Comments for Robin Camille Davis

Comment on About me by Designing Preservable Websites, Redux | girlinthearchive

Designing Preservable Websites, Redux | girlinthearchive — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:59:17 +0000

[...] possible chance of preserving your online content, I wanted to follow on an excellent blog post by Robin Davis (previously) of the Smithsonian Institution Archives on the topic of designing preservable [...]

Comment on Aubrey Beardsley is bomb. by Allan Berry

Allan Berry — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:53:50 +0000

found this via G+… nice that old threads may no longer disappear as before.

Beardsley is wonderful.

Comment on About me by Designing Preservable Websites, Redux « The Signal: Digital Preservation

Designing Preservable Websites, Redux « The Signal: Digital Preservation — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:00:34 +0000

Comment on Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 1] by Robin Camille

Robin Camille — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:57:52 +0000

So this blog post is like three years too late to take advantage of those (-___-) Story of my life, finding out about amazing resources I no longer have access to!

Comment on Whalers, sailors, and libraries at sea [part 1] by Robin Camille

Robin Camille — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:55:43 +0000

The problem of "what to read next" is something that sends me into total paralysis too often, I think more so now because I have less time to read (or should have less time — can't wait to graduate and no longer have academic guilt). And it's something to put into a historical perspective, too — I mean how did these sailors decide what to read next? How much of their decision was made by lack of choice vs. friends' suggestions vs. ____? I love thinking about the timeless social aspect of book reading, and now it seems like it's getting easier to divine the history of reading. Have you seen the UK Reading Experience Database? I would LOVE to see an American version of that. It's searchable by profession, era, class, location, etc... Future grant project?!

Comment on Books I read in 2011 by Robin Camille

Robin Camille — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:47:51 +0000

Thanks! I've never read Waugh's travel books before. Will have to check those out. I quite adore him. The first Waugh I ever read was The Loved One. My used edition had such a terrible cover I was sure it was going to be awful, but it was one of my favorite books that year!

Comment on 4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design by Allan Berry

Allan Berry — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:19:08 +0000

I’ve watched a few of their dev videos. I just don’t think we’re in Yahoo’s core market, whatever that is. They’re smart, that’s for sure, if a bit on the dry side… more stable than sexy. When Google and Apple finally come back from space, I have a sneaking suspicion that Yahoo will be there, sipping a bourbon and doing things the old fashioned way.

Comment on 4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design by Robin Camille

Robin Camille — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:59:36 +0000

Thanks Allan! You know, it’s funny how useful some of those Yahoo tools are, for a relatively unsexy company. I’ll have to look at the YUI more.

Comment on Books I read in 2011 by Meghan Kutz

Meghan Kutz — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:01:01 +0000

If you liked Waugh, his travel books are a riot — especially Labels, wherein he travels to Paris and other places (because it’s mostly a riot — his other travel writings to the West Indies, Mexico, etc. ae riotous at times and poignant and sharp and stylish as always but also increasingly concerned with catholicism and his own curmudgeon-ness). Anyway: highly recommend!

Comment on 4 tips for a responsive, readable blog design by Allan Berry

Allan Berry — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:40 +0000

For browser reset, I like to just swipe the reset styles from the Yahoo User Interface library. The rest of the library is pretty redundant with JQuery, IIRC, but it's nice to lean on the big guys for reliable browser performance.