Cites & Insights 8:7 available

Cites & Insights 8:7, July 2008, is now available.

The 26-page issue is PDF as always, but most essays can also be downloaded at the Cites & Insights home page or from the links below.

This issue includes:

• Bibs & Blather - Why there isn't a nine-year cumulation of Top Tech Trends--and wondering about "free" and the worth of creative work.


• Trends & Quick Takes - four trends (including ongoing notes on high-def discs) and four quicker takes.


• Perspective: One, Two, Some, Many: Search Results & Meaning - And that's the short title! Notes on the apparent meaningless of large open web search engine result counts.


• Interesting & Peculiar Products - fourteen products and eleven group reviews and editors' choices.


• Retrospective: Pointing with Pride, Part 3 - third in the series of centenary celebrations.


• My Back Pages - Exclusive to the PDF version, as always: eight mini-rants.