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July 17, 2009

Great customer service redux

Category: Movies and TV

Some of you may remember back in May 2008 when I discussed the unexpectedly good customer service provided by Mill Creek Entertainment, the company busily mining public domain (and otherwise minimal-license) flicks and TV flicks to create really inexpensive bundles...

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What did you learn at ALA?

Category: ALA

More of you attended this year's ALA Annual Conference than ever before. If the programs I attended (and I attended more programs than usual) and the crowds I saw in exhibits are any indication, you were active at the conference,...

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July 15, 2009

Not dead yet, not really back yet

Category: ALA

I don't usually go nine days between posts, but... You can blame ALA Annual 2009 in Chicago for most of that. I (still) travel without technology, so no blogging from ALA--and also no keeping up with blogs, FriendFeed, etc. (but...

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July 6, 2009

Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock

Category: Copyright

A couple of days ago, on Walt, Even Randomer, I posted a set of desultory reviews of the fourth and final DVD of Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins. Sidebar: One eccentric feature of this blog used to be the "treadmill...

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Hemispheres, triumphalism and xCamps

Category: Library Leadership Network

Say what? I don't believe the three words are directly related--but they all play into changes in articles in the Library Leadership Network over the past week. It's been one of those weeks where everything's a change in existing pages...

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July 5, 2009

Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) available

Category: Cites & Insights

Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) is now available--just in time for the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. That's not a coincidence, to be sure; although the issue may not be directly relevant to the conference, if I didn't publish it...

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July 4, 2009

The fine print and grading on the curve

Category: Stuff

I was reading the July 2009 Consumer Reports (as usual, I'm about a month behind on magazines) and reached a set of ratings for chain restaurants. Read the commentary and the neat little sidebar where trained tasters compared oversized New...

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