Free Range Librarian

K.G. Schneider’s blog on librarianship, writing, and everything else, since 2003.

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Entries Tagged as 'TANSTAAFL'

Stuff Costs Money

March 25th, 2008 · 23 Comments

Over the holiday weekend, Dick Kaser, ITI’s VP for Content, posted a comment to my post about SWIFT, the not-so-swift “2.0 platform” ITI had invested in for its conference attendees.
In 418 words, Dick explained that stuff costs money. Thing is, we know stuff costs money. Everything costs money — even “free” stuff, like kittens or [...]

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Wikipedia’s Reality Check

January 1st, 2005 · 7 Comments

The responses from some corners of the Wikipedia community were predictable when Larry Sanger, part of the team that developed Wikipedia, published a long article on kuro5shin arguing that “anti-elitism” and “trolls” were undermining this user-contributed “encyclopedia”–or as Jason Scott nailed it in an earlier article that inspired Sanger’s cry in the desert, “a low [...]

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Tags: Hot Tech · TANSTAAFL

Weblogs.com Closes Blogs

June 16th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Am I the last blog-reader on the planet to catch that two days ago David Winer announced the suddenly imminent closing of weblogs.com, which will orphan literally thousands of blogs? (Read a transcription of his audio explanation here.)
For the Wired article, look here. For an excellent analysis of how not to close down [...]

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