LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Google interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:51:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://ksulib.typepad.com/talking/2010/09/not-your-average-search-box.html So, by now you're completely used to seeing a search box on pretty much every page you visit.  Put in your words, hit go, get some stuff back.  No big deal.  So why on earth would we bother writing an article about our search box? Because it's better than the other ones. Why? Two reasons.  Reason #1 - Librarians mess with the search results, and we understand more about finding information quickly than anyone you'll ever meet. Reason #2 - It's powered by this: That swiss-cheesey looking thing is a Google Search Appliance.  It’s a way of taking all the power and functions of the Google you know and love, and smashing it into the basement of Hale Library to serve our very specific needs. Because it sits with us, and not at some Google farm in California, we’re allowed to do stuff to it.  And because we’re librarians, we do. We tell it things, like “people who search for art usually want this page" and “when people use the word where, it’s a good idea to show them the stacks guide”.  That way, you don’t have to wade through pages of results to find what you need – it’s probably in a nice, tidy, highlighted box at the top of the first page. Give it a try next time you need something from the libraries’ website.  We’re pretty sure you’ll agree – it’s not your average search box.Also, we're happy to take your suggestions about pages that need highlighting. Just hit the "Contact us" link at the bottom of any libraries web page. Just a note, though - the search box only searches our website, not our databases or catalog. To do that, we'd need a box that hasn't quite been invented yet. P.S. By the way, you (or your predecessors) bought the Google Search Appliance for us.  We're still grateful, every single day. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868721 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/p3_jf3cmWFM/google_and_aol_renew_pact.php One of the best cards in AOL's difficult hand has been its search deal with Google, which was up for renewal this year. This morning the two companies announced (ahead of a December deadline) that they were staying together, though I can only imagine the folks at Bing didn't make it easy. At the moment, only three parties know what Google paid - Google, AOL, and Microsoft, which knows at least what Google must have topped to win the deal. Here's the official release. Financial details are not disclosed, yet, but more will probably be available in future SEC filings. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868613 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=2580 A new crop of small, nimble and tech-savvy venture capitalists are trying to bring back into vogue a more entrepreneurial, forward-thinking and risk tolerant model for investing in start-ups. Dubbed "super angels," these firms and individual investors fill the funding gap between angel investors and large VC firms. Although the sector boasts success stories, it also faces challenges -- including some industry observers who complain that super angels are cutting short the lives of companies that could be "the next Google" by selling them before they have had time to develop a market.  (Source: Knowledge@Wharton) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:07:02 +0100 868713 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/08/31/august-31st-stream-2.html @sraslim sorry — I’ve been off #twitter for a while, but yes, go for it! send me a song [shifted] @dglibrary have you considered a booth at the farmers market? I think it would be great for you to be visible there. [shifted] Posted cfboeninger: writing documentation for our new text reference service. Google Voice + Trillian + U2 = our texting pilot project. Posted AboutwebOS: Update: Lots of cool ways to use neato! If I’m missing any, leave a comment: http://bit.ly/cfZQ5K #webOS @Palm @HP_PC. Posted griffey: This is maybe the most incredible technical example of HTML5 coding I’ve ever seen. Holy crap. http://thewildernessdowntown.com/. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:02 +0100 868720 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/09/google-maps-measurements.html OK, quick pop quiz. What have 801 Olympic sized swimming pools, 21.64 nautical miles, 131,505 feet and 4.23674e-12 light years got in common? Answer - they're all different ways of measuring the distance as the crow flies between my house and CILIP HQ. How do I know this? Google Maps have a fun measuring tool. Simply go to Google Maps and click on the labs icon (green, top right) and choose the Enable option next to Distance Measurement. Then go back to map, click on the little ruler icon and measure away. Then choose your measurement type, as shown in the graphic, and go all geeky. (Source: Phil Bradley) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868255 http://frikitecaris.blogspot.com/2010/09/toda-la-verdad-sobre-iwetel.html Dice un familiar mío al cual ahora mismo