Good Copy Bad Copy: very good documentary
Tue 19 Jun 2007, 4:03 pm
“Good Copy Bad Copy” is a fascinating documentary, free to download, on copyright and creativity worldwide.
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Archive for June, 2007
Inside Higher Ed :: A Provost and Librarian Walk Into a Meeting…
"it’s becoming less important for librarians to brag in meetings with provosts about the number of books and periodicals they have in their collection, and more important to emphasize how they are helping students with information literacy"
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Chronicles of Bean: PAR-TIC-I-PA-TION, or 37 pieces of Library Flair!
Very good post on ALA, with an even better photo–my favorite that I have seen from this ALA. Where did she get all those ribbons?
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Lawrence Lessig–Required Reading: the next 10 years
Lessig moving away from his focus on copyright, intending now to focus on government corruption.
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The Siren Song of the Internet: Part II – Britannica Blog
The best part of this whole stupid Gorman thing yet: in a blog post on shoddy research, he misquotes Jimmy Wales based on a printed source. And has to apologize. The irony! The laughs! The sheer idiocy of this whole exercise!
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Goodbye diglet
Mon 18 Jun 2007, 4:55 pm
My first blog–on its third or fourth owner–calls it quits.
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Bloomsday
Sun 17 Jun 2007, 2:38 pm
I missed Bloomsday, so let’s watch Muppets sing “Danny Boy” instead.
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Lolcatvertisements
Thu 14 Jun 2007, 10:03 am
Time for lolcats in advertising? Before lolcats there was “in ur base.” Presenting an ad Tutt Library ran in the student paper late last year.
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Another pointless response to Gorman
Tue 12 Jun 2007, 10:09 pm
When I logged in to the Library Society of the World room today, people were talking about Michael Gorman’s blog posts. I thought I had logged into an alternate dimension by mistake. But no, wonder of wonders, Michael “Revenge of the Blog People” Gorman is blogging: Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I and [...]
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Jonathan Lethem, Richard Posner, and others reveal their favorite fonts. – - Slate Magazine
Slate asks authors about the fonts they write in. I’m down with the Courier people (unfussy, easy to read on the screen, typos seem to stand out more). I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono in my text editor for the same reasons. (thx Jessy)
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BIGWIG Social Software Showcase
Fri 8 Jun 2007, 3:37 pm
The BIGWIG Social Software Showcase at ALA this year looks like a winner. Won’t it be cool when people use this stuff more for non-tech purposes?
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Enemies of Books! | MetaFilter
A link to "Librarians as Enemies of Books" by Randolph G. Adams, Library Quarterly 7 (1937): 317-331, plus the usual commentary and banter from MetaFilter.
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LOLIndex
Wed 6 Jun 2007, 4:24 pm
Some funny stuff I found in the index of David Weinberger’s book Everything is Miscellaneous, plus a brief reaction to the book in general.
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Colorado Academic Library Summit 2007
Mon 4 Jun 2007, 3:00 pm
Fellow Library Society of the World denizens know that I spent much of last week fussing over a presentation to the Colorado Academic Library Summit. I enlisted their/your help a few times, and am grateful for the help. I hope that I was the first person to thank the LSW in a conference handout! The [...]
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Some personal stuff
Mon 4 Jun 2007, 2:01 pm
A few random non-library notes.
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Turn any feed into an LOLcats feed. So wonderfully pointless and silly.
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