Apples and Oranges?

It’s midterms, and I probably shouldn’t be blogging (instead, I should be focusing on studying up on information retrieval, search algorithms, and the vocabulary problem), but there’s been so much chatter out there today, I can’t resist adding just a tiny bit more noise.
Mainly, I have a question in response to Siva’s question: what is [...]

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A few added reflections on the Google/Siva thing.

Having returned home, I have finally had a chance to read the lengthy and insightful comments of Carlos Ovalle on my post about Siva, and I have to say, I agree with most everything he’s said.
Admittedly, when I initially wrote that post, I was in no way thinking of the possibility that anyone other than [...]

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Backup from the field

Well, I guess the readership of my blog has now extended beyond the Phillippines. Interesting!
I just thought I’d add a note of support I got regarding my last post from a former colleague of mine who’s been in the librarianship biz for at least half as long as I’ve been alive (and who is [...]

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No longer at the lunch table

Y’know, when I showed up here for grad school, I would *totally* have counted Siva Vaidhyanathan as one of the people I’d really dig having lunch with. However, with every comment he makes on the Google partnership, I find the idea less and less appealing.
My biggest problem with Siva is as follows: He whines [...]

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That’s our girl.

I’ve been compiling the blog coverage of Mary Sue Coleman’s speech to the AAP yesterday for my internship, and it occurred to me that it’d be silly if I didn’t post something about it on my own blog, since, after all, I had some involvement with it, and the more coverage the better. I [...]

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