no pongo nombre ni cara -que es más o menos una fuente de información parecida a la que deben utilizar los periódicos más serios de tirada local y nacional-, que a medida que pasan los años y vives sólo te vas volviendo más huraño.Somos seres sociales y como tales necesitamos relacionarnos entre nosotros, y a ser posible con gente con la que tengamos cierta afinidad. Y los bibliotecarios/as en esto tampoco somos una excepción.Muchos de nosotros trabajamos o hemos trabajado en bibliotecas unipersonales, o en cuartuchos oscuros indexando artículos de prensa, o rebuscando en historiales médicos. Con este panorama, y por el bien de nuestra salud mental, se creó Iwetel -aunque alguno luego tuviera sus momentos de arrepentimiento-, a pesar de que pueda parecer lo contrario y en la lista se expongan otros motivos.El problema es que la lista, que en un principio debía ser para buscar amigos con los que ir a tomar cervezas, gente con la que compartir nuestros momentos de soledad y esas cosas, al final fué derivando en una auténtica lista de frikis, el gobierno de la tecnocracia.Se empezó a hablar de taxonomías, folksonomías, managements, SEOs, marcadores sociales, AACRs, ISOs,... y la selección natural y Google hicieron el resto. Se prohibieron las bromas entre compañeros (sólo las tirás cómicas en inglés eran bien recibidas), contarse las penas unos a otros y criticar a nuestros superiores. Vamos, que quedó una lista/diccionario donde autopublicitarse.Ya hace años que me he impuesto una cuota anual de consultas que no puede superar las 3. En mis visitas cuatrimestrales compruebo que las cosas siguen igual, aunque en otro formato. Se siguen mentando términos anglosajones por doquier y ni una concesión al buen humor y a la jarana. Lo que ya no se ven són lamentos sobre lo mal que estamos, desconozco si por pura selección natural o por un sano ejercicio de moderación anti lloriqueo. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868172 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/QQ4xG3_iL9Q/google-novo-servico-para-buscas-em.html Utilizadores já podem conversar em redes sociais como Facebook ou Twitter no mesmo espaço virtual. Se é um ávido consumidor de notícias, comentários ou outras informações em tempo real, a Google veio facilitar a sua vida. A gigante da Internet acabou de lançar um site pensado para um perfil como o seu: http://www.google.com/realtime Os utilizadores passam, a partir de agora, a poder conversar em redes sociais como o Facebook e o Twitter no mesmo espaço virtual. Uma nova experiência que pretende rivalizar com o Bing da Microsoft, já que os cibernautas vão poder seguir comentários minuto a minuto. Uma nova experiência benéfica ainda para as empresas que pretendem seguir a opinião pública sobre os mais variados temas. Mas ainda há mais: os utilizadores podem escolher quais as conversas ou os temas a seguir também através de uma procura geográfica e por idioma. Para já, as línguas disponíveis são inglês, japonês, russo e espanhol.  Se pensarmos, por exemplo, nos estúdios de cinema, com este serviço rapidamente se poderá aferir a adesão do público, tendo acesso aos primeiros comentários e críticas depois de uma estreia.  Sem intenções de aceitar contratos de publicidade neste novo site, a Google pretende antes apostar no «tempo real»: «Esta é uma grande maneira de encontrar o que estamos a dizer agora sobre este momento. A pesquisa em tempo real é uma função chave nas buscas do Google», explicou o gerente de produto Dylan Casey, citado pelo espanhol «El Mundo».  Fonte: Agência Financeira (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:10:00 +0100 868117 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/hvkPIqK4cNM/googles-sociaal-zoeken-herontdekt.html Keer op keer vergeet ik dat de ene Google de andere niet is. Wat je te zien krijgt in zoekresultaten hangt bijvoorbeeld ook af van je locatie, je voorkeursinstellingen en van de vraag of je bent ingelogd met een google-account of niet. Zojuist was een tweet aanleiding om in Google te zoeken op 'pfd kraken'. Ik vergat echter dat ik vanmiddag had gezocht in de de Engelstalige versie van Google. Dat is een versie die niet alleen andere zoekresultaten toont, het is ook een versie die meer features heeft dan Google.nl. Tot mijn verbazing zag ik onderaan de pagina 'Results from people in your social circle for pdf kraken' staan, met een foto van mezelf ernaast. Dat had ik nog niet eerder gezien. Mijn sociale cirkel? Toen herinnerde ik me een posting van oktober 2009: De trend bevestigd: Google Labs lanceert Sociaal Zoeken (Astrid schreef er later ook over). Sociaal Zoeken werd bijna een jaar geleden gelanceerd, maar omdat het tot nu toe nog niet opdook in de zoekresultaten van Google.nl was ik het alweer vergeten. Tot vandaag dus. Niet veel later ontdekte ik dat je zoekacties er zelfs op kunt beperken, zoals je dat ook kunt doen voor nieuws, blogs of kaarten. Toen ik keek uit welke mensen mijn sociale cirkel bij Google bestaat zag ik dat er ook secundaire contacten tussen staan. De kennissen en vrienden van kennissen en vrienden, als het ware. Google licht een en ander toe in het helpmenu en in een video. Die secundaire contacten kun je alleen verwijderen door de tussenliggende directe ook te elimineren. