May 2011
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May 31st
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May 31st
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My Staycation: Memorial Day Weekend
Best Staycation Ever. Here’s the recipe: Ingredients: sunscreen, water, canvas bags, a credit card, some bagels, and good attitude Friday Afternoon (summer fridays!) and Night: lunch w/ a hilariously dressed Murray Hill master and some wine, purchasing beautiful oak drawers from people around the corner who are moving, solid and low-key evening out in brooklyn with a good friend who finds...
May 31st
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May 30th
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“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you;...”
– Winnie the Pooh
May 29th
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Etiquette: The Ballet
I’m off to the ballet this afternoon for the first time in awhile, and I realized I don’t know if I’m supposed to dress up, or if it’s weird to bring my binoculars, or generally anything about the show. So, I looked up Lincoln Center FAQs, and here’s what I learned about applause: When do I applaud? Applause is the way for the audience to greet or show...
May 29th
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Wow! A $10,000 real life treasure hunt!! →
These guys: hid a treasure in NYC and gave clues to find it! And not just ANY treasure…. $10,000! We Lost our Gold uses videos and Twitter to give clues to where the money is hidden, and to get folks out and about in the city. I’m very interested to learn more about how this game has played out and figure out why now, almost a year later, the treasure still has not been found. Who...
May 27th
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May 27th
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Grandma Asked: Why is the Bronx THE Bronx and...
The Bronck family was a wealthy family living on many of the Harlem river’s surrounding acres. Jonas Bronck, the family patriarch, was a narcissistic man and wanted to name everything after himself. Thus, around 1639, the river became Bronck’s river. Once the Bronck’s started croaking and immigrants other than Swedes (Irish, German, Italian, Jewish….) settled more heavily...
May 27th
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May 27th
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“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see...”
– Martin Buber A friend of mine shared this quote, and I found it both meaningful and provocative. While it resonates with my own philosophies (as amorphous as they often feel), it’s a huge task to always be eager to forge ahead. Regardless, it’s important to strive for and keep in mind...
May 27th
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May 24th
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Social Media + Philanthropy = (xx OR xy) →
A recently published study shows that men and women give differently both in their motivations and in their categories of support. Big surprise that women give more to breast cancer and bullying and men give more to prostate cancer and the Tea Party, and that everyone feels cause fatigue when they’re hit over the head with anything.  So what makes autism special?
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 22nd
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Sure, be there in 20. →
Awesome bike sharing program from my alma mater. Wouldn’t work everywhere, but especially for college campuses, this is a winner.
May 21st
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May 21st
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Thoughts going into today's Find the Future
Many of you have been following (in one way or another) my thoughts and learnings leading up to tonight’s Find the Future at the New York Public Library. I feel the need to make a statement before it all begins, so here goes: What I think will be most interesting on a micro level is how people cooperate to compete. So many games are about working together when it’s convenient and then...
May 20th
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Game On: Hundreds Spend the Night at the Library... →
Great teaser from WNYC! McGonigal, who is the author of “Reality is Broken” and an alumna of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, said that her team worked with library curators for six months to identify 100 objects, or treasures — like the Declaration of Independence and the stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne to write his Winnie the Pooh series — that would be part of the...
May 19th
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May 19th
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I was interviewed for Librarified! →
Find the Future, here I come!!!!
May 19th
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What would a Weiner do?
Daily roll call was the worst, particularly the first day of school. I always had the one teacher who pronounced it “wine-er” in which case I’d have to correct him and say “no, it’s actually Weiner.” Laughter would erupt and my dreams of being someone who wasn’t perpetually associated with a hot dog would internalize themselves further. So, I looked...
May 19th
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WatchWatch
Welcome to the NYC subway, where even the most highly frequented station can’t withstand a little shower, and even a shower can’t clean up the mess.
May 19th
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Seeing all of your twitter followers in a...
Is kind of gross….it’s like seeing an awesome list of people you sort of want to be friends with (or are! right?!) but not really and probably won’t be. Regardless, the data is fun to play with. And to learn that I have real followers all over the world, from Alaska to Auckland to Lima to Bogota to Tokyo to New Dehli. You can do it too… check it out.
May 18th
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General Mills is winning with Sustainability... →
I’m impressed by GM’s bold-but-doable statement of goals and strong display of leadership in corporate social responsibility. And, by this invention: ‘Scoop shower’ saves water The ‘scoop shower’ is a new Häagen-Dazs innovation that gets ice cream scoops clean while conserving water. A U.S.-European employee team worked on the scoop shower, which uses extreme water pressure to...
May 18th
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Can you pictorially show the opportunity gap in... →
This is a great contest! I’ll have to think on it. If you enter, I’d love to see what you submit (and feature it here).
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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Muses
My friend started a company called Audrey and Emma. I really like how she came up with the name, which also carries a story and philosophy that I think defines the brand. About Audrey & Emma: The Women Audrey Hepburn is one of two muses behind our namesake. Many know Ms. Hepburn for being the picture of grace and style – singlehandedly making the Louis Vuitton Speedy famous in 1965. But fewer...
May 17th
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Introducing Like Adler, baby. →
Some parents just want their kids to have a horrible life, I guess.
May 16th
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shiksagirl asked: Hi Jen,

