A quick note about the archives
Most, but not all, of the archives for the original version of this blog now appear here. I omitted old movie reviews, cruise line commentaries, and a handful of “temporal posts”–ones that really have...
View ArticleThinking about Blogging 2: Why We Blog
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...
View ArticleCulture clashes II: PDF, XML and what’s in it for me?
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...
View ArticleFading away? (More metablogging)
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....
View ArticleThe dynamics of spam on a semi-dormant blog
It’s time for a serious post. E.g., a careful analysis of patterns of spam attempts on a widely-read but essentially dormant blog. The blog in question is now entitled “Walt, Even Randomer” and...
View ArticleNot dead yet, not really back yet
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...
View ArticleThe last post (and a little oops)
I posted what was to be the last post on this blog yesterday. This morning, in clearing out archives (of stuff that originally appeared on the original site), I accidentally cleared out the most recent...
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