I’ve been taking this month off Twitter and Facebook. Just checked in. Hm. Hm. Mmmmm.
A sliver of a sliver of a sliver
From The Web as a Preservation Medium
“I want to give back to the Web the way it has given to me. With 25 years behind us the Web needs us more than ever to help care for the archival slivers it contains. I think libraries, museums and archives that realize that they are custodians of the Web, and align their mission with the grain of the Web, will be the ones that survive, and prosper.”
The web is not a library
But could it be? From The Atlantic’s Raiders of the Lost Web:
“Ephemerality is built into the very architecture of the web, which was intended to be a messaging system, not a library.”
Library tattoos for LMU Grrrls on Film
Generations don’t exist
A good reminder for anyone who manages their institution’s social media: it’s never a bad strategy to simply treat people with respect (rather than as “a generation”).
Refdesking
The worms crawl in
I’ve started singing this to Aletheia. She calls it “the worm song.”
Self portrait of the artist
Subtext into text
From A National Descent into Trump’s Pants,
“Rather, Mr. Trump turns subtext into text, whether it’s about immigration or torture. Republican candidates had sent certain messages to voters for years, and now the party hears them coming back from Mr. Trump translated, or perhaps decoded.”
Let kids make and clean up their own digital mess
I’m posting less and less about my kids on FB (the one place I share kids photos) and thinking of stopping altogether.
New York Times: Don’t Post About Me on Social Media, Children Say