links for 2008-04-18

It’s my belief that library users are expecting more from their web browsing experience. I’m not talking social networks, I’m talking interactive web design.

Here’s a library idea – take a good easy to parse catalog interface like John Blyberg’s AADL REST interface and hook it up to something like (CoverFlow) so that you can flip through book covers just the same way. (He said this in 2006, folks)

As someone who never goes to my home library for new books because they are embargoed from checkout for a week this would be a far easier way for me to browse new books remotely without having to strain my eyes reading through three hundred lines of text.

Uses CoverFlow to display contents of digital collections. See, it can be done!

Also uses CoverFlow (like) technology to display their recent titles, all of which are available via RSS Feeds. Small nitpick: why put the Dewey Decimal numbers on the pages with the categories? Patrons don’t care about/understand these categories.

Despairing, disgusting and disheartening – those words are flying around today to describe ABC’s irresponsible Democratic presidential debate Wednesday night. Here’s another one – dangerous.

You do have time. You do have time if you care about your business and your brand. You just have to get over yourself first.

My scientists told me that the perfect song length had to be closer to three minutes than two, but definitely shorter than three minutes. Three minutes is where bloat starts to set in. Where the band thinks: Hey, let’s do the chorus seven times.

When you see … Isaac Brock (of LCD Soundsystem) on the cover of a magazine, nobody asks him, “Aren’t you worried that it’s taking away from the band?” I think it’s a really sexist point of view, and people only ask women that question.

Feminists, on the other hand, are not movement building, they are actively destroying women and blaming those women for the destruction.