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Posts by Andromeda Yelton

Curating Social Media Content

Submitted by Andromeda Yelton on April 6, 2011 - 7:56am

While listening to the obligatory NPR in the car today, I heard a story on creating a social media scrapbook using Memolane. It lets you integrate content from Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, photo- and video-sharing sites, and more into a timeline view of your social media life. Read More »


NARA's Electronic Archive: A Sanity Check

Submitted by Andromeda Yelton on February 15, 2011 - 8:56am

The cost to build digital infrastructure for the national archives could hit $1.4 billion.

I've been fascinated by this story. 1.4 billion? What on earth are they archiving, and on what scale? How does a project originally contracted at $317 million in 2005 end up projected to be finished at $1.4 billion in 2017? [pdf; see page 21]

It sounds outrageous to me, but then again, I don't know what comparable projects cost. So, let's bracket this. Read More »


Where iPhones Go to Die

Submitted by Andromeda Yelton on January 6, 2011 - 9:50am

Recently I heard this story on the radio, about what happens to electronics waste. I admit, I’d been vaguely aware of this issue but ignoring it, because you can’t do much research without coming across images like this one: Read More »


Thoughts on Broadband, Mobile Access and the Digital Divide

Submitted by Andromeda Yelton on October 25, 2010 - 8:55am
The Bobbi Newman / Jason Griffey blog debate on mobile access the digital divide got me thinking. What do we mean when we say "mobile access": is that Jason's iPhone (that gave us directions around Providence last Friday, complete with FourSquare tips) or my paint-chipped-off, sans-camera, three-year-old (but web-enabled!) Samsung?
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