*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.