[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 9:10 available

[Walt Crawford]

*Cites & Insights* 9:10 (September
2009)<http://citesandinsights.info/civ9i10.pdf>is now available.This
28-page issue includes the results of two followup "research" projects
and a certain amount of summer silliness. The issue is PDF. While three of
the four essays are available in HTML form (as links from the essay titles
below), I really don't recommend viewing either of the research projects
that way--they're heavy on tables, and it's fair to say that Word's HTML
converter was overzealous in its preparation of tables: They may or may not
look very good, and they result in quarter-megabyte downloads. The PDF
version is much easier to read...

Here's what's in the issue--and yes, some of the "regular" features may
return soon:
Perspective: Public Library Blogs: A Limited
Update<http://citesandinsights.info/v9i10a.htm>

I looked at May 2009 posts and comments, and the most recent post prior to
May 31, 2009, for all of the public library blogs in the book *Public
Library Blogs: 252 Examples* (based on blog activity March-May 2007). This
update considers currency, frequency, comments and conversational intensity
and how those have changed from 2007 to 2009--and includes brief notes on
pioneer blogs and some of the blogs I found particularly intriguing. (The
HTML is large and may not look all that great.) With this update, my work on
these blogs is complete--and the spreadsheet's yours for the taking, if
you're so inclined.


Offtopic Perspective: Alfred Hitchcock: The Legend
Begins<http://citesandinsights.info/v9i10b.htm>

I didn't buy this 4-disc, 20-movie (actually 18 movies, two TV episodes, and
a great hour's worth of trailers); I received it as a gift. The usual little
reviews on a bunch of movies that you might find unusual if you only know
the Hollywood Hitchcock.


Perspective: Academic Library Blogs: A Limited
Update<http://citesandinsights.info/v9i10c.htm>

Similar to the public library blogs update noted above, this looks at
currency (prior to May 31, 2009), posting frequency, comments and
conversational intensity for May 2009 of the same 231 academic library blogs
included in *Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples*--or as many of those
blogs as I could still easily find. The discussion includes brief notes on
pioneers and some of the standout blogs in 2007--how they're doing in 2009.
Again, this ends my work in this area; the resulting spreadsheet is yours
for the taking.


My Back Pages

As usual, this section is a "print bonus"--it's only available in the
full-issue PDF. That's particularly relevant for one of the eight little
essays in this section (discussing the typeface that spawned a worldwide
movement to ban it). For those who've felt My Back Pages spent too much
virtual ink on audio matters: Only the two shortest of these eight
commentaries have anything to do with audio, and in one case that connection
is a stretch.


That's it for this issue--which, as Whole Issue 120, would have been the
final issue of C&I's first decade if I'd stuck to the original frequency.