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March
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Gold/Diamond Scan, Week Thirteen
Gold/Diamond Scan, Week Eleven
Gold/Diamond Scan, Week Ten
Is the Gold/Diamond Scan Ahead of Schedule?
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan, Week Nine
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February
(6)
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan, Week Eight
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan: Halfway Point
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan, Week Seven
GOA8 and Diamond 23 through February 16, 2024
Gold/Diamond OA Journal Scan, Week Six
Gold/Diamond OA Journal Scan, Week Five
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January
(4)
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan, Week Four
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan, Week 3
Gold/Diamond Journal Scan, Week 2
GOA9 Journal Scan, Week 1
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2023
(57)
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December
(4)
Final pre-goa9 post: 20,294
Want to follow Gold Open Access 2024 progress closely?
Gold OA 2024/Diamond OA 2024: Status and plans update
GOA8 and Diamond 2023: Through December 9, 2023
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November
(1)
Cites & Insights: Use it or lose it?
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October
(1)
Retiring the Kindle Fire
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September
(3)
Status notes on Gold OA 2024/Diamond OA 2024
Toward Gold Open Access 2024/Diamond OA 2024: refreshing subjects and support
GOA8 and Diamond OA 2023: Through September 3
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August
(6)
Brief reminiscence
GOA[9] Refresh: The First 14,000
American Graffiti 50 Years Later
Toward GOA9/Diamond OA 2024
A few words about N.K. Jemisin
GOA8 and Diamond OA 2023: Stats as of August 1, 2023
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July
(7)
How high the fi?
A Few Quick Reading Notes
What's so terrible about introversion?
Artificial "Intelligence" and the Zeroth Law of Robotics
GOA9/Diamond OA 2024: Path forward
Reminder: I need feedback by Friday, July 7 if possible
Gold Open Access stats for July 2, 2023
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June
(7)
Refining GOA 3: How many years?
Refining GOA (DOA) 2: Source/Funding
Refining GOA 1: Subjects
Diamond OA 2023 is now available
Gold Open Access: stats for June 15, 2023
Bandwidth of a 747
Minor update to GOA8
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May
(4)
Gold Open Access 8 is now available
GOA8: Progress Report and Prediction
GOA8: Last report, phase 1
GOA8: Brief progress report
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April
(8)
GOA8: Week 17
GOA8: Some data questions and a progress report
GOA8: Week 16
GOA8: Week 15.5, end of first pass
GOA8: Week 15
GOAJ stats: April 10, slightly incomplete
GOA8: Week 14
GOA8: Week 13
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March
(5)
Diamond OA 2023: The Landscape of No-Fee Open Access
GOA8: Week 12
GOA8: Week Eleven
GOA8: Week Ten
GOA8: Week Nine
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February
(6)
GOA8: Week Eight
GOA8: Special halfway-point milestone
GOA8: Week Seven
GOA8: Week Six
GOA8: New direction on countries?
GOA8: Week 5
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January
(5)
GOA8: Week 4
GOA8: Week 3
GOA8: Week 2
GOA8: Week 1
GOA8 progress posts mostly on Mastodon
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2022
(36)
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December
(8)
GOA8: Final download and starting point
GOA8: Third download
GOA8: Second download and datachecks
GOA8: first download, completed
GOA8: First download, part 2
GOA8: First download, part 1
Raising Steam
GOA7: December 2, 2022 stats
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November
(7)
GOA8: Addendum/change to decisions and schedule
GOA8: Decisions and preliminary schedule
The Absolute Bose: down to earth
The Absolute Bose 3: How much?
The Absolute Bose 2: purple prose, cheerleading and plausibility
The Absolute Bose: a silly non-political essay (or two)
GOA7: November 2, 2022 stats
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October
(2)
GOA8: Two questions that need feedback
GOA7: October 10, 2022 stats and a question
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September
(2)
GOA: Seven years of fee/cost increases
GOA7: September 8, 2021 stats--and a note on GOA8
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August
(2)
Should there be a Gold Open Access 8?
GOA7: August 3 statistics update
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July
(1)
GOA7: Usage Statistics
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June
(2)
Gold Open Access by Country 2016-2021 is out
Doing another project this year?
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May
(5)
GOA7: It's out!
Gold Open Access by Country: two quick questions
GOA6: Usage Update
GOA7: Quick update
GOA7: Preliminary baseline
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April
(2)
GOA7 Pass 2: Updating
GOA7: First pass complete
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March
(1)
GOA7: Three-quarters progress report
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February
(1)
GOA7: First half
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January
(3)
GOA7: Progress Report, First Quarter
GOA6: Usage through 1/5/22
GOA7: a few notes
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2021
(27)
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December
(4)
GOA7: A note on currency fluctuation
Gold Open Access 7: changes from GOA6
Gold open access: some trends
GOA6: Update
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November
(3)
NHT: An antidote to NFTs?
GOA6: October 2021 belated report
Possible changes in GOA7 (if it happens)
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October
(1)
GOA6: September 2021 Report
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September
(1)
GOA6: August 2021 report
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August
(1)
GOA6: July 2021 report
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July
(2)
Country supplement for GOA6 is out
GOA6: June 2021 status report
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June
(1)
Gold Open Access 2015-2020 (GOA6) is out
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May
(3)
GOA6: Data gathering complete
GOA6: Second part of second pass
GOA6: First part of second pass
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April
(2)
GOA6: First pass completed
GOA6: Ninth Update
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March
(4)
GOA6: Update 8
Angry?
GOA6: Seventh note
GOA6: Sixth Report
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February
(2)
Gold Open Access 6: Halfway Mark
GOA6: Progress Report 4
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January
(3)
Gold Open Access 6: Progress Report 3
Gold Open Access 6: Progress Report 2
Gold Open Access 6: Progress Report 1
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2020
(41)
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December
(3)
Gold Open Access 6: Early Notes
Cites & Insights Annual Volumes now $20 each
GOAJ5: November 2020 report
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November
(2)
Audiophile prices, 2020 edition
Gold Open Access 5: October 2020 report
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October
(3)
There will be a GOA6
$peaker$ and cable$: a fun post
Gold Open Access 5: September 2020 report
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September
(2)
New and good study on "predatory" journals
Gold Open Access, August 2020
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August
(1)
Gold Open Access: July 2020 report
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July
(2)
Gold Open Access by Country 2014-2019 available
GOA5: June 2020 report
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June
(3)
The Stranger in the Mirror: A mini-memoir during the pandemic
Gold Open Access 2014-2019 (GOA5) available
GOA4: May 2020 post (and GOA5 update)
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May
(2)
GOA5: Status and Questions
GOA: April 2020 update
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April
(3)
GOA5: All problematic journals
GOA: Brief notes on journals 12,001-13,000
GOA: March 2020 update
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March
(7)
GOA: Problematic journals from first 12,000
GOA5: Journals 11,001-12,000 brief notes
GOA: brief notes on journals 10,001-11,000
GOA and life: a quick update
GOA5: Journals 9,001-10,000 and malware
Notes on journals 6,001-9,000
GOA: February 2020 update
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February
(4)
Notes on journals 6,001-8,000
Notes on journals 6,001-7,000
A few notes on the first 6,000
A few (more) notes on the first 5,000
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January
(9)
GOA4: January 2020 update
A few notes on the first 4,000
Gold Open Access 2014-2019: Announcement and a Question
Trouble finding Cites & Insights?
A few notes on the first 3,000
If you're looking for C&I..
A few notes on the first 2,000
Paperback version of C&I 19 now available
A few notes on the first 1000
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2019
(39)
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December
(5)
An unfond farewell to 2019
GOA4: December 2019 update
Cites & Insights Final Issue (19:9) available
Cites & Insights 19:8 (December 2019) available
Warriors Classic 50 Movies, Disc 6
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November
(1)
Final two issues of C&I delayed, future uncertain
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October
(3)
GOA4: October 2019 Update
Cites & Insights 19.7 (November 2019) available
Cites & Insights 19:6 (October 2019) available
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September
(4)
GOA4: September 2019 Update
Mystery Collection Disc 51
Cites & Insights 19:5 (September 2019) available
Classic 50 Movie Warriors, Disc 5
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August
(3)
GOA4: August 2019 update
Cites & Insights 19:4 (August 2019) Available
If you have to ask...
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July
(3)
GOA4: July 2019 update
Mystery Collection Disc 49
Cites & Insights 19:3 (July 2019) available
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June
(3)
GOA4: June Update
Cites & Insights June 2019 (19:2) available
Gold Open Access Subject/Publisher Profiles Available
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May
(3)
GOA4: May 2019 Update
Gold Open Access by Country 2013-2018 now available
Gold Open Access 2013-2018 now available
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April
(2)
GOAJ3: April 2019 update
Good news on OA journal malware!
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March
(4)
GOAJ3: March 2019 update
Gold Open Access Journals 4: Possible changes
GOAJ4: Malware and other issues, part 3 [final]
GOAJ4: Malware and other issues, part 2
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February
(2)
GOAJ3: February 2019 update
OA and Malware: A halfway post
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January
(6)
GOAJ: January 2019 figures
Malware in Gold Open Access Journals, 2018--Part 4: Brazil
Malware in Gold Open Access Journals 2018: Part 3, Romania
Malware in Gold Open Access Journals 2018: Part 2, Malaysia
Malware in Gold Open Access Journals 2018: Part 1, Indonesia
GOAJ4: Starting the Deep Dive
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2018
(51)
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December
(7)
C&I readership in 2018
GOAJ3: December 2018 report
Diminished Online Presence in Early 2019
Cites & Insights 19:1 available
I've written way too much on OA...
Cites & Insights volume 18 available in paperback
Visibility: One last time
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November
(5)
GOAJ3: November 2018 report
Cites & Insights 18:9 (December 2018) available
Possible temporary outage at Cites & Insights
Visibility: The remaining GOAJ4 question
Toward GOAJ4: Some questions resolved, one still open
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October
(5)
GOAJ3: October 2018 report
Cites & Insights 18:8 (November 2018) available
Paywall: The Movie--not a review
How Open should I be?
Cites & Insights 18:7 (October 2018) available
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September
(2)
GOAJ3: September 2018 report
Cites & Insights 18:6 (September 2018) available
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August
(2)
GOAJ3: August 2018 report
Articles more precious than gold?
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July
(5)
GOAJ3: July report
Cites & Insights 18:5 (August 2018) available
50 Classic Movie Warriors, Disc 4
An update: Why I'm still less engaged, and likely to be
Mystery Collection Disc 50
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June
(7)
GOAJ3: June post
20% Sale on GOAJ3, Countries, and more
Stone fruit season
Cites & Insights 18.4 now out--Subject Supplement to GOAJ3
Gold Open Access Journals by Country 2012-2017
Oops: Figshare dataset renamed
Cites & Insights 18:3 (June 2018) available
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May
(4)
GOAJ2 May update and GOAJ3 First report
GOAJ3: Gold Open Access Journals 2012-2017
If I'm more absent than usual in late June/early July...
The biggest no-fee OA publishers?
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April
(2)
GOAJ2: April 2018 update
Cites & Insights 18:2 (April 2018) available
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March
(3)
GOAJ2: March 2018 update
Malware in OA
Cites & Insights: unclear when
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February
(5)
GOAJ2: February update
More OA malware, 2/3 of the way through
The Romania malware situation and a brief "halfway" report
Indonesia OA: Can you help with a malware problem?
