So I can’t guarantee your library will have this. I DO know however that there is a number of libraries in Kentucky that have access to both Hoopla AND Libby and each one has a different set of books that... Continue Reading →

*warning, this post might be a bit stream of consciousness but IS all about the same topic and does have some summary info at the bottom. I’ve been seeing a lot of Xteink readers show up in my feed and... Continue Reading →

The tech tree is an interactive visualization of technological history from 3 million years ago to today. A work in progress, it currently contains 2236 technologies and 2965 connections between them

I think it’s going to become more important to document, journal and share some things as the world moves at a faster pace so I’m going to try and do a weekly review of the things that I found most... Continue Reading →

Very helpful.

Around the world, cultural workers are striking, protesting, running campaigns and mobilizing in relation to the use of AI in the workplace, such as Hollywood writers, game performers in the US and voice actors in Brazil. This tracker aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns and mobilizations by cultural workers — broadly understood as the arts, culture and media sectors — in relation to…

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In the category of “things you didn’t know you needed” or recent small purchases, I bought a box cutter that I’m really happy with. I’ve been cutting boxes with these two small pairing knives that are dull and rather terrible.... Continue Reading →

Here is another story: the hallmark of capitalism is poverty in the midst of plenty.

This is not the only thing wrong with capitalism, but it is its gravest failing. Widespread poverty — especially amongst children, who clearly bear no responsibility for their plight — is morally reprehensible in rich societies where it could be easily eliminated.

Anticapitalism is possible, not simply…

Some really great marketing and copy and just learning how other design consultancies market & communicate what they do (part of my ongoing work into building Poet & Scribe, Craft & Practice, and (at some point), Exclamaquest Studio.

What Harmonic Design does:

Harmonic crafts tailored engagements to meet your organization's unique needs at every phase, working alongside you to co-create…

Curated folksonomies present a possibility for implementing the human judgment of expert controlled vocabulary design at scale by giving users the opportunity to review and revise the folksonomy, interpreting tags as synonymous or related. The same processes that produce large, user-generated collections and their messy folksonomies can also produce controlled vocabularies, given particular…

EDIT: Found it via internet.

The paper, itself, is from 1997. I'd be interesting to read how things are update, if so or not.

Abstract

Although a considerable amount of research in personality psychology has been done to conceptualize human personality, identify the "Big Five" dimensions, and explore the meaning of each dimension, no parallel research has been conducted in consumer…

Examples* of historical letterpress cuts (image printing blocks) showing things you might not think of as existing, when letterpress was still being used for popular & commercial printing (rather than the craft & art uses persisting today).

This toolkit is an introduction to gender-inclusive mobility planning, meant to serve as a resource for designers, planners, and policymakers seeking to integrate gender-inclusive mobility into the planning and design process. The toolkit aims to collect and distill existing information in order to:

• Understand the Problem – How transport and mobility systems systematically…