[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 8:9 (September 2008) available

[Walt Crawford]

*Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large*
8:9<http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i9.pdf>(September 2008) is now
available.

The 26-page issue (PDF as usual, but HTML versions of the individual essays
are available using the links below or at the C&I home
page)<http://citesandinsights.info/>includes the following five
essays:
Bibs & Blather: Projects and Rejects<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i9a.htm>

40% less self-indulgent than the five-part post! Some new information!
Otherwise, it's largely the same material. If you feel you already know all
this, skip right on over to:

Perspective: Updating the Book Discovery
Projects<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i9b.htm>

Microsoft dropped its project–and in the process released all limits on
300,000 scanned books and gave the scanners to its partners. That and lots
more in this multipart roundup.

Perspective: On Conferences in a Time of
Limits<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i9c.htm>

Why *do *we go to conferences–and will conferences change significantly
thanks to high travel costs? Some semi-informed musings and non-predictions.

Old Media/New Media <http://citesandinsights.info/v8i9d.htm>

Are print newspapers really dying? Does the news revolution make us better
informed? Can you really make a living from the long tail–and is that tail
extending, or is the head thicking further? And, of course, a few notes
about ebooks and ebook readers.

Retrospective: Pointing with Pride, Part
5<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i9e.htm>

This set of notes includes my own version of an ALA URL (and I'm sure those
will all get better real soon…) and the *Best. Issue. Ever*.