[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 8:11 (November 2008) available

[Walt Crawford]

*Cites & Insights* 8:11, November
2008<http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i11.pdf>,
is now available for downloading.

The 26-page issue (PDF as always, but with HTML versions available from
links here or at the Cites & Insights home page<http://citesandinsights.info/>)
includes five essays:
Bibs & Blather: Books and Blogs <http://citesandinsights.invo/v8i11a.htm>

Mostly updated versions of Walt at Random
<http://walt.lishost.org/>posts–library blog books going out of print
soon, a progress report on
*The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008* (with more progress since the post) and
notes on Technorati, blogs as a whole and the liblog landscape.

Making it Work: Libraries and the Social
Web<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i11b.htm>

Notes on aspects of social-web applications in libraries beyond blogs and
wikis.

Perspective: How Common is Common
Language?<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i11c.htm>

*An original "research" project*: What happens when you try 300 everyday
sentences against Google–and when you try just the first eight words of each
sentence? The answers may surprise you.

Library Access to Scholarship: OA
Controversies<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i11d.htm>

Notes on the brouhaha when publishers tried to undo the NIH mandate by
congressional hearing–and other notes on open access opposition and, for
that matter, extreme positions on both sides.

Retrospective: Pointing with Pride, Part
7<http://citesandinsights.info/v8i11e.htm>

Just a few highlights along the way–considerably shorter than previous
indulgences.