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Monthly Archives: February 2014
My Garden Was A Bed of Weeds
So here we are halfway into February and it’s about time to begin planting
a garden.
Ok, that sounds fantastic. Right? Hours of sweaty work in July, dirt that
refuses to be removed from underneath fingernails and the worst part…
weeding. But you know what? I don’t care. I love gardening. But perhaps you
think gardening isn’t for you. Or perhaps that you don’t have time in your
incredibly busy life. Perhaps you think you kill everything. Or perhaps you
just don’t like vegetables.
Whatever your reason, let’s just accept that fresh produce is delicious and
completely worth the time and effort it takes to grow it. So how exactly
does one grow things? Gardening seems like a crazy impossible thing to get
started with. I mean, there are farmers who have been doing it for years
and they’re still learning new things! How am I supposed to plant things
and keep them alive if there are 75 year old dudes who have been doing it
their entire lives and they don’t even totally get it?
To this I say, “Don’t worry. It’s really quite easy and we’ll start a
garden for you in 5 easy steps.” Continue reading
Posted in Student Blog Project 2013
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Facebook as a Multimodal Diary for Future Biographers
Recently, Facebook celebrated 10 years online by creating the “A Look Back” feature. This specialized web page pulls images, posts, status updates, relationship changes, and a number of other data types from your public profile, and compiles them into a cute video, all with a catchy tune and cued transitions. Anyone can access and their… Continue reading
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Tagged Archives in the News, Changing Technologies, Facebook, Media Type | Audio-Visual, Popular Culture, Social Media, Storify, syndicated
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ArchivesMouse Participates in Crowdsourcing Discussion
A little while back, I posted about the potential value social media has for repositories as a crowdsourcing tool, which could help them locate more information and clarify existing theories. A few days ago, I participated in one such example of social media crowdsourcing. Accessible Archives, a company that creates and maintains primary source databases,… Continue reading
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What I Wore…and Ate
As I was home for my winter break, the majority of my time was spent eating and catching up with friends. What better way to catch up with high school friends that you haven’t seen since November, or even August … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Student Blog Project 2013
Tagged eats, Fashion, Food, Friends, lunch, oatmeal, Style & Food, syndicated, Trendy
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