Archive for January, 2007
The 76 Ball, and Cincinnati
Remember these? I remember them well, even “fondly”, for some reason. Conoco-Phillips owns the brand and has been removing them. Sure enough, a group of interested parties has formed SaveThe76Ball.com to do just that. There are either PR-savvy or very lucky, as I have seen several mentions of this story in the last week. One [...]
Is this Phil Hendrie? Weird but funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whG5ZARGrqU
“Crippleware”
Randall Stross of the New York Times has an article in today’s Sunday Business section about Apple, Microsoft and Digital Rights Management software, the stuff that Apple and the music companies use to lock iPod owners into iTunes, Zune owners into (whatever the Zune thing is called.) I definitely need to checkout eMusic, the company [...]
Fairfax Co. PL response to recent weeding criticism
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/classics.htm
sometimes the best blog content is in the comments
2007 is starting off with lots of library news in the mainstream (non-library literature) press. The NYT ran an article about a library in NJ that is closing during peak hours due to rowdy teens and the revamped WSJ [more on the revamp in a future post] ran a Careers article about librarianship and [...]
more HoF talk about my favorite player
John Brattain writes about the HoF credentials of my favorite player over at Hardball Times.
