4 posts tagged “superpatron”
Ever run for office? (School, club, organization, politics, etc.) Did you get elected?
I was elected president of my freshman class in high school, does that count?
Most of the organizations I am part of now don't have officers or elections, just people who run the mailing list.
One of these years I'll run for library board in Ann Arbor.
here's some things I'm happy for today.
My weekend looks like it will be full of seeing people - Deb has arranged a couple of things, and I was invited to Barbara and Gavin's 4th of July party. That should be all very nice. I'm grateful for the opportunity not to have to plan very much and for things still to happen.
Jon Udell and Lou Rosenfeld had a great conversation podcast:
Lou Rosenfeld is my guest for this week's podcast. Fellow superpatron Edward Vielmetti put me in touch with Lou, with whom I share an affection not only for Ann Arbor, Michigan, but also for a cluster of topics including information architecture, search analytics, print and online publishing, designing for usability, tagging, and microformats. We had a great conversation!
Well worth a listen.
Alan Gutierrez in New Orleans (via Ann Arbor) has connected up with the folks at Xavier University there to teach web publishing courses. Alan's Think New Orleans wiki was a rally point during the evacuation of Xavier during Katrina; it's good to see that go full circle. I'm grateful to Alan for his tireless efforts in getting into the streets and neighborhoods of New Orleans and giving people there their own voice on the net.
I'm happy that I got some time to be offline today and to write things that are longer than three paragraphs and unlikely to see the light of day for weeks or months. It expands my thinking to not always be reacting to the latest message but instead to wander through my own words first.
thanks
Stopped in for the first time at the Clements library to see an exhibit they had running of "colonial era photography" - really photographs from the 1850s-1870s of Colonial era buildings and landmarks.
It was remarkable to place what seem now to be familiar landmarks, all carefully and tidily and neatly preserved if they still exist, into a context of what things were only 100 years after their creation. You see things like landmark houses with weeds growing nearby, very early structures surrounded by Civil War era bold signs of commerce, and the ruins of what were once grand estates.
Now, of course, anything that old is either gone or polished up within an inch of its life.
one of my alter-egos is superpatron, writing about libraries and technology and also libraries as community space.
