habitually probing generalist

On photography Susan Sontag; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1977 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Just as I am excited about photography for the first time in a long time, Susan Sontag is killing my buzz. I took a digital photography class this summer from the Mass Comm department at Briar Cliff. I was able to use my own [...]

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Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart Bonnie A. Nardi & Vicki L. O’Day; MIT Press 2000 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This book should be required reading for all librarians and for anyone using technology. Oh, yeah, everyone. I read this immediately after Brown and Duguid which was about “information” and thus IT, and which sought a middle [...]

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The technology of orgasm: “hysteria,” the vibrator, and women’s sexual satisfaction Rachel P. Maines; The Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I really wanted to title this “universal orgasmic mutuality” [see below] but I figure this post is already going to draw too much of the wrong traffic to my blog. ::sigh:: This book [...]

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The social life of information John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid; Harvard Business School Press 2002 WorldCat•Read Online•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 8th book for my 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge. Short version: Librarians, and others in any “information industry,” should read it and ponder its critiques of “information fetishism.” I bought this book back in [...]

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Constructing my previous post, Books Read in 2010, was far too difficult.  Still. I keep a simple running list of books I read in VoodooPad, a personal wiki, on my laptop.  I record them by date started, author’s last name and title.  When I finish I add that date.  At some point I look them [...]

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This list of books that I finished this year is based on the date I started reading each book. Though they were generally finished in something close to this order, some books took much longer than others. I finished a total of 102 books in 2010. Five of these were re-reads. I read 85 print [...]

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  This is my 5th book review for the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge. Note: This is in no way a balanced review of this book. I do think this can be a valuable book to read if you are interested in the topic; at least it will be for a little while longer. But [...]

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How It Seems to Me: New & Selected Poems Phil Hey; MWPH Books 2004 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I have been wanting to try the OpenBook plugin for WordPress for a while now. When I came back to blogging a few months ago John Miedema posted on his own blog that he was working on version 3 [...]

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In Fall 2005 I took a class with Prof. Chip Bruce on Pragmatic Technology. One of our assignments was to: Produce an analysis of one keyword of your choice (see Raymond Williams, Keywords A vocabulary of culture and society. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press) for examples. This keyword is not just an index [...]

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This a followup to my Iowa Library Association Conference post from last week, which was written on an iPad (at home), about the use of the iPad at the conference. All in all, it worked great. Thankfully, there was fairly reliable wifi in both the hotel proper and the conference center portion of the Coralville [...]

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