GOAJ3: Third note
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January
(4)
GOAJ2: January update
GOAJ3: Second note
The requiem that isn't
GOAJ3: First piece of the marathon
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2017
(51)
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December
(4)
GOAJ2: December 2017 update
Cites & Insights 18:1 (January 2018) available
Saying goodbye: another OFP
Cites & Insights 17 (2017) now available as paperback--and a brief sale
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November
(5)
GOAJ2: November 2017 update
Belief, sex and all that
Priorities: Why C&I may not appear in December
50 Classic Movie Warriors, Disc 3
Cites & Insights 17.10 (November 2017) available
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October
(4)
GOAJ2: October 2017 update
Getting it wrong--to your own disadvantage
Cites & Insights October 2017 available: Gray OA 2014-2017
Audio/music (an OFP)
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September
(3)
GOAJ2: September 2017 update
Coffee (an OFP)
Cites & Insights: September 2017 issue (17:8) available
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August
(2)
GOAJ2: August update
The nerve of that guy!
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July
(4)
GOAJ2: July update
Cites & Insights 17.7 (August 2017) available
Mystery Collection Disc 48
Cites & Insights 17:6 (July 2017) available
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June
(8)
GOAJ2: June update
How many times?
Dear Martin...
50 Classic Features Warriors, Disc 2
Cites & Insights 17.5 available: GOAJ Subject Supplement
Now! with HTTPS (but not fully secure yet)
GOAJ2: Slow start
The Countries of OAWorld 2: 2011-2016 now available
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May
(4)
My travel magazine grumpiness: An example
Cites & Insights 17:4 (May 2017) available
GOAJ2: Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2016
Mystery Collection Disc 47
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April
(4)
GOAJ: April 2017 update
Notes on comments
Cites & Insights 17:3 (April 2017) available
The Problems with Shen/Björk’s “420,000”
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March
(3)
GOAJ: March update
Cites & Impasse: feedback desired
GOAJ16: A pause in the process
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February
(2)
GOAJ: February 2017 update
Halfway through: a quick note on GOAJ16
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January
(8)
Gold Open Access Journals: January update
Missing those lists? Never fear...
All times are UTC
All of Gold OA?
Moved, left no forwarding address? Bentham open
A pence for your thoughts
Cites & Insights 17:2 (February 2017) available
Last year in books read
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2016
(59)
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December
(9)
Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: December update
Cites & Insights now CC BY
A few more notes on the "Big Three"
Science fiction magazines: the "big three" all 6 BIG issues a year
*British* libraries [may be] dying/in decline
Hybrid OA: 2-3% of gold OA?
Cites & Insights v. 16 available as paperback--and a sale!
Adding a new category for W.a.R. posts
Cites & Insights Number 200 available
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November
(3)
Gold Open Access 2011-2015: November update
If you can't get to Cites & Insights...
Cites & Insights Nov/Dec 2016 (16:9) available
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October
(2)
Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: October update
Gray OA and C&I - a quick "progress" report
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September
(4)
Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: September update
Gray at 700: Getting Past the Monster
Cites & Insights 16:8 available
Gray OA: Another snapshot
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August
(4)
Gold Open Access Journals: August summary
The new Mikado
Gray OA: Going Beyond DOAJ?
How terribly strange...
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July
(6)
GOAJ: July summary
Cites & Insights 16:7 (August 2016) available
On Speaking Appearances and Travel
The Man Time Forgot: a semi-contrarian semi-review
The Countries of OAWorld 2011-2015: out now
Psst...Countries of OAWorld is out, sort of
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June
(9)
Gold Open Access Journals: end of June wrapup
Cites & Insights 16:6 (July 2016) available
Countries of OAWorld: an update and question
GOAJ Growth & Shrinkage: label problem found and corrected
GOAJ: A Subject Approach (and an update)
GOAJ: smaller PDF
Gold Open Access Journals: one week in
Really? Shameful but not surprising
Cites & Insights June 2016 available
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May
(5)
Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: it's here.
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: half off
The DOAJ Cuts: Preliminary notes on Africa
DOAJ cuts by publisher: partial preliminary list
The cuts to DOAJ: A few preliminary notes
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April
(3)
Cites & Insights 16:4 (May 2016) now available
Ideas for Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: Second Call
Warriors Classic 50 Movies, Disc 1
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March
(7)
Recovery: a short, slow post
The Great Paskins Mystery
Making the case (a follow-up post)
In partial defense of Jeffrey Beall
Cites & Insights 16:3 (April 2016) available
Why Anonymize?
Changes for the Better?
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February
(2)
Gold OA Journals 2011-2015: Grade Changes and an Update
Not quite gone: a short catchall post
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January
(5)
“Trust Me”: The Other Problem with 87% of Beall’s Lists
Gold Open Access Journals 2011-2015: A SPARC Project
Dataset for The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014 now available
"Trust me": The Apparent Case for 90% of Beall's List Additions
Cites & Insights 16:2 (February-March 2016) available
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2015
(129)
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December
(7)
The semi-obligatory "I Still Read Books" post
Something positive for the holidays: A shout-out to OfficeDepot/OfficeMax
It's not just (some) librarians who seem professionally suicidal
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: additional info
Mystery Collection, Disc 46
Cites & Insights 16:1 (January 2016) available
Why you should buy The Gold OA Landscape, for various values of "you."
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November
(15)
One-third of the way there!
One sale gone, another started: 25%
Five thousand pages!
Cites & Insights Annual, Two-Day Sale and a Non-Update
Lagniappe: The Rationales, Once Over Easy
PPPPredatory Article Counts: An Investigation Part 3
PPPPredatory Article Counts: An Investigation Part 2
PPPPredatory Article Counts: An Investigation, Part 1
Gunslinger Classics Disc 12
Double digits!
Linguistics, OA, $430 and $1,400--and a bit about The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014
Why I'm not joining AAAS (a silly little post)
Cites & Insights 15 now available in paperback
As close as I'll get to NaNoWriMo
Cites & Insights 15:11 (December 2015) available
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October
(15)
Gold OA: the basis for going on (2 of 2)
Gold OA: The basis for going on (1 of 2)
Gold OA: How many no-fee articles?
30% sale extended through October 26
Save $18 on The Gold OA Landscape, through 10/26: OCTFLASH30
You're a PPPPredator! You're a PPPPredator! You're ALL PPPPredators!
The Gold OA Landscape: quick update
Frontiers: Get the numbers right
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: Medicine
This should not be my fight
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: a brief note on numbers
Cites & Insights 15:10 (November 2015) available
Careful reading and questionable extrapolation
Mystery Collection Disc 45
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: malware and some side notes
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September
(20)
How many articles, how many journals?
The Gold OA Landscape and Outsell’s Open Access 2015
pubs_since_1994.htm finally up
Reading the way you prefer
TGOL approved for global distribution
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: Agriculture and Update 2
The Lords of the Universe Don't Worry About Carbon Footprints...
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: This one’s not in the book
Sometimes there is a little progress
Personalized ads: An odd incident
The Gold OA Landscape and Cites & Insights 15:9 - Update 1
The Gold OA Landscape: Are facts irrelevant?
The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014 PDF now explicitly site-licensed
Gunslinger Classics Disc 11
Cites & Insights 15:9 (October 2015) out
The Gold OA Landscape in paperback--and a 20% sale!
The Open Access Landscape: 29. Zoology
The Gold OA Landscape, 2011-2014: PDF ebook available now
It's out: Open-Access Journals: Idealism and Opportunism
The Open Access Landscape: 28. Technology
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August
(11)
Stretching irony
The Open Access Landscape: 27. Sociology
Did any other radio station do a signature song this good?
The Open Access Landscape: 26. Religion
One quick serious question re journals with possible malware
OA journals: Definitions and motivations
72% and 41%: A Gold OA 2011-2014 preview
The Open Access Landscape: 25. Psychology
August-September Cites & Insights (15:8) available
The Open Access Landscape: 24. Political Science
"Right now, I'm all right."
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July
(9)
The Open Access Landscape: 23. Physics
The (Fuller) OA Landscape: Clarifications and Deadlines
The Open Access Landscape: 22. Philosophy
The Open Access Landscape: 21. Other Sciences
The Perils of Projection
The Open Access Landscape: 20. Megajournals and Miscellany
Halfway There: Another (Fuller) OA Analysis Update
Czechlists: A bit of humor and a non-update
The Open Access Landscape: 19. Medicine
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June
(9)
The Open Access Landscape: 18. Media & Communications
Great advice (if possibly translated clumsily)
The (Fuller) Open Access Landscape, Progress Report 2
Not giving up on OA just yet, but...
The Open Access Landscape: 17. Mathematics
The Open Access Landscape: 16. Library Science
The (Fuller) Open Access Landscape: Progress Report 1
The Open Access Landscape: 15. Law
Cites & Insights 15:7 (July 2015) available
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May
(12)
The Open Access Landscape: 14. Language & Literature
Looking for the right PDF tool
A "staycation" of sorts
The Open Access Landscape: 13. History
The OA Landscape in summary form: Act now!
OA articles involving APCs: More complete 2014 table
The Open Access Landscape: 12. Engineering
The Open Access Landscape: 11. Education
Percentage of OA articles involving APCs
The Phantom AcroRd Problem
Cites & Insights 15:6 (June 2015) available
The Open Access Landscape: 10. Economics
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April
(13)
Supporting OA research & Cites & Insights: another path
Feedback needed now: The Open Access Landscape
The Open Access Landscape: 9. Ecology
A little egocheck with Google Scholar
On speaking: a few current notes
The Open Access Landscape: 8. Earth Sciences
Library Technology Reports and access
The Open Access Landscape 2011-14: Status and possibilities
Misleading graphs: an anecdote
The Open Access Landscape: 7. Computer Science
Cites & Insights 15:5 (May 2015) available
The Open Access Landscape: 6. Chemistry
Ten Years of W.a.R.
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March
(10)
The Open Access Landscape: 5. Biology
Mystery Classics Disc 44
FriendFeed: Wouldn't it be loverly...
The Open Access Landscape: 4. Arts & Architecture
The Open Access Landscape: 3. Anthropology
The Open Access Landscape: 2. Agriculture
A few offhand words about The Open Access Landscape
The Open Access Landscape: 1. Background
Open Access articles in Cites & Insights
Cites & Insights 15:4 (April 2015) Available
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February
(3)
Visual discrimination test
Open Access Journals: New Grade Summary
Cites & Insights 15:3 (March 2015) available
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January
(5)
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics Disc 10
Suspension of disbelief and the Earth problem
Mystery Collection Disc 43
Corrections for December and January Cites & Insights
Cites & Insights 15.2 (February 2015) available
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2014
(72)
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December
(6)
The books of 2014
Do we need OA megajournals in humanities & social sciences?
Yes, I'm a feminist
Two weeks in: a quick update
Going for the Gold: OA Journals in 2014: any interest?
Cites & Insights 15:1 (January 2015) available
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November
(5)
Announcing C&I Volume 14, the paperback version (with bonuses!)
About that partial essay...
At least one typo...
