by KimBoo York | Apr 11, 2015 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
For those of us living in the middle-class realm of the First World, we are coming up on a crux: living offline or online. This is less an issue about social media, where we have all invested at least a part of ourselves – even if only LinkedIn for the sake of our...
by KimBoo York | May 29, 2012 | Information Science, From the archives, Observations and Opinions
Today I had the pleasure of linking the needs of archives-using scholars to Avengers fans in Japan during a serious discussion about archives digitization. The key is that both demographics have developing expectations that are at odds with reality, based on their...
by KimBoo York | May 23, 2012 | Observations and Opinions, Information Science
As an acafan, one of the more interesting aspects of fandom to me is the migration of communities from one platform to another, and how that affects text. From hard-copy mailing lists to USEnet groups to YahooGroups to customized online forums and such forth, the...
by KimBoo York | May 8, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
With popular vlogs like tumblr and pinterest making the idea of “curation” as common as milk, the concept of curation has taken a pop-culture hit that most scholars, academics and InfoSci professionals turn their nose up at. But for InfoSci professionals,...
by KimBoo York | Apr 24, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
In my Information Organization class, the one with the cement-brick equivalent textbook that is already two years out of date (you know the one) , there was a whole section (chapter? I don’t know, I gave the wretched thing to a friend taking the class) full of...
by KimBoo York | Apr 23, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
LibChat is a weekly twitter event that is, in a way, a crowdsourcing of brainstorming. Someone poses a question about their job, the field in general, or a specific topic to the moderator, who then reposts it to all followers of the hashtag (#libchat). Suggestions,...
