Marilyn Johnson

For this week’s Please Explain we'll find out about the field of archaeology.

Earlier this week social media darling, Twitter, announced a plan to make money through internally generated ad revenue, by displaying "promoted tweets" when people search Twitter.com. (Google returns sponsored links in much the same way.) People have wondered for years how Twitter planned to make money, so the announcement made some waves. However, more historic news came yesterday, when the Library of Congress announced it would begin the process of archiving all the public tweets ever tweeted, going back to Twitter's inception in 2006.  

Marilyn Johnson explains how librarians can help us manage the myriad sources of information available to us —from paper and discs, books, e-books, and thumb drives. Her book This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All smashes the stereotypes of librarians and shows how they’re ...

We look at the art of writing obituaries – and why so many of us take pleasure in reading them! Anne Wroe is co-editor of The Economist’s Book of Obituaries; Marilyn Johnson is author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries. ...