The Size of the Open Access Market (and an admission)
Cites & Insights 14:11 (December 2014) available
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October
(1)
Cites & Insights 14:10 (October/November 2014) available
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September
(2)
C&I and The Project: A quick update
Open Data, Crowdsourcing, Independent Research and Misgivings
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August
(7)
Graphic honesty
Correction in Cites & Insights 14:9
Cites & Insights 14:9 (September 2014) available
More on the damage done
Clarifications
Another meaningless musical post
Natureally, I'm delighted
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July
(3)
Cites & Insights 14:8 (August 2014) available
The Final Economist
liberation management: a non-review
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June
(9)
Thinking About Effectiveness
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics Disc 9
Songs and arrangements, 1
Helpful hint for indoor cat owners
Big Blues: a book review (of sorts)
Which new would-be journals are worth helping out?
Slice of life post
Library philosophy: the essay(s) that won't be written
Cites & Insights July 2014 (14:7) available
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May
(5)
Cites & Insights 14:6 (June 2014) available
Mystery Collection Disc 42
Triple digits!
Academic library circulation always down
Not ready and other notes
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April
(4)
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics, Disc 8
Links not working in 2014 Cites & Insights issues
Cites & Insights 14:5 (May 2014) available
Starting a tenth year of randomness
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March
(9)
Thanks, a reminder and a clarification
Temporary oops
NAQ on me and public library research
Last chance for public libraries*
The steakhouse blog
Appreciation
Popularity?
A deadline and an apology of sorts
Cites & Insights 14:4 (April 2014) available
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February
(5)
To go or not to go...
C&I sponsorship: Reminder and progress report
Some days you gotta dance
Mystery Collection Disc 41
Cites & Insights March 2014 (14:3) available
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January
(16)
Hello goodbye
Making Book S16: The Big Deal and the Damage Done
Making Book S15: The inCompleat Give Us a Dollar…
Favoring the ALA Statement of Appropriate Conduct
Making Book S14: Your Library Is…
Making Book S13: $4 to $1…
Making Book S12: Graphing Public Library Benefits
Making Book S11: Give Us a Dollar…Oregon/Washington Edition
Toward 15 and 200: Your help wanted
Making Book S10. Give Us a Dollar and We’ll Give You Back Four (2012-13)
Codes and levels
Making Book S9: Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics Disc 7
Getting it wrong
Cites & Insights February 2014 (14:2) available
A year's reading
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2013
(244)
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December
(20)
The secret decoder ring guide to ALA dues
Making Book S8: The Liblog Landscape, 2007-2010
Making Book S7: Open Access and Libraries
Making Book S6: disContent, The Complete Collection
Big discount on Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing
Freedom of speech
Making Book S5: But Still They Blog
Making Book S4. The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008
Making Book S3. Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples
Making Book S2: Public Library Blogs, 252 Examples
Making Book S1. Balanced Libraries
Commenting: The new default is off
Open access, advocacy, extremism and attention: A casual note
Making Book 18. Successful Social Networking in Libraries
Making Book 17. The Librarian’s Guide to Micropublishing
30% off Cites & Insights Books--through 12/9
Mystery Collection Disc 40
Making Book 16: Open Access
Making Book 15: Policy and Library Technology
Cites & Insights 14.1 (January 2014) available
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November
(22)
Making Book 14. First Have Something to Say
Because anecdata
Making Book 13: Being Analog
Making Book 12: Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality
Making Book 11: The Catalog Collection
Walking half a mile to school
Making Book 10. The Online Catalog Book
Making Book 9: Technical Standards, Second Edition
Making Book 8: Desktop Publishing for Librarians
This one looks better than I expected
Making Book 7: Marc for Library Use, Second Edition
The Big Deal: More widely available--and a discount
Making Book 6: Current Technologies in the Library
The Big Deal and the Damage Done: Quick note
Making Book 5: Patron Access: Issues for Online Catalogs
Self-Publishing Reality Check 8
Making Book 4. Bibliographic Displays in the Online Catalog
Making Book 3: Common Sense Personal Computing
Maybe I should write something about OA
Cites & Insights 13 (2013) - annual print edition available
Thanks!
Cites & Insights 13:12 (December 2013) available
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October
(18)
Making Book 2: Technical Standards
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics, Disc 6
Clarification
Making Book 1: MARC for Library Use
A hi-def "tragedy" in four short acts
How many years ago did downloaded music pass physical purchases?
How Not to Be the Expert
Quick update on deadlines and books
Self-publishing reality check: A slight correction
The strongest correlation between circulation and spending
Mostly numbers: Help needed
Speaking professionally--or not
$4 to $1: Two Timely Announcements
Mystery Collection Disc 39
The smallest, the largest and in between: Library sayings
IndieGoGo and non-sales: An oddity
Liblogging books now out of print
Cites & Insights 13:11 (November 2013) available
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September
(19)
Breaking Dexter's Wire: No spoilers here
Erewhon Community Library: A $4 to $1 Example
C&I article links: Worth the trouble?
Cites & Insights Annuals: A new page
Self-publishing Reality Check 3
Dear Fed: Why do you hate us (and other savers) so much?
The most complete story, 2010: Compleat Give Us..., an FAQ
What public libraries say about themselves: Your Library Is..., an FAQ
The public library benefit scene in 2010: inCompleat Give Us, an FAQ
I do not live in Cali
68 by 68?
Public library spending and benefits: $4 to $1, an FAQ
Academic library spending problems: The Big Deal, an FAQ
Gunslinger 50 Movie Pack Disc 5
Silence, partial or full
Self-publishing reality check 1
Sorry.
Cites & Insights October 2013 (13:10) available
Library Publishing Toolkit (and more)
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August
(10)
Weeding the bookstore: Details on C&I Books
Thanks again--and a status report
Your Library Is... : A Collection of Public Library Sayings
$4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets--Now available
Cleanup
Mystery Collection Disc 38
$4 to $1 and related: Progress report
Failed.
Go read this.
The Compleat Give Us a Dollar...ready now
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July
(13)
The inCompleat Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four
Two ebooks about to disappear
Night Sweats: A hard-hitting review
What am I missing about 2.5-buck Chuck?
Cites & Insights 13:9 (September 2013) available--special issue
$4 to $1: An FAQ of Sorts
$4 to $1: Why not just use a publisher?
An indescribable followup
$4 to $1: Public Library Benefits and Budgets--help make it work
Raining on parades
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics Disc 4
Bing problem (apparently) fixed--for the record
Cites & Insights 13:8 (August 2013) available
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June
(32)
The mystery of spreadsheet sizes
Ebooks are only leased, not sold? That depends
Indescribable
IndieGoGo, Timing and Reality
Does your library website really need Java? Three times over?
Timing
Mostly just numbers: Mostly unlikely
Another silly little post
Mystery Collection Disc 37
Archaic--but also convenient?
Survey on public library projects: Last call
Some technologies never die
In praise of stone fruit
Rockstar librarians
Give Us a Dollar: The revised plan
Second call: "Give us a dollar..." and "A library is..."
Thought leaders
Tools vs. Emotions and the context of EVIL
A tiny little listy grump
Power patrons?
Survey on "A library is..." and "Give us a dollar..."
A library is...: Clearly feasible. Worth doing?
IUUI 4 followup
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics Disc 3
Ad hominem or learning from experience?
IUUI 3: Followup
Delayed recognition
The Big Deal and the Damage Done Campus License: Clarification
A GLOWing good deal
It's obvious--once you know how
Following Up: IUUI 1
Cites & Insights 13:7 (July 2013) now available
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May
(19)
Service, part 2
The Big Deal and the Damage Done: Campus license edition
Visual three (and an adjustment tool?)
Service, part 1.
Visual acuity redux
Open access: A quick factual post
A visual acuity test (or something like it)
Mystery Collection Disc 36
The Big Deal and the Damage Done: If it's worthwhile, spread the word
A very silly post of consequence whatsoever
Important, useful, used, interesting: Part 4 (and last, I think)
Important, useful, used, interesting: Part 3
It Didn't Work for Phil Ochs, It Doesn't Work for Jeffrey Beall
Important, useful, used, interesting: Part 2
Important, useful, used, interesting: Part 1
Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing: On sale through June 10
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics Disc 2
The Big Deal and the Damage Done
Cites & Insights 13:6 (June 2013) available
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April
(12)
What's going on
Cites & Insights Books: Links should now be correct
Three-quarters of public libraries are above average--and below average
Washington & Oregon librarians: A reminder
Kudos for great customer service
Reason I may yet write that stats/numbers book, #346
50 Movie Comedy Kings Disc 12
Wyoming public libraries
Cites & Insights May 2013 (13:5) available
Speaking up for Edwin Mellen Press
Eight years of randomness
West Virginia public libraries
►
March
(24)
Thanks!
Wisconsin public libraries
Washington state public libraries
Walking the talk: CC BY
Vermont public libraries
Virginia public libraries
Too clever by half
Utah public libraries
Mystery Collection Disc 35
Coping with the Numbers: Worth Doing? (Part 2)
Texas public libraries
Thank you also
Obligatory Google Reader post
Tennessee public libraries
South Dakota public libraries
Thank you!
South Carolina libraries
Cites & Insights 13:4 (April 2013) available
Rhode Island public libraries
Broadening my horizons: First report
Pennsylvania public libraries
Oregon public libraries
50 Movie Gunslinger Classics, Disc 1
Oklahoma public libraries
►
February
(28)
Oregon and Washington: Special Give us a Dollar edition now available
Ohio public libraries
17 Categories of Academic Library Where Most Have Growing Circulation
New York public libraries
New pricing on most Cites & Insights Books
Authors who get public libraries
50 Movie Comedy Kings Disc 11
Big day for open access
Nevada public libraries
Paint.NET and Pinta: One informal comparison
New Mexico public libraries
Smaller libraries: Desired but perhaps implausible audience
Reading: Is more efficient always better?
New Jersey public libraries
New Hampshire public libraries
Nebraska public libraries
Cites & Insights 13:3 (March 2013) available
North Dakota public libraries
Starting points: A note on Give Us a Dollar...
A quick reality check on the economics of Netflix
North Carolina public libraries
One quick question for librarians
Mystery Collection Disc 34
Montana public libraries
Oregon and Washington librarians: Let's talk about open access
Mississippi public libraries
Broadening my library horizons: A blog-reading experiment
Missouri public libraries
►
January
(27)
Minnesota public libraries
The data you need? Musings on libraries and numbers
Schwab, on the other hand...