Why do I get the feeling that we're almost the same person? I've liked so many of your posts recently. I just feel like I want to reblog your entire Tumblr.

Hope you're having a great day.

Katie
May 16th
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“We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere...”
– Seth Godin Read his full blog post on the Future of Libraries here.
May 16th
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What do Jon Stewart, Lou Reed, John Oliver,... →
They’re doing great work with Story Pirates, a school arts program that works on creative writing through sketch comedy. I’m a huge fan.
May 16th
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Social Media in the Classroom? Cool. →
I appreciate the efforts of teachers to incorporate different learning styles in the classroom. I definitely think it is still important (and, arguably, a dying art) to communicate effectively and thoughtfully ‘in person’, but communicating effectively and naturally via social media is important too. I’d love to be a fly on the wall (or, on a twitter feed) watching a class...
May 16th
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May 16th
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How I got into the New York Public Library game
Everyone’s been asking….how did I get picked as one of the awesome 500? Honestly, not sure after reading my submission, but I’m sticking to it. Here it is sans edits for you to judge yourself. jenbo1 Brooklyn, NY By the year 2021, I will become the first person to… ride an Air Bike (http://bit.ly/f19skT) around the world in an effort to advocate for non-virtual...
May 14th
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May 14th
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5feet90lbs-deactivated20130223 asked: you are so lucky to be staying overnight! i work at the library and i wish they could pay me overtime to stay overnight but unfortunately they'd probably say no cause i'm not even 18 -_- have fun! take photos if you can and let me know how you like the smell of the stacks! mmm old, dusty book smell <3 lol
May 14th
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New York Public Library Adventure - 1 week away!
If you couldn’t already tell how EXCITED I am for the upcoming NYPL all-night game, let me tell you, I’m totally stoked. Last week, I met about 15 of the other lucky players for a tour of the library. The tour was totally free and I highly recommend going! Everyone was really wonderful and we all had similar thoughts of ‘I don’t totally get it, but it’s going to be...
May 13th
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Did you sign up for the bike-in theater yet? →
I’ve never been to a drive-in (though that really needs to happen, too), but super excited about this idea!!!
May 13th
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May 13th
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Fat Tax! →
It feels completely wrong even though the idea of health responsibility is completely fair. But, how can we penalize lower income families (yes, that’s a ‘risk factor’ for obesity) when they can’t afford it as easily AND have lower access to health and health care?! Also, how will tax authorities know who to tax… health records aren’t all public! WHO OWNS...
May 12th
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So wonderful! A tax on plastic / paper bags! →
This makes so much cents*! (ha.) Bring on the reusable bags, folks! *The one part that I don’t get is how you can tell if the ‘original intent’ is for pet waste, even though I support the theory of that, too.
May 11th
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Fines for Vegetables?! Oh, Canada! →
May 11th
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Kanye will hang with tweens....for a price. →
May 11th
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Fish are babies, too.  →
May 11th
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May 10th
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Redheads in Need of Scholarship Cash & Teaching... →
This is a ridiculous* ‘news article’. [*that is, unless I can make money from being a redhead, too.]
May 9th
I have a huge problem with this.  →
May 9th
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“I, personally, would much rather leave behind a tree than a tombstone.”
– Teodora Zareva, in reflecting on a new type of urn.  Good thing there are mortuary social designers out there.
May 9th