Off the Mark

It seems that I have managed to offend Peter Morville with a “nasty personal attack” in my ASIS&T 2007 Annual Meeting program posted post.
For that I sincerely apologize. Although my comments were snide, I most certainly did not mean to offend him.
I actually have more to say but I will refrain because: (1) my comments [...]

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well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
If you’ve never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame
and though I’ll never forget your face,
sometimes I can’t remember my name
Counting Crows - Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby - This Desert Life

Balance.
I once [...]

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Thanks to Christina, I was alerted to the posting of the program for this years ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Milwaukee in Oct.
It looks really exciting! Some time slots have a lot of competition for my attention, some not so much. I also know my interests will change some between now and mid-Oct. Nonetheless, it looks [...]

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I’ve decided on a personal moratorium on the use of LIS; i.e., Library & Information Science.
My personal beliefs are such that it isn’t really a science anyway, but don’t worry as I don’t really consider physics to be one either. Hasn’t been so for a long time now.
So what’s my current beef you might [...]

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Sunday, 1 Jul
Uta Priss, “Associative and Formal Concepts,” Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, 2002, http://www.upriss.org.uk/papers/icc02.pdf (accessed July 1, 2007).
Cited by Tennis (2005) “Experientialist Epistemology and Classification Theory: Embodied and Dimensional Classification.” Knowledge Organization 32 (2), 2005: 79-92. Read 13-14 June 2007.
Monday, 2 Jul
RDA-related items:

RDA Scope and [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I went to see Michael Moore’s Sicko with my friend, Tracy.
I met Tracy and her husband, El Diablo, about 40 minutes before the movie started so we went to Farren’s for drinks beforehand.
The movie was actually pretty good. While there was certainly a lot of rhetoric involved, it is probably the most balanced [...]

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Saturday - Sunday, 23-24 June
Corry, Richard. “Causal Realism and the Laws of Nature.” Philosophy of Science 73 (3), July 2006: 261-276.
Sunday, 24 June
Smiraglia, Richard P. and Gregory H. Leazer. “Derivative Bibliographic Relationships: The Work Relationship in Global Bibliographic Database.” JASIS 50 (6), 1999: 493-504.
Cited by Tillett, B. B. “Bibliographical Relationships.” In Bean & [...]

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