Archive of Avenging

A nerdygirl review of the Game Developers Conference

on February 5th, 2009 in ALA, Avenging, Cornell, Favorite Posts, Feminism, Interface design, Library tourism, San Francisco, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games, Women in tech by | 4 Comments

Greetings from an ethnic librarian working in the games industry! I’m posting this review of my experience last year at GDC (the Game Developers Conference) held every year here in San Francisco. It was originally part of a letter to my team here at Linden Lab, but I thought you…

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SXSW Interactive 2009 – Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research

on February 3rd, 2009 in Avenging, Career, Digital Library, information science, Interface design, Librarianship, Linden Lab, Second Life, SxSw, Tech, User Interface Design, Video games by | 2 Comments

Happy news! I was invited to be a panelist at the South by Southwest Interactive conference next month, as part of their ScreenBurn track. I’m on a panel called “Funologists live and in person: Guerilla Game Research.” I’ll share my experience starting some low-budget user research cycles for Second Life,…

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Librarian Revolution

on January 25th, 2009 in ALA, Avenging, Favorite Posts, Librarians in popular culture, Products, Shopping by | 1 Comment

“ Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment… I wouldn’t mess with them. I really didn’t realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. ” — Michael Moore, after outraged librarians saved his book To celebrate our profession’s revolutionary approach toward freedom of expression, I…

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Librarian Avengers Shop

on January 25th, 2009 in Avenging, Products, Shopping by | Comments Off

I’ve upgraded the Librarian Avengers shop, and cleaned up the products and metadata. Because EVERYONE LOVES CLEAN METADATA! Check it out.

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Oh yes.

on December 22nd, 2008 in Avenging, Life, Music by | 6 Comments

In less than a week, 118 of our friends and relatives will stop by to dance at our wedding. I’m up late picking the music. Any suggestions? I’m battling the forces of Chicken Dance here, people. I could use a hand. What is on your Do Not Play list?

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Stickers!

on November 27th, 2008 in Avenging, Products, Shopping by | 2 Comments

Finally! A solution to book-banning and community standards. heh. From the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal…

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Hot Librarian Necklace

on November 7th, 2008 in Avenging, Books, Librarianship, Library tourism, Shopping by | 1 Comment

From the department of products-inadvertently-marketed-to-librarians: Hot Librarian Necklace

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So proud

on November 5th, 2008 in Avenging by | 2 Comments

I am so proud of my President, Barak Obama. Today, for the first time since 9/11, I feel unified with my country. No matter who or what you voted for, we are all in this together. Yes we can.

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