The Social Dynamics of TV Watching

Under the category of “And Now For Something Completely Different,” I thought I’d just note in passing that I have a new publication up, not about e-Science or Libraries or IP, but about Television.
Yes, Television.
More specifically, the paper is about streaming television and the social affordances of the viewing space.  I started thinking about this [...]

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Fighting for non-rival pudding

About half a decade ago, my fascination with (and anger about) issues arising from the growing push toward licensing access to library materials, rather than purchasing them outright, pushed me out of a traditional library career path and into one that would allow me to focus more deeply on explication of and advocacy for the [...]

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Thanks, ACRL!

This piece by Barbara Fister, entitled “Libraries on Planet Google,” is the best rundown of the different opinions being expressed on the Google Book Settlement that I’ve seen so far.
Read it!

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The Google Settlement: For My Own Future Reference and That of Others

I’ve been at the ASIS&T conference in Columbus all this week – hence the colon in the posting title. Every title must have a colon. Didn’t you know?
Anyway, several lovely people emailed me about the Google Books lawsuit settlement yesterday, and today, as I sit in an airport waiting area for several hours, I thought [...]

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I Like this Article

[Note: I wrote this post on February 5, but held it back until I'd made my decisions about where I would be next year. Now that such decisions have been made, here it is...]
I think The New Yorker is probably one of the few mainstream media outlets that actually takes the time to provide [...]

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Darn Right.

33. Old books are valuable.
But if the evolution of libraries grows to become an interactive meeting place for cultural events and the exchange of ideas, the preservation and exhibition of archival literary relics could be yet another facet to their importance (and, yes, intrigue). Indeed, old books are not only monetarily valuable, but they are [...]

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Wishing I knew more about German copyright law

…because that would put me in a better position to evaluate this:
WBG, a German publisher, today decided to drop its petition for a preliminary injunction against the Google Books Library Project. WBG (whose legal action was supported by the German Publishers Association as an industry model) made the decision after being told by the Copyright [...]

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Linkages

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the digitization symposium that Michigan held in March, and in fact went back and watched a bunch of the archived webcasts over the weekend. So it was interesting to note while scanning through my blogroll today that Tim O’Reilly has expanded points made in the keynote address [...]

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Speaking of there being too much going on…

I’m never going to get this paper written.

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Eesh.

I think I’m probably the last person on earth who should have a blog — or at least, a blog that people actually read. Readership wigs me out (unnecessarily, highly irrationally, etc.). But I kind of like having the blog here, to just write down what I’m thinking, and maybe keep two or [...]

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