Please, for the life of Brian, give adequate thought to creating image maps (images that contain multiple links, mapped to different areas of the image.) While they can be useful, and even creative, they can also be confusing. (The one in the linked Wikipedia entry is a good example of a creatively-designed image map, that… Read more »
Posts Categorized: rant
In which I tell you how I was almost a Mover and a Shaker
Julie Jurgens is a friend of mine. When I read her post, ego, thy name is librarianship, I nodded along to a lot of what she said, but I didn’t feel it necessary to weigh in on the back and forth discussion that ensued (both in the comments, and in others’ response posts.) Part of… Read more »
A rant on institutional Facebook pages…
Something just set me off. It’s not that rare that that happens, but it is rare that it annoys me enough to post here (not that I’ve abandoned this blog, I just use it mainly as a place to occasionally weigh in on topics of interest to me, not a regular publication.) There is a… Read more »
Rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated -or- Librarian shushes self
Just back from my lovely three day weekend, and I have to see this in my feeds? Really people? Here I am, sitting at my desk, just trying to do my job, and the internet is already on my back. Well, maybe not my back per se, but our backs, we humble librarians (or information… Read more »
Social Media Snobbery (or, Twitter is a tool, but you don’t have to be.)
(This article was cross-posted over at LISNews.) If someone corrects me one more time when I say that I “twittered” something (“um, you mean you tweeted?”) I am going to scream. Really. Right at them. And is the term “social media” passé already? I un-followed the person who tweeted that about thirty seconds after I… Read more »
