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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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July 17, 2009
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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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
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...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 7:55 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 6, 2009
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...
Posted by Walt Crawford at 7:21 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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
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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