Steven Tackles Copyright

Steven Colbert did a pretty hilarious report on a villainous polka pirate a few nights ago. It really highlights the seemingly arbitrary and sometimes absurd decision to pursue and prosecute copyright infringers.

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The End is Near

The semester is coming to a close and I've managed to continuously neglect and write about neglecting this pathetic excuse for a blog. Here's to the final push.

I'm interested to take part in the synchronous session on this upcoming Wednesday morning. I'm even more interested to see how successful it is and whether or not it will become a staple of the program in the future. Perhaps by the time Cohort 10 has finished we'll be engaged in video-conferenced discussion. It seems like a natural next step in the evolution of the program.

I hope everyone is doing well and looking forward to a bit of a break and a fresh start.

I haven't given up!

My last post was about neglecting my blog and here I am, after many days of neglect, back at the same point. I swear I'm going to make a change this time. This really isn't that hard.

How is everyone's LIS 2000 paper coming along? The confluence of the mid-term, FastTrack weekend, the paper, and the next LIS 2600 quiz are crushing the life out of me to some extent, but I'm sure it'll be a great relief when we finally reach the other side.

Blog Posts

I am having an enormously difficult time coming up with things to write about in this here blog. It's not something I feel accustomed to doing and I still feel fairly self-conscious about it. I guess I'm unconsciously avoiding it, but that's definitely not my goal. Is anyone else suffering from blog-block? Are others in the class experienced bloggers? Are people commenting on each others blogs? Mine feels static and isolated which I think adds to my subconscious desire to distance myself from it. Maybe I'll go post a comment on someone else's blog and hopefully get some crosstalk going.

An Unforeseen Consequence of the eBook Era

I stumbled upon a comic with LIS relevance and therefore feel it is my duty to share. I have to say that I'm very surprised this didn't come up during our discussion in LIS2000. Enjoy.

Zotero Tutorial Screencast

Here it is, the first true cinematic masterpiece of the 21st century: my Zotero Tutorial. Enjoy!

Double Up

Glancing at the syllabus today made me realize that I'm one post short here so I'm going to follow up a bit on the last one by providing links to two books about math that I've really enjoyed. The first is Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife which chronicles the origins and history of the number and all that it represents, including the concept of nothingness and its complement infinity.

The second book is The Mystery of the Aleph by Amir Aczel. This work follows the many mind-bending discoveries (the bulk of which dealt with properties of infinity) of mathematician Georg Cantor and the lapses into madness which too often followed.

If anyone is actually reading this sorry excuse for a blog, I hope you feel compelled to pick one or both of these books up.