Comments on: Wrapping it up: Liblog Landscape 12

By: walt

walt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:31:01 +0000

Ah. Yes, I’ll definitely be at Midwinter (assuming good health and that Frontier keeps flying)–but no, I don’t sell the books directly under any circumstances. (Can’t, without changing my tax status and a bunch of other complications.) And, to be sure, I’ll be at Midwinter as an ALA member–not an exhibitor.

This book is steeply discounted until January 16–and two other books will go on discount (instead of going directly OP) at the turn of the year.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:02:56 +0000

Oh and I meant Midwinter, not annual. Oops.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:02:19 +0000

I was just wondering if you might be selling books during the weekend (at any kind of discount).

By: walt

walt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:21:25 +0000

Well, I’ve registered for it (via the two-conference early-bird special), so it’s extremely likely…barring unforeseen circumstances, which I’ve become aware is not just a silly addition.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:04:39 +0000

are you by chance going to be at ALA Annual?

By: walt

walt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:32:11 +0000

Blake: Thanks. Must have been a long day as I was finishing up the series of posts… (“Uncategorized” seems to uncheck itself as soon as you check anything else…when you’re first posting, that is.)

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:13:12 +0000

This was “Posted in Uncategorized”

By: walt

walt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:54:24 +0000

I don’t know enough about Muybridge to be troubled by either one. I suppose I’ll have to find out more…

Well, my books only deal with one very small but, I think, significant part of blogs as a whole–I’d say a little less than one-tenth of one percent: Blogs somehow connected to libraries and librarianship. And, for that matter, only the (roughly half?) portion that’s in English.

Personally, I don’t expect blogs to fade away any faster than email lists–although, as with email lists, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them become less and less the flavor of the day. Actually, I think the latter has already happened.

Wired’s run a piece saying that blogging is over; that augurs very well for the future of blogs as useful tools.

Whether I’ll be able to document things on an ongoing basis…well, I’d love to, but funding is a serious issue. I just can’t justify doing it on a serious ongoing basis, just for fun, while operating on a basis where earned income is less than our expense budget.

By: Kathleen de la Pena McCook

Kathleen de la Pena McCook — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:42:39 +0000

Clarification on Muybridge comparison, come to think of it…I meant the ecclectic observational capacity, not his personal life.

By: Kathleen de la Pena McCook

Kathleen de la Pena McCook — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:40:43 +0000

We’ve ordered it at South Florida. We even have 2 copies of _Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change_
I think maybe all this (blogs) may fade and that your books may document the movement. You always remind me of Eadweard Muybridge somehow.