8 October 2009
Michael Adams has a superb article on Samuel Johnson’s contributions to lexicography in Humanities.
E-book Economics and Libraries
7 October 2009
An interesting post over at Librarything.com on how the economics of electronic publishing might affect libraries.
(If you haven’t checked out LibraryThing, you really should. It’s a really neat concept. You can browse my library here.)
Sheidlower Interview: F-Word
7 October 2009
Inside Higher Ed has an interview with Jesse Sheidlower about the latest edition of his book, The F-Word.
Sex and the Single Lexicographer
2 October 2009
Jesse Sheidlower, of the Oxford English Dictionary and author of The F Word (which is out in a new edition) has a piece in Slate on the difficulties in including sexual terms in the dictionary.
Note that women don’t “prong” men, they “peg” them.
Future of the Local News
2 October 2009
This is a bit off-topic for this site, but it’s a subject I’m very much interested in. Much has been written recently about the future of news coverage, particularly local news coverage. What will happen to our polity if local newspapers, which are pretty much the only source of hard news about local government and events, shut down?
The inimitable Clay Shirky questions this basic assumption. How much of a local newspaper’s resources are devoted to actual news coverage? The answer is surprising.
