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News Flash: 3 in 4 Americans Read a Book in 2006!
I don’t think there’s anything to say about this story from Yahoo! News other than to suggest that it’s not good news for the future of the country: "One in four adults say that they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Tuesday. Of those who
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Bill Moyers Talks About Karl Rove
Today, I can limit my post to three words: "Moyers on Rove." Watch the video here. After you’ve absorbed that–and only after that–watch what Stephen Colbert has to say about Daily Kos, hate groups, and librarians here. (All right, that was 39 words, shoot me.)
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It’s The Little Things We’ll Miss Most
We’re officially beginning the migration of our catalog from a 13-year old in-house server whose performance can only be called "less than satisfactory"–I’d use stronger language considering what I’ve heard about the device’s past history both at the technical and political level, but I’ve only been here a couple of months (not even) and speaking
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The Open Library
Sure you have heard of it by now, haven’t you? You haven’t? All right then, read all about it here. And let me know what you think. (I’m still deciding how I fell about it.) (Thanks to Ian Fairclough for this tidbit.)
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What Price Unipolarity?
In the interest of making genuine news available to anyone who wants it, I came across this article a short time ago and have decided to link it here. It’s not so much that I believe every word that Putin says, so much as I despise censorship and I haven’t seen this stuff anywhere locally.
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Rushdie Still Driving Iran Nuts!
Whether it made political sense for the Queen to elevate Salman Rushdie to knighthood at this particular time or not, I do not know. In one sense, this is like throwing gasoline on a fire. I do know that he’s been making the Imams in Iran crazy for over 20 years, which from a writer’s
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Beware the Exaflood
This comes from Bruce Mehlman and Larry Irving writing for the Sacramento Bee: The exponential explosion of digital content on the Internet is striking. YouTube.com alone consumes as much bandwidth today as the entire Internet consumed in 2000. Users upload 65,000 new videos every day and download 100 million files daily, a 1,000 percent increase
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Are You a “One-Eyed King?”
There’s a maxim in life (the origin of which is in dispute) that you can never been too thin or too rich. In the world of IT, that maxim has a corollary: there is always someone out there who knows more (or less) about the subject than you do. And because there is so much
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Cuban Film Furor and Other News
It’s official: as of June 22, I will be leaving my post as the Digital Resources Librarian at the Academy to morph into the Technical Service Librarian at the Metropolitan College of New York. The move will involve more money, better hours (or more convenient hours, since my schedule must jibe with their vendors’, who
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Memorial Day History Lesson
I’ve been away for a bit and it’s been amazingly busy at the Academy library, but in response to stuff like this and bits like this , I feel that I must respond by posting links to the full text of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence (in that order). I chose