Monthly Archives for February 2011
Services I pay for online – 2011
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I find that as time goes by, I’m less willing to engage in DIY-style tech solutions. I’m realizing that while I enjoy those projects, they take up too much of my time. I’ve decided I’m willing to pay a reasonable … Continue reading
Death of a Middleman
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Related to the HarperCollins/Overdrive fiasco*, Jason Griffey makes a couple of ominous points over at Library Renewal. I want to focus on one bit in particular: “It is vital that libraries find a way to move out of the middle-man … Continue reading
Cutting the cable
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We moved recently, and didn’t like any of the cable options in our new neighborhood (we’d go back to Uverse in a cold second if they’d only expand to Durham!). Frustrated and not willing to go with satellite, we took … Continue reading
Wake up, citation styles!
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Everyone, including the New York Times, seems to be hailing Amazon’s decision to add page numbers to the Kindle. The lack of page numbers (when you can change font size in a book, the number of ‘pages’ in the title … Continue reading