Overheard at SXSWi

Erica Firment

Liz Henry from BlogHer describes how to hide content on the Internet:

“Obscurity through verbosity”

I think this also explains the reason why many academic websites have trouble finding readers. Digital Librarians take heed! Avoid unnecessary words.

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