[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 8:10 (October 2008) available

[Walt Crawford]

*Cites & Insights* 8:10, October
2008<http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i10.pdf>,
is now available.

The 28-page issue is PDF as usual, although HTML versions of each essay are
also available from the Cites & Insights homepage<http://citesandinsights.info/>
.

This issue includes five essays:
Trends & Quick Takes

Improving patents, the future of the internet, why I give Pew such a bad
tome, the HD watch, the purloined bibliography and invisible gifts, plus
five quicker takes.

Interesting & Peculiar Products

Six of them--including a hockey-puck home theater PC and a digital projector
that throws a 98"-diagonal image from *15 inches away*--and six Editors'
Picks and Group Reviews

Net Media/Making it Work: Blogging about Liblogging

A range of posts and commentary about liblogs and library blogs, some up to
a year old, all worth noting.

Offtopic Perspective: 50 Movie Western Classics, Part 2

>From the sublime (*The Outlaw*) to the ridiculous (*Gone with the West*),
with spaghetti westerns, singing cowboys and much more in between--including
Bill Shatner playing an arrogant, sexist, tinhorn ruler who *doesn't* happen
to be on a starship but is instead a half-Comanche bad guy (*White
Comanche*)--and
Shatner also plays his sort-of-good-guy twin. I couldn't make this stuff up
if I tried.

Retrospective: Pointing with Pride, Part 6

The responses to my "copyrights and wrongs" quiz, remembering some 1989
projections for the world of 2000-2001...and lots more.

A note about the HTML versions:
I've been tweaking the Word template used to do quick-and-dirty HTML from a
document that's primarily designed for print/PDF output. I've indented the
text to leave a little white space on screen, for example. I think it's
getting better--but the process still yields strange gotchas now and then,
such as strings of forced blanks I don't believe should be there (this time,
I think, only in quotes that are also bullets).

I don't spend that much time cleaning up the HTML versions. They're just
there as a courtesy to those who just can't abide PDF, for whatever reason.
*Cites & Insights* <http://citesandinsights.info/> is fundamentally a PDF
publication, and I spend my layout time trying to get that to look good and
work well.