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Print & Share: not everyone is a social media ninja (nor need they be)

DonorsChoose Print and Share
 Today is the deadline for DonorsChoose’s Hacking Education Contest, and fortunately I have completed and submitted Print and Share (with no small effort by Billy on the design). I previously wrote about the details. Billy wrote my favorite part of the front-page copy: “Not everyone is a social media ninja.” There is also a awkward screencast by [...]

Advocacy in print — Survival News for 2011

 Today I sent another issue of Survival News—“the voices of low-income women”—to the printers; this is my second year as layout artist for the newspaper. At 40 broadsheets (11“x17”), the newspaper is the same size as last year. Published by Survivors, Inc., Survival News is the official newspaper of the National Welfare Rights Union and [...]

Mediation Journal, Version 0

 I earlier posted a picture from a project I was working on for journaling media usage. Below is the book I got back from POD (I used Lulu and am quite satisfied). I still have a few changes I want to make before I consider it “finalized”: increasing the gutter size (the gutter calculator is [...]

Adding hyperlinks to print publications

 I am very impressed with how Marcus du Sautoy’s The Number Mysteries integrates hyperlinks into the book using URL shorteners and QR codes (above). Contrast that with Dan Cederholm’s Handcrafted CSS (which is still an excellent book). The latter was published August 2009, the former August 2010.

Laying out latest layout

SurvivalNews-W2010-chop
 Since November I have been working on print layout for the Winter 2009/2010 edition of Survival News. “The voices of low-income women”, Survival News is half-yearly-ish compendium of news, personal stories, and advocacy information. Nearly half of this edition is devoted to Survival Tips, a collection of services and advice from legal aid to food [...]

An ample account

 As the 4th anniversary of this blog nears (November 12) I’ve been revisiting research that was near impossible when I began it. The namesake of this blog was Island 94, formerly sitting within the Mississippi River, which I was introduced to through the very excellent book When the Mississippi Ran Backwards by Jay Feldman. When [...]