What if the terrorists were the ones who could save the world from a nuclear war?

SAY NO TO A PUBLICLY FINANCED STADIUM IN SANTA CLARA
Santa Clara Plays Fair
StadiumFacts.org
notwithmymoney.org
Additional documents

Art

Jewelry by Erlinda
Photography and Graphics Portfolios
Reality Ain't What You Think It Is Hawaii Transforms Words Libraries	Abstracted Food Italy Segments Constructs Abstracted Earth (Aerial Variations)

Words

Mystery: What We Lose, What We Mourn| Photography and Graphics Portfolios Reality Ain't What You Think It Is Screenplay: Prester John Poetry (including El Sobrante Tales) Essays on the Real Nature of Information Letters from & Essays on the Silicon Valley

Online Research

• Database research - For various classes
  • Dialog
  • Factiva
  • Gale Databases
  • Lexis
• Internet/Web research
  • Google - For various classes
  • ES90 - Environmental Research Methods

Other Library Classes

• Collection Management
• Introduction to Library Services
• AV & Non-Print Media
• Information Technology Tools and Applications

MYSTERY QUESTION:
Who's trying to buy the blueroom domain???

July 02 07
Recommended books:

Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur

This is a thoughtful paen to the value of expertise, to the professional, to intelligence, to innovation, and creativity over the ego of the amateur. Unfortunately, the Internet facilitates the proliferation of content by anyone, including those who find value in the insubstantial, the erroneous, and the deceptive. Yes, there is high-quality, edited, even peer-reviewed knowledge on the Net, but, as Keen describes, the amateur content, the valuing of the amateur, is destroying the industries and professions that advance our cultural milieu. The direction Keen thinks we are going was also forecast in the 1951 Cyril Kornbluth short story, "The Marching Morons."

Chris Anderson's The Long Tail

On the other hand, the Web is enabling the proliferation of content and creative products from niche sources that never have been able to make it through the editorial or marketing processes, though usually with good reason. But the "hits," the music, the books, the products that claim a major market share are only a small segment of the range of content that is really out there. Much of it is crap, but there is occasional worth, occasional art, occasional intellectual value. The problem is parsing out the quality from that crap, but, at least, everyone has a chance to put out "A dark and stormy night..." or be "Grandma Moses."

Albizia Trees on the Kapoho Road (From the
Hawaii Portfolio)

NOTE TO ALL:

blueroom.com is the 12-year-old, private Web site of a few librarians, teachers, artists, & writers. We are not related to the Web sites below.  

Blue Room Records (now Melt 2000) - BBC Radio 1's Blue Room music show - AT&T Blue Room music/video streaming - The White House's Blue Room - American Jazz Museum's Blue Room - The Blue Room (UK media & celeb forums)

- Cheers, the BR Folks

• The "blueroom.com" name comes from the view of the water-rich Earth from the moon as a "blue room" in space.
• Sections of this site are not linked to as they are for current and past students in our classes or customers.
• Also note that this site is always, always reconstruction.