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(Digital) Word
I’m in awe of the way this video takes years of web development and breaks it down into concepts whose relevance to our daily use of language and information is immediately clear and compelling.… more →
Let's Shall
(Digital) Word
SJ wrote 9 months ago: I’m in awe of the way this video takes years of web development and breaks it down into concep … more →
Flock to it
SJ wrote 1 year ago: Come Flock with me, in my Mozilla-powered social web browser. It took me about 10 minutes to get it … more →
First draft of my thesis in cloud form
SJ wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been thinking about how my thesis would look as a world cloud for a long time… and … more →
Open Access and MFA theses
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SJ wrote 1 year ago: UPDATE: After conferring w/ my boss here in the digital library division, I have learned that my sch … more →
Okay, maybe I do twitter
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SJ wrote 1 year ago: If someone this smart likes Twitter, maybe I can like it too. But it still won’t be any fun un … more →
A little bird told me
SJ wrote 1 year ago: that Twitter is for losers. But then another bird told me that Twitter was going to be huge during t … more →
If a faculty member says the same things librarians say
SJ wrote 1 year ago: People listen, at last. In which I read between the lines of this NYT article on the Harvard arts … more →
1 million scanned at U Mich
SJ wrote 1 year ago: The University of Michigan libraries have now scanned and placed online 1 million books. As they det … more →
Tag cloud lust
SJ wrote 1 year ago: Have I ever told you, I’m strangely turned on by tag clouds? I just love them. I love the way … more →
Like two hummingbirds who had also never met: IRs and humanities scholarship
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SJ wrote 1 year ago: John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. (variously attr … more →
Go directly to hoosegow
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SJ wrote 2 years ago: Hoosegow means jail. Tatterdemalion means rag-tag. Imprimis means firstly. A debenture is an unsecur … more →
Cowboy Chachi Loves You Best
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SJ wrote 2 years ago: A trip down this non-memory (seeing as I wasn’t born yet) lane has me literally laughing so ha … more →
Wikkufabu
SJ wrote 2 years ago: I like this one too: Book taking information seem story deep meet … more →
Do you wikku?
SJ wrote 2 years ago: I just read about wikkus today, a delightful new poetic form brought to by the Wiktionary and Projec … more →
Clank clank, that's the sound of my brain working on the chain gang
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SJ wrote 2 years ago: Or maybe it’s just the sound of my brain trying to change gears. It’s got a few too many … more →
Lazy blogger's Strunk & White
SJ wrote 2 years ago: Now that LCB has educated all of us on how not to be clichéd, here is how not to be cliché either. D … more →
A life less wired: could I hack it?
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SJ wrote 2 years ago: This week in my apartment has felt like a lesson in elementary free market capitalism. What happens … more →
Start a DSL drip, stat
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SJ wrote 3 years ago: So last night Adelphia, my not so friendly local cable provider, managed to push Boca Raton metropol … more →
Summer semester, I barely knew ya
SJ wrote 3 years ago: When is a semester not a semester? When it’s a summer semester! And right now I am in the proc … more →
