OSU Libraries open access mandate

Congratulations, Oregon State University librarians on your open access mandate!

inspiration and the right tools for the job

who doesn’t love getting things in the mail?  i went for a run on saturday with the dog and came home to drop her off after a couple of miles before going back out.  while i was out a mysterious little package arrived in the mail and in that package was a slim notebook labeled [...]

media cloud

I thought of Rachel and Anne-Marie’s Online NW presentation just now because I was playing with Media Cloud, which is trying to quantify the discussion about “traditional media” vs. “derivative media”.
Ethan Zuckerman (again with him today!) talks about the new project from Harvard’s Berkman Center in a 20+ minute video. Trying to watch the un-synced [...]

juke box hero

It seems to me that this is, ultimately, how the corporate content owners will lose the IP wars.  Srsly?  you do not want to mess with the cute baby videos, people will freaking hate you.

tomes, groans and micro-loans

As part of the reading and thinking I’ve been doing that lead up to my post last weekend, I’ve also been thinking about the question, if not books, then what?
Aaron Schmidt addresses this idea in his recent post, “libraries might not provide content in the future & it’s okay“. He talks about how much content [...]

a paradox in librarianship

I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about literacy lately, as maybe you can guess from my recent-ish posts. Deep into Gunther Kress’ Literacy in the New Media Age, I find myself analyzing the structure of what I read and write, and especially outside of literary contexts.
Recently at organic gardening class for example, I [...]

debutantes, nurses and librarians, part 2

So the Joker shoots Barbara Gordon, who ends up paralyzed in the Killing Joke. And it gets interesting right away because that’s not the end of Babs’ career as a crime-fighter. No, specifically because she is a librarian, specifically because she’s got the mad information skills she doesn’t lose the superhero mojo when [...]

debutantes, nurses and… librarians

So this post dovetails with a conversation Shaun and I have been having about gender and comic heroes and science geekery. Southern Fried Scientist is trying to answer this question here -
Why do heroes so rarely hold advanced degrees? And why are villains so often among the highly educated?
And there are bigger cultural questions, [...]

Notes from our Online NW talk - Soapbox, Echo Chamber & Salon…

Soapbox, echo chamber, and salon: Social media and civic engagement
Rachel Bridgewater & Anne-Marie Deitering
Online Northwest, 2009

Media Use & Civic Engagement data
Pew Internet and American Life project

Post-Election voter engagement (12/30/08)
The Internet and the 2008 election (6/15/08)
The Internet gains in politics (1/11/08)

Huffington Post and Politico lead wave of explosive growth at independent political blogs and news sites [...]

the long road to darkness

The other day, Anne-Marie posted about online craft tutorials and pointed out that they often assume some skill or knowledge on the part of the reader. If not, the reader can search for more tutorials or ask questions in the comments.
I think that one of the things she is suggesting is that information literacy lessons [...]