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	<title>Metaholic Musings</title>
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	<description>Reflections on Life, Liberty and Library Science</description>
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		<title>New Beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abandoned blogs are nothing new. But even after leaving my own blog unattended for more than 6 months, I decided to revisit  this site in hopes of picking up where I left off (namely, talking to the wind). So what happened? A lot. A few days after I wrote my last post in December, the ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=429</link>
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		<title>France to Google: Non</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google has stumbled a step in its path towards world domination after a court in France ruled that the search engine company is breaking French law with its Google Books project, handing down a daily fine equivalent to $15,000 until the data in question is completely removed. The case marks yet another instance in which ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=394</link>
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		<title>Pocket-Sizing the Public Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[E-readers are all the rage these days. From the Amazon Kindle and its electronic paper display from E Ink Corporation, to the Apple iPhone and Google&#8217;s Android operating system for smartphones, society is at a tipping point in the transition from print to digital media consumption. Mobile computing devices are closer than ever to delivering ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>The Boy Who Harnessed the Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I watched a truly inspiring interview on the Daily Show in which John Stewart interviewed a young man from Malawi named William Kamkwamba, who built a windmill to generate electricity for his village after reading a textbook he found in his local library. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon &#8211; Thurs 11p ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=370</link>
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		<title>EPIC Clash of the Data Titans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I need to know about SEO, I don&#8217;t go to some spammy search marketing scientician who claims to have reverse-engineered Google. I go to the source: Matt Cutts. But while reading Matt&#8217;s blog the other day and noticed that he had taken umbrage at a study claiming that two-thirds of Americans object to online ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=340</link>
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		<title>Online Social Marketing at the Sunnyvale Public Library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit it: I&#8217;m a lazy bastard. I was recently given an assignment to investigate the marketing activities at my local library, and despite the fact that I live only half a mile from the Sunnyvale Public Library, I decided to investigate only the library&#8217;s online marketing efforts. The goal of the assignment was threefold: ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=334</link>
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		<title>The Long Tail of Library Collections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to provide my thoughts on cultural diversity and collection development for under-represented communities, which is kind of like asking an Amish person how to use a computer. But since I was being graded on my response, I had to give it the old graduate school try. I noticed that the ALA ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=316</link>
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		<title>Can Human Rights Truly Be Universal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Information wants to be free. It wants to be freely sought out, expressed, and received. In fact, the United Nations has declared that humans have a right to seek, receive and impart information. While the First Amendment grants us freedom of expression, and the Freedom of Information Act gives us limited access to government data, ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Berrypicking and Evolutionary Epistemology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Marcia Bates” is a name I’ve seen many times in my LIBR 202 course. Her paper on &#8220;berrypicking&#8221; techniques for online search interfaces is a particular favorite of mine in no small part because of the remarkable analogy she draws. But I imagine a at least a few of her fellow library science students got ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Something Wicked This Way Comes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of us who saw the Disney movie first, the novel &#8220;Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury is something of a bait-and-switch in reverse&#8211;at least, if you are looking for a depiction of a librarian. The most immediate difference is that in the movie, the adult protagonist, Charles Halloway is a librarian; ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.metaholic-musings.com/?p=141</link>
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