Apologies for any hiccups while we updated the blog software over the last few days. This blog runs on a

I heard about ‘affinity strings’ on a visit to Minnesota some time ago. I was pleased to see that they

Michael Hirschorn speculates about the future of the New York Times in The Atlantic. Update: Perhaps the introduction of Bono

If you visit the School of Life [https://www.theschooloflife.com/homepage.aspx], you might stay a while; its tagline

The January issue of First Monday [https://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/274] has

I find website appearance both more and less important, as I suggested in a post [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/

John Lanchester has an article on video games [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n01/lanc01_.html] in the current

An off-topic holiday note for non-US readers. The first year or two we were in Ohio we spent quite a

Here is what I saw at the end of the page when I did a Google search on Edmund Burke

The UK academic world was in a frenzy yesterday as the results of the Research Assessment Exercise were published. In

I was interested to come across the University of Bristol’s ‘Card catalogue online’, a resource based on scanned images

Mike Shatzkin writes about the changing environment for publishers in Publishers’ Weekly. There are some familiar themes … Network concentration (Amazon)