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Imitation

is the sincerest form of flattery.

Amusing post about weblogs

Wired 14.07: START

Your Blog Blows, and Here’s Why
1. You aren’t kamikaze enough to risk your career by revealing the soul-crushing absurdity of your job.
2. You aren’t sufficiently vain or presumptuous to declare yourself a hot twentysomething female (even if it’s true).
3. You lack a diagnosed sleep disorder, minor substance abuse problem, mercurial temperament, and/or [...]

Why Open?

As I looked through my del.icio.us tags, it occured to me that many recent library initiatives seem to center around being Open.
It could be argued that weblogs are an exercise in openess, and I’ll start by getting the themes for the week off the ground.
Open Access
Open Content
Open Search
Open Source
Open URL
After this, I’m heading down to [...]

Welcome

This blog is now open for business (sorry, terrible pun, couldn’t resist).
As a new editor at LJ, I’m interested in making the content more relevant to readers, like, well, me.
As a former systems librarian, I first wanted to organize the content in a way that made sense to me. So you can browse the LJ [...]