vertical files

vertical file: A collection of resource materials, such as pamphlets, clippings from periodicals, and mounted photographs, arranged for ready reference, as in a library or an archive. just another digital-archivist-in-training. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-23564980-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();

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Short Song For Justin Bieber and His Paparazzi

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Obsessed with the Cooper-Hewitt website's new "browse by color" feature. AWESOME.

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Snow Plow, Union Square (1910) by Library of Congress on Flickr

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strandbooks:

Love it!

(6/10)

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Buttons also resist. Over time, their use causes stress to the human body, known as carpal tunnel syndrome. Like its related postural malady, “text neck,” these syndromes are signs of how computation is beginning to stretch us, both cognitively and corporally. The resistance of the button is an intimation of the way technology increasingly seems to be pushing back.

With my e-book, I no longer pause over the slight caress of the almost turned page—a rapture of anticipation—I just whisk away. Our hands become brooms, sweeping away the alphabetic dust before us.

One of the most ridiculous things I've ever wasted my time reading. Nobody forced you to buy a Kindle, buddy.

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The old saw “information wants to be free,” a relic of the early information society boosterism of Stewart Brand and Kevin Kelly, is no longer sufficient to describe the behavior of information flows and data patterns. The tendency of information to be free in both senses of the word—not restrained but also very cheap—is just one of many characteristics... Information can be shared or exploited. It can be privatized for the good of the few or to amass capital for large projects; or it can be made public to aid in development of industries and the redistribution of wealth. Information does work and its exchange can result in material (not just semiotic) consequences. The tendency to make sweeping claims about the behavior of all information– from medical records to big bird memes– ignores the complexities of the social. Information is contingent, reactionary, and anarchistic.

What Information Wants, by David Banks, on post-truth politics, the election, and what information is and can do.

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In love with this 1969 bicycle safety manual from Brainpickings.

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But there is a deeper problem with the digital humanities in general, a fundamental assumption that runs through all aspects of the methodology and which has not been adequately assessed in its nascent theory. Literature cannot meaningfully be treated as data. The problem is essential rather than superficial: literature is not data. Literature is the opposite of data.

(Could not possibly agree less -- this is an interesting piece insofar as it totally misses the point. Enjoyed reading the comments, as well as this response.)

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Age disparity in sexual relationships: The “never date anyone under half your age plus seven” rule is a rule of thumb used by some in Western cultures to judge whether the age difference in an intimate relationship is socially acceptable.

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I am having an unusually light semester of grad school and as a result am bringing back readmorewikipedia. For now at least. Even though it lost like 5k followers since I was last on it a year ago.

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Ethiopians // The Mountain Goats at Farm Sanctuary (14 June 2009)

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This particular performance of this song was officially sponsored by ME, I requested it and paid $40 (this show/weekend was a benefit for Farm Sanctuary). My then-boyfriend said he'd chip in half but didn't. So it's all mine.

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Laura Stevenson with a beautiful cover of “No Children” by the Mountain Goats for the Tallahassee Turns Ten compilation. 

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GOD I can't wait for this album.

This is also in celebration of my not being able to relate to this song anymore, other than in an abstract historical kind of way.

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The Library of Congress digitized old issues (1870s-90s) of the Statistical Atlas of the US, which looks to be an AWESOME publication full of really beautiful and interesting visualizations. And Brooklyn Brainery created an amazing web interface for it. Check it out!

There's even a Tumblr full of really cool archival visualizations (and other stuff like this modern recreation of some of the charts using HTML and JavaScript).

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The Wind Map looks totally insane right now.

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Carl Sagan’s reading list.

Sagan’s papers were recently donated to the Library of Congress by Seth MacFarlane. 

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Wait…hold up.  Carl Sagan’s papers were owned by Seth MacFarlane?

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Nope - he donated the money for acquiring them.

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IS THE NEW

The project documents every instance of the phrase “is the new” encountered from various sources in 2005. It is intended to map the iterations of a peculiarly common marketing and literary device.

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Awesome visualization tool that lets you play with Harvard's circulation and acquisitions data.