Ever notice that it’s really easy to misinterpret someone’s intended tone of voice when you are reading an email from them? Your friend writes “Hey, haven’t seen you in a while, everything OK?” and you imagine it to be delivered in a miffed, snippy, guess-you-don’t-like-me-anymore tone when she actually meant to sound interested, concerned and [...]
Posts under ‘Miscellany’
austincast.com interview
Paul Walhus of austincast.com interviewed me yesterday about my experience at SXSW 2008. I love the format he used, with the video interview in one window and web pages in another, so that whenever I mentioned something he pulled it up on the web for viewers to see what I was talking about. Very cool! [...]
Twitter’s AWOL
It started last night.
I hit “reload” to find out what everyone was doing just before I quit for the night.
Nothing.
Blank white page, little spinny Firefox icon. No updates. No avatars. Okay, I thought. I can cope with this. It’s late, and I can just check in the morning. No problem.
Except I can’t. It’s STILL DOWN. [...]
Five Things, or Late to the Party But Hey There’s Still Beer
Like Howard Rheingold, I am hooked on Twitter. I don’t update a lot, but I like to see what folks are doing (I think of it as my virtual hallway of colleagues) and I like to be helpful and answer people’s questions. The links that come across there are also usually worth following, which is [...]
dangers vs. pitfalls
I’m in a session on digitizing newspapers at the Digital Library Federation’s Spring Forum, in which one of the presenters (Tom O’Brien of Global Business Development) has just defined the difference between dangers and pitfalls very neatly. He showed a photograph he had taken of the city of Pompeii with Vesuvius in the background. The [...]
that talk on data visualization
The talk by Hans Rosling I mentioned in an earlier post is available online! TEDTalks is a new feature on the TED website where selected talks from the TED2006 conference, TED Global, and others are made available — the way it should be, free — so that you can view them in the page, or [...]
If your phone book were a person
The phone rang the other evening. Uncharacteristically, I chose to answer it. A pleasant female voice identified herself as a staffer doing a survey for the phone book and asked for the male head of the household. "Hey," I shouted to my husband, who was standing about 10 feet away, "do you want to take [...]
what happened last night
Last night was one of the best nights of my life.
Every night I read a book or two to my son, who is six, just before he goes to bed. Last night we read McElligot's Pool by Dr. Seuss. We've read it before — he loves all the funny fishes. After we finished, he climbed [...]
Campus Impact paper released
The paper Maximizing Campus Impact: Lessons from the Trenches, which I mentioned last month, was officially released today. You can read all about it (and download a copy of your own) on the NMC's news page. Enjoy :-)
Thrashing around in the blogosphere
I set up a… feed? page? space? on bloglines today. I have no clue what I'm doing. Several blogs offered a selection of feeds that I could subscribe to, and I picked more or less at random. I subscribed to a bunch of blogs that I read, and paged through them, trying to get used [...]
