Monthly Archives: January, 2009
Story: “Shrinking Music Videos”
Yesterday morning, NPR’s Morning Edition closed with a story about how music videos have changed in the past twenty-five years. Once the audiovisual staple of MTV, music videos have moved to the more ubiquitous channels of the World Wide Web, cell phones, and PDAs. As a result, video directors have had to change their style, [...]
“Books I Will Not Read”
As “that guy” at my branch who makes fun of paperback romance novels (“You’ve gotta read this. She’s married to a duke and she’s pregnant!”), I shamelessly loved this installment of “What to Read” from the L. D. Fargo Public Library in Lake Mills, Wisconsin: “Episode 18 : Books I Will Not Read.”
Thanks to Helene [...]
Putting libraries on the map
Let me start by saying that I love Google Maps. A big part of that love is my fascination with geography, both human and physical. (In fact, I almost sought a geography minor as an undergrad.) The other part of that love, though, is the sheer usefulness of Google Maps for self-orientation. I’ve [...]