The power of pull redux .. with examples
The power of pull
I have written about the Power of Pull
[https://www.edgeperspectives.com/pop.html] before, an
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Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
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Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view
A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I
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Using Wikipedia
We still don’t appear to know what to make of Wikipedia. Consider these two
cases.
First, Edward Glaeser includes
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Books about universities ... expansion
What do the most popular books about universities say about them? There is no consistent pattern and some surprises.
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Changing communications ....
I was struck by this comment by Om Malik as he talked about the acquisition of
the TechCrunch group of
Library literature again ...
Two interventions
First a mention of two recent articles ….
Rick Anderson has a very nice piece in Educause Review about
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Blogging again
Even if some heat has gone out
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001989.html] of the library blogosphere,
there
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QOTD: ways of seeing: a cover
In an interesting blog post on the changing nature of the book cover in a
digital environment, James Bridle compares
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Bookstores, curation and managing demand/consumption ...
I have just returned to the US from a couple of weeks vacation in Ireland and
England. I was more
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More reading ...
Here are some recent reports/papers produced by OCLC Research or in which we
have been involved …
Kroll, Susan, and
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A nice dedication to librarians by Rick Riordan
We downloaded Rick Riordan’s latest novel, The Red Pyramid, to my son’s iPod
Touch this afternoon. As he
Music: Marcus, Morrison, Mumford, and Carr
I recently read Greil Marcus’s book
[https://www.worldcat.org/title/when-that-rough-god-goes-riding-listening-to-van-morrison/oclc/435418486]
on Van Morrison. While I
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