Reining in interest is sort of going OK, as I have been largely sunk in MOOCery and refining my research interests for a couple of months. Librarians are prone to being generalists, and I often feel envious of people who have a clear focus. Working on sharpening mine a bit more. Related to MOOCs is [...]
Contents Magazines’s latest issue ‘began’ on 16 January, and is due to roll out during the next six to eight weeks. As part of my exploration of long form I’m going to blog its development here.
More updates: 21 Mar: #longform on WordPress.com, highlighting suitable themes, followed up with some longposts…13 Mar: Danish journalist Line Holm Nielsen won a prize for championing #longform, although paraphrasing one tweeter “woman publishes book online, what’s the big deal?” See also the long (obs) article on designing for longform…2 Feb: Oliver Burkeman on longform – “we [...]
#fredagsbog (#fridayreads in English speaking countries) is not so much a chat as a meme, with people sending a tweet about what they are reading. In Denmark it is efficiently managed by publisher Gyldendal, who send out prizes and run ISBN Bingo. The Danish version has had a lot of positive media coverage – an article in K Forum on [...]
Updates: read Videos as knowledge products for another video-sceptic take (20 May 2011). In defence of video, I’d Rather be Writing makes the point that the more familiar you are with something, the less instruction you need (19 August 2011) . Two tweets popped up in my stream this week on the topic of preferring reading to watching [...]
Since I started using Twitter around four months ago I’ve been struggling to keep up on top of it. Now I seem to be getting there – I’ve unfollowed a batch of celeb accounts and some which largely duplicate blogs I already read. I’ve just about got used to the echo chamber effect of RTs. Twitter is not a glorified feedreader, [...]
Weekly selection of interesting links, culled from my feedreader and Twitter stream. What is editing for? Doing the rounds is an IBM snippet claiming (provisionally) that well edited pages do 30 percent better than unedited pages. As one comment says, duh. More self justification over on August’s Bad Usability Calendar, which runs through the inverted [...]
Week beginning 19 July: Je ne suis pas content: Do cultural attitudes to writing affect content strategy? – blog post on this issue on the way… Content rationale worksheet – basics to think about when adding a webpage Nation shudders at large block of uninterrupted text – from The Onion In praise of forums? – [...]
users do not read on the Web – instead they scan the pages, trying to pick out a few sentences or even parts of sentences to get the information they want users do not like long, scrolling pages – they prefer the text to be short and to the point users detest anything that seems [...]
Note: post imported from elderly WordPress.com blog I’ve started using LibraryThing, a social networking service based around books and reading. I’ve been recording all the books I read since 1994, but have managed to limit myself to entering books only from 2006 onwards. So, Books 2.0 – it’s easy to grab an RSS feed for the last few books you [...]