[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 9:1 available

[Walt Crawford]

*Cites & Insights* 9:1, January 2009<http://citesandinsights.info/civ9i1.pdf>,
is now available.

This 30-page issue (PDF, but each section is available in HTML form from the
links below) includes:
Bibs & Blather <http://citesandinsights.info/v9i1a.htm> (pages 1-5)

Announcing *The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008<http://www.lulu.com/content/4898086>
* and an early-bird special ($22.50 through January 15, 2009). Also
announcing *Cites & Insights* volume 8
<http://www.lulu.com/content/5014958>in paperback form (a great way to
show your support for C&I and my blog
research)…and notes on other books and the start of a new volume.

Net Media: Wikipedia Notes <http://citesandinsights.info/v9i1b.htm> (pages
5-13)

"Verifiability, not truth," Wikipedia's growing pains, the power of the
editor and rise of the Wikicrats, and other notes on the messy reality of
Wikipedia.

Retrospective: Pointing with Pride Part
9<http://citesandinsights.info/v9i1c.htm>(pages 13-18)

Solving the "missing issue" problem (oops) and ten notes from ten issues.

Offtopic Perspective: 50 Movie Hollywood Legends, Part
2<http://citesandinsights.info/v9i1d.htm>(pages 18-26)

A wild variety, from classics such as *Love Affair*, *Meet John Doe* and *The
Man with the Golden Arm* to pathetic cases like *Chandu on the Magic
Island*to the pure oddity of
*Home Town Story*, a GM-commissioned charmer about how wonderful and pure
big business really is (with a bit part by a young Marilyn Monroe).

Retrospective: Pointing with Pride Part
10<http://citesandinsights.info/v9i1e.htm>(pages 26-30)

This final Retrospective appears here because the next issue will (with
luck) be a little different–and I didn't want to stretch it out until March.
Just a few selections and comments.