There’s a crucial part of interface design that vexes me and it’s iconography, the discipline of crafting highly communicative, aesthetically efficient pictorial symbols in miniature. It takes a special combination of artistry, patience and visual economy in order to get it right,
"AddThis spreads your
content across the Web by making it easier for your visitors to
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Steve Lawson's blog: "the Humanities Liaison Librarian for Tutt Library at Colorado College,
Colorado Springs. I work with the faculty of the Humanities Division to
do collection development in those subjects; I teach bibliographic
instruction for humanities classes; and I work with humanities faculty
when they have questions about using the library or library policy.
General reference duty at the ref. desk is also part of my job.
Beyond that, I am interested in using the web to bring better, more
useful, and more usable services to our students and faculty."
"LITA blog will be an interesting blog to follow if you are interested
in technology in library and information systems. LITA's mission is
that it "educates, serves, and reaches out to its members, other ALA
members and divisions, and the entire library and information community
through its publications, programs, and other activities designed to
promote, develop, and aid in the implementation of library and
information technology."
In an online world of small pieces loosely joined, librarians are among the most well qualified and highly motivated joiners of those pieces. Library patrons, meanwhile, are in transition. Once mainly consumers of information, they are now, on the two-way web, becoming producers too. Can libraries function not only as centers of consumption, but also as centers of production?
"Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by Nicholas Carr.
It's mainly about the business and cultural implications of information technology, though it
wanders into other areas at times.Nick is a writer, editor, and speaker. He is the author of the book Does IT Matter? and has written articles for many magazines and newspapers. He was formerly
the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review."
"Impunity Watch is a website that will act as: a) a real-time news source providing unbiased objective reporting on impunity issues; b) a publication for academic, professional, and student papers on impunity-related issues; and c) a message board allowing oppressed individuals across the world to gain a public voice. We at Impunity Watch hope that our website will become an important educational tool in raising awareness and facilitating discussion in the impunity and human rights related arenas."