The fine people over at CASLIS Ottawa have put together a guide to blog posts on this year’s CLA conference, including several by yours truly. I’m happy to see more people blog these events. The reflections are quite interesting and help me learn things that I missed and see other aspects that I might have missed.

I have wanted to post more this week but I’ve been very busy producing drafts of my thesis and working through edits and revisions. Each step makes it a better project. The project was slightly daunting to start and it has become the largest (+24,000 words) work I have ever written.

Over the next few weeks, I shall be travelling to attend a conference and a summer institute where I will learn more skills and there shall be plenty of interesting things to blog about then.

The conference ended on a high note for me witha session on Net Neutrality given by two librarians from Concordia University, Alex Guidon and Danielle Dennie. I’m about to finish writing my thesis on Net Neutrality, but I still found this presentation interesting. At one point, it was argued that there should be a “third way” between ‘pure’ neutrality and the non-neutral view. I suddenly felt back in the late 1990s when Tony Blair andBill Clinton developed the notion of the “third way” in politics. That notion was always a bit vague, but there we are. Anyhow, it was a presentation where I learned things and that’s what I wanted.

In the afternoon, I got a bunch of work done while waiting around in the Montreal train station. A productive way to end the conference.