If you watch TV (online or otherwise), or ride the subway in New York, you’ve likely seen the recent Power Ball ads like this one, that implies if you win, you’ll have enough funds to do anything, anytime, anywhere. I should first say that my relationship to the Lotto is not a familiar one — [...]
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Don Giovanni and an App for Binoculars
by Kiersten Greene
Published on November 4, 2011 4:25 pm.Last night, I had the privilege of going to the opera for the first time. As the opening bars of Mozart’s famous opera, Don Giovanni, began, I resisted the urge to hum along, and found myself tearing up before the curtain was drawn. I have long wanted to go to the opera, but for a variety of [...]
From Journal to Blog
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 14, 2011 5:23 pm.So much has been going on, it’s hard to figure out what to write about! I was back down at Occupy Wall Street this morning, and I am impressed that it’s still going strong. It makes me hopeful about what is possible. In the meantime, I got some helpful feedback about digital organization systems for [...]
Using Blogs as Data Collectors
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 6, 2011 9:25 am.When I started graduate school, web-based reference tools were only just being developed. At the time, I was using Endnote to keep track of my citations. That is, until I clumsily tripped over the cord attached to my iBook. This was before the cord was magnetic, and I watched in stop-action as all of my [...]
Occupy Wall Street / Power of Protest
by Kiersten Greene
Published on October 1, 2011 2:22 pm.I knew when I started this blog that it was going to be a challenge to keep up once the school year started–yikes, where does time go!? It’s been a whirlwind of a week, and culminated in going to the Occupy Wall Street protest yesterday afternoon. I have been to many protests, but few that were [...]
