Off the Mark

The LISNews 10 Blogs To Read In 2008
Kirsten gets the credit for bringing me the news.
Congratulations to all the outstanding company I found myself amongst. Wow!
Thanks Blake and the perhaps one person who nominated me!
I really love the write-up Blake gave me. If those aren’t your reasons, and you have [...]

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There will be changes in this blog this coming year. Not necessarily, and, in fact, not particularly, intended. Those intended may well not happen.
“Some things read this week, …” posts will likely continue. They will be reconfigured somehow—not yet discerned—by the change in my reading habits, at least through mid-May.
As the year begins, I am [...]

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Thanks to all my friends for sending their condolences in various venues. I am uplifted by your care. I’m a right proper heathen but if your views run differently and you can spare a thought for my aunt’s family right now that’d be awesome.
She was a rock for that family. For a very long time.
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Following Walt’s lead following Jessamyn’s (and others), I finally installed James McKay’s Comment Timeout for WordPress.
For the last couple months, and more so the last couple weeks, spam has really been ratcheting up. In the last 24 hours it has been completely over the top (for me)—more than 10-25 x average.
I am hoping this plugin [...]

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Please don’t!
Maybe I should take a different tack first. Instead I will try to combine them.
If anyone reading this blog uses any means to output the items they add to del.icio.us as blog posts I would be interested in hearing your reasons for doing so. Now, if you have a blog that serves this purpose [...]

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Meredith Farkas of Information Wants To Be Free is doing a follow-up survey of the biblioblogosphere 2 years on.
Please go take it. I did.

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Off the Mark is one-year old today. I’m not really sure whether it should serve as any sort of “true” anniversary as my public blogging started in a different venue in January 2005. Nonetheless, the current instantiation of my personal and professional raves and faves has been around for a year now.
My own domain is [...]

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Chris Zammarelli, at Libraryola, has a post about keeping up which I found via the LIS Students Ning.
I left a lengthy comment, which I’d like to expand here hopefully. My comment:
 
I’m not sure I have a feel for what you are looking to keep up with, although I do see that your thesis is [...]

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Crawford, Walt. Balanced Libraries: Thoughts on Continuity and Change. A Cites & Insight Book, 2007.
I read this book last Wednesday - Friday. In many ways it was like curling up with an old friend. I had read versions of some of the chapters and smaller sections in Cites & Insights, perhaps some of the ideas [...]

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Not tagged as far as I know but will play along anyway.
1. Having recently been “syndicated” in 2 places (that I’m aware of) [1][2], I don’t really know how I feel about this.**
[My last name is misspelled at one of them, but that is anything but random.]
2. I need an interview suit.
3. I really dislike [...]

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