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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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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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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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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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The penultimate section of the July 2009 Cites & Insights is Trends & Quick Takes--another "occasional" feature, this one for little thoughts that are more substantive than the foolishness in My Back Pages but not substantive enough for their own...
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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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The third section of the July 2009 Cites & Insights is an installment of an occasional series, Interesting & Peculiar Products. When C&I began (in December 2000, as the ejournal continuation of a monthly print-newsletter section that ran from 1995...
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Long-time readers of Cites & Insights will know all this. Bibs & Blather is my alternate name for the ejournal itself--and may have made more sense when the ejournal (ezine?) was heavily composed of "Cites," that is, citations for various...
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The first major essay in Cites & Insights 9:8 carries forward a set of discussions that began in the April 2009 issue, Cites & Insights 9:5. Both essays are largely "masses of metablogging"--that is, blogging about blogging--with a healthy amount...
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