In case you didn't catch the updated text at the top of the last post here, Jon Udell kindly followed up on a comment he left here recently and interviewed me for his Friday podcast about OpenURL and other topics persistent and linkish.

...in which I:

• try to explain OpenURL linking
• fail to recognize or usefully distinguish the differences between archive.org and arXiv.org (I just heard "archive.org" and went with that even though Jon meant "arxiv.org", at least early on, I think)
• reference the 50+-year research and publishing history of Eugene Garfield
• dredge up the old DSpace identifier wars
• discuss some issues with the Handle System and the centralized/distributed governance spectrum
• describe COinS and how to use COinS browser extensions at your library
• highlight the COinS Generator, the OCLC OpenURL Resolver Registry, and LibraryFind projects
• crib Jon's notion of a publishing surface area and reference FRBR as a framework for considering the surface area of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation
• say "Mess is Lore" and reference the Book Arts Press valentines the *week* of valentine's day without saying they're valentines
• mention the Computer History Museum
• try to convince Jon that he should find an archives to work with to start collecting his papers (online and otherwise) and correspondence without actually saying that so succinctly or usefully
• give Jon the scoop about my upcoming new job

It was a real pleasure to get to talk with someone whose writing I've read for many years and to appear on a podcast I've been listening to since its inception. Jon's long-time crossover interest in libraries (c.f. Library Lookup) is one of the strongest bridges we library hackers have to the broader software and systems communities. It's also a privilege to follow great folks like Tony Hammond, both John Blyberg and Ed Vielmetti, John Wilkin, and Lou Rosenfeld (both of whom I was lucky enough to interact with while at grad school at umich, check the podcast feed for these older, pre-Jon's new blog links) as a library-interested interviewee.

Unfortunately I've been too busy to put together more Library Geeks interviews, but I plan to start that back up again once I settle into the new gig, I promise. It's easier to be the one asking the questions!