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Web Apps I Love

12 Nov ’09

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I’ve had the opportunity to do a few presentations on Web 2.0 and social media tools for libraries, and as always happens after presentations like these, people come up to me and ask me for recommendations for tools that I actually use. So without further delay, here’s a brief list of some web applications that I use — and like — in no particular order.

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Book Review: Lovesong: On Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester

6 April 2009

Lovesong: Becoming a Jew by Julius Lester My review rating: 2 of 5 starsPurple prose takes away from what could be a unique conversion story. The part I was most interested in – Lester’s decision to convert, and the conversion process, only covered approximately a scant third of the book. Instead, Lester dedicated far too [...]

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Book Review: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

11 October 2008

See my reviews on Goodreads. This isn’t my favorite Gaiman book. I’d even venture to say that it isn’t one of the better books Gaiman’s ever written (as much as it pains me to sasy so). Still, the book deserves a decent rating because of the wit, humanity, and ever so slightly askew view of [...]

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Book Review: Wide Awake by David Levithan

23 September 2008

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Book Review – Blood Colony by Tananarive Due

27 July 2008

Read my review on Goodreads. This book suffers because of the amount of time that passed between the last volume in the Life Brother’s saga (2001′s The Living Blood) and the publication of this volume. 7 years is a long time to try to carry the threads of a story forward, and Due has aged [...]

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Radiohead's In Rainbows: 5 Second Review

10 October 2007

Few things are as perfect as Kid A, but this comes awful close.

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