Comments on: Warhol, The Shining, Twitter, Architecture, Strategic Planning, and Your Library

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Strategic Planning For Schools. | 7Wins.eu — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:50:52 +0000

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By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:36:35 +0000

Hey Nate:

First of all: c’mon, no more jotting notes while driving. Unsafe at any speed. Second, this conference sounds like it was very interesting, if a little intense. Any plans to post the notes, slideshows, etc. from it?

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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:24:35 +0000

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By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:26:44 +0000

This reminds me of things I am currently thinking about because A. I am a graphic designer and B. I happen to be reading a book called “The Laws of Simplicity” by John Maeda, which I really recommend (really quick read!).
As a designer I have learned that the most powerful designs are usually the ones with things like lots of white space, a simple composition and/or easy to read ideas one grasp at a glance. It’s always “the simpler the better” … and this goes along with what the book addresses as well: As technology gets more complex, we as a people are gravitating to simpler was to access all of this information. John Maeda uses the success of the iPod design as an example and says things like “The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction” and “Simplicity and complexity need eachother” and “Savings in time feel like simplicity”- more in the book, obviously, but you get the idea.
Anyway, its all very interesting to me as it ties into the idea of the Four-Word music review and the idea of the shrinking vocabulary English language that Nate mentioned. There is just so much information available to us and there is only so much we can take in and send out without overloading. It only makes sense in this day and age that people are looking to simplify things for the sake of both saving time as well for their own ease and comfort in the context of our informationally complex and communicationally rapid world.

By: Nate Hill

Nate Hill — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:47:16 +0000

Yes! I follow TwitLit, which is one of these!

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:28:59 +0000

I like the idea of taglines for a library. Did they give any examples?

Also, that is an interesting point with the twitter and the shrinking english language. It reminds me of an article that came out about a year ago in the NY Times about the rising popularity of cell phone novels that young people in Japan are writing – they are literelly texting the novels on their cell phones. At the end of the article the cell phone novel author was quoted saying that she thought traditional novels were too wordy and didn’t get to the point (or something like that).