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:36:00 +0100 867907 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/gZwVyOgELMY/google-lanceert-postvak-prioriteit-voor.html Goed informatiemanagement begint bij goede informatiefilters. Nu heb ik in de loop van de jaren al heel wat filters ingezet, maar als het gaat om e-mail is mijn aanpak nog altijd vrij traditioneel. Ik pas het concept van Inbox Zero weliswaar toe, maar binnen Gmail werk ik alleen met de 'labels' van het programma, niet met de filters die worden aangeboden. Stom eigenlijk, want ik zou veel baat bij kunnen hebben bij dat hulpmiddel. Ik heb drie actieve Gmail-accounts, die dagelijks volstromen. Nu maak ik vaak voorselecties door met de telefoon de inboxen van al mijn mailaccounts tegelijkertijd op te vragen, en door binnen de browser te werken met de extensie Google Account Switcher. Daarmee is alles over mijn filteren gezegd (als ik de uitstekende spamfilter van Gmail zelf tenminste niet meetel). Zo gek als bij deze meneer is het nog niet, maar ik ben al lang van plan er eens iets aan te doen. Het komt er alleen niet van. Google is me echter voor. Vanochtend ontving ik een  *kuch* mailtje van het bedrijf, dat me attendeerde op  Postvak Prioriteit. Deze nieuwe service legt een filter over je inbox en onderscheidt belangrijke van onbelangrijke e-mails. Het is uiteraard wel een programma dat enige training behoeft maar mijn eerste indruk is positief. Ik denk dat ik het zelf instellen van filters van mijn actielijstje kan schrappen. Dat doet me deugd. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:39:00 +0100 867691 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/ILX3I0XBlmE/blekko_explains_itself_exclusive_video_update_exclusive_invite.php blekko: how to slash the web from blekko on Vimeo. Blekko is a new search engine that fundamentally changes a few key assumptions about how search works. It's not for lazywebbers - you have to pretty much be a motivated search geek to really leverage blekko's power. But then again, there are literally hundreds of thousands of such folks - the entire SEO/SEM industry, for example. I've been watching blekko, and the team behind it, since before launch. They are search veterans, not to be trifled with, and they are exposing data that Google would never dream of doing (yes, they do pretty much a full crawl of the web that matters). In a way, blekko has opened up the kimono of search data, and I expect the service, once it leaves private beta, will become a favorite of power searchers (and developers) everywhere. The cool thing is, using blekko's data and (I hope) robust APIs, one can imagine all sorts of new services popping up. I for one wish blekko well. It's about time. And in case you are wondering what the big deal is, besides all the data you can mine, to my mind, it's the ability to cull the web - to "slash" the stuff you don't care about out of your search results. Now, not many of us actually will do that. But will services take that and run? I certainly hope so. For a quick overview of blekko's core feature - "slashtags" - check out the new video, above. And to bone up on the various merits of the service, here are a few key links: Blekko: A Search Engine Which Is Also A Killer SEO Tool (SEL) TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch (TC) A new search engine Blekko search: first impressions (Economist) Blekko's Tools Give Search Marketers Google Alternative (MediaPost) Update: First 500 readers get a beta invite! Email battelle@blekko.com to get in on it! (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868071 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16772 I think most people consider ALA a provider of best practices and guidance, while assisting to see that a profession has a similar foundation in principles. Even those involved with ALA would not consider ALA a "leader" but that those in the profession as the leaders. The power of ALA to drive change and support specific libraries in their struggles has been well documented. Does anyone know if ALA has collected or made a any statement on Google directly? Brian Gray mindspiral-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org bcg8-oNH6vCZdlc4< at >public.gmane.org On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:34 AM, David - <davidslistservs-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w< at >public.gmane.org> wrote: (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867791 http://www.echosdoc.net/index.php#info1169 Google propose une page spécifique regroupant ses différents outils de recherche en temps réel, avec possibilités de critères géographiques, de veilles sur mots-clés et disposant d'une frise chronologique. (Source: EchosDoc : actualité de l' I. & D.) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:00:00 +0100 867801 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/EXSrp8TDsz4/de-wereld-in-de-juiste-proporties-zien.html Gezien bij Blom: een verwijzing naar BBC Dimensions, een tool waarmee je gebeurtenissen, plaatsen en gebouwen kunt projecteren op je eigen woonplaats of op een andere plek op Google Maps. Leg het Pentagon maar eens over Middelburg, of de maanlanding, of de omsingeling van Stalingrad in 1942...en je weet weer even waar je staat. