Category Archives: Blogs

Wikipedia vs. Citizendium

In the Citizendium Blog, there is a very good, concise post detailing how Wikipedia and Citizendium compare and contrast. from Open Access News   

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My non-library blog reads

Through Karen Schneider’s blog, I have been pseudo-assigned to post 5 non-library blogs that I read. Here they are, in alphabetical order (hey, I work in a library… feel lucky I didn’t classify them via LC or Dewey): A List … Continue reading

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Library Cryptography

Kind of an interesting news story that, in the end, leads to a library-related conclusion. James Randi, the well-known challenger of psychics, has an item placed in a locker, and has offered a million dollars to the person who can … Continue reading

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The Machine is Using Us (final version)

When the draft version of this video was posted 6 weeks ago, it didn’t quite seem “library” enough at the time. Live and learn… the more I think about it, the more relevant it seems. The final version of Web … Continue reading

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Library of Congress Meetings

The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading

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New version, new look

Just updated WordPress, not only because of security issues with the previous version, but in anticipation of a software update on my web hosting service that could have created a problem. And so I decided to try installing a packaged … Continue reading

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Long Tail, Wise Crowd

You’ve heard of the Wisdom of Crowds; you’re familiar with the Long Tail (Wired Magazine article). If you aren’t, you need to do a bit of reading! This brief blog entry puts them together in an interesting way…. from TechEssence

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LibraryVideos blog

LibraryVideos blog is just what it sounds like:  a blog devoted to videos related to libraries. from BiblioTech Web

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