Also known as Labour Day, this year here in Serbia is celebrated as International Workers’ Day since the communist time, despite ‘other times’ herein. May 1 was a traditional summer holiday in many pre-Christian European pagan cultures, and many elements of these holidays are still celebrated on May 1 today, such as the Maypole.

In America, May Day is commonly celebrated as a commemoration of the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred on May 4, but was the culmination of labor unrest which began on May 1. The date consequently became established as an anarchist and socialist holiday during the 20th century, and in these circles it is often known as International Workers’ Day or Labour Day. In this form, May Day has become an international celebration of the social and economic achievements of the working class and labor movement.

All institutions, organizations, universities have siesta time – long weekend plus May 1st and 2nd.  By the way, my Google shows me May day under the Communism tag, under StumbleUpon.As I participated today in blogging survey on blogs and preservation, I can take a siesta time until Monday when I will be interviewed for specialized paper journal on eScience, talk on e-publishing and other issues. During my trip time, I’ll try to catch some interesting photographs/moments of Serbia’s labouring time.  Who says that we are not working nation?

Women, Business and Blogging Conference, on Friday 8 June 2007 at De Montfort University: how blogging by women and for women builds networks, improves customer reach, monetizes creativity and infuses business with Web 2.0 goodness!

Business is becoming increasingly interested in social media and especially in blogs. In Europe over the last year several conferences have explored the potential of Web 2.0 networks to increase business opportunities – LIFT (Geneva) and
Le Web (Paris) for just two examples. But there have been no European events focusing specifically on women and social media -until now.

Women, Business and Blogging is organised by NLab at De Montfort University, Leicester. NLab was developed in the Faculty of Humanities by Professor Sue Thomas to connect creative businesses with writers and generate pioneering partnerships. In 2006 NLab ran a series of professional workshops and seminars on blogs, wikis, games and new media writing. In 2007NLab is proud to present this first-ever European conference for and about women who read and write blogs.

Who should come?
This event is for small businesses, individuals, researchers, nonprofits, artistic and educational organisations interested in:
- women bloggers
- women in business
- women customers
- social media and networking
- creative communications
- innovation and cooperation
- customer relationships
- opportunities of Web 2.0 and the Long Tail
- usability
And, just to be clear, men are definitely invited. All the speakers are women, and we’ll be talking about women users, readers and bloggers. But everyone is welcome to attend the conference and participate in the sessions.

See the website for more information and how to register.

This is the real primer of meta blogging web activism. Real Paul Jones posts:

The study, Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation, is being conducted under the guidance of the Real Paul Jones . The study team is interested in hearing from all bloggers on their perceptions on digital preservation in relation to their own blogging activities, as well as the blogosphere in general. To hear more about this survey and to take it, go here:

http://www.ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn/blogsurvey/.

I am going to take this Survey for the forthcoming holidays, how about you?

What happens if you accidentally delete all of your spam (weekly cleaning) and among all junk emails you realize that you deleted an important email, such as support email from PayPal service? Huh. This happened to me this morning – seems they had solution to my previous questions and issues for Serbia on Pay Pall map of accessibility. Seems gmail sometimes swallows ‘important emails’.

As this great science blogger is getting his job on very smart, original blogging way (this is another great idea for getting wanted job using online community blogging services), I was browsing the online BB job market and I realized there is nothing for us cyberTe(a)ch/ers, geeks, Information Community editors, managers, eCoordinators, information professionals, editors-in-chief, writers, bloggers, etc.,  so I officially announce (despite my job.1 part-time and job.2 full-time on”?” = with contract expir.date very soon), that I need/want job! Creative, community oriented, eInvolved or not, motivated, hard-working, and good paid. My resume is on request (contact me), web version so far is at Linkedin.

For those multitaskers, workacholics bloggers, geeks, ibiblio ProductLabs introduces Bloggy, via, the world’s first automated blogging robot. This cute eHairy robot stole my smile between two posts: ) Say hello to Bloggy!