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:14:00 +0100 867557 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/t8avg8IQVUE/lastig-zoeken-naar-oude.html Nu Google een aparte pagina heeft ingericht voor 'realtime zoeken' is er geen houden meer aan: steeds meer mensen vinden informatie die nu, op dit moment, verspreid wordt belangrijk en zoekmachines spelen daar op in. Twitter Search en Google realtime zoeken zijn natuurlijk niet de enige spelers. Vorig jaar stak ik de loftrompet bijvoorbeeld over Topsy en het moet gezegd: die zoekmachine gebruik ik nog steeds meerdere keren per week, ook omdat je er makkelijk mee kunt achterhalen of er in tweets naar bepaalde websites wordt verwezen en omdat de zoekmachine beschikt over interessante filtermogelijkheden. Maar er zijn nog meer Twitter- en realtime-zoekmachines. InventorSpot belicht er tien, David Lee King testte er onlangs een aantal. Daaruit kwam naar voren dat de beperkingen van de zoekmachines pas echt aan het licht komen als je gericht gaat zoeken. Ik merkte dat vanochtend ook. Toen ik deze tweet zag, van iemand die op zoek is naar een goedkope overnachting in Middelburg, ging ik in verschillende machines op zoek naar een twittterconversatie met @jeroencl, die vorige maand iets soortgelijks vroeg. Ik reageerde daar toen zelf op, maar ook andere mensen. Ik was benieuwd of ik die conversatie eenvoudig boven water kon krijgen. De verschillen in zoekresultaten zijn echter groot, als ik zoek op "@jeroencl + middelburg": Google Realtime toont een deel van het gesprek (de gewone versie van Google een kleiner deel) Topsy komt met 1, niet-relevante treffer Twitter Search geeft helemaal niets terug. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:28:00 +0100 867558 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/XfwEJMWNoiM/vijf-jaar-na-katrina-leven-in-een-huis.html Vijf jaar na Katrina is de stad New Orleans nog steeds niet hersteld van de schade die de orkaan toen aanrichtte. Als je de nieuwsberichten over de herdenking van de ramp leest krijg je echter niet meteen het gevoel dat het nog 'heel erg is daar', zeker niet als je het verslag Feesten met droge voeten, van Nieuwsblad.be leest. Nu is dat natuurlijk best behaaglijk maar even uit de comfortzone kruipen is ook wel eens goed. Een paar dagen heeft een organisatie met de naam The Abandoned Buildings Outreach Team of UNITY of Greater New Orleans een rapport over de bewoners van verlaten gebouwen in de stad gepubliceerd: Search and Rescue Five Years Later: Saving People Still Trapped in Katrina’s Ruins (PDF). De bevindingen zijn ontluisterend: Het aantal daklozen is sinds Katrina verdubbeld, ondanks het feit dat slechts 80 procent van de daklozen naar de stad terugkeerden, na de ramp New Orleans kent momenteel maar liefst 55.000 verlaten gebouwen. Het nabijgelegen Jefferson Parish heeft er ook nog eens 8000.  Er wonen naar schatting tussen de 3.000 en 6.000 mensen in die gebouwen 87 procent van die mensen zijn invalide. 76 procent heeft een geestesziekte, 58 procent heeft een fysieke handicap Ruim 11 procent van deze mensen is ouder dan 62.  42 procent van deze mensen zal waarschijnlijk binnen 7 jaar sterven, als ze aan hun lot worden overgelaten Ik vind het heftige cijfers. Het is mooi dat Obama miljarden investeert in de wederopbouw, maar ik vind het onbegrijpelijk dat (deze) mensen geen voorrang krijgen. Of is dat gebruikelijk, als het om daklozen gaat? Of zou er sprake zijn van onwil? Kun je daar wel van spreken als iemand geestesziek is? Als je New Orleans bekijkt in Street View lijkt de schade op het eerste gezicht mee te vallen. Maar in bepaalde wijken is de leegstand en het verval goed zichtbaar, al weet je als kijker niet wanneer de foto's precies zijn gemaakt door Google. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:06:00 +0100 867307 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/XxJlQ-AMLVY/sociedad-digital.html «Dejemos ya de lado el funesto “que inventen ellos” e inventemos el futuro entrando todos con paso firme en la sociedad digital»MILAGROS DEL CORRAL (FUE DIRECTORA GENERAL DE LA BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA)Día 21/08/2010La irrupción de las tecnologías en nuestras vidas es ya imparable. Todo empezó con la virtualización del dinero y las tarjetas de crédito, pero el desarrollo de novedosas aplicaciones para la defensa fue el factor desencadenante. No es de extrañar. Una vez más, los grandes adelantos vinieron de la mano del capital y de la inteligencia militar. Pronto aquella Arpanet castrense gestó la Internet civil, imprescindible en menos de dos décadas para cualquier ciudadano y universo por derecho propio para los más jóvenes. Del correo electrónico, instantáneo y gratuito, pasamos a la web, ese gigantesco escaparate de contenidos de toda laya que crece exponencialmente sin respetar fronteras geográficas ni temporales. Internet era en sus inicios un misterioso arcano solo para iniciados, con un lenguaje propio