a little writing at home this afternoon; Wednesday and Thursday, I was too shook up to make any progress at all. (Fortunately, two days of lost writing time make no difference in the overall scheme of things.)

If you don’t see any great posts for a few days, now I have an excuse, instead of the usual not-getting-around-to-it.

By: Dave Tyckoson

Dave Tyckoson — Fri, 05 May 2006 19:55:46 +0000

OCLC uber alles?

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 04 May 2006 23:13:28 +0000

I’ll echo Daniel’s comment re: It’s All Good and you’re contributing to it. Heck, that might be a sign of how well the OCLC/RLG merger is going

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 May 2006 03:28:00 +0000

Amen to all the above!

By: Dorothea

Dorothea — Thu, 04 May 2006 00:34:04 +0000

Whoof. That’s a shocker. Here’s hoping it’s a good thing.

By: Marydee

Marydee — Wed, 03 May 2006 22:07:33 +0000

However this shakes out, I do hope it will be positive for you, Walt. I note they’re keeping the California office, so an immediate move to Ohio is doubtless not in the cards for you.