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Flag@

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Someone recently asserted to me that the short-lived e-mail address flag@whitehouse.gov was a means of collecting information on people, not topics.  I couldn't find the information quickly enough to address this, so I just want to put some relevant links here for quick and easy access if it should come ...

They each dig their own tunnels.

Friday, June 26th, 2009

I enjoyed the clashing conclusions of the reviews for Thomas Metzinger's The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self on its Amazon page.  While Library Journal says “Metzinger's intended audience is the lay reader, and he does a superb job of presenting his theory ...

Surveying the academic library blogs

Monday, August 11th, 2008

I mentioned on Friday that I've been putting some effort toward the the blog of the Cornette Library of West Texas A&M University, where I work as a reference librarian, and have been hoping to get an idea of 1. how much use and impact other academic libraries are ...

Maghound

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Rogier van Bakel, critical in the past of magazine subscription marketing, points to this news of an upcoming endeavor called Maghound.com from Time, Inc. to offer a sort of Netflix-style subscription management service for print magazines, allowing customers to subscribe to titles of their choosing, at discounted rates, for ...

On Public Access to Subscription Databases

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

I just created a new page on this site entitled "Everyone's License" that I anticipate revising often enough that it seems to warrant life outside the flow of blog posts. It's to examine how widely access to subscription databases is offered through public libraries. It may require original ...

“Previously, on steve ely dot net….”

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

The HTML pages previously found at this address can now be found via http://www.steveely.net/profile.html. Similar content will likely also appear in some WordPress pages here before very long. There may eventually be other non-WordPress pages under this domain as well. Obviously, I'll note these developments when they occur. ...

Ely 2.0

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Depending on your timing, you may be encountering an awkward lack of content. Today I replaced the static HTML pages I had at this address (steveely.net) with this installation of WordPress. Hopefully all the content from those two pages will be back up on some convenient new pages before the ...