Years ago, at a staff meeting at the public library where I worked, the director mentioned that she was looking into buying e-books. The atmosphere chilled. ”What will happen to books?” the collective silence seemed to say. But with the realization that an e-reader could carry the contents of hundreds of books, heads started bobbing up [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Book Bound – Of Ownership and the Kindle
Posted in Information Science on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The long tail of Obama’s election
Posted in Personal/Political on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A lot of these local politicans need to watch out…This has brought a whole new crowd into politics.” The money quote from this story in today’s paper http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/nyregion/04race.html?_r=1&hp
The difference between silos and barns
Posted in Personal/Political on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the features of working in a silo is that you spend much of your time working with like-minded individuals who are focused on many of the same issues that you focus on. A barn, however, houses people who work in different areas – some plow, some milk the cow, some shoe the horses – [...]
