A while back I had posted an entry about the possibility of using blog tools for disseminating research, specifically to create and manage an electronic journal.

It’s exciting to see that arxiv.org has joined the blogosphere. There are some interesting comments there about the use of trackbacks on arxiv.org. Here’s another good posting on the blog as a sharp tool for research; again, this one has a lot of interesting comments. Jacques provides background and further discussion of trackbacks within arxiv.

“Every book begins as the desire for another book, as the drive to copy, to steal, and to contradict, as envy and as overconfidence.”

From Beatriz Sarlo, a leading Argentine intellectual, in Una Modernidad Periférica: Buenos Aires 1920 y 1930, p7.

Librarians are sure to take particular note of one item on this year’s Beloit College Mindset List:

“#49: Libraries have always been the best centers for computer technology and access to good software.”

Yet, I know that there are still a significant number of academic librarians, including some library directors, who think that utilizing library space as a technology center is the wrong direction for libraries and that the “information commons” is just a fad.