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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
July 30, 2010
Category: friday fun
Yeah, last Friday I threatened a sequel and here it is. Too much fun. And once again, looking in the mirror is a bit tough on this one. I did do a quick search on my blog posts and none...
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July 29, 2010
Category: blogging
A few of us are proposing this session at the upcoming Science Foo Camp at Google HQ this coming weekend: The Joys and Sorrows of Blogging on a Network What with the recent Pepsigate crisis at ScienceBlogs and some rumblings...
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July 27, 2010
Category: acad lib future
A few months ago I posted a fairly long essay on how I was approaching the challenge of thinking about the future. I modelled myself on a few articles by futurist Jamais Casico and focused on why thinking about the...
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July 26, 2010
Category: blogging
Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that I pay quite close attention to the InsideHigherEd web magazine. They cover lots of library issues and issues that are relevant to libraries, their blog network is pretty good with...
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Category: blogging
Bora Zivkovic for several years has been doing interviews with the attendees at the annual ScienceOnline conferences. The latest interview is with my longtime blog buddy Stephanie Willen Brown, AKA The CogSciLibrarian! What aspect of science communication and/or particular use...
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July 23, 2010
Category: friday fun
This is soooo funny. So funny it hurts. Ok, so maybe I've been guilty of one or two of these. Ok, maybe you have too. The more you're guilty, the funnier it is. To many, the Internet is a world...
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July 22, 2010
Category: acad lib future
A great article in last Friday's Globe and Mail, Will the last bookstore please turn out the lights? The main thrust of the article is that while there's a lot of doom and gloom in the industry, there's also some...
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July 20, 2010
Category: blogging
What with the recent blogospheric developments, I thought it would be a great idea to reprint a post from a couple of years ago where I turned the tables on Bora and interviewed him about science blogging, science and ScienceOnline....
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July 19, 2010
Category: blogging
The fallout of the Pepsigate scandal continues. Bora's recent relative blogging silence left me with a bad feeling, an ominous feeling. A feeling like the other shoe was about to drop. Well, it did. Bora is leaving ScienceBlogs. As with...
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July 16, 2010
Category: friday fun
So, it appears that Batman is on Twitter. From the newly renamed Blastr site, I give you a selection of Batman's 34 greatest tweets: Watch out criminal scum, I'm trying to kick caffeine again. And we all remembered what happened...
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