Saturday, 17 August, 2002

LexisNexis name changes


LexisNexis Relaunches Entire Roster of Academic Products [The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk]

I just checked some of the changes, and Congressional Universal will become "LexisNexis Congressional."


10:22:01 AM    Comments []  

more blog navel-gazing


Says Ernie:

"The media can't keep up with this.  In fact, I predict that in about 3 years the mainstream media will rely almost exclusively on lawyer-bloggers to cover local legal events."

I rather doubt it.  For one thing, they won't rely on anyone who could be here one day and gone the next. As in any other of life's endeavors, people focus their interests on one area for a time, then they lose interest and wander away to do something else.

Some individual logs will crest after a time and then begin to decline.  There are so many disappearing weblogs that they now have their own FuckedWeblog site. 

From an overall perspective, there is a distinct possibility that the current interest in weblogs will generally abate as well. 
[The LitiGator]

I agree with the invocation of Sturgeon's Law in this Wired article. If 90% of blogs suck, who cares? For me, blogging is just like any other creative outlet. I don't write short stories because I want to be widely published and become a famous author. It's about saying what I want to say in the truest possible way. If anybody else likes it, that's just gravy. Blogging is similar. I plan to develop the idea of the Exploded Library as well as I can. If people like it and read it, that's nice, but it's not the point of it. That's why I don't care if some people think that the blog or the web is trendy or not.


10:16:57 AM    Comments []  

New Blog: Current Copyright Readings


New Copyright Blog.

Like Copyfight but prefer a more stripped-down, just-the-facts-M'am blog style? Check out Current Copyright Readings by M. Claire Stewart, head of Digital Media Sources at Northwestern. (Thanks Hylton!)

Looks like a good resource, but wish it had an RSS feed.  I've been using Mark Paschal's Stapler so I can aggregate sites like this, but wonder if there's an easier way.

[Leah's Law Library Weblog]

Looks interesting. Thanks also for the link about aggregating non-RSS feed sites. I've been thinking about how I might do this.


9:42:13 AM    Comments []  


Blogwatch: ExplodedLibrary.info. A ranter, just like yours truly. [ thanks chuck ]
[librarian.net]

That's why I changed my colours to ranter red :) Thanks Jessamyn, it's nice to be noticed by one of my favourite blogs.


9:38:50 AM    Comments []  

Working on Saturday


Well I'm working on this breezy Saturday and had yesterday off as a comp day. If I knew how to do LiveJournal-style polls on this blog, I'd ask about academic librarians working on weekends: do you get overtime pay, 1:1 comp time, time and a half comp time or double time?


9:32:42 AM    Comments []