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From Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog to LorcanDempsey.net
Blog transitions: moving Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog to a new home at LorcanDempsey.net.
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One handed writing - the blog
Recently @mishdalton [https://twitter.com/mishdalton] pointed me at an article
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/opinion/tips-for-aspiring-op-ed-writers.
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End of the digest ....
For almost as long as this blog has been going we have had an associated digest.
This has gone out
Analysing influence .. the personal reputational hamsterwheel
Analysing influence has been a central part of academic life. We are very
familiar with citation analysis. This is possible
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Lost in translation .. redux
I am at The 9th Annual Library Leadership Institute
[https://lib.hku.hk/leadership/2011.html] in Bangkok. This event
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Sympathy for Microsoft ...
We are watching a handful of companies battle to support our work and learning
lives, our communication, entertainment and social
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Children's Book Week .... Retread
[A discussion about children’s book Peepo! on Twitter prompt me to recycle this
entry from 2006]
To mark Children’
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Buying books and/or experiences: a consumer view
A while ago I was interested to observe that I had begun to resist buying paperback novels. Before that, I
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"How golden is your retriever?" Maurice Line RIP
My former UKOLN colleague Ruth Burt sent me a note last week noting that Maurice
Line had died. Ann Chapman
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Presenting ....
Although I give quite a few presentations, I don’t really present enough for
them to become ends in themselves.
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