Secret readers

Remember when reading comics was considered uncouth by the literati.  Well, I do and I know that it wasn’t that long ago, and that it took Maus and Batman: the Dark Knight to bring the light of day to the rest of the world on comics as art that is now upon us.

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One for the po-mo business world

I’m digging on Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: the Power of Organizing Without Organizations.  It’s outside my normal range of reading, but I’m interested in what he has to say on how “flat” organizations structures can actually come into fruition in today’s educational and/or Quaker environment (my spin on reading this).  I’m no business management [...]

Born Standing Up

Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin

My review

rating: 4 of 5 starsInteresting snippets on the life and development of his style of comedy. I liked reading this with “Kiss Me Like a Stranger” in that he knew people during the same time as Gene Wilder, such as [...]

CB “Library revival”

Library Revival! and Mind the Gap…
Last year, a Pew Internet & American Life Project report stated, “There are several major findings…one is this: For help with a variety of common problems, more people turn to the internet than consult experts or family members to provide information and [...]

the art of relevancy

Lots of talk in school (and other) libraries on how our spaces and materials are relevant to the Internet generation. This is part of an ongoing discussion which has probably lasted through all previous technologies that were supposed to put libraries out of business (remember radio and film as “the great educator” potential they [...]