Instead of watching House episodes all day like a normal person, I spent one of my vacation days making a video about the media practice of greenwashing. According to the world’s only remaining viable encyclopedia, greenwashing is the “practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly.”…
Continue reading...I’m shopping for fonts this morning. I work in a library with a font budget. Life is good. I’m torn between Saint Louis and Bodega Serif. Slow wave is a comic strip made out of people’s dreams. Here’s a librarian one. Incidentally, this morning I had a dream that I…
Continue reading...I’m typing with my face today due to a stupidity-induced thumb injury from, I think, painting my basement. Homeowners beware. In the meantime, just to show that I’m not all thorns and lemons, here are some good websites. Good in that attainable way. You will notice that these are mostly…
Continue reading...Thanks for all of the kind comments on the previous post. They really helped balance the freaking out I had to do when a kind well-meaning soul posted this link as an example of a REALLY GOOD children’s website. Ok. Let’s go through this again. Slowly. This time I’m going…
Continue reading...I got this in my email today: What children can teach us: Lessons learned from the trenches of digital libraries “…developing digital libraries that support young people in querying, browsing, and reading scanned materials.” It all sounds very impressive until you click the link. Look at that thing! It’s like…
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