Team Building

Seeded on Wed May 30, 2007 11:37 AM EDT (Sciam)

Quick, accessible review of research on teams, including counter-intuitive and often ignored aspects.

business, teams, team-building, committees, organizations

Concurring Opinions: The Cruel Irony of Property Rights

Seeded on Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:41 PM EDT (concurringopinions.com)

The tragedy of the commons, again.

slavery, religion, property, churches

Concurring Opinions: Our Founding Fruitcakes?

Seeded on Wed Jul 5, 2006 10:18 PM EDT (concurringopinions.com)

Is the Declaration of Independence still relevant?

congress, constitution, politics, president, war, civil-rights

Whining on July 4, 1776

Wed Jul 5, 2006 10:14 PM EDT

Twice in the last few days I have been reminded of the list of grievances that constitutes the bulk of the Declaration of Independence: In "Concurring Opinions", and on NPR's "Morning Edition"

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congress, constitution, politics, president, war, civil-rights, powers

The Iraq WMD question

Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:06 PM EDT

Let me tender a hypothesis about the pre-war intelligence on Iraq's WMDs. I suggest that people in the dissemination channels from the intelligence analysts to the ultimate decision makers increased the contrast on a "gray" analysis to one in "black and white".

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politics, intelligence, president-bush, iraq-war, wmds

CopyCense: Smithsonian Deal With Showtime Restricts Archives Access

Seeded on Tue Apr 4, 2006 7:48 PM EDT (copycense.com)

Why is tax-supported research being used exclusively for private profit? I've got nothing against profit, mind you, but tax-supported research should be available to all.

taxes, smithsonian, us-news, knowledge, control-of-information

Perspective: The endangered joy of serendipity

Seeded on Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:34 AM EST (sptimes.com)

business, search, information, libraries

When those we employ to enforce the law disregard it.

Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:26 AM EST

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law, freedom, us-news

GPO's CGP - Basic Search: Full Catalog

Seeded on Fri Mar 10, 2006 6:02 PM EST (catalog.gpo.gov)

New version of GPO catalog.

library, access, gpo, government-documents

Creating Passionate Users: Dignity is Deadly, Part Two

Seeded on Wed Mar 1, 2006 8:26 PM EST (headrush.typepad.com)

business, work, creativity, users, fun, work-should-be-fun, user-centered

Creating Passionate Users: Schrodinger's Products (ten ways to be desirable)

Seeded on Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:23 AM EST (headrush.typepad.com)

marketing, 2-0, libraries

Self-censoring due to Patriot Act

Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:56 PM EST (azdailysun.com)

A flushing sound.

patriot-act, usa, patriot, politics, libraries, librarians

U.S. Copyright Office - Orphan Works

Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:45 PM EST (copyright.gov)

When I was managing editor of an audiobook publisher, finding the copyright owners of print books we wanted to record was a royal pain.

Main Articles: 'The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After', Ariadne Issue 46

Seeded on Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:30 PM EST (ariadne.ac.uk)

Excellent perspective on where libraries should be going.

web2-0, libraries, longtail, aggregation, metadata, d2d, c2c

Welcome

Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:35 AM EST

I'm the public services librarian at Phoenix International School of Law, recently established in Arizona. I will post, occaisionally, on information generally, legal information in particular, and the U.S. intelligence community.

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intelligence, information, libraries