[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 9:5 available

[Walt Crawford]

<a href="http://citesandinsights.info/civ9i5.pdf"><em>Cites &amp;
Insights</em> 9:5, April 2009</a>, is now available.

The 32-page issue is PDF as usual, with HTML versions (such as they are) for
each essay available via the links below.

The issue includes:
<h3><a href="http://citesandinsights.info/v9i5a.htm">Making it Work
Perspective: Thinking about Blogging: 1</a></h3>
<blockquote>Do comments make a blog a blog? Is the "blogosphere" imploding?
Have conversations moved elsewhere? And some offhand notes about blogs as a
median medium, in an "interesting sweet spot in a casual media hierarchy of
length, thought and formality."</blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://citesandinsights.info/v9i5b.htm">Perspective: Writing
about Reading 2</a></h3>
<blockquote>Ignoring the Death of Serious Reading, which is as specious as
the Death of Blogs, the Death of Print Media and even (in my opinion) the
Sudden Death of Newspapers, we look at some other reading-related
topics--Aliteracy and Online and Print Reading. A third topic somehow moved
over into...</blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://citesandinsights.info/v9i5c.htm">Library Access to
Scholarship</a></h3>
<blockquote><strong>The Death of Journals (Film at 11). </strong>That's the
overall title, and no, I don't believe journals are nearing sudden death
either...but the topics this time around <em>do </em>relate to journals: Are
print journals obsolete? Should professional journals evolve into
blogs?</blockquote>
<h3><a href="http://citesandinsights.info/v9i5d.htm">Net Media: Beyond
Wikipedia</a></h3>
<blockquote>It's not about Wikipedia--or maybe it's (indirectly) all about
Wikipedia. After some questions as to why so many people seem to love
monopolies so much, there's a bunch of Knol knotes and some catching up with
Citizendium--and a few brief notes on Wikia (which is not
Wikipedia).</blockquote>
And that's it for April.