Thursday, September 10, 2009

Introduction, and testing blog set-up

Selection of blog template choosen as black writing on light background is easiest to read for lengthy slabs of text (600 words), and most of the templates look too busy so are too distracting from easy reading. I have purposely choosen NOT to make to the template on the assumption that as the exisiting template has been carefully considered by whoever designed it.

A single photograph has been choosen for all 4 reviews. This is to make the reviews all share a similar prompt to the reader - the computer is about technology in libraries, and a different photograph would be used for each other topic potentially covered in the blog.

Selection of blog title based on my interests in studying old manuscripts - I mean REALLY old manuscripts, pre-early 4th century AD, for which technology is an asset in that
1. Use to find much information on the web from unusual sources that are often ephemeral - such as blog that are here today and then disappear without explanation
2. Use to find some online articles - too bad most things are not online despite the beliefs of many that everything is on the web, and the near future is unlikely to change this unless soembody is prepared to wear the cost of digitising the obscure stuff I'm interested in.
3. Technolgy is great for typing up results - thank God for word processing for clumsy typists like me.
4. Technolgy can be used for data enhancement.

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