I’m a sap. I can’t help but get choked up when I read or hear Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech in Henry The V.
eHow tells me that “Saint Crispin’s Day is a good day to honor lives well lived, beliefs held dear and shoes well made.” But Steve Denning calls the speech a “magical, [...]

Posted August 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: eliciting desire, henry the v, motivation, shakespeare, st. crispin's day, steve denning, sustainable rhetoric, war, what are we doing here, william shakespeare. One Comment.

If that proverbial room full of monkeys at typewriters ever really did randomly pound out the complete works of Shakespeare, would they be as good? What if they randomly pounded out something better?

tags: chance, complete works of shakespeare, monkeys, quality, shakespeare, shakespeare’s complete works, typewriters

Posted October 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: chance, complete works of shakespeare, monkeys, quality, shakespeare, shakespeare's complete works, typewriters. One Comment.

While I’m anxiously working to better fit libraries into the Google Economy, a few paragraphs of Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear, got me thinking about its role in politics.
Glassner was telling of how a 1996 article in USA Today quoted the National Assocation of Scholars saying that Georgetown University had dumbed down its curriculum [...]

Posted July 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: bloggers, blogosphere, conservative, culture of fear, falsehood, falsehoods, georgetown, georgetown university, google, google economy, libraries, nas, national association of scholars, politics, shakespeare, william shakespeare. 3 Comments.