Posted on June 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I actually have no idea what the answer to that question is. I already mentioned the essay about the Clash which was about corporate rock, politics, and the reality of growing up in Canby, Oregon.
But there’s also this short movie that the Willamette Valley Film Collective made last year to compete in the International Documentary [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by Anne-Marie
well, not really bad metadata. More like the wrong metadata.
Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So back in this post, I explained why one reason that I don’t like EBSCO’s new visual search is that they didn’t preserve the fun factor of the old interface. And I stand by that. So I was intrigued when I saw this in my feeds yesterday.
This is Spectra, part of msnbc’s Newsware suite of [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
…still thinking about last week’s conversation about the corporate media and what that means for information literacy instruction and the broader idea of library users as informed citizens. A couple of things have come across my screen that seem to fit into this conversation.
First, continuing the theme of cool and awesome visualizations is Muckety, [...]
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Posted on February 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
For reasons I won’t go into, I recently spent way too much time on the internet looking for magazine scans. (Anyone going to Online NW might soon be able to piece together why). Looking for those I ran across some other things I thought were awesome, even if I’m not always clear on [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
(Go here for part 1)
Because it isn’t any fun.
The old interface, with the circles and the squares, let you zip around and zoom in on an idea and then when that didn’t work, zoom out on the idea and try something new. I know that for some people, it didn’t work. For some [...]
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Posted on December 26, 2007 by Anne-Marie
Posted on December 20, 2007 by Anne-Marie
