Cites & Insights 10:2 (February

2010)< http://citesandinsights.info/civ10i2.pdf >is now available.

The 32-page issue (PDF as usual, with individual articles available in HTML,

using the links below) includes:

T&QT Perspective: Trends &

Forecasts< http://citesandinsights.info/v10i2a.htm >(pp. 1-16)

A heaping helping of trends, forecasts, ghosts of trends past--and

deathspotting. (No, this roundup does *not *include the Midwinter LITA Top

Tech Trends--or any other trendiness actually appearing in 2010. Maybe

later.)

Perspective: Music, Silence &

Metrics< http://citesandinsights.info/v10i2b.htm >(pp. 16-25)

Are the loudness wars mushing up your music? Maybe so. I report on the

problem with excessive dynamic compression, some steps being taken to

identify and combat the desire of producers to *MAKE IT ALL LOUD*, and two

sets of real-world metrics. If you ever really listen to music, you should

care about this issue.

Offtopic Perspective: Mystery Collection Part

1<  http://citesandinsights.info/v10i2c.htm >(pp. 25-32)

Notes on the first six discs in the 250-movie, 60-disc Mystery Collection,

including half a dozen Bulldog Drummond flicks, three Dick Tracy--and eight

Sherlock Holmes. Here's a mystery: Will I keep doing *C&I* long enough to

review this entire set? That would take us into Volume 14...

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