Michigan public libraries
Panasonic Case #29866973: A sad unfinished story
Public Libraries in the United States/IMLS (FY2010)
Box Office Gold Disc 13
Maryland public libraries
Cites & Insights February 2013 (13:2) available
Cites & Insights as HTML: Final weekly report
Massachusetts public libraries
Academic library spending on e-serials: A quick-and-dirty note
Louisiana public libraries
Cites & Insights as HTML: Second weekly report
The case against overgeneralization
Checking my math
Kentucky public libraries
Kindle Fire HD 8.9: An update
Kansas public libraries
Graphing Public Library Benefits: Give Lulu $4
Indiana public libraries
C&I: The HTML Challenge: Weekly progress report
Illinois public libraries
Cites & Insights in HTML: The Challenge
Idaho public libraries
The year in posts & readers
My 2012 reading report
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2012
(189)
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December
(26)
Wrapping up 2012
Iowa public libraries
Losing credibility with one quick answer
Cites & Insights 13:1 (January 2013) available
Comedy Kings Disc 10
Georgia public libraries
Kindle books from Word: A micropublishing tutorial
AMPLIUS: 25% off through 1/2/13
Want HTML versions of Cites & Insights essays? It's your click
Florida public libraries
Kindle Fire HD 8.9 as a newspaper substitute
The Last Day(s)
Delaware public libraries
Give Us a Dollar... Kindle edition now available
Give Us a Dollar... now on Amazon, coming on Kindle
Cites & Insights survey: One week left
Connecticut public libraries
Colorado public libraries
California public libraries
The Public Library project and 20%: A reminder
Arizona public libraries
Arkansas public libraries
FELICITAS and other stuff
Alabama library notes
Cites & Insights format & content: A new survey
Alaska public libraries
►
November
(13)
Explicating the Graphs: A followup post
Libraries Serving 5,300 to 6,799 Potential Patrons
Box Office Gold Disc 12
Graphing Public Library Benefits
Libraries serving 8,700 to 11,099 potential patrons
Cites & Insights Volume 12 available in book form
Libraries Serving 4,000 to 5,299 Potential Patrons
Libraries Serving 11,100 to 14,099 Potential Patrons
Libraries Serving 3,000 to 3,999 Patrons
Cites & Insights December 2012 (12:12) available
Libraries Serving 18,500 to 24,999 Patrons
Sunday silliness: Two meaningless miniposts
Give Us a Dollar: A Request
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October
(20)
Libraries Serving 2,250 to 2,999 Patrons
Libraries Serving 25,000 to 34,499 Patrons
Beyond Confrontation: An Editorial Experiment
Rude language and the heat death of venting steam
Libraries Serving 1,650 to 2,249 Patrons
Libraries Serving 34,500 to 53,999 Patrons
Cites & Insights 12:11 (Fall 2012) available: Special added issue
Libraries serving 1,150 to 1,649 patrons
Libraries Serving 54,000 to 104,999 patrons
Libraries serving 700 to 1,149
Fair use: a pseudo-post
Libraries Serving 105,000 Plus
Review of two books on open access worth reading
Libraries serving fewer than 700 people
Thoughts on individual library data
Cites & Insights 12:10 (November 2012) available
Mystery Collection Disc 33
Busyness in public libraries
A narrative clarification on reference transactions
Public libraries and personal computers (2)
►
September
(17)
Public libraries and personal computers (1)
When you're wrong on the message...
Give Us a Dollar: A budget table in detail
Program attendance: overall notes
Libraries that can do more, do more
Reference transactions, such as they are
"America's Biggest Library"
Corrigenda
A dollar a week? Actual public library spending
New category for Give Us a Dollar commentary
Better funding = more circs: The broad picture
Overperforming and well-appreciated
Cites & Insights 12:9 (October 2012) available
Give Us a Dollar...(2012-13) Now Available
Box Office Gold Disc 11
Eats, Shoots and Loses Credibility
Coming Soon...
►
August
(6)
Is Netflix Shoving Us to Stream? Apparently not
The X for X: How to succeed without facts
Cites & Insights September 2012 (12:8) Available
Two quick book notes
Mystery Collection Disc 32
Liblog list now available
►
July
(13)
Quiet(er) on the blogging front
Speak now...
A matter of degrees
Cites & Insights August 2012 (12:7) available
Give Us a Dollar: Any interest? (Redux)
Possible disruption
Cites & Insights Readership, part 2
Cites & Insights readership: Part 1
Public libraries rarely close
Comedy Kings Disc 9
A book is a book is a...well, no, not really
Never underestimate the power of good editing and focused writing
Give Us a Dollar: The Open Question
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June
(14)
Mystery Collection Disc 31
Release notes
Cites & Insights 12:6 (July 2012) available
Box Office Gold Disc 10
Transforming Your Library Through Strategic Dynamism
Kickstarter: From trilemma to dilemma
Which one if either? A Kickstarter trilemma
Review Copies of "Give Us a Dollar": Another Offer
Give Us a Dollar: Case Study—Part 4
Give Us a Dollar: Case Study—Part 3
Give Us a Dollar: A Case Study—Part 2
Give Us A Dollar: Case Study—Part 1
Cites & Insights 12:5 (June 2012) Available
Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four
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May
(11)
Mystery Sale--and the Lull in Posts
Full-color books on Lulu
Open Access: One easy thing to do now
Micropublishing Guide 40% off!
Accepting one challenge
Public library value ratios: Update
Box Office Gold Disc 9
Public library value ratios: More information
Public library value ratios: Feedback period extended
Public library value ratios: Worth doing or not?
Trends 2
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April
(14)
No longer zero
Trends
Cites & Insights 12:4 (May 2012) available
314GB plus 20TB
The worth of creativity: From jerk to troll in three easy steps
A post not written
Why I'm Giving Up Wired: Exhibit 1
Remaining uncertainties
Astrology is real. So is homeopathy.
Box Office Gold, Disc 8
Is this library open, a reading room, or closed?
Two digits
It's a mystery
The Greater Problem: A new focus for W.a.R. & C&I
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March
(21)
Public library "closures" sometimes aren't at all
Cites & Insights 12:3 (April 2012) available
Micropublishing Tips: 2. Photos and Word's Save as PDF
Keeping on
Dear "daring" wine directors and restaurateurs
Public library data analysis: Is there a need?
Justified
Unplug or not?
Refreshing C&I revisited
How much will you pay me to pay for a subscription?
Mystery Collection Disc 30
The rare truly clever review
Who or what writes this stuff?
Public library closings/openings: A quick update
The nuts and bolts of DIY journals: A shameless repost
The I am / you are meme
Cites & Insights 12:2 (March 2012) Available
Just My Type: A mini-review
Results of second C&I survey
50 Movie Comedy Kings Disc 8
Cites & Insights survey, only for people who read it online in PDF form
►
February
(22)
Suggestions for online-oriented Cites & Insights PDF?
They're Just Movies
Nicely played, spammer...but not quite nicely enough
The Canterbury Tales
Public library openings (continued)
Cites & Insights survey results
Survey closed. Thanks!
Dear Lexmark,
Last two days of C&I survey
Closing the Digital Frontier
Survey and Sale
Looking Back: hypePad and buzzkill
Mystery Collection Disc 29
Cites & Insights: Any more responses?
If you were freefalling without a parachute...
Public library openings and my problem with negativity
Surveying Cites & Insights readers
Blog maintenance: An update
It's not film noir, they're Mist Filme
Remarkable passive-agressive spam
Micropublishing Tips: 1. Save Paper on 6x9 Review Drafts
Box Office Gold, Disc 7
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January
(12)
Data and CC licenses: I'm confused
Local supermarkets
Keeping it going: Another update on library social networking et al
How many public libraries have closed? Redux
Watch this space (and a question)
Cites & Insights 12:1 (January-February 2012) available
ITAL goes OA: Hooray
50 Movie Comedy Kings Disc 7
A library is...: A possible offshoot of a social network scan
The Librarian's Guide to Micropublishing: Get it!
Prospectus: An Ongoing Public Library Social Network Scan
FWP: Why can't a browser just work?
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2011
(174)
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December
(9)
Book reading 2011
When grandpa used 80 column cards...
Mystery Collection Disc 28
Deadlines
Library sweep done, done, done
Making shopping decisions easier
Dear [some city] weight loss
The trouble with transparency and the creative arts
Texas complete--and a small surprise
►
November
(15)
Box Office Gold, Disc 6
Cites & Insights Special Issue now available
If you've written a real comment...
How many US public libraries have actually closed?
Texas and Thanksgiving
Dreaming out loud: An ideal ongoing sponsored project
Done Wisconsin
Spam or legitimate promotion?
Relevance and reward, 2
Virginia and something entirely different
Ashaway Free to Woonsocket Harris
Ohio complete: Good luck with the voting
New Hampshire done; Ohio next
Mystery Collection, Disc 27
From Agnes Robinson Waterloo to Yutan
►
October
(6)
Maine done; on to Nebraska
Massachusetts down, Maine next...
Relevance and reward, 1
Idle thoughts on completing a revision
Two isn't quite zero
Still busy: Another quick update
►
September
(4)
50 Movie Box Office Gold, Disc 5
Social networks: Progress report
Cites & Insights October 2011 Now Available
Still around, still not posting much
►
August
(17)
Review of Open Access: What You Need to Know Now
50 Movie Comedy Kings, Disc 6
Comments from libraries using social networks: One more time
Milestones, books, lists not discussed
A few posts I'm not writing
A twin non-review
Two trivial items related to C&I 11:8
New photo
Cites & Insights 11:8 (September 2011) available
The Zeitgeist: 26 is Not the Issue
Has your public library done editing/self-pub workshops?
Mystery Collection Disc 26
Balanced Libraries now available as EPUB
I humbly apologize if...
Writing about Reading (continued)
Fun with numbers: the first six states
Raining on parades?
►
July
(20)
Has your library stopped using Twitter or Facebook?
Does your public library use Twitter or Facebook?
If I Don't See the Difference...
Some Work, Many Don't
Google TV
The Top 10 Reasons You See So Many Lists...
Trends & Quick Takes
Where Do We Go from Here?
Sucker Money...
Talking About the Public Domain
Liblog Profiles 37-40
Hyperlinks in Cites & Insights
Cites & Insights August 2011 available
En*ti*tle*ment
Comedy Kings 50 Movie Pack, Disc 5
Rational pricing and reality
Social networks and professional affiliations
Cites & Insights non-progress report
Tiny little food post: Peachcots
ALA 2011 Exhibit Notes
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June
(15)
ALA 2011: Random Impressions
Single entendre
Cites & Insights: Little steps and opinion request
ALANOLAHOCOC&I
Box Office Gold Disc 4
How Not to Offer Coupons: A CVS Story
I have seen the light!
Library 2.0: A Minor Modification
Balanced Libraries on iTunes/iBook, maybe
Of C&I, Library 2.0, ALA2011 and so on...
Micropublishing by academic libraries?
ALA Annual brief musings
Comedy Kings 50 Movie Pack, Disc 4
Open Access book: Thoughtful review
A post per month?
►
May
(12)
Mystery Collection, Disc 25
Library 2.0: A Cites & Insights Reader
Not missing, in action
Cites & Insights Revisited
Box Office Gold, Disc 3
Expertise and reality
Nature always bats last
A little Friday fun
Cites & Insights 11:6 now available
Mystery Collection Disc 24
Spring is really here
Cites & Insights: Any point in updating?
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April
(26)
When an essay falls in the forest...
How intrusive are with-post ads?
Books read, books written?
Projects and possibilities: An update
Aggressive spam
The Flying Web: Bandwidth of an Airplane, Take 3
Liblog Profiles 33-36
Sometimes it's the little things...
Box Office Gold, Disc 2
Plonk and circumstance
Signs of spring
Why typography matters
Thinking about magazines and journals
LibreOffice Notes, 1
Mystery Collection Disc 23
Thanks
What a day this has been...
Small oops
Cites & Insights 11:5 (May 2011) available
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
May C&I: A little advance commentary
Sometimes counterintuitive is wrong
Fun with typography and Office2010
Print on Demand Doesn't Imply Forever
Anniversary Post: Six Years!
