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live from #apollo: act 2
Act 2: During
PCS had set the balcony aside for the twitterers and bloggers. i’d been really convinced that all the typing and computer screens around me would be really distracting but i really didn’t notice them. perhaps it’s because in my house there’s almost always a laptop open, almost always some keys being typed, but [...]
live from #apollo: act 3
Act 3: Like now Twitter people
When we went out into the lobby for the first intermission, #apollo was the number one trending term on Twitter. I have to admit, that was a heady feeling. I also found out that i knew a couple of the other twitter people through mutual friends - a fact they [...]
the case of the feted feline
It all started as a winter weekend trip to a Forest Service cabin nestled between Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Adams. I was looking forward to no electricity, no cell phone service, no people, and carrying all of my food, water and bedding a half mile by snowshoe and sled into what remains of the [...]
copyright driveby
Lots of chatter out there about music licensing costs on 80 year old music basically destroying the commercial prospects of the independent film Sita Sings The Blues. Interesting stuff, it’s always good to have these real-life examples of the deleterious effects of copyright maximalism. This one might be a particularly interesting one to keep [...]
resolved
when we started command-f, i had this unspoken promise to myself that i’d never post anything new until i’d read, pondered, and (ideally) responded to prior posts from anne-marie and caleb. well, consider this a broken promise. i read but haven’t yet pondered caleb’s last couple posts and i haven’t even read anne-marie’s post from [...]
so here, here is some text that looks cool
So this is related to Caleb’s last few posts if you squint really hard and look over to the left. Because Caleb wrote about text, among other things, and he wrote about it over my head (but I’m thinking - Rachel and I will catch up!). And I’ve been watching these videos in [...]
post-text information retrieval
I’m interested lately in how the internet would work, especially in regards to information retrieval, without text. I’m aware that the computernet is not just about information retrieval - plenty of what goes on has more to do with social interaction (including commerce and all types of communication) than it does looking stuff up.
I have [...]
thoughts on a working theme
I’ve said this two or three times in different ways in the past few months, but I figure it was time to copy and paste it so I could share it with y’all.
Books are artifacts of our culture and will continue to exist for a long time, and maybe some will exist forever. At one [...]
secret library book: letters to children
In fits of melancholy, I get up from my desk and pace in the stacks. I walk around the floor and try avert my eyes when I get near patrons at their computers. To distract myself, I look at books instead. I suppose it might be easier if I just went outside, but then, I [...]
discovery on the network level - it’s too messy out here for customers
Rachel said:
“So, yeah, when I hear all the stuff about trying to make our libraries more like businesses and trying to make our patrons more like customers it makes me despair. Despair because, for one, if we seriously think we can compete with commercial booksellers at their game we’re seriously effing deluded but more importantly, [...]
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Command-F by Rachel Bridgewater, Anne-Marie Deitering, Caleb Tucker-Raymond is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. 2009 ⌘f.
