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- Playing the Long Game
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have been blogging for awhile, decades at this point. This blog has the word “exploration” in its title but, really, it may be more about experimenting. One thing about experiments is that you may not see them bear fruit for a long time, if ever. Or you may get results you … Read more »
- Like A Good Neighbor
Reading Time: 7 minutes I had the lawn mower out over the weekend. We had a brief respite from the heat and the rain and the new sod we’d put down needed a trim. As I was finishing up, my neighbor came out with his mower and a similar mindset and we got to chatting. We’ve lived here for over a year … Read more »
- Do Web Analytics Measure Anything Any Longer?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The age of bots is here. While we have always been awash with automated crawlers and scrapers, it has now become overwhelming. For a long time, the reporting of website statistics in annual reports or as a service benchmark for law libraries was questionable. Now it is downri … Read more »
- The Point of Training
Reading Time: 7 minutes I am a recent transplant to Chicago. This past spring, I learned that Chicago Public Schools have an administrative governance board at each school. The Local School Council operates as an advisory group for each principal, and is pulled from the school’s community of parents … Read more »
- Slow News Day
Reading Time: 6 minutes I was a newspaper carrier as a kid. That has started to inform some of my thinking about how to consume the news these days. We are seeing that information ingesting is increasingly designed to be disruptive or outright damaging. It is a mixture of many things: small, portabl … Read more »