It's gone
►
March
(16)
Only amateurs...
Liblog Profiles 29-32
Two steps forward, one step sideways?
50 Movie Pack Comedy Kings Disc 3
disContent: One more week (and thanks!)
Liblog Profiles 25-28
Google Books Unsettled
Obligations of a failed researcher?
Hardback annual C&I: Any interest?
Liblog Profiles 21-24
Cites & Insights 11:4 (April 2011) available
Open Access, the book: It looks great
Mystery Collection Disc 22
Followup to a leisure-time post
National Day of Unplugging: Count me out
Multiple trivia
►
February
(14)
Remembering the humorist-essayists
Some stay, some go: Notes on magazines
Feedback desired: Through-write or Segment?
Dummy post for comments on indexing
Gaming and Indexing
Topics and Tags: An update
Box Office Gold, Disc 1
Informal reader poll: One more chance
Trolls I have known and ignored
Liblog Profiles 17-20
disContent: Even more exclusive
Cites & Insights 11:3 (March 2011) available
Should I or Shouldn't I...
Coming in March: Open Access: What You Need to Know Now
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January
(20)
An owl is not a lamppost
A week in the life, or why so few meaningful posts?
Most likely the shortest book I'll ever self-publish
Some milestones require celebration
Testing whether WordPress will prevent duplicate URLs on long titles when using title URLs, Part 2
Testing whether WordPress will prevent duplicate URLs on long titles when using title URLS, Part 1
"You can't buy a place for..."
Some milestones require celebration
The Zip Report: Andersonomics at Work
Real data on library use of social networks?
Mystery Collection, Disc 21
Cites & Insights 11:2 (February 2011) available
Mortal Sins (Friday edition)
Dear The Hamilton Collection
Odd start to the weekend...and four days left
Going long the right way (maybe)
50 Movie Pack Comedy Kings Disc 2
ALA MW and learning from one another
Liblog Landscape 2007-2010 and C&I: An update
2010 Reading (or not)
►
2010
(218)
►
December
(22)
A little anecdote to close the year
Liblog Profiles 13-16
Not really zombies: Blogs reborn
Blue skies, smiling at me...
Mystery Collection Disc 20
Liblog profiles 9-12
Liblog profiles 5-8
Cites & Insights 11:1 (January 2011) now available
Dumb software tricks pt. 4,715
Buying advice: Spaghetti Westerns
Free as a cloud!
Comparing potatoes and truffles
Two tiny book items
The blog in review
I love Netflix, but not so much...
Liblog Profiles 1-4
50 Movie Comedy Kings, Disc 1
The Liblog Landscape 2007-2010: Now Available
disContent: Dear AT&T Broadband...
Liblog Landscape 2007-2010: Item along the way
Watching weight: Not just for others
Crowdsource request: What size figures?
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November
(24)
LITA Farewell
disContent: One more 25%-off day and more
Musing about hard disks
A semi-review of an odd book
disContent: I Will Buy No Content Before It's Time
Mystery Collection, Disc 19
disContent: Metametametamedia
Quality vs. convenience/quantity, all over again
Liblogs 2007-2010: Something that won't appear
And we should trust...: An update
And we should trust our computer security to you?
The Cover Story, Part 2
The Cover Story, Part 1
Cites & Insights 10: 2010, Paperback Edition Available
disContent: The book looks great!
Cites & Insights Volume 10 index now available
Legends of Horror, Discs 11 and 12
A roominar I won't be leading
Cites & Insights December 2010 available
Doesn't anyone have editors, part 18,000
Transliteracy and Chess-Playing Bears
How about plain old literacy?
Just one of those weeks...
disContent: The Complete Collection - Limited Edition
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October
(13)
Mystery Collection, Disc 18
It's been a while...
Open Access Week
Just go read this. Now.
How many liblogs at any given time?
Business biographies score again!
Legends of Horror, Disc 10
Cites & Insights 10:11 now available
66,504 Facts & Formulas in 1.98MB
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Is it reasonable to set variable standards?
The Way We Blog: Thinking about presentation
More aggressive spamments
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September
(15)
To zero and beyond! A quick update
Mystery Collection Disc 17
How many posts? New deadline and re-request
Should this bother me, or not?
Friday musings
Stepping Back, Moving On
Liblog crowdsourcing: An update
Legends of Horror, Discs 8 and 9
One more crowdsource request: How many posts?
Approaching zero and other trivia
Taking my own advice
Mystery Collection Disc 16
Blog country of origin: A crowdsource request
Additional liblogs: A clarification
Arggh: A quick update
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August
(11)
Liblogs: What am I missing?
A random post about random accumulation
The late summer slowdown continues
Cites & Insights September/October 2010 available
Legends of Horror Disc 7
Open Access and Libraries: Any takers?
Sometimes silence is a good thing
Aggressive spamments
Solutions looking for problems
Mystery Collection Disc 15
Progress (regress?): A quick update
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July
(21)
Being a pro at crastination: Liblogs 2010 Update 3
Truly peculiar spamments
Liblogs 2010: Update 2
New life for fair use?
Starving to death on $200 million
The new project: Update 1
But Still They Blog: Platforms, Currency and a few more profiles
We grow too soon old...
Legends of Horror, Discs 5 and 6
But Still They Blog: Four more profiles and a rationale
Restoring the Leadership Collection
But Still They Blog: Brief Excerpts
What's a year among friends?
August 2010 Cites & Insights Available
Cites & Insights stats--quick note
But Still They Blog: Two sample profiles
Mystery Collection Disc 14
That's entertainment!
Of time and the movies
Warpage, An Update
What year did downloaded music start outselling CDs/vinyl?
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June
(23)
Quick preliminary post-ALA update
Not reaching 18: A little photovoltaic update
Making the Case 3: Research and other improbabilities
Strategic Future of Print Collections: My ALA Gig
Making the Case 2.5
Making the Case 2: Leadership?
Making the Case 1: Sponsoring C&I (and Walt at Random?)
Mystery Collection Disc 13
ALA and All the Link Love
Random Sunday music musing
Another not really a book review
Two small milestones at C&I
CD lifespan: A clarification
Bandwidth of Large Airplanes, Take 2
Cites & Insights article links fixed
Cites & Insights 10:8 - Just in time for ALA!
What's Not Happening
The Future of Cites & Insights
Over-sharing?
I'd rather have spam in my email than scam...
Legends of Horror, Discs 3 and 4
A quick twofer
Does every librarian need to be an involved expert on everything?
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May
(18)
A Special Welcome-Back Offer...
dr? dc!
Industry Standard, RIP--again
Fun with numbers
Questionable costs of mental-health days
Mystery Collection Disc 12
View/Download Counts for Open Access and Libraries
Time for a tract?
Three miniposts
Cites & Insights June 2010 now available
Computer Basics for Librarians and Information Scientists
Free lunch
Open Access and Libraries: Now available as print & ebook
New comment policy effective immediately
Open Access and Libraries: Penultimate Post
GPR6: A little egoboo at just the right time
Legends of Horror Disc 2
Grapefruit and changed expectations
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April
(21)
Minor post: Finishing Silicon Boys
Language grumps
Shrinking for sustainability?
Little milestones
Mystery Collection Disc 11
The more you know...
C&I Executive Edition?
MP3 Doesn't Have DRM--Or Does It?
Cites & Insights 10:6 Now Available
Discovering Scalzi (or not)
Don't say anything online that...
Legends of Horror, Disc 1
If you're going to claim facts...
The cost of being inclusive and the charm of 2-for-1
Lulu PoD: Yes, but
World Cruises--and an extreme case
Last words on the iPad (for now, at least)
Mystery Collection Disc 10
20 years: The "death of DVDs" in context
Sometimes strength is simply avoided weakness
Five years? Really?
►
March
(16)
Possibilities 2 (of 2)
C&I now includes live index
C&I 10.5: A note and a question
Cites & Insights 10:5, Spring 2010 Special Issue
The limits of self-editing
Spaghetti Westerns Disc 5
Quick post on two odd considerations
Possibilities 1: Keeping C&I going
Advertising against freshness? Really?
Seriously: A post in progress
Getting to ALA, Keeping a hand in--or not
Back in the market
Mystery Collection Disc 9
Old Flicks: What's Next?
A brief post with only 2% plagiarism
Cites & Insights 10:4 (April 2010) now available
►
February
(19)
A metrics update
Google Analytics v. Urchin 5: A Metrics Quandary
Spaghetti Westerns Disc 4
A Social Network/Social Media Snapshot
Nobody in their right mind...
Auditory Memory
Catching Up (sort of, a little bit)
Open Access and Libraries: Be my guest
Nonce post: Double-checking corrections
A pre-post post
The more you know, the less you believe?
Cites & Insights March 2010
Mystery Collection Disc 8
EPub from Word: A Third Option
Code switching: A trivial post
A funny thing happened on the way to modernity
EPub, First Attempt
No offense or disrespect intended...
No Index. Maybe No Book?
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January
(15)
Spaghetti Westerns Disc 3
Universalisms, hype and straw men
New OA-related question (and status report)
Blogs by community college/junior college librarians?
Losing me in a single sentence
Midwinter musings
Cites & Insights 10:2 (February 2010) available
Mystery Collection Disc 7
HDTV and Judder: A real question
Friday Peculiar
Midwinter miscellany
A truncated meme
Cites ON a Plane 2010: A Pre-Midwinter Non-Issue
Honors and reflections
But Still They Blog: First review (that I've seen)
►
2009
(199)
►
December
(26)
Spaghetti Westerns Disc 2
Ebooks outsell Pbooks: My own story
Who can you trust?
Midwinter merriment
The teens and numeracy
Mystery Collection Disc Six
Cites & Insights 10:1 (January 2010) now available
LITA at Midwinter 2010: A Publicity Update
The Rest of the Liblogs (But Still They Blog, 12)
Stopping and Pausing (But Still They Blog, 11)
Cites & Insights: Accepting Direct Support
Why People Blog--and How Blogs Change (But Still They Blog, 10)
Correlations and Averages (But Still They Blog, 9)
Patterns of Change, 2008-2009 (But Still They Blog, 8)
Third try, Earlier date: Constantia, Berkeley or Berkeley Book?
Spaghetti Westerns Disc 1
Patterns of Change, 2007-2008 (But Still They Blog, 7)
Standouts and Standards (But Still They Blog, 6)
Conversations (But Still They Blog, 5)
The long and short of blogs (But Still They Blog, 4)
Changes in frequency (But Still They Blog, 3)
Mostly harmless: End-of-year meme
Cites & Insights 2010: A Third Option?
Rivers, streams and rivulets (But Still They Blog 2)
Cites & Insights: Opinions Desired
Looking at the landscape (But Still They Blog 1)
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November
(19)
Liblogger subtypes and countries: There for a price
But Still They Blog: Now available
Technology signposts
Mystery Collection Disc 5
On Learning: A Reprint
Vanity presses, self publishing and PoD
Every liblog is a star?
Grumpy notes on a groovy? movie
Cites & Insights 9 now available as trade paperback
Early announcement: Book version of C&I 9 available
The photovoltaic paradox
Slapstick Festival
And sometimes it isn't...
Too darn long: An apology of sorts
How do you define "big"?
