Life and Marilyn
Evidently, I was born under the Sign of Marilyn in the Life Magazine Zodiac. Think what you may about Google Books, but this new project is kind of cool, and …
Librarian, urbanist, and retail historian
Evidently, I was born under the Sign of Marilyn in the Life Magazine Zodiac. Think what you may about Google Books, but this new project is kind of cool, and …
Great article on some of the difficulties and other concerns surrounding the digitization of those hand made photocopied zines from the 1980s and 1990s. Having worked for a Kinko’s branch …
I ran across this oddity from thirty years ago while scanning things for work yesterday, and thought it might be entertaining in light of the recent DTV switch. In 1979, …
Look for this page to start being interesting (OK, maybe that’s an overstatement) any day now with the return of the blog and other exciting features.
Interesting post, if you’re interested in this sort of thing.
Posts have been few and far between lately, which should indicate that I’ve been rather busy over the past two months or so. So what’s been going on? Driving, mostly. …
A great thing about having lots of credit at the local used book emporium is that you sometimes take a chance on a book you might not have grabbed if …
Guiding Light, the oldest dramatic series on American TV (or maybe any other, for that matter) has been cancelled after seventy-two years on radio and TV. Almost all these shows …
So maybe someone really will hire me some day: When the world entered the digital age, a great majority of human historical records did not immediately make the trip. Literature, …
This article about the fragility of electronic and technology-dependent information is a couple of years old, but it’s a good overview of one of my primary areas of interest within …