Article history and Enid Blyton
It is nice seeing the Guardian record article history on the web version of
articles – when was it originally published,
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Books
Notes about books, movies and reading.
306 postsThe future of media?
As we have been traveling I haven’t been watching a lot of TV, I thought I would
go and
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Walter Benjamin, Dairy Queen and the card catalog
The disappearance of the card catalog evokes nostalgia, resistance or celebration. Reactions are symptomatic of a larger reordering of experience in a network environment.
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Selecting snippets
Her Worldcat Identities [https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-109150]
page currently appears on the first page of results in a
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Buying books ... sometimes
When I was in Edinburgh recently I spent some time trying to find Dai Smith
[https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-236441]
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Van the Man
Something for the weekend …..
I have been interested to observe the disappearance of many Van Morrison songs
from YouTube over
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Quotes of the day: scholars on Google Book Search
Here is John Sutherland on Google Book Search ….
> What we are witnessing this year is the beginning of the
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Reading and writhing
The Nicholas Carr article in the Atlantic – Does Google make us stupid?
[https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google] – has
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Yeats again
I mentioned visiting the very nicely done Yeats exhibition
[https://www.nli.ie/en/udlist/current-exhibitions.aspx?article=adb6ce52-1f52-4a33-882c-685dedd0fb9d]
at
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Libraries and the interweb
Nick Carr has made a list
[https://www.roughtype.com/archives/2008/07/albums_going_st.php] of his favorite
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Hot air ... thoughts from a blog bore
I fear that I am becoming a blog bore!
At work, I find myself often wanting to say, and sometimes
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