Cites & Insights volume 9 indexes available
Mystery Collection Disc 4
Cites & Insights 9:13 (December 2009) now available
Halloween pizza: Pretty scary
►
October
(16)
Sometimes it's just a waste
A tiny little LITA-related post
Sony's Ereader should be the Cell
Library Access to Scholarship: More thoughts
FriendFeed, trainwrecks and accelerated discussions
50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 12
How often do they post? A followup
But still they blog: Pausing for breath
Fun with statistics 2: The slightly-less-mythical median liblog
On the way from the dump
Fun with statistics 1: Mythical average liblog
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 11
Commonalities: The followup
Cites & Insights 9:12 (November 2009) now available
Commonalities and generalizations
Not giving credit where credit is due?
►
September
(13)
What not to post
Just the blogs: any audience?
Punt
Mystery Collection, Disc 3
But still they post...
Posts restored
Right back where I started from
Watch this space
Cites & Insights 9:11 available
50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 10
Golden oldie: The one true encyclopedia?
Open access: Feedback still desired
Public Library Blogs: Gone
►
August
(16)
Mystery Collection, Disc 2
It's not easy being greener...
Open access: Giving up on a theme?
Maybe I'm...
It's not called Portentous Posts from the Pacific
A brief note about the First Amendment
Two quick notes
Channels are easy, content is hard
It was twenty years ago today
Followup: Still insufficiently paranoid
50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 9
Monday, old, and insufficiently paranoid
Library blogs and the curiosity penalty
Cites & Insights 9:10 (September 2009) available
Just a little mini-study: How long could that take?
Mystery Collection Disc 1
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July
(15)
Five years on
Libraries supporting local book publishing: One more time
Shorter, sharper?
Failures may not be
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 8
We and me
Welcome Dorothea!
Great customer service redux
Not dead yet, not really back yet
LITA IG plans and other failures
Restored copyright? Querulous comments on early Hitchcock
Any wifi experts out there?
Cites & Insights 9:9 (August 2009) now available
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, Disc 4
The fine print and grading on the curve
►
June
(19)
The dynamics of spam on a semi-dormant blog
Fading away? (More metablogging)
Preliminary ALA schedule
Culture clashes II: PDF, XML and what's in it for me?
Quick notes on research and information science
Culture clashes and conference etiquette
50 Movie Comedy Classics Disc 7
Counting cycles
Moved: A reminder
My Back Pages: The C&I Version of Friday Fun
Trends & Quick Takes
Perspective: On Privatization
Interesting & peculiar products
A few words about Bibs & Blather
Thinking about Blogging 2: Why We Blog
Enlightening or disturbing?
Cites & Insights 9:8 (July 2009) available
Movin' on up: The last Walt at Random post...
Tracking Andersonomics
►
May
(12)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, Disc 3
Cites & Insights: New sponsor needed
Coming back, possibly slowly
Responding as politely as possible
Raking in the big bucks
Not here and a cheer
Our house is a very very very...
Citizendium and the memory of water
Cites & Insights 9:7 (June 2009) now available
Freecycle: Good stuff
A home for missing comments
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 6
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April
(13)
...with the hi-def TV behind the bar showing a Blu-ray movie...
Three new things walked into a bar...
Open source public workstations in libraries
Meanings you didn't intend, #1631
Generally positive, mildly aroused
I got nothin'?
Cites & Insights 9:6 (May 2009) available
Two quick notes on "glitches"
Judith Krug
Stones, bones and a footnote
LTB--and a lot more
Thinking about Taiga
Four years and a much-needed tweak
►
March
(10)
It's Wednesday somewhere...
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, disc 2
Notes along the way
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 5
Cites & Insights 9:5 available
Congratulations to new Movers & Shakers
One born every 100 minutes
Ur doin' it wrong = Fail?
All quiet and a helpful hint
Congratulations, Meredith
►
February
(21)
4. Libraries and Publish on Demand
3. The Liblog Landscape Revisited
1. Balanced Libraries, Second Edition
2. Blogging for Libraries
Five alternatives: Seeking group wisdom, advice
Financial experts all agree...
Uncontrolled Vocabulary: Another one down (at least for now)
Dollhouse, checkpoints and sales
Cites & Insights 9:4 (March 2009) now available
Grumpy blind mini-review
Preserving the Zeitgeist?
Conversational intensity: Claiming a term
The awesome power of Amazon discounts
Predictably unpredictable: C&I in progress
Kicking the gift horse in the teeth, and other stories
Slight tweak in blog template
Cites & Insights 9:3 now available
#2? Really?
Tech trends, belatedly
A seriously meaningful post for a change
OLA, once over (very) lightly
►
January
(19)
Shiny toys, current tools, tech trends
From Denver to Toronto via sunny California
Off to Denver, offline
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 4
How you blog and confidence levels
Non-readers and non-sense
A nonce neologism
Ragged preliminary thoughts on conversations and unhermiting
Mystery problem--any help out there?
FB+FF: Putting in one big toe...
Cites & Insights Midwinter 2009 available
Walt at Random type ugly looking? Enable ClearType
Liblogs, library blogs, sponsorship and sales
Heat (or not)
A note on comment policy
OLA and ALA
Maybe not the best ever, but perhaps the most surprising
Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend Begins, Disc 1
Only 14 shopping days left (and a change note)
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2008
(226)
►
December
(28)
The first-post semi-meme
A quick invitation and a small change
The Liblog Landscape: Reviews and comments
FF,FWIW
From yesterday through January 4...
Freebies and price history
Things I pay for online
Going out with a whimper
Sam, our elder (not elderly) cat
What? A blogchain?
LibWorld - library blogs worldwide
Have you heard good music lately?
A cellphone incident (and an obligatory note)
Who hides success?
Cites & Insights 9:1, January 2009, now available
Public Library Blogs: a mention!
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 3
A Library Carol: Too good to ignore
PC Magazine: 27 years and out
Opinions needed: Three-day urgent request
Seasoned greetings
Continuing the silliness: Typealyzer tracking
Keeping it going
Prefer an ISBN?
Wrapping it up: Liblog Landscape 12
Generalization and PDFs
Liblog profiles (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 11)
Visibility and the larger blogosphere (Liblog Landscape 10)
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November
(25)
Subgroups (Liblog Landscape 9)
Cites & Insights 8 available in book form
The 2006-2008 landscape (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 8)
Of chaos and stability: Two minor mini-posts
Correlations (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 7)
Patterns of change (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 6)
Getting the Picture (LL5)
Conversations (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 4)
How long? (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 3)
Looking for an ebook sign? Here's one
How many posts? (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 2)
Looking at the landscape (Liblog Landscape 2007-2008, 1)
The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008 Now Available
50 Movie Hollywood Legends Disc 12
Cites & Insights: Volume 8 now complete
My own little numeracy problem
Cites & Insights 8:12 Available
The mystery of the disappearing bruises
Blog analysis
The rocky (buzzy) road to lower energy use
A current movie, for a change
Smaller, faster, better? Quick C&I changes
Sponsorship: A few words
50 Movie Comedy Classics, Disc 2
Vote
►
October
(19)
PALINET08: Random impressions from a short trip
Psst: The moon is made of baklava
Hyperlinked list of blogs in The Liblog Landscape now available
NaNoNonMo
Two Office2007 lessons learned--one useful, one maybe not
Bloglines much improved
Oh boy, a free indie movie!
AL=OA, in case you hadn't heard
The Bloglines problem: My current solution
50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 11
Open access: A quick post
Cites & Insights 8:11 available
Aggregators: A quick note
Ejournal as blog: A novel experiment?
Some mildly Annoyed notes
Technorati and the liblog landscape
50-Movie Comedy Classics Disc 1
Maybe an example would help?
Liblog landscape: Opinions requested
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September
(10)
Old movies and lifelong learning
Up to speed and out of print: A catch-up post
Visitor: This I can live with
50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 10
Cites & Insights 8:10 (October 2008) now available
Liblog Landscape Phase 1 complete
Firefox 43%: Wow!
New liblogs: The short version
Library newspaper columns and blogs - followup
New libr* blogs? A one-week limited-time request
►
August
(21)
Thanks, whoever you are
Dear FireFox...
Publish to Blog: A note about the previous post
Happy Trails… 50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 12
Test post directly from Word 2007
Te Taua Moana
Library newspaper columns - a second call
The blues of black and white
Mystery collection: Twenty cents a movie
Diversity and the beholder
Library blogs--and newspaper columns?
Cites & Insights 8:9 (September 2008) available
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 11
The VHS to DVD transition and cost as a factor
Projects and rejects 5 - Possible changes in C&I?
Projects and rejects 4 - The real scoop on the books
Projects and rejects 3 - The one that probably won't happen
Projects and rejects 2 - The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008
When did OA become exclusively peer-reviewed articles?
What's a month between friends?
Projects and rejects 1: Do what you care about
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July
(15)
Fox Home Video: A customer service contrast
My first cat picture(s)
Blogging less?
It's not the MPG
50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 9
Is "everyone" in Canada on Facebook?
Stone fruit
Some of the best work never gets reported
Cites & Insights 8:8 available
Three metaposts in one
I wish I'd said that
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 10
Three unrelated things
Gmail space: Wrong, wrong, wrong
Back, sort of
►
June
(18)
What's that interest group doing in Anaheim?
The devil or lack thereof is in the details
Between ambition and stupidity
Hoping for inspiration in Anaheim
It's Friday
Bloggers Salon: Palisades, not Avila
Cites & Insights 8:7 available
Experient, ALA, and treating first-class mail as junk
In case you haven't heard (over and over and over...)
Get the Word Out: an ALA program you might consider
ALA schedule so far
South from Alaska: A few quick notes on Holland America and our recent vacation
When did creative work become worthless?
50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 8
So many connections, so little time
Not fully back yet
Thinking about books
Academic Library Blogs: Still available
►
May
(10)
Public Library Blogs: Still available
Balanced Libraries: A reminder
Using technology for balance instead of guilt
I still don't understand...
Comment policy
Cites & Insights 8:6 available
Another good customer service story
Wir werden zu früh altes und zu spätes intelligentes
Of wikis, transparency and customer service
Many distinctive local libraries
►
April
(17)
C is for Laptop
When will Gmail hit seven gigabytes?
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 9
Chevy starts with CH. So does chutzpah.
Farewell, ExLibris: It was a good ride
Making your own web a more elegant place
Unposted
Meaningful permalinks and a brief problem
Cites & Insights 8:5 available
Texas on Tuesday
Better living through contest-oriented mail order
50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 7
Disappointment and the Nancy Pearl Rule
Harrumph: When TLIs intermingle
50 Movie Whatever: A Few Words about Mill Creek Entertainment
Getting up to date
Three years!
►
March
(28)
A really big look at liblogs: Good idea or waste of time?
Why do you blog?
Is librarianship a profession?
Three quick random notes
Too random even for me
Oops: Loosening a personal stricture
Cites & Insights 8:4 available
Academic library blogs: Illustrations
Academic library blogs: Comments per post
Academic library blogs: Comments on posts
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 8
Academic library blogs: Average post length
Academic library blogs: Total words
Academic library blogs: Doing the quintiles 1, Posting frequency
Public library blogs: Illustrations per post - the final quintile
Public library blogs: Number of illustrations
Public library blogs: Comments per post
Public library blogs: Comments on posts
Public library blogs: Average post length
Public library blogs: Total words
Public library blogs: Posting frequency
Blogging libraries: Doing the quintiles
Unanswered questions: A natural for a new library wiki?
