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Judging a Book by Its Amazon.com Rating

June 29, 2010
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When I was a kid, I would go to the library and choose a stack of books based on their cover art or clever titles. This was a mostly hit or miss strategy, and I would usually end up picking a lot of stuff that I didn’t like. But, when I was a kid, that was okay – I had a lot of free time!

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At Least Facebook Has a Privacy Policy

May 20, 2010
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Over the years, our judicial system has taken many steps to ensure that public libraries protect the reader’s privacy. Libraries store very little information about their patrons, and “In many states, violating a public library reading record statute is a misdemeanor criminal violation”.

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Always Leverage the Other Medium

May 4, 2010
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If you love a craft, you should practice it, no matter what. Don’t think too much about trends. If you recognize a need for a blog, then you should be the one to start that blog! Just think about how many other people online have the same questions that you do; use social media to find those people and empower the community.

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Seven Friends in Common with Snow White

March 25, 2010
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Curious to see whether a similar book already existed, Emily searched Amazon and scoured the shelves at her local bookstores. She found plenty of books about Facebook etiquette and how-to’s, but she couldn’t find anything about the effect that Facebook was having on society. She wanted to write this book.

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Letting Go to Grow Artistically

November 16, 2009
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Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Happyloo: Friends, Foes, and Fun by my friend Mark Mariano. A colorful and playful comic book filled with characters like Tickle, a friendly turtle, and Meatsauce, a gentle yet dim-witted bulldog who loves food, Happyloo first ran on Mark’s website from June 25, 2008 to January 19, 2009.

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