March 2012
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I love the irony in my lit class.
rebuildourcities:
“Don’t look out the window! Read this poem about spring!”
(The poem, of course, proceeds to demand of us that we look out the window and reflect upon spring.)
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“Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.”
– William Shakespeare (via libraryland)
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Top 100 Children's Books of All-Time →
firstbook:
Do you agree with the #1 choice?
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10 Great Short Stories to Read Free Online →
10 Great Songs Celebrating Famous Writers →
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Will Kindle's Free Samples Change the Structures... →
“One of the curious things about SEO optimization is that it works by altering webpages so that they market themselves: that is, instead of creating ads external to the thing advertised, you re-shape the thing itself so that it’s easier to find and more interesting and attractive to link-clickers. And if we can do it with webpages, why not with, say, books? Why shouldn’t books...
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John Green on "Why Libraries Are Different From... →
fishingboatproceeds:
Yesterday on twitter, I expressed annoyance with the hundreds of people who send me emails or tumblr messages or whatever to let me know that they illegally downloaded one of my books, as if they expect me to reply with my hearty congratulations that they are technologically sophisticated enough to use google or whatever. (I dislike it when people pirate my books. I know...
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Missouri School District Questioned Over Anti-Gay... →
“Over the last year, the American Civil Liberties Union has asked officials from hundreds of school districts around the country to make changes in their Internet screening systems to eliminate bias, said Anthony Rothert, a civil liberties lawyer based in St. Louis.
All have agreed to, he said, except Camdenton, which the A.C.L.U. sued last summer.
The lawsuit — believed to be the first of...
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“She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled...”
– John Steinbeck, from The Grapes of Wrath (thanks, learntolivelearntolove)
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via qmsd)
“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories...”
– Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (via libraryland)
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Teachers are Becoming More Hip To Wikipedia →
“Wikipedia hasn’t won the war against dead-tree companies yet, but research shows that the education system is slowly adopting it as tool in the classroom. As of 2012, 73% of teachers prohibit the use of Wikipedia for research by their students. That’s down from 86% in 2005, and shows a steady rise of adoption. The likely reason for things not moving along faster is that Wikipedia can be...
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Some Greater Boston libraries are dropping fines... →
“On a Saturday morning at the Gleason Public Library in Carlisle last month, Jason Walsh deposited a tall stack of materials on the returns desk and automatically reached for his wallet. It was the end of school vacation, and he was sure that at least a few of the books, CDs, and DVDs his three young daughters had consumed over the past week had accrued some fines.
But the librarian...
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