Cites & Insights 8:6 available

Cites & Insights 8:6, June 2008, is now available for downloading.

The 28-page issue is PDF, as usual, but (since My Back Pages is missing) all segments are also available as HTML separates at the Cites & Insights homepage.

The issue consists of:

• Bibs & Blather: Quick Updates: Limits and Slouching - A brief reminder of a timely essay, and a progress report about where things stand on the possible 2007-2008 liblogs project.


• Perspective: On Wikis and Transparency - Transparency is great, as long as you're aware of it. MediaWiki makes your wiki (and most other wikis) very transparent to outsiders. A good thing, but do pay attention.


• ©3 Perspective: DRM and ISP Surcharges - Comments on the slow death (?) of DRM for purchased audio downloads--and the latest plan to assure Big Media of ongoing profitability.


• Perspective: On Semantics, Reality, Learning and Rockstars - "Reality" in this case: When is a book not a book? Discover the connections between these four mini-perspectives and win yourself a virtual candy bar!


• Retrospective: Pointing with Pride, Part 2 - Selected excerpts and comments on issues past, another part of the centenary celebration.