Five Things: April 25, 2024 — As in guillotine...
"The road we took here is washed out." On library ebooks, digital media, TikTok and marketing, EV overload, and Gen X insights.| As in guillotine...
"The road we took here is washed out." On library ebooks, digital media, TikTok and marketing, EV overload, and Gen X insights.| As in guillotine...
"Democratizing access to creativity." On AI in writing and comics, engaging libraries, visual literacy, and Ways folders.| As in guillotine...
"Data-informed, never data-driven." On NOLA, library AI, author newsletters, clickbait diversity, and comics startups.| As in guillotine...
Until more public libraries prioritize sustainable digital collections over temporary access to bestsellers, it's a stalemate.| As in guillotine...
"'Inevitability' continues to be the boogeyman driving bad business decisions." On digital archives, content theft, expensive ebooks, public domain, and Electric Capitalism.| As in guillotine...
"Trains can be rerouted, stopped, or if necessary, derailed." On library borrowing, the black box problem, faking diversity, digital divides, and thinking about systems.| As in guillotine...
"These damn kids don't like what I like!" On book snobbery, comics for kids, acceptable censorship, marketing KPIs, and car stuff.| As in guillotine...
