by KimBoo York | Jul 17, 2012 | Acafandoming
I was looking a couple of my personal favorite fandoms, and realized that in a lot of ways the set up for the characters is not too far off from a bunch of college friends living in a dorm. Specifically, Stargate Atlantis and Avengers, but this is something I see in a...
by KimBoo York | Jul 16, 2012 | Information Science, Accessbility
I just got back from co-presenting at the national 2012 AHEAD Conference in New Orleans. While I am not a member of AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disability) I am associated with it through my work at FSU’s Student Disability Resource Center’s...
by KimBoo York | Jun 26, 2012 | Information Science, From the archives
It can become routine, working in archives. We deal with unique treasures every day, and it is nearly impossible to maintain a sense of wonder about the items in a collection when you are constantly exposed to them. Yesterday that all came crashing down for me. The...
by KimBoo York | Jun 2, 2012 | History of Text Technology, Information Science
Anyone who studies language knows of the intimate between symbols and letters, images and words. Egyptian hieroglyphs are the most recognized “ancient” language where those lines are blurred; the logosyllabic writing system of the Chinese and Japanese the familiar...
by KimBoo York | May 25, 2012 | Information Science
A friend sent me a link to fantastic essay by Craig Mod called Hack the Cover which is not quite a manifesto about ebook cover design. It is Craig thinking seriously about how book covers developed in the first place (to protect the innards, quite simply) and relating...