The 12-hour entrepreneurial book!
Cites & Insights: The Centenary Issue is still available
Cleaning up after yourselves: A suggestion for LIS faculty
Two weeks in: Not cursing, more productive
Does anybody (still) use Windows Me?
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February
(17)
50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Disc 6
Still not on Twitter, and more
Chris Anderson redefines "media"!
The Tech-Not discussion
My Word! The mini-saga continues
Update and promotion
Reasonably quiet PC: an update
Just in time...
Cites & Insights 8:3 available - the centenary issue
If you're seeing a bunch of "new" W.a.R. posts in your aggregator...
Hello webmaster: Coping with clever spam
The blogging books: An invitation and a promise
Respecting your readers...and your profession
Bye bye, Independence: A nostalgic post
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 7
Why I'm a library professional
The perils of commenting
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January
(18)
Supporting Cites & Insights: Thanks!
Nobody ever said... a post on semantic difficulties
The new bandwagon is the anti-bandwagon?
Hollywood Legends 50 Movie Pack, Disc 5
Cites & Insights 8:2 available
Reasonably quiet PCs: Advice?
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 6
Academic Library Blogs: Who's Included
Blogs shouldn't be discussed in print books?
"Hidden" wines--maybe not all that hidden
Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples
Books, a quick update
Some notes in lieu of a new year's post and Midwinter post
Giving in to MP3--on my terms
Living in paradise
If you're going to Anaheim..
Cites & Insights 8:1 now available
One small New Year's Resolution (thanks, Dorothea)
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2007
(204)
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December
(10)
Cites & Insights 6 now available in book form
Ho ho ho: Seasonal miscellany
At least it's the right platform
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 5
'Tain't funny. Never was.
The year in sentences
Buying a general-purpose PC: Quick advice?
Looking good: C&I 7 arrives
Dear [name of nonprofit/charity goes here]:
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 4
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November
(12)
C&I Volume 7: Buy the book!
Cites & Insights: Index to volume 7--and a print version
Food pills and the Kindle
Cites & Insights 7:13 available
Cites & Insights: A pre-announcement
Reading level?
Hollywood Legends 50 Movie Pack, Disc 4
Comments: Slight (automated) change in policy--and an ALA note
Wikis, authorship and collaboration: A question
Good writers write a lot...
Missing videos and photos: A minor mystery
Library 2.0: Now that that's settled...
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October
(17)
Even fewer posts
Self-circulation and secret numbers
Convenient catch-all grumpy old man post
TV, critics, personal taste: 2007 early season musings
50 Movie Western Classics, Disc 3
Cites & Insights 7:12 available
Next-Generation Library Catalogs (LTR): Mini-review
The future of libraries
Thanks again
Joshing, spoofing and damage
Where are you?
Plotting a new course (and an apology)
Random thoughts in between
A special thanks to Peggy Sullivan
50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 3
The job: Director & Managing Editor, PALINET Leadership Network
New position: Removing the uncertainty
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September
(20)
#9: Better than #8. No, really.
Returning to ONLINE Magazine: Another upbeat announcement
John Miedema on Balanced Libraries
28 years, three months, 17 days--and no hours
Finding fault, finding virtue
Fun with computers
Future of C&I (& this blog): blue skies
Andrew, not David
Cites & Insights 7:11 available
The future of Cites & Insights
Deleted post
50 Movie Pack Western Classics, Disc 2
Present at the Big Bang?
You want clouds, you get clouds
Another food post
What's wrong with this picture?
Woodchuck Friday
Noodging that "top 25 list" a little more
Woohoo! I'm Number Eight!
Emma--the musical
►
August
(21)
Maybe real topics next month
Public Library Blogs: now available at Amazon
50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 2
A partial list of intriguing public library blogs
Public Library Blogs: A few metrics
Public Library Blogs: Varieties of blogs
Public Library Blogs: A little more detail
Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples
Balanced Libraries: Now available with ISBN, price increase
The Storied Library
Cites & Insights 7:10 available
Quick update on several statuses
CreateSpace/Amazon: Another experiment
Good blogs, bad blogs
Service area populations: Paring down the open list - DONE!
50-Movie Western Classics, Disc 1
Public Library Blogs: Your help requested, maybe?
What about academic library blogs?
Public Library Blogs: 252 Examples--coming soon!
Post-OCLC: A midterm update
Real age?
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July
(15)
Surveying the state of liblogs
50 Movie Pack Hollywood Legends, Disc 1
A book reading meme
A quick apology
Cites & Insights 7:9 available
Making the Sausage
Balance and social networking
Borrowing your watch: An apology to some consultants
Summer doldrums?
Clarifying a milestone
Academic librarian blog
One book that won't happen
Classic Musicals 50-Movie Pack, Disc 12
Crying foul
ALA-related musings, job situation, etc.
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June
(18)
Why I'm no longer Twittering
A milestone minipost
Cites & Insights 7:8 available
First post-ALA post (or "Why C&I 7.8 will be delayed slightly")
Job possibilities and ALA non-schedule
Balanced Libraries: First milestone
Pointing with Pride
Technology Competencies and Training for Libraries: A mini-review
Authority, Formality, Reality, Hypocrisy
Twitter?
Tri-tip: A Food Question
Social software/social networks: YMMV
Balanced Libraries: Recent reviews
Cites & Insights Plus: One partial "What's Next?" Scenario
Choosing your patrons: A cautionary tale
Getting your fifteen minutes
50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 11
Almost there: trimming the sidebar
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May
(18)
How many weeks does it take the scum to show up on a social medium?
Balanced Libraries, two months in
Cites on a Plane 2: This Time It's For Keeps
50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 10
Social Software in Libraries: Not Quite a Review
Thanks--and an update
Post-ALA, post-OCLC: What's next?
Fair(y) use: Brilliant
Structured Procrastination: There's a name for it!
On Disagreement: A Partial Pre-Essay
Cites & Insights: A reminder
Google Book Search and egosearching (redux)
Cites & Insights 7:6 available
50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 9
Housekeeping notes
Death of a Salesman
Lackluster veteran: Bias, much?
Citizen vs. consumer
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April
(17)
A comment on commenting
50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 8
Balanced Libraries one month in
And now I am 243: Changes in Worldcat.org
Thirty years: A quick appreciation of [I]ASFM
Housekeeping
If you're going to Kennewick...
Moderation in all things
E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: a few belated words
Cites & Insights 7:5 available
Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.
50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 7
Five blogger heroes (sort of)
Foxit Reader: Cleaning up loose ends
The things I didn't say
Balanced Libraries: Links to reviews and comments
Two years (and one day)
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March
(20)
Threats Aren't Debate, and They're Not Acceptable
50 Movie Pack Classic Musicals, Disc 6
Kudos and apologies: One more Friday p.m. post
Apology of sorts
Balanced Libraries: Overall comments
Cites & Insights 7:4 available
Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change
COPA and unintended consequences
Minor milestones (or not)
Most Cited Authors in Library Literature: A little polite bragging
fiveblogs
YouTube, Viacom, Safe Harbor and the Big Media Bait-n-Switch
Something's coming...
If you read me via Bloglines, please...
Kid lit bloggers have more fun
Cable broadband: Exceeding the unstated speed limit
Where your patrons are--or are they?
Why I don't call it "snail mail"
Wikipedia: A bigger problem than supposed liberalism
Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack, Disc 5
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February
(18)
Communities of Practice
Wikipedia too liberal for you?
Cites & Insights 7:3 available
Worldcat Registry - more than I expected!
Closing comments
ZoneAlarm Pro: An update
Windows Vista: My take, for what it's worth
Are you reading this?
Immigrants want to party like it's 1950?
WorldCat Identities
Classic Musicals 50 Movie Pack, Disc 4
Frogs
Maybe I just had the wrong video
How vital is an ISBN? A lazyweb question
On not getting it, or YMMV
Drone
A little Friday afternoon posting
Steam
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January
(18)
Late Bloglines notifications: You're not alone
C&I 7:2 available
COAP has flown away
Back from Midwinter
The power of the [e]press
50-Movie Classic Musicals, Disc 3
Third time's the charm/three strikes you're out
Giving up on Norton
An advance mini-review
Win:win situations, infinite possibilities, and lemonade
Cites on a Plane!
Five plus one
I respectfully disagree
Cites & Insights news and status, if you care
One terabyte drive: Three months late
Changing times: Not a political post
Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide (more of a review)
Better late than...
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2006
(239)
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December
(23)
Liblog mortality, Part II - an encouraging end-of-year note
50-Movie Classic Musicals, Disc 2
Bring out the dead blogs!
Not gone, just quiet
Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide
Are you Bloglining this?
Cites & Insights 2006: A few "popularity" notes
Five things you might not know (or care) about me
Cites & Insights 7:1 available
The bewilderments of egosearching
Hi-def optical discs on the last major weekend
Good story on three new Bay Area public libraries
A tiny follow-up post
Book publishing in the U.S.: Bigger than we thought?
Getting a second opinion
Startling facts, or not
50-Movie Classic Musicals, Disc 1
My father...
AutoBlooks: I guess I just don't understand
Comments
Speaking of New York: A quick post on definitions
Boutique hotel in Manhattan: Run away!
C&I Feedback Invitation 4: Interesting & Peculiar Products
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November
(25)
C&I Feedback Invitation 3: Library Access to Scholarship
Let's do the numbers: I'll bite
Has the MPAA lost its corporate mind? [Oops, it was a spoof]
The trouble with memes...
C&I Feedback Invitation 2: Censorware
Dumping IE for Firefox: A bit of caution?
Cites & Insights: Feedback invitation 1: PC Progress
A sort-of-Friday meme
Do movie megapacks make sense for public libraries?
Cites & Insights 2006 index available
Speaking survey results
Thanks yourself - and a web metrics question
An SF book meme: I'll bite
Cites & Insights 6:14 available
Children's Book Week
High-def optical discs: A critical weekend?
Friday fun: The perils of editing
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 13
Call it a manifesto if you must, but read it
Vote!
ALA email
So not going to happen: A quick Friday post
Ozymandias and Orkut
No NaNoWriMo here, but...
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 12
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October
(21)
Spam: Better and worse
Safety and numbers
Contemplating the nature of authorship
Firefox 2, part 3: Routing one-click feed subscriptions to Bloglines
What's on your FireFox search dropdown?
Liblog mortality rate: An interim note
The Firefox that didn't bite
Printability: It's not just for Firefox anymore
A touch of irony in the morning
This shears manifest themselves in uncounted PowerPoint foils
850GB for $48!
Cites & Insights 6:13 available
Editing other people's words
Sophisticated argumentation
PageRankled: A Friday post
Metablog: A comment on "Still no comments."
Hard disks and the good old days
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 11
Terabyte drive: Still coming
Beware the "family" organization
Open access: One way to NOT benefit libraries
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September
(16)
Bloglines improvements: Yabbut
TV and spam redux
Ross Singer, Umlaut, and Judging
Societies and open access
What's wrong with "combination"?
