Jason's Grey Cells: Archive

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Lovely.

Mar 31st

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Mar 31st

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I wish we had unlimited funds to travel to ALL THE EXHIBITIONS, like this one! Remind me to tell you all the story about our Dan Clowes New Yorker cover sometime.

Mar 30th

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“People are searching for something more authentic, says Kenneth Frampton, a...”

– Top Architects Go Local - WSJ.com

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Cats and The New Yorker: Me Gusta!

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Notes on a Lecture

lexlibri: Here are my notes taken from the Robert Darnton lecture on the future of libraries in a digital age. The lecture was structured around a quote from Thomas Jefferson (1813): “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lites his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” My notes are in point-form and it’s a rather...

Mar 23rd

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“But the most serious flaw in the analogy regards the information society in...”

– The Millions : Tumblr as a Commonplace Book h/t to Dots & Loops via Anne Welsh

Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

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Users Don’t Know What Libraries Are Talking About,... →

shrinkinglibrarian: On February 29, Library Terms That Users Understand by John Kupersmith, a reference librarian at UC Berkeley, was added to the University of California’s eScholarship repository. The document reviews 51 usability studies, most of them conducted by university libraries, to determine “test methods and best practices for reducing cognitive barriers caused by terminology.” Key...

Mar 21st

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Totally how my day feels.

Mar 21st

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“A study recently published in the journal Research in Social Stratification and...”

– Via. H/t to Jen for sending me this!

Mar 21st

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Libraries and Lemonade: Wikipedia & Libraries →

librariesandlemonade: libraryjournal: Via: Open-Site.org What do you think of this infographic? Frankly, it feels really weak to me, especially: The hint that wikipedia “caused” EB to stop printing, and that wikipedia is some how worse than EB (studies have shown they have roughly the same number… Using textbooks (as opposed to primary sources) as a rubric for accuracy (or, failing...

Mar 20th

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“Museum architectural search committees have invariably included the Kimbell in...”

– Filler, Martin. Makers of Modern Architecture. New York: New York Review Books, 2007, p. 131-132.

Mar 20th

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