The Art of Songwriting, a webliography

Snakeoil peddlers, with very little authority on the subject, have taken advantage of the common fantasies many people have of becoming a rockstar, as is evident in the plethora of books on how to write hit songs.  As a result, quality instruction, advice, and guidance for aspiring songwriters is not easy to find.  To compound [...]

Trusted Digital Repositories & Certification: An Early Map for Exploration

Most information professionals know that time moves quickly in the digital realm.  Even our most valuable digital heritage becomes more ephemeral every year.  In fact, some point to our current era as a potential dark age, unknown to future generations for a lack of artifacts about what we knew, who we were, and where we [...]

CivicSquared

My friend, Kevin Fricovsky, and I entered the Knight News Challenge.  The projects they fund are those with a focus “on neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs”.  Our project is called CivicSquared, and here’s a PDF document which explains all the nitty-gritty details, since we had to post the abridged version to the site.    [...]

DIYCity.org

DIYCity.org

- “How can modern Web technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today into finely-tuned, fluid, user-operated systems that are efficient, sustainable and fit for life in the 21st century?  DIYcity is a place where people figure these things out by actually building and launching applications [...]

Shaun Ellis Discography

Ok, I feel obligated to get some of my music up here.  And no, I don’t really have a discography.  I haven’t had the need to actually put my music down on plastic, so it’s all just bits right now.  I am working on a new album, though it’s been slow coming between full-time work, [...]

On Digital Library Services

Many library services that were once separated into technical and user categories are converging in digital environments (Pomerantz, 2008).  Furthermore, new service opportunities are emerging, and we can now see, as has been argued, that all services are user services.  We should explore in-depth the endless service opportunities digital libraries offer.
Self-service is incredibly appealing to [...]

Homeland Insecurity

I created this acrylic painting for a juried art show held by Lambertville Peace and Justice back in 2005