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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Recently I was looking at some of the searches that had brought visitors to ⌘f and noticed "if i was a librarian how would i search" was among them. this kind of clicked with something that's been rattling around my head the last few days about a couple of ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
I probably shouldn't bother, but I love to hate on American Libraries, the trade magazine of the American Library Association. In August's issue, I particularly enjoyed tearing into Adam Bennington's "Dissecting the Web through Wikipedia," in which the author entreats teaching librarians to have students analyze encyclopedia entries for bias ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
So I want to confess something about this paper I wrote in college.
See, I took this Constitutional Law class in the PoliSci department. We had to analyze a hypothetical Supreme Court case and write up a legal opinion just like we were Justices. For this class we used an actual ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
William Patry's announced on friday that he would be ending his blog; breaking my heart into tiny little pieces. In the public discourse about copyright issues in the US, Patry's voice has always been one of the clearest, most reasoned, erudite, passionate, and scholarly. Whenever some copyright related issue has ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
In my West-coast hidey hole, I missed all the hullabaloo about the new search engine Cuil's official launch this week. Everyone was talking, but no one was particularly impressed. The site was down. People didn't find what they expected. Pictures of the wrong things showed up in the right places. ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
So I'm really entranced by this idea I saw on this game design blog - books that you know in your bones are really about your thing, even though on the surface they claim to be about another thing --
I am building a list of the “secret” books on game ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
The amazing David Silver asked me to help spread the word about The September Project as September draws closer and closer. And I couldn't think of a better place to talk about it than here - because this project connects so closely to the things we've been talking and ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
As is my wont, I just happened to read two things that I think are talking about the same thing and it's a thing that I think is kind of important, so I'm going to talk about that thing a little bit more. I'm re-reading A Pedagogy for Liberation right ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
at the risk of becoming ⌘-f's arts and entertainment writer, i'm going to talk a bit more about music today. first, a story:
i have a friend who is a well-known musician, Kristin Hersh. i was riding in her minivan with her, her husband Billy, and two of her ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
So this has been bothering me for a while and I haven't been sure how to talk about it. It's the phrase "the best source." As in, "Google's great for some things but librarians can really teach you how to find the best source on your topic."
So I ...
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