y reglas de buena educación —la Netiquette— que todos respetábamos para ser respetados. Internet fue creciendo y no dábamos abasto para anotar los sitios interesantes que descubríamos navegando al azar por el proceloso ciberespacio a partir de las pocas direcciones URL que cuidadosamente anotábamos en una libreta como si fuesen tesoros. Navegar era emocionante, pero pronto se reveló inmanejable. El cambio radical llegó de la mano de Google cuyo famoso algoritmo de búsqueda y exitoso modelo de negocio arrasaron con todo lo anterior.Tan genial y rentable idea pronto animó a sus jóvenes fundadores a ensayar nuevas e improbables aventuras. Su primer gran sueño, al que seguirían muchos más, fue la construcción de la gran biblioteca mundial en la que todos los libros, debidamente digitalizados, estarían disponibles gratuitamente. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:20:00 +0100 867125 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/BbToWp2l8wo/wat-nu-weer-cctv-autos.html 'Wel een beetje bijblijven, ouwe', zei er laatst een. Maar dat is toch helemaal niet te doen? Zo zat ik me gisteren nog af te vragen of de jurk waarmee je kunt bellen een hoax is en maakte ik vandaag kennis met CCTV-auto's. Inderdaad, daar rijden er dus al 54 van rond, in Groot-Brittannië. En natuurlijk gaan de chauffeurs weer piepen als er teruggefilmd wordt, zij wijzen liever met een beschuldigende vinger naar de autootjes van Google. Het is tijd om eens lekker een biertje te gaan drinken. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:34:00 +0100 866649 http://erikhoy.blogspot.com/2010/08/mens-vi-venter-pa-digitaliseringen.html Digitaliseringen af danske bøger og andre analoge materialer, nye som gamle, er så godt som ikke-eksisterende. For tidsskrifters vedkommende er især foreningsblade, ikke-kommercielle tidsskrifter og budskabsbærende blade dog for det meste også tilgængelige på internettet i fuldtekst.I udlandet ser det lidt bedre ud. Men her gælder at det er meget svært at finde overordnede søgebaser. Så du er oftest overladt til dels at skulle finde frem til tidsskriftet, dels dernæst søge i en eventuel fuldtekstbase eller et søgeindeks til de trykte udgaver.Hvad kan bibliotekerne gøre mens vi venter ppå digitaliseringen? I princippet har vi kun råderet over de bibliografiske databaser som fx bibliotek.dk og de forskellige bibliotekssystemers lokalbaser. I København Bibliotek.kk.dk. Der er både for- og bagdele ved bibliografiske databaser. Fordelen er at der ikke er så meget kommercielt støj som på fx Google. Den afgørende bagdel er at der er sorteret så meget fra at de ikke er brugbare til fx at sammenstykke kapitler eller dele fra bøger. emneord, fritekstsøgningDer er sket en opblødning i forne tiders meget restriktive retningslinjer for hvad bibliotekarer kunne lægge ind af fx emneord, anbefalinger, alskens småkommentarer og andre tilføjelser til de "officielle" poster. Nogen kan måske stadig huske begrebet "kontrollerede emneord". I dag snakker vi snarere om "tags-onomi", "folksonomi", at brugerne selv skal have lov til at bidrage, og meget andet.Jeg har i sommerferien funderet meget over dette problem. Allerhelst så jeg selvfølgelig digitaliseringen overflødige gøre dette problem. Men efter hvad jeg har set de seneste mange år, så er jeg ikke særlig optimistiske hvad det angår. Det ser ikke ud til at dagblade, forlag og andre har tænkt sig at gøre det muligt for os i det mindste at fuldtekstsøge i deres materialer. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867269 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/08/27/what-will-happen-in-the-blur/ In Mexico there is an area known as the ”blur”– the rare area where the water from caves underground mingle with water from the ocean.  A recent post by Jon Becker, “Who are the Thought Leaders in Educational Leadership?” reminds me of that rarified space where two  entities mingle and create something new. In his post, Jon challenged education leaders and scholars at the university level to connect with the social network of educators around the country.   Partly why I haven’t been able to quit thinking about  his post was that I consider myself a pretty well-informed high school educator–I purchase professional books for our library all the time, attend ASCD occasionally, read incessantly and widely, and yet I didn’t know ONE name on his list of  influential education leaders.   I think it stunned me because in “Twitterland” I find many of us working together or in separate strands loosely joined to change what education looks like.   We talk, share resources, read each other’s blogs, read articles when links are shared on Twitter, do our own research in our own spaces and bring that back to the collective forum.  It stunned me because I realized after reading his post how much ’we’ are leaders in education–grass-roots, collaborative, networked leaders.  And if we aren’t familiar with their work–and I warrant many of us are not, then there’s a disconnect. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:15:43 +0100 866521 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/FBYjPTh_zJ0/ I ran across this map of the Social Networking World while looking for something else and I thought I would share it with you.  