Just a little egoboo
Cites & Insights 6:12 available
Going where the story leads you
Belatedly recognizing newfound flexibility
50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 12
Turning [a little more than] thirty
Setting a fee
The occasional joy of not writing
Quick summer's-end post
C&I: Very short-term predictions
Cites & Insights 6:11 available
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August
(14)
My other blog is an ejournal
Karen Coyle, blogger!
It's a Guy Thing
Journal of Electronic Publishing: Second new issue
College Frosh are all 6-8 years old?
Pathetic little boys in men's bodies
Five Weeks to a Social Library
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 10
Too much stuff
The mandatory apologia
Cites & Insights 6:10 available
Dipping tentatively into Wikipedia
Non-English Libloggers: If you happen to read this blog...
Frederick G. Kilgour, RIP
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July
(18)
50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 11
Friday on Monday
Bias and discrimination
The obligatory DOPA post
Looking at liblogs: Yet another in-process comment
Doing several things badly...
Cites & Insights 6:10 postponed, special issue cancelled
Blogging, C&I, and heat
Pew and RSS
Bandwidth of a 747 hauling Blu-ray discs
What's the point?
Bloglines 3: The saga continues
Cites & Insights has a new home
Losing the Big Bucks
Bloglines continued: The starting list
Resolved, that debates are a terrible way to run programs
Bloglines upheaval: What's happening
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 9
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June
(14)
27 and change
What's a known item?
Preliminary random post-ALA notes
Google Librarian Newsletter: My final RLG byline (I think)
The final pre-ALA post (probably)
New Orleans 2: The New York Times Got It Wrong
ALA New Orleans: A few thoughts in preparation
Cites & Insights 6:9 available
A grammar post!
Looking at Liblogs: How you can help
The last* Cites & Insights** (pay attention to the asterisks***!)
50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 10
Foxit Reader: Close, oh so close
Comments and trackbacks yet again
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May
(18)
ALA New Orleans, an informal post
Libraries and balance: More stuff that won't be in C&I
Library 2.0 - Like it or hate it, it's public domain (an echo post)
In time there is change: An update
Cites & Insights 6:8 available
"Library 2.0" - an apology
Changing Nature of the Catalog: One that won't be in C&I
Disappearing comments and trackbacks
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 8
High-def optical discs: What you need to know now (3 of 3)
High-def optical discs: What you need to know now (2 of 3)
High-def optical discs: What you need to know now (1 of 3)
Big Man on Mulberry Street
RLG: A staff appreciation
Those oldies but goodies...
Changes certain, nature unknown
If I was a young man...
YBP Academia now features C&I essay
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April
(25)
I don't need no stinkin' magazines
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 9
Gasoline, numeracy, and journalism
Survey on library community-building
Cites & Insights 6:7 available
Counting the spam
LISHost rules the library world
Mary Ghikas becomes a liblogger
A note to my newly-cozy readership
Blog readership
Digitizing microfilm and the Great Quake
Missing and confused
Northern Exposure
Not only Right, but correct
Movers, shakers, self-promotion, and C&I
The end of DOS
Readability?
Give it up?
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 7
Apology: Siva Vaidhyanathan isn't Gale Norton
Cites & Insights 6:6 available
Sometimes you just can't win
Big Copyright has a new name!
We need a new term? (As Huey Lewis didn't say)
One year down
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March
(24)
Why Microsoft fell apart
C&I: The most frequently downloaded essay
Cites & Insights bloat fixed
Semantic, not Smart
Taking the bait
Messy facts and neat presentations
So now breaking the back button is cool?
All the cool kids...
Family nonsense
Trader Joe's and the Word Paradox
50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 8
C&I 6.5: Temporary replacement for PDF
Cites & Insights 6:5 available--Diamond Anniversary issue
Fair use: A brilliant comic book!
Fair warning and random notes
Ironies abound
Nerds and geeks on ebooks
A wiki for ALA New Orleans
Don't feel any urgency to read this
Architecture and youthful enthusiasms
ArchiveGrid--a few offhand notes
Great marketing ideas part 1042
LITA's 40. Will I make it to 45?
Spam filters get tough!
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February
(23)
Great librarian attitudes
Attitudes Toward Public Libraries 2006
Correction: Ex Libris article
50 Movie Pack SciFi Classics, Disc 7
What Dorothea said
Brown bag blogging
We're all innumerate sometimes
Cites & Insights 6:4 available
Some people belong on the "A list"
Symbiotic and parasitic applications
Journal of Electronic Publishing
Ego and similarity: A silly little post
Four cancellations
Four things
Crystal, Conde Nast, and the Berkeley Effect
Jon Stewart, Miracle Man!
Super Bowl ads
The joys of real-time wordsmithing
Pandora: Well, I'll be d*ned
Abandoning "library"?
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 6
Spreading the word
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January
(18)
LITA at Midwinter: Not quite three strikes
Tripping out, tripping back
Cites & Insights 6:3 available
The essential Bob Dylan
Assistant librarian?
Bookending "Library 2.0"
Midwinter nostalgia (and suggestions)
C&I: A little more analysis
Clarifications, changes, and an update: Three posts in one!
Blogs I read, if you care
Midwinter gathering: The Menger bar
Cites & Insights 6:2: A special issue
What big three is that?
Midwinter gathering: Place still uncertain
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 5
Correction: YBP/GOBI on Sunday, not Saturday
Freely accessible social science journals
One small resolution
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2005
(207)
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December
(23)
Library 2.0: An open call
Cites & Insights 2005: A few "popularity" notes
Creative Commons licenses: Be careful out there
The real Google threat!
Lemons!
Mystery posts and announced breaks: a metablog of sorts
Speaking, ALA, and all that
Interdependency
C&I table of contents: Oops
Cites & Insights 6:1 available
Midwinter C&I get-together: Suggestions for place?
Cites & Insights: Surveying volume 5
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 4
Speaking fees: This one really isn't my fight
A little travel music
Not snubbing, just shy and zoned out
Celebrating the life of a friend
Midwinter get-together?
Not a Library 2.0 post
"Eventually, these book people will be dead."
Warning: Possible repeats ahead
Will fair use survive?
Closing down the volume
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November
(22)
Getting into trouble with PG
Stinking magazines
Cites & Insights 2005 index available
Well, I swear...but not that much
Death of a friend
Cites & Insights 5:14 available
Followup on megapacks
Giving thanks
Technology for the rest of us
Do names matter?
More megapacks!
Google and public libraries: A metablog
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 6
Google Book Search: a name, not an initiative
Never being wrong!
A writer first?
Schadenfreude
Random notes
Incompetent phishing?
Cites & Insights 5:13, a special issue, available
With some trepidation...
A sweet Halloween epiphany
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October
(20)
Oldest usenet post?
Organizing principles
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 5
ALA in New Orleans for Annual 2006
vPod: The real use!
Boycotting pseudo-CDs
deYoung: Another economic curiosity
Music: Guess the connection
The forces against conversation
ACRLog: Blogging about academic librarianship
Cites & Insights 5:12 Available
What isn't in the November C&I, 2
What isn't in the November C&I, 1
TV or not TV?
Bloglines improvements
This time for sure?
Second, try Word
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 4
Loud and tricky: The last Reno post
Spam, spam, spam, spam...
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September
(17)
Countries and States
The great oatmeal quest
Fascippies?
:CueCat?
Dear Reno: An open letter
Library Juice: gone or changed
Dropping the dial-up and one cheer for MSN
Biblioblogosphere survey
Almost back
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 3
Atlanta Nights
Relevance and the end of objective hits
How genteel can you be?
Cites & Insights 5:11 available
Food porn
Typing music
Louisiana, Louisiana
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August
(26)
I love Firefox, but does it love Bloglines?
Where did the time go?
Balanced copyright and digital audiobooks
Connecting the dots in today's paper
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 3
Life-changing events
Surveying the biblioblogosphere
Playing favorites
Yahoo! and Google index sizes
Phishers with a sense of humor?
ALA and RLG DigiNews: Two posts in one!
The hornet's nest round
Biblioblogosphere: Apology and clarification
The biblioblogosphere: Enabling ego searches
The real art of war
Cites & Insights 5:10 available
Rating library weblogs: Not really, but...
Cruising ads: Shading the truth
Leaving the Buffyverse: Is that all there is?
The ships keep on coming
Current Cites: 15 years!
Back on top again
Sometimes it is piracy
Hangingtogether: A new weblog of possible interest
Hitting the century mark
Another metablog
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July
(22)
Conversations
50-Movie All Stars Collection, Disc 2
Caching: Tool of the Devil
My only comment on Harry Potter (I hope)
Sort of a book review.
Doing several things badly
Damn, it's hot: The relativity of temperature
First, try Excel
D-Lib: Ten years of excellence
World Poker Tour and Randy Newman
Moving it, losing it, and Jim Croce
Locking it down: That which is not explicitly permitted is forbidden
Great presentations!
Cites & Insights 5:9 available
Another trivial question
There never really was a blogroll
Infringement or not? A Sith anecdote
Grokster: Just a quick note
Blogging about blogging
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 2
Early John Travolta: YMMV
Print in 2020: Musing about projections
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June
(14)
Almost an ALA post
Apricots and ALA
Wikis and the LA Times
Broadband
Cites & Insights: A pre-ALA announcement
The decline of the audiocassette
Alaska continued
Gorman's latest
Back, sort of
Notes about cruising 6: Windstar
Notes about cruising 5: Crystal
Notes about cruising 4: Delta Queen
Notes on cruising, 3
Notes about cruising, 2
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May
(30)
Notes about cruising, Part 1
Old movies--TV movies, in this case
12 strings, stunt potholes, and moderating
NetFlix and...Wal-Mart?
Open Access: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
Blog stuff and followups: a potpourri
Cites & Insights 5:8 available
Mondegreens as ads
The undeath of lists
Blogrolls
Book sales decline less than 2%
Right-click for advanced users?
Good news for Michigan and New York wine lovers
Followup: The library link to "Nashville Cats"
Congrats here as well
SciFi Classics 50-movie Pack, Disc 1
There's 1352 guitar pickers in Nashville
An odd time to start
How do you cite blogging vs. publishing?
Finding a copyright middle ground
Not a good way forward?
The present's so bright...
ALA reporting?
Aprium: A proper Saturday post
The scourge of conversations
Broadcast Flag: This time, sanity reigned
The orphan defense
The celestial jukebox: Be careful what you wish for
Buying a subnotebook
Reasonable people
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April
(33)
Saying it just write
The joy of copyfitting
Blaise Cronin emulates Michael Gorman
Cites & Insights 5:7 available
Turning off the TV?
Snowball fights in Hades
Ads and Evil
Do you know the way to the Computer History Museum?
That wasn't what I checked out!
The Family Movie Act: Felten gets it right
CIPA as-applied challenge?
The joys of not posting
Critical thinking about library technology
"Bad" language and context
Intuitive interfaces and reality
Gorman, Cohen, Bell, and Berman collaboration?
Books are widgets?
Rethinking silent movies
Spotting the newbies: There's no "The" there
CDs and DVDs: Apples and Kumquats
Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton
Fixing printability in Blogger
Refining the "F" printables
Food: The first post
Does the peer review system work?
Cites & Insights 5:6 available
Theme and variations
Fading language distinctions
Pushing and blogging
Orphan Works
The only true encyclopedia?
Wow! Quoted in LJ!
Welcome to Walt at Random
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