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LISNews: Send Money, Not Flak

LISNews needs money; Blake needs to upgrade the servers. A worthy cause.

Meanwhile, LISNews was critiqued in Library Juice, a newsletter I stopped reading the week Rory Litwin took a friendly comment I made at a party, twisted it, and then wrote an obnoxious post about it. He later apologized, but that officially put Library Juice on my “what’s the point” list.

The gist of Rory’s point is that the comments on LISNews are largely conservative. I wouldn’t know; I don’t read the comments on LISNews (and if people commented on articles in other news sources, I wouldn’t read those, either). I just read the news itself, and it’s often pretty good. It helps fill a gap between the traditional big-library stuff on LJ and ALA and the bellybutton lint on most library blogs. It’s not really “news,” in any journalistic sense (any more than a librarian blogger is a “journalist”), but quite often you can read it first on LISNews, and they find fun stuff.

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This was written by K.G. Schneider. Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004, at 12:17 pm. Filed under Librarianship. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.