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I'm Walt Crawford, a long-time systems analyst/programmer and writer. This blog deals with the intersections of libraries, policy, technology and media. There's a related ejournal: Cites & Insights
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June 30, 2009
Category: Writing and blogging
It's time for a serious post. E.g., a careful analysis of patterns of spam attempts on a widely-read but essentially dormant blog. The blog in question is now entitled "Walt, Even Randomer" and combines four years' of Walt at Random...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 10:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Library Leadership Network
Here's another little post about the Library Leadership Network (LLN)--naturally suggesting that you might want to go look, but also thinking about how it develops and some of the recent content. Some weeks, most new content goes into existing articles....
Posted by Walt Crawford at 12:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2009
Category: Cites & Insights
In the past few days, one of the best libloggers called it quits: She explicitly said there won't be any more posts on that blog. By itself, while it's noteworthy, I probably wouldn't post about it. The writer isn't going...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 4:47 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2009
Category: Technology and software
When I wrote this post, I left out a whole second "trigger" because of time and energy. That trigger--once again, wondering whether my humanities background (rhetoric major, math minor) leaves me simply unable to cope with the true Scientific Mind--regarded...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 10:51 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2009
Category: Library Leadership Network
When the Library Leadership Network began, it was mostly about management--and much of the management literature uses terms leadership and management interchangeably. Over time, I've tried to distinguish the two. The standard shorthand for that distinction is, I think, a...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 12:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 21, 2009
Category: Liblog Landscape
Angel Rivera was kind enough, in commenting on my previous post, to say "Yes, what you do is information science." I wonder sometimes--both about the field called "information science" and about whether what I do fits within it. A snarky...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 8:59 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 19, 2009
Category: Speaking
Here I am on ScienceBlogs, thanks to the loose definition of "science" that lets in "information science" and the even looser definition of "information science" that includes whatever it is I do. And yesterday I found myself wondering whether I...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 3:36 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 15, 2009
Category: Library Leadership Network
It would be nice to say that the Library Leadership Network grows through advance planning and scheduled changes. It would also be nonsense. Sure, there's an overall plan (of sorts), but weekly changes tend to be opportunistic--articles grow and change...
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June 14, 2009
Category: Technology and software
I picked up a little buzz about Google software engineers planning to rework the guts of some major open-source software to make it run faster. Since it wasn't software I use, I didn't read enough to remember what software, but...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 8:06 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 13, 2009
Category: Cites & Insights
I'm not snarky by nature. Really I'm not. Or, well, I'm recognizing that pure snark rarely improves a situation, and trying to reduce the amount of it within the e-zine. I got rid of one running section that was always...
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