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The Moth!
Lately, I’ve been enjoying podcasts from The Moth. What’s The Moth?
“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 [...]
Robert Schiller on the cosmo class
The Yale economist Robert Schiller has written an article that discusses the rapidly growing “cosmopolian” class. Read the article, but here’s the end:
EXTRA, EXTRA: changes coming to the best newspaper in America
I am looking forward to seeing the revamped Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.
Along with the improved USA Today, it is my favorite national newspaper. I’ve been reading it since my early teens and have been a subscriber for the last year or two. Among the changes coming:a narrower, “standard” newspaper format (fine with me, the [...]
