InterLibrary Loan requests... textual coordination for a text that's not where you want it!
I can empathize with Elevatedprimate. I've spent this month requesting books from every corner of Illinois.
Showing posts with label workspace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workspace. Show all posts
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Friday, February 04, 2005
Staging 1.0
Just read someone's 100 Things list. What got me was, "Twenty-five. I have notebooks full of useless html that I haven't used yet."
See what I mean? We keep text for future use.
Oh, and "Thirty-two. I use post-it notes all the time. My wall beside my computer has about 10-15 post-its up there right now." People are strangely, almost fetishistically, aware of their habits of mediation.
See what I mean? We keep text for future use.
Oh, and "Thirty-two. I use post-it notes all the time. My wall beside my computer has about 10-15 post-its up there right now." People are strangely, almost fetishistically, aware of their habits of mediation.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Workspace 1.0
One mediated writing practice I'm keenly interested in is staging -- how and where we place the texts we think we'll need later or are placing around us in order to use at the moment.
Think about it; we've all got idiosyncratic practices of storing texts. There's the "Mad Filer" who saves everything on and off screen in hundreds of carefully labeled files. There's the "Chaos Theorist" who works best with papers scattered all around her and icons littering her screen. We might also characterize the "Mad Piler," "Post-It Note Boy," and "The Librarian" -- a book-based creature who can't possibly have read all those books that make his office seem so small (think your college English teacher).
No one has thought more about the role of the structure of one's workspace that Johndan Johnson-Eilola, now at Clarkson University. (Check out his site: http://www.clarkson.edu/~johndan/datacloud/)
Here are a few images from his own efforts to structure his information space:
(Oh, and here's Thomas Jefferson arguing for an arrangement of his information space.)
Think about it; we've all got idiosyncratic practices of storing texts. There's the "Mad Filer" who saves everything on and off screen in hundreds of carefully labeled files. There's the "Chaos Theorist" who works best with papers scattered all around her and icons littering her screen. We might also characterize the "Mad Piler," "Post-It Note Boy," and "The Librarian" -- a book-based creature who can't possibly have read all those books that make his office seem so small (think your college English teacher).
No one has thought more about the role of the structure of one's workspace that Johndan Johnson-Eilola, now at Clarkson University. (Check out his site: http://www.clarkson.edu/~johndan/datacloud/)
Here are a few images from his own efforts to structure his information space:
- The Virtual, several screens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndan/1221383/ (looks like he could use one of these)
- The Real, several walls: http://people.clarkson.edu/~johndan/other/wall.html
(Oh, and here's Thomas Jefferson arguing for an arrangement of his information space.)
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