Mar
26
Now this is funny,
The Instagram Of Dorian Gray
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
the shrinking librarian
A shy violet keeps a library & information science scrapbook.
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- Lesson #1: Social Media Ratings of User Experiences Can Be Powerful
- Lesson #2: Arrange Your User Interface around the Urgent Tasks
- Lesson #3: Design Your System with a Multimodal Interface
- Lesson #4: You Must Design For Human Error Upfront For Usability
- Lesson #5: Style Captures the Attention
Posts tagged social media
Mar
17
From the Archives
An early version of Facebook? Check out this interesting and helpful employee directory from the 1970s!
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
Jan
15
Julianna Baggott’s slightly neurotic “Status Update: Long-Dead Authors on Facebook and Twitter”
Some dead writers simply shouldn’t tweet. J. D. Salinger was too reclusive; Hemingway would have seen it as needy; Faulkner would have balked at the character limit. Yet all three have accounts, certainly unauthorized and perhaps against their dead wills. But think too of those writers who would have delighted us had they churned out a steady stream of 140-character missives. The pithy zings of Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde? Plath, baring her soul? They all have Twitter accounts too.
Despite this lively back and forth, living authors win out here as well. I searched for dead authors on Twitter who could come close to the likes of Neil Gaiman (1.8 million followers) and Colson Whitehead (131,000) — but found none. Even Shakespeare (“Brevity is the soul of wit”) inspires a relatively lonesome 31,000.
But why all the God-forsaken ranking, anyway? When did literature become a high school ballot for king and queen of the literary prom? And was my obsession wholly about the preservation of the classics, or was it tinged by something a little less high-minded? Look, I am well aware of my lowly social rank online, and you shouldn’t trust a novelist during what could be a literary midlife (or midlist) crisis.
Oct
16
Five User Experience Lessons from Tom Cruise
(via iLibrarian)
EDIT: Tom Cruise doesn’t do it for you? How about Johnny Depp?
Oct
11
Tumblr Bookclub.
No seriously, guys, hear me out. It’d be awesome.
Our first book would be like, a John Green novel or The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Then people could reblog questions with their answers.
Questions like,
“The characters in this book have a tumultuous relationship. How is their relationship similar to your OTP?”
“Find a gif that best expresses your feelings about the end of the novel.”
“Use video clips or images from your fandom to create a book trailer for this novel.”
This is the kind of book club I could actually see myself participating in. XD
May
23
Twitter was founded just five years ago, meaning generations of legendary writers missed out on the chance to broadcast their witty thoughts to the world in 140 characters. What would Flannery O’Connor have sounded like if she’d had a Twitter feed? Or Charles Dickens? Or Shakespeare? The writers themselves may no longer be with us, but clever fans are impersonating them on Twitter, imagining what the scribes would have said if they’d had access to the microblogging service. Here are the best dead author Twitter accounts we could find.
(via nypl)
Mar
22
“Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or MEU?”
Huh. Good question. Now it’s a movie. “How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick” (Wired)
This is just the sort of thing I find fascinating anyway. The fact that Erwin is a local makes it even better!
(via libraryjournal)
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