by KimBoo York | Jun 2, 2012 | Information Science, History of Text Technology
Anyone who studies language knows of the intimate between symbols and letters, images and words. Egyptian hieroglyphs are the most recognized “ancient” language where those lines are blurred; the logosyllabic writing system of the Chinese and Japanese the familiar...
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 25, 2012 | Information Science
A friend sent me a link to fantastic essay by Craig Mod called Hack the Cover which is not quite a manifesto about ebook cover design. It is Craig thinking seriously about how book covers developed in the first place (to protect the innards, quite simply) and relating...
by KimBoo York | May 23, 2012 | Information Science, Observations and Opinions
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 19, 2012 | Information Science, Project Management
At the Society of Florida Archivists’ annual conference this year, I presented a poster on project management (PM) in archives processing. I thought I’d share it here. Click on the thumbnail to go to a PDF of the poster: ...
by KimBoo York | May 15, 2012 | Information Science, Project Management
People often assume that project management (PM) is all about someone “in charge” telling other people what to do. That is fairly accurate, but gives PM a reputation as being the refuge of the bossy and the incapable. The truth is that PM is all about someone “in...