I am not sure what I would use it for other than for fun, conversation, and a possible PowerPoint slide. In other words perfect for a Friday post. 2010 Social Network Map by Flowtown  The map was created by Flowtown as an updated tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities.’  The size of the countries/continents reflect the millions of users, for each service (as shown by the scale at the bottom of the image). It is kind of fun to look through and laugh over a few things like the YouTube Triangle of Viral Videos or the Death Valley of John Mayer Tweets.  One thing I find a little interesting is Google Wave is missing, wouldn’t that be in the Land of Defunct Social Networks, or perhaps should it be the Dried Lake Bed of Google Wave within the Empire of Google?  Just thinking aloud.    Tweet This Post (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:19:29 +0100 866495 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/27/update-more-info-about-the-new-google-realtime-product-including-archive-search-google-replay/ We had several questions about yesterday’s Google Realtime launch and we them answered overnight by a contact at the Googleplex. Here’s what we learned. 1. Sources The primary sources being made available in Google Realtime are Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, and Google Buzz. 2. Google Replay (Archive Search) and How Far Back Does the Archive Go (As of Today)? The only source that can be searched using the Google Replay tool is Twitter. As of today (this will change) the archive only dates back to February, 2010. So, the depth of the Twitter archive (Google Replay) has NOT changed since the product first launched as an experiment back in (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:55:03 +0100 866122 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/xMjBcyhlaMk/beter-werken-sneltoetsen-voor-websites.html De strijd tegen mijn muisgebruik woedt nog steeds voort. Reeder mag dan bekend staan als een van de beste apps voor het lezen van RSS; nu ik er een paar keer gebruik van heb gemaakt kan ik weinig anders dan constateren dat de toepassing voor mij niet werkt. Reeder is onoverzichtelijk en het navigeren heeft een omslachtig karakter. Weg d'r mee dus. Tweetdeck bevalt wél. Ik ging overstag omdat die Twitterclient me, in tegenstelling tot Seesmic, in staat stelt om te scrollen door tweets. Inmiddels ben ik gewend aan de interface en heb ik gemerkt dat het programma nog meer voordelen heeft. Het is bijvoorbeeld veel makkelijker om te schakelen tussen verschillende accounts. Tweetdeck behoud ik. Ik bleef echter een beetje worstelen met Netvibes en andere websites. Maandag schakelde ik over van de widget- naar de zogenaamde 'lezerweergave', maar daar werd ik ook al snel hoorndol van. Het werkt prima op het moment dat ik 'goed bij ben' met het lezen van alle feeds, maar het krijgt een averechts effect als ik een dagje geen tijd heb gehad. Dan klik je je alsnog een slag in de rondte. In een helder moment bedacht ik vandaag dat Netvibes de gebruiker misschien ook wel sneltoetsen (toetsen op het toetsenbord die fungeren als alternatief voor knoppen op websites) biedt. Dat blijkt inderdaad het geval te zijn. Ik bewijs mezelf een grote dienst door deze sneltoetsen, en die van Google Chrome, uit mijn hoofd te leren. Voor Netvibes heb ik de toets H alvast onthouden. Daarmee roep je het 'contextmenu' op, waarin je naar behoefte kunt spieken. De sneltoetsen van Windows zelf kende ik al grotendeels uit mijn hoofd. Die muis gaat eraan! @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:36:00 +0100 866120 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/27/nostalgia-and-the-internet/ The current spate of stories concerning nations trying to limit the use of Blackberries,  when combined with the recently floated ‘net neutrality’ agreement between Verizon and Google, is emblematic of the continuing  invasion of the world of telecommunication by the world of governmental and corporate power. Almost two decades ago, I was on a panel with Professor Marge Shultz of the Berkeley Law School faculty, who made a remark that I have never forgotten. Professor Shultz opined that, Our ability to make advances in technology is outpacing our ability to understand how such progress fits in with law and politics at an increasing rate. Some serious political decisions about basic values will be forced upon us. The technology will be ready, human beings will not. The Internet is a great, sprawling wonder. No one really planned it — a series of actions, some logical, some the expression of brilliant individual creativity both by institutions and humans — brought it into being. There was no instruction manual, no carefully considered plan for implementation and growth. David Post wrote a lovely book this year, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose, which explains, in readable prose, one version of how it came to be. Post uses the device of comparing Thomas Jefferson’s views on democracy with the ideal of a democratic cyberspace. One lesson I take from Professor Posts’s book, is that the Internet was developed and controlled by people who were technologists. The goal was to design a system that worked, one that delivered information as cleanly as possible. There was to be no responsibility for the content. The Internet was a highway, what traveled along its pathway was not its business. Given the restraint and purity of the vision, it is stunning how much revolved around individuals, information zealots who chose to rein in their own power.  