Dalia With No H

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The word accessible is fine in its place; that is to say, public toilets should be accessible to people in wheelchairs; but a word that is perfectly in its place in civics or civic arts is entirely out of place, I think, in a wider discussion of the arts. There is no reason why a work of art should be instantly accessible, certainly not in the terms which lie behind most people’s use of the word,” he said. “In my view, difficult poetry is the most democratic, because you are doing your audience the honour of supposing that they are intelligent human beings. So much of the populist poetry of today treats people as if they were fools. And that particular aspect, and the aspect of the forgetting of a tradition, go together.”

the poet Geoffrey Hill as quoted in the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/01/geoffrey-hill-one-of-the-greatest-english-poets-dies-aged-84

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Digital spaces are becoming ever more interactive and continuing to move away from a page-based model. Cross-channel, data-dependent, multi-platform, context-aware content has become the norm. In this new reality, the intentional design of information environments for findability, understanding, and adaptability has never been more important.

The program for the Information Architecture (IA) Summit will explore these ideas and more in May in Atlanta. We will also hear keynotes from:

Cory Doctorow Léonie Watson Lisa Welchman Jesse James Garrett

Come and join us. You won’t want to miss it.

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On my way home, I stopped at the Public Library and looked at the lobby display by a local artist. The show is titled "Captured in Cloth: Fabric Collages of Leni Wiener." This is "After" from 2012. The photo doesn't do justice to how the fabric conveys emotion.

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We lit an extra candle for women at the wall http://womenofthewall.org.il/2014/12/light-one-candle/

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On my previous visit to Minneapolis' @nyespolonaise, a couple celebrating 60 years of marriage welcomed us and told us they had been singing at the piano for 40 years. Then she sang the most meaningful “Somewhere over the rainbow” I’ve ever heard. I hope it will still be open in April. Cheers to the time and place it serves.

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Quoting @scrawford: "a blizzard of other bumper sticker slogans will be deployed to fog Americans’ understanding of what is actually happening"

https://medium.com/backchannel/obamas-presidential-moment-744bc9247447

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Library Walk, 41st Street.

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#peoplesclimatemarch thoughts and reflections

I marched with family members from NYC, Westchester County, Maryland and Massachusetts.

It was the youngest’s first march. The oldest marched in Selma, on the Mall with MLK Jr., and she walked more than anyone else. She also commented a lot about how young and energetic the crowd is in NYC, how many different groups were there, and how great it was to see the energy out on the street.

I saw four colleagues in person. Five more colleagues were tweeting from their spots in the march. My workplace cares.

We saw a girl and her mom on the MetroNorth train at 10 am on the way in to the city, then on the subway, then at Lincoln Center getting ready to march. Finally, we saw them at 6 pm walking home. They liked our shirts. We liked their signs.

Everyone helped me collect our favorite slogans from signs we saw: - You owe us a world as good as the one you got - System change not climate change - There is no Planet B - Planet Earth has a right to life - We raced to the moon, let’s race to clean energy - Join the world’s biggest food fight - Planet, People, Peace, over Profit - Leave science to the scientists - This poster was Up-Cycled - Renewable is do-able - Change the system not the climate - Choose love over fear - When global climate is under attack, what do you do? Stand up! Fight back! - This is what democracy looks like

One of my favorite, moving moments was the pause in remembrance of all those lost. To have a moment of silence - as silent as thousands of people in the middle of New York City can get - was powerful. We were on Sixth Ave, past Radio City Music Hall. It was followed by the most amazing roar. The roar to end the silence flowed up to us from Central Park. It was like a wave, crashing down and we all joined in at the top of our lungs.

Hey world leaders… Your turn.

[wordbookstores]

Think of questions for Nick harkaway — about his newest novel Tigerman but also superheroes, technology, sandwiches, his other books, WHATEVER — and put them in our Ask box before next Saturday, 9/27.

Come to WORD Brooklyn on 9/27 at noon to help Jenn ask the questions…

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harkaway online and live in Brooklyn.

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In my six months writing on I Quant NY, three government agencies have responded to my posts.

The first was the NYC Department of Health (DOH), which respond to a post about possible grade inflation in restaurant inspection scores. Unfortunately, that response said almost nothing and we...

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The difference in responses from NYC agencies.

[libawr]

In which the NYT + Google prove that American cultural stereotypes are all embarrassingly true. Growing inequality and polarization don’t help, either.

(via Inequality and Web Search Trends - NYTimes.com)

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"Wordplay... fell from the pages like sweets tumbling from a bottomless bag"

Tribute to the magic in The Phantom Tollbooth http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/14/the-phantom-tollbooth-norton-juster-1961 via @mytweendom.

It was supposed to be a book for children about cities and architecture with a grant from the Ford Foundation. But the writing creates an "intimate connections between words, colours and numbers" to the delight of all readers for over 50 years.

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Frank Lloyd Wright, laylight, 1903-05. From the living room of the Darwin D. Martin House, USA. Made by Linden Glass Company, Chicago. Iridized cathedral, opalescent and clear glass. Via Sotheby’s

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"... to reject any work because we feel that it does not reflect us in a shape that we can easily recognize—because it does not exempt us from the active exercise of imagination or the effortful summoning of empathy—is our own failure. ... In creating a new word and embracing its self-involved implications, we have circumscribed our own critical capacities. That’s what sucks, not Shakespeare."

Well said Rebecca Mead.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/scourge-relatability

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Samuel Beckett. And kittens. Internet, you win!

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I'm trying to make sense of financial services/financial protection design challenges

I'm trying to make some sense of connections I see.

There is a technology and innovation fellowship accepting applications now for a 2 year program  http://www.consumerfinance.gov/jobs/technology-innovation-fellows/.

One of the current fellows shared a presentation about making the world a better place (@efortiz) http://www.slideshare.net/efortiz/designing-in-the-open-how-sharing-can-make-the-world-a-better-place

And then from Amy Brown, @D2Dfund and @CFSInnovation are two of the teams in FinCapDev who are competing take on a variety of financial challenges. They are looking at issues ranging from "community-based giving and purchasing to fostering positive financial behavior in young adults and immigrants to providing pathways to financial inclusion for the underserved… all with the help of an incredible pool of technical and advisory resources."

Instead of ordering pizza faster, they are both ways to make improvements that make a difference.

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A free event from Archivists Round Table poses the question:

Should the rules be the same for digital records as they have been for paper records, or should there be heightened concern for privacy, data aggregation, and advanced analytical capabilities?

I think knowledge managers, librarians, archivists, information architects, data keepers, and information managers should be thinking about the question and how to answer it.