What is The Digital Libarian?

If I were to define myself in the context of our digital age. What  I would best describe myself as is a digital librarian with sprinkles of the digital nomad inserted throughout. I can’t get enough of digital storage I have lost countless flash drives and store content in a variety of places then I can count with both hands.   

                                       

(When talking about being the Digital Librarian and sharing and producing content I can't help but imagine a blank room like in this scene in the matrix where one can create and re purpose at will. That's a topic for another time and a bit too William Gibson.)

What is a Digital Librarian?

A Digital Librarian is a scrounger and an archiver.  I believe it’s someone who is sort of like the human version of the Google spider(s). They archive websites plus other content for both immediate and later use.

It’s not just the mindless hoarding of digital content even though it may sometimes feel like it. In marketing terms the digital librarian is an influencer with the ability to introduce others to new products and ideas that suit their needs. The digital librarian is the informed user and producer.   

“Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.” (Doctorow Introduction Little Brother)

"Re-purpose Content" Original by opportplanet

Doctorow understands the digital librarian and his/her  purpose to accesses the collective human knowledge as well as share it. He also can help explain the digital librarian as an informed user and prouder.

Even though this next statement is in the context of eBooks I believe it applies to other text and knowledge as well  

“EBook's are verbs, not nouns. You copy them, it's in their nature. And many of those copies have a destination, a person they're intended for, a hand-wrought transfer from one person to another, embodying a personal recommendation between two people who trust each other enough to share bits.”  (Doctorow Introduction Little Brother)

My version of  "Re- Purpose Content:

 

Doctorow here states that the digital librarian wishes to experience and interact with his tools as someone who shares knowledge and finds knowledge to share. This is an intimate and personal thing where the digital librarian is allowing access to the information  and knowledge he/she has spent hours scrounging and archiving.  The digital librarian is the informed user/producer because he/she believes in  sharing and free nonrestrictive use to archive, alter, share, copy etc.

 

 

  To Be Continued

Resurrection

             Hello Again

                             

   (In context this clip is from the first scene of the television show Kamen Rider OOO

in which the character in this sign is signing happy birthday to the rebirth of  the Greed. A race of beings in this show that has been dormant and is now being reborn)

  

Hello old friend I created you for a class that required me to maintain a blog and comment on magazines article  I read and just my general thoughts on various pop culture/world events in the context of magazines. 

I tried to keep you going even after this endeavor but I failed in that respect but now its time to give rise to you again for a different purpose I guess not really all that different in  the grand scheme of it all. Here I will tell my story of becoming an informed user and producer and what it means to be both those things.

Street Fighter x Mega Man

I'm a pretty recent convert to the classic Mega Man series outside of the Mega Man Battle Network games  and TV Show back from my youth I wasn't really too involved with Mega Man related things. I did recently start to play the classic Mega Man games and I love them. What sparked my interest into them was one day at the grocery store I picked up Archie Comic's Mega Man which I absolutely love  and is one of two comics the other being Supergirl that I pick up in store or make a priority of reading when they come out. Archie's Mega Man is a great all ages comic that deals  with some pretty heavy stuff. AOL's Comics Alliance calls it the smartest super-hero  comic on stands Chris Sims makes a great case for it.  On the site there is also a nice podcast interview/talk with Ian Flynn the current writer of the Mega Man comic which is worth a listen to. I also read the Mega Man Megamix manga which I also really loved and hope to read the rest of the volumes in the series because it's really great. I'm really excited to play Street Fighter X Mega Man on Monday and I think it's really cool of Capcom to give one of their fans permission to do this.

"Fight! Mega Man! For everlasting peace!"

How to Build a Kaiju-Fighting Giant Robot

Angela Watercutter of Wired highlighted a piece of marketing from  Guillermo Del Toro’s "Pacific Rim". "Pacific Rim is an homage to Kaiju the giant monster movies from Japan. Kaiju are part of the Tokusatsu genre which translates into special effects. Popular franchisees from this genre include Kamen Rider,Godzilla and Super Sentai which is better known to American audiences as its American adaptation "Power Rangers".  I think this is a really cool piece of marketing and I'm excited too see this film. I am found of the Kaiju and Tokusatsu genres. I love the cool visual designs of the monsters as well as the giant robots and the way they look and seeing them animated on the screen.  I enjoy watching Tokusatsu for its visuals and fight choreography.

Are Videogames Art?

On Wired John Maeda wrote an opinion piece in which he argues that video games belong in the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art acquired a number of games to display in a new category. The games the museum acquired for display include Pac-Man,Donkey Kong,SimCity and others.  There are those out there like Roger Ebert that argue that video games aren't art which is a point that I disagree with. Most modern video games provides narrative that immerse the player in a rich story narrative.
Video games require art design and animation which are both artistic elements.
 The Mass Effect series despite the backlash towards the ending is considered an essential and classic piece of Sci-fi like "Star Wars" or "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy".
The Mass Effect series sets up an expansive world with a variety of planets and a massive amount of lore and background.
As video games evolve the story telling potential and interactivity increases. While gameplay is an important  of any video game I see the game play as more like the cinematography of a movie as well as the vehicle that helps the player interact with the world.    Video games are an interactive art form that transport the players to other worlds and inspire creativity like any other medium.