Another dusty memory pops up. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:00:09 +0100 867045 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/FbSK2agz5-c/gnar_gnar_epic_apple_fail.php ...that was the subject of an email sent to my by my Apple-loving son when the image above showed up on the family iPad (yes, we have an iPad, my wife insisted. It's really hers, but that's another story). The story goes like this. My son had a question about the new Droid X I got, one I couldn't answer because I didn't have the device with me (we were at the beach, if I recall correctly). My wife had brought her iPad, however, so my son Googled the question and, not surprisingly, the Droid site was the first link. He clicked it. This is what we saw. Classic. While it's clear that this is due to Flash, it's natural to read more into it, given the Android/iPhone battle. At least, that's what my son thought, instantly: Apple is blocking any information about Droid from coming into its sanitized world. My son, who has loved Apple from the moment he could compute, now thinks Apple is "kinda like China, right Dad?" Yeah, I guess so, kinda. Of course, one could argue that this is Google's problem, they chose Flash, knowing full well it meant those inside Steve's firewall would not be able to see into the Droid world. I don't like where this is all going. (Don't ask me what "Gnar Gnar" means. It's a 14-year old's phrase - I get it, but I can't explain it. UD can.) (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866340 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16747 Amigos has scheduled web-based technology training in our live online classroom. Available courses include the following titles. All times below are Central Time. Creating Mobile Websites September 28 & 30, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT Early Bird Registration Deadline: 9/6 http://bit.ly/cP5prd Know & Go: What is Google Up To? October 11, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT http://bit.ly/9Dinqo Tech Topics: QR Codes October 22, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT Early Bird Registration Deadline: 9/30 http://bit.ly/ct7ibI Tech Topics: Privacy and Social Networks November 5, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT Early Bird Registration Deadline: 10/14 http://bit.ly/9z1Re5 Creating Mobile Websites December 7 & 9, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CST Early Bird Registration Deadline: 11/15 http://bit.ly/cP5prd ___________________________________________________ OCLC-related courses: Serials (& other) Local Holdings: Creation and Care with OCLC Connexion September 8, 10 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT http://bit.ly/5oqJIn Copy Cataloging: A (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866246 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/26/bootstrap-website-advice/ For those lawyers or small business owners just starting out, setting down roots online can be a daunting process.  Not everyone has the budget to hire out a new website construction project, and on the other side, there are numerous sources that will encourage you to DIY – “do it yourself”.  What frequently happens though, is the new entrepreneur gets stuck.  Do you cobble it together? Or, do you bite the bullet and find the budget? The following advice won’t be for everyone, but for the soon-to-be business owner, or anyone who’s jumped into business over the past five years, hopefully some of it will resonate. First off,  I’m a big fan of bootstrapping. Not just being self-sufficient to reduce the initial investment, but risking as little capital as humanly possible during your startup period.  I’m almost embarrassed  to say it now, but I started Stem on a couple of thousand dollars, and that included a new computer.  So with this frugal tone in mind, I’d like to offer a couple of tips on creating a bootstrapped web presence: Give yourself permission to launch a ‘Version One’ website. Nothing online is permanent, including this site. Learn enough to register a domain, and sign up for a web hosting account.  My preference is use two different providers here – one as your domain registrar (example: GoDaddy) and one for the web hosting (examples: Bluehost, Fused Network).  And if you do reach out to others for help, make sure everything is registered in your name. Use WordPress for your initial website. Why? Because your path to improvement has less hurdles. Designers are plentiful, and you can easily replace or expand your ‘Version One’ website the moment your budget numbers justify it.  Unless you’re very tech-savvy, I think WP is the easiest of the major CMS products to get into production. