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Shaun and I had to say a really, really hard goodbye this past week. Zico was our first dog, he was a part of us and a part of our lives in a way that defies articulation. One day I’ll be able to talk about all of the ways I’m grateful that we had this [...]
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via TechCrunch – C-SPAN gets a lot of things right… Several months ago, Karen pointed out how libraries could learn something from information portals created by major media outlets and news organizations. The example she used at the time was a site about the U.S. Elections produced by the Globe and Mail. There was a [...]
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This morning, on my drive in to work I was thinking about ScienceBlogs (tagline – “the world’s largest conversation about science”) and in particular the “blogging on peer-reviewed research icon” you see on those posts. I really like the ScienceBlogs project – the whole idea is to get experts to comment on research, but in [...]
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… because I just read that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died. I was in high school, I went up to the Portland State University library to do some work and really couldn’t get into/ didn’t want to do the work I had gone there to do. Instead of doing the obvious thing, which would have been leaving [...]
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