Jetsons: Express or Local
October 8, 2012 § Leave a comment
Don’t Tell Santorum
July 10, 2012 § 1 Comment
Locavore is in their now too. Not butch and femme though…
The Alison Bechdel Interview Bechdel-fun-spine – The Comics Journal.
Library Math: 10 Comics = 1 Good Book
July 10, 2012 § Leave a comment
Local Search Rankings Provide Insight into Who We Are
July 6, 2012 § Leave a comment
Local Insights is a report (pdf) from local ad firm YP that provides data on the sorts of things people search for locally. These local local search rankings always seem to provide a pretty accurate depiction of the things we spend our time doing:
1. Restaurants… eating
2. Financial Services… making sure we have enough money for eating (and for paying someone to fix our cars)
3. Auto Repair… paying someone to fix our cars
4. Real Estate… pretending like we can afford to buy a new house
5. Beauty Services… trying to look pretty
6. Physicians & Surgeons… paying someone to make us look pretty
7. Auto Parts… trying to fix our cars ourselves
8. Building Contractors… trying to fix our houses since we can’t really afford to buy new ones
9. Legal Services… suing the plastic surgeon and the guy fixing your house
10. Lodging… staying at the Super8 while your plastic surgery heals and your kitchen is remodeled
Being local is a hindrance to creating local news…
July 6, 2012 § Leave a comment
This American Life: outsourcing local news to non-locals:
Producer Sarah Koenig reports on a company called Journatic, that is producing local journalism in a brand new way. Or is it really journalism? (23 1/2 minutes)
Is this more about gathering local data than about writing local news?
Main Street Public Library
July 6, 2012 § Leave a comment
Now reading (not literally now): http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2011-fall/main-street-public-library.htm.
What Do We Mean By Local? by John Mair, Neil Fowler, Ian Reeves
July 5, 2012 § Leave a comment
Held by two libraries worldwide.
Amazon.com: What Do We Mean By Local? (9781845495404): John Mair, Neil Fowler, Ian Reeves: Books.
Belong to Where You Are
July 5, 2012 § 1 Comment
Source: Creative Review http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2012/july/mesa-cadeira-anthony-burrill
WolfWalk from NCSU Libraries
June 8, 2010 § 1 Comment
WolfWalk is a mobile library project that enables users to explore North Carolina State University campus history using a location-aware interface optimized for mobile devices. The application supports a map view with geotagged placemarks for over 50 major sites of interest on the NCSU campus, and a browse view for quickly locating a known site by name.
Presentation about the WolfWalk project today at the Academic Librarians 2010 conference in Ithaca, NY: “Geotagging, Geolocation, and Augmented Reality: Opportunities for Libraries to Create in Situ Learning Experiences.” Rats, that I can’t go, but can follow on Twitter.
Dewey & Main 