Daily Archives: July 7, 2024

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  • Power, patronage, and popularity

    The historical situation that is being pointed to is one in which artists have ceased to be attached to some nobleman’s entourage and now form a “class” of their own, a group apart, so that their circle of acquaintance consists of other artists. No longer enjoying aristocratic patronage but unable to look to the bourgeois [...]

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    La sauce est tout…

    Are your so called friends busting into your quiet times with IM chat imprecations? Too much twitter? Too many facebook friend requests from Hugh? Here’s a little something you can use to distract them all while you attend to the important matters.

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    Hermione Granger is going to Die

    Just a little spoiler there…

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    Continental Driftwood

    Or “driftwood of the land”… Yes, Doc got me to thinkin’ about geology and continental drift and such… thanx Doc! [tags]doc searls[/tags]

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    Who’s your librarian?

    Nice recognition for Jessamyn West and many other librarians in tomorrow’s New York Times. Jessamyn West, 38, an editor of “Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out” a book that promotes social responsibility in librarianship, and the librarian behind the Web site librarian.net (its tagline is “putting the rarin’ back in librarian since 1999”) agreed [...]

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