This week’s Monday’s Links Roundup has some treats. Two of my favorites are Word Spy and Looking Into the Past. If you love playing with words, then Word Spy is the place to go. Here’s a sample: “wheredunit n. A murder mystery or detective story where the location of a crime plays a central role. Also: where-dunit.” And for an amazingly creative way to use photographs, you won’t want to pass up Looking Into the Past.
- Advanced Oral History Summer Institute. “The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at the University of California, Berkeley, is offering a one-week advanced institute on the methodology, theory, and practice of oral/video history. This will take place at The Bancroft Library on the Berkeley campus from August 16-20, 2010. The cost of the five-day institute is $800.”
- The HistoryMakers. “is the single largest archival collection of its kind in the world. Our goal is to complete 5,000 interviews of both well-known and unsung African American HistoryMakers. In doing so, we want to include the stories of individual African Americans along with those of African American organizations, events, movements and periods of time that are significant to the African American community. To date, our oldest HistoryMaker is 105 years old and the youngest is 29 years old.”
- Is Reading Blog Posts Worth Your Time? “You probably read blogs every day, blogs on marketing or entrepreneurship or Zen or gardening or getting your dog to behave. Are you putting any of the advice you read there to regular, everyday use?”
- Word Spy: The Word Lover’s Guide to New Words. This is great fun. Want to add a new word to your vocabulary. How about foodoir? It’s a blend of memoir and food – a book that incorporates recipes, food stories, eating, and memoir.
- Meet your match – typographically at least. “If there’s a car and a dog and an ideal online mate for every personality, then why not a typeface? By answering four simple questions posed in a playful video by the English design firm Pentagram, you can finally hook up with the style of print for which you were destined. ” To take the test click here.
- Looking Into the Past. “Inspired by Michael Hughes’ Souvenir project, Jason Powell started Looking Into The Past, a Flickr pool devoted to combining old photos of locations, buildings, and people with the present day scene. The ones with the most impact have the photographer holding an old photo in front of the camera lined up with features in the scene.”
- Oral history project spotlights local LGBT community. “A project conducted by Appalachian State University is gathering the histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people living in the Appalachian region. “We’re not just looking for people who grew up here but transplants, those who moved here or lived here and moved away,” archivist Kathy Staley explains.”
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