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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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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Category: Cites & Insights
Do words have meanings--meanings that change slowly over time--or did that noted logician Charles L. Dodgson get it right when he had one of his more scholarly characters, H. Dumpty, assert that: When I use a word, it means just...
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