[Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment

[Campbell, James (jmc)]

I'd be sorry to see the Cites & Insights announcements go.  Signing up for a separate announcement list is one more thing to remember to do. 

I find announcements generally a valuable part of this list. I find some of Gerry's announcements valuable, recently particularly those about new smartphone interfaces and apps, but I agree with many of the other writers: he just sends too many of them.  My delete finger gets tired.  And I also probably miss some things that would interest me because frankly I do tend to delete his posts more quickly than some others.

Andrew has done the right thing, cut through the controversy and come up with a constructive alternative, no matter how he got there. I'd be very happy to get a weekly list of links to blog posts.

      - Jim Campbell

      Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
      University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112

      513 Alderman | campbell at virginia.edu | 434-924-4985


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Walt Crawford
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:38 AM
To: Andrew Hankinson
Cc: web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment

I feel the need to offer two comments:

1. There is no such thing as a weekly digest of Cites & Insights emails.
Cites & Insights is a monthly ejournal (sometimes slightly more than
monthly), and I *currently* send an announcement of each issue to Web4Lib.
It's not at all an aggregation of blog posts. (Andrew may be thinking of
Current Cites--but, in fact, that's also monthly and not a "digest" or
aggregation of blog posts.)

2. Since there's a dislike for announcements--one I partially share--I'll
remove Web4Lib from the monthly announcement list. If you want to be
informed of new issues of Cites & Insights, sign up for my blog (Walt at
Random, http://walt.lishost.org) or the single-purpose announcement blog
(C&I Alerts, http://cical.blogspot.com). I was going to *ask* whether I
should remove the Web4Lib announcement, but it's probably the right thing to
do.

-walt crawford-

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Agreed. "Just use the delete key" isn't a real solution. Maybe Gerry could
> aggregate his blog posts and send a digest out weekly, similar to the
> "Cites
> & Insights" e-mails.
>
> Gerry: would that be an acceptable compromise?
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Matthew Zimmerman <
> Matthew.Zimmerman at utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> > >From a constructive criticism point of view, I would read your emails or
> > blog posts more often Gerry if there wasn't such information overload.
> Like
> > others, I get your updates each day, sometimes multiple times a day from
> at
> > least three different sources (this list, my Facebook email, and my gmail
> > account which receives updates from Facebook). Sadly I just ignore them
> now,
> > perhaps to my loss, but when you see so many updates it becomes white
> noise.
> >
> >
> >
> > Matthew Zimmerman
> > Manager
> > Digital Services and Technology Planning
> > UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
> > Tel: 214-648-4873
> >
> > matthew.zimmerman at utsouthwestern.edu
> > www.utsouthwestern.edu/library
> >
> >
> >
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