Stories from my Life as a Technologist
Dan Sinker & Dylan Richard
Basic premise: Saw a lot of big websites go down. This is a really stupid problem for news to have. We have a major problem if your site goes down when you’re the single source.
Need to think about how to approach this problem, in a manner of strategic thinking rather than throwing servers into it. Continue reading “MozFest: Practicing Failure in the Newsroom”
I can take no credit at all for the development of the tutorials pane of Thimble (that goes to Tom Park for development and Pomax for reviewing), but I was so excited by it that as soon as it was pushed out into production (before it was officially announced), I decided to try it by “converting” one of the existing starter makes. Continue reading “Webmaker: “Education Friendly” Tutorials in Thimble”
Feel the Internet. Reminds of people, experiences, memories. There was a sense of creativity, empowerment. When thinking of the future, want the people online and getting online to also get that sense of empowerment. Continue reading “MozFest Day 1: Opening Plenary by Mark Surman & Others”
I recently submitted this proposal to LibTechConf 2014 for a full length presentation. I already posted this on github as a gist, but thought I’d post it here. I’m considering revising this for a couple of other conference submissions that are coming up as well, so we’ll see if any of them accept it! Continue reading “Conference Proposal: We Are All Disabled! Making Web Services Accessible for Everyone”
Thanks to @fsayre, I was recently reading Breaking the barriers of time and space: the dawning of the great age of librarians by T. Scott Plutchak. It’s an interesting look back on the past, how the printed book changed libraries, and how we can be entering “the great age of librarians” with the shift to digital. I thought I would reflect on this a little more. I’m not sure I will come to any better conclusion, but perhaps how this might apply to myself and others. It’s a smattering of thoughts, so I may have to rewrite this later, but I hope this will get some people thinking and discussing. Continue reading “We Can Shape “The Great Age of Librarians””