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John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca
June 29, 2009
Category: blogging
One fall to the finish, no count-outs, no disqualifications, for the World Heavyweight Guru Championship of the World. Two gurus locked inside a steel cage. Malcolm "Outlier" Gladwell reviews Chris "Long Tail" Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a...
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Category: blogging
Simon Owens interviews Scott Rosenberg over at Bloggasm. Lately, there has been no shortage of journalists that have announced- usually as a form of link bait -- the "death of blogging" as social news and microblogging continue to grow in...
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June 26, 2009
Category: academia
Digital Natives will move markets and transform industries, education, and global politics. the changes they bring about as they move into the workforce could have an immendsely positive effect on the world we live in. By and large, the digital...
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Category: friday fun
Rush on over to Feminist SF -- The Blog and read this very funny -- and thought-provoking, to boot -- post: How to know if you're reading a bad book. Here's a couple of the short ones: 5. Does anyone...
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June 24, 2009
Category: web 2.0
A thought experiment. It all started with this Ray Bradbury quote in the New York Times: "Libraries raised me," Mr. Bradbury said. "I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money....
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June 22, 2009
Category: yorku
Although I didn't blog about it at all (I did Twitter and Friendfeed about it a bit), many of you are probably aware that my work place, York University (Wikipedia) in Toronto, had a very difficulty time this past academic...
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Category: personal
Yesterday was Father's Day, of course, always a fun occasion for us dads. I'm generally not a huge fan of fake holidays but I usually find a way to make peace with them if they're all about presents for me....
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June 19, 2009
Category: acad lib future
This is the third in my informal trilogy on engaging in social media. The first two are here and here. I left off last time with this sentiment: It seems to me that one possibility if we want to engage...
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Category: librarianship
From McSweeny's, this is both very funny and very poignant. A working day's worth of tweets from a public librarian. Boy wants book on how to make paper airplanes. I challenge him to a paper airplane contest. about 3 hours...
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June 18, 2009
Category: computer science
Some highlights from the IEEE's very fine Annals of the History of Computing, v31i2. You'll need a subscription to the magazine to access it on the IEEE's site. Anecdotes: Prototype Fragments from Babbage's First Difference Engine by Roegel, Denis Biographies:...
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