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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
Category: faculty liaison
I'm doing a short presentation tomorrow on blogging for researchers as part of a day-long communications workshop for faculty here at York. And since a few months back I created a reading list for a social media presentation for grad...
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Category: acad lib future
I've long been a believer in the power of blogs to drive and aggregate conversations at every level. Frivolous, for sure. But also serious and scholarly. The rise of science blogs over the last few years has certainly demonstrated that....
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Category: blogging
What with the latest round of departures seemingly immanent with the new "no pseudonymous bloggers" policy, I thought I'd revisit the list I did last year at about this time. With a few exceptions, I'll call blogs dormant if there...
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Category: blogging
According to DrugMonkey's recent post, ScienceBlogs' new overlords The National Geogrpaphic Society will no longer allow pseudonymous to continue blogging here. I have just been informed that ScienceBlogs will no longer be hosting anonymous or pseudonymous bloggers. In case you...
Posted by John Dupuis at 10:34 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: blogging
I usually don't feature too many Cracked posts here because, well, they can tend to be a little on the NSFW for a family blog like this one. But this one is very funny and very true. Fortunately, I don't...
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Category: acad lib future
My previous post was about Brian Mathews moving his blog to the Chronicle, a non-librarian blog network. So for this post I thought I'd list all the academic and research librarians I know of that are embedded in non-library blogging...
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Category: academia
As I have in the past, I'd like to point out a librarian embedded in a faculty-focused blogging network. Brian Mathews recently moved his blog, The Ubiquitous Librarian, to the Chronicle Blog Network run by, you guessed it, The Chronicle...
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Category: acad lib future
I chose this one more for the humourous title of the post since the content itself is very seriously intentioned. I almost see this as a double sequel to both the social media evilness post and to some of my...
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Category: academia
Yet another science blogging community. The more the merrier. We've had another quiet period in the science blogging universe these last couple of months. It seems that the rapid evolution that kicked off with the founding of Scientopia in the...
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Category: acad lib future
Sometimes two posts just collide in my brain. I thought I'd share a recent case of this phenomenon. First up, marketing/PR/social media Rock Star Mitch Joel on taking the best advantage of the inherent evilness of social networks like Twitter...
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