Video: Ada Initiative’s Valerie Aurora chats with Code4Lib Librarians
Roy Tennant sits down with Valerie Aurora of the Ada Initiative during Code4Lib14 for a discussion on technology, feminism, and libraries.
Visualizing Cloud Atlas: A Graph of Storytelling
Network graph that shows which character told whom their story in the snaking narrative of Cloud Atlas.
Video: Teaching with Twitter – Pedagogy & Practice
In this video, Dr. Robert Williamson, Jr. (@rwilliamsonjr) of Hendrix College talks about how he teaches with Twitter. The video was created from a Google Hangout, Social Media in the…
Review: At Night We Walk In Circles by Daniel Alarcón
The structure of a novel serves the narrative. If the structure doesn't make sense for the story being told, then it doesn't achieve its purpose. In Daniel Alarcón's novel At…
We’re Not Teaching the Next Generation of Digital Humanists
I'm looking forward to a moment in the future. That moment is when the word "digital" is dropped from "digital humanities."
Link: It’s History, Not A Viral Feed
"It's History, Not A Viral Feed" written by Sarah Werner and published on her blog Wynken De Worde.
Poem Draft: On Sunday the Atheists Shop
While the lots of First Baptist and Central Methodist are filled tight like parishioners in the pews knees touching knees beneath khaki and hose the atheists are on the move…
Review: Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
Perhaps, I’d feel differently if I’d read the book instead of listened to the audiobook, but Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin is a novel that’s overly dense, without being especially weighty. For the first half / twelve hours of the novel, I found it enjoyable. Helprin writes with a style that takes pleasure in metaphor and seeks them out in every description. To use a metaphor though, Helprin’s writing is a bit like a Victorian house, it’s ornate to the point of distraction. What started out as fun became tiresome. Not every description needs to be exaggerated. What does that level of description do? Is Helprin creating a more magical landscape or does he not know when to stop? Whichever the case may be, it created a narrative that lumbers forward. Action and pace slow, caught up in the Candyland-like quagmire of imagery, somewhere between Molasses Swamp and Lake of the Coheeries.