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:41:59 +0100 867046 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/social-media-german-law-bans-facebook-research-for-hiring-decisions-googling-job-applicants-the-uk-position/ From an Out-Law Post: Employers in Germany will be allowed to enter job applicants’ names into search engines and professional networking sites but must not look at their profiles on Facebook, under a draft law that was approved by the Federal Cabinet yesterday. The law on the regulation of employee privacy is said to establish “an equitable balance between the interests of employees in protecting personal data and the legitimate interests of employers,” according to a translation of a statement on the Federal Cabinet’s website. The law clarifies the questions that can be asked during a job application process. It is acceptable for an employer to request an applicant’s name, address, telephone number and email address, according to the law; but certain internet searches are forbidden. [Clip] Official guidance that accompanies the law cites Facebook as an example of a service used for communication, which must not form part of a “private fishing expedition” and LinkedIn as a service used to represent professional qualifications which can be explored. [Clip] Kirsty Ayre, a partner in the employment law team of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind OUT-LAW.COM, said UK law is more tolerant of online research. “I know a lot of employers will put an applicant’s name into Google to see what comes up, and nothing in UK law prevents that,” she said. “In terms of how employers use the information they find, they have to be conscious of a person’s rights, particularly under the Data Protection Act.” “The safest approach is to make it clear at the outset of the recruitment process that you’re going to conduct internet research,” she said. Access the Complete Post (via Out-Law) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:11:24 +0100 865865 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/26/googles-new-real-time-search/ Google has just released a new search page dedicated to real-time results — those posts that come in typically from Twitter. They’re rolling it out, as they do with all innovations. But if you’re keen, you can get to it via http://www.google.com/realtime?esrch=RealtimeLaunch::Experiment. When it’s otherwise available to you, it will be reachable at http://www.google.com/realtime. One nice feature is the ability to restrict your results by geography. Thus, for example, I was able to see what people in Canada were saying about the floods in Pakistan. And, as Google suggests, it might be handy to find out what’s going on in a town you’re visiting. (Source: Slaw) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:07:55 +0100 867047 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/zJBhGqN958Q/why-chrome-is-better-than-firefox.html Here is my list of why Chrome is better than FireFox.  What would you add to it? 1.       Loads faster. 2.       Add extensions without restarting it. 3.       Constant development by Chrome team. 4.       Never have memory issues with Chrome. 5.       Minimal Interface. 6.       Better recovery from a crash. 7.       Can do everything Firefox can do and do it better. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Bill Drew - BabyBoomer Librarian (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:18:00 +0100 866002 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/SAnnET1MNaU/AJIC10-Gray.pdf Next Weblog update on 9/29/10. The African Journal of Information and Communication, no. 10 (2009/2010): Includes "Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value," "Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge," "Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA," "Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities," and other articles. Ariadne, no. 64 (2010): Includes: "Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment," "Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE," "Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge," and other articles. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 4/5 (2010): Includes "Excavating Grey Literature: A Case Study on the Rich Indexing of Archaeological Documents via Natural Language-Processing Techniques and Knowledge-Based Resources" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open Access Journals Bibliography, version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. International Journal of Digital Curation 5, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?," "Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network," "Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories: TIPR," "Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services," "The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives," and other articles. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty at MIT" and other articles. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 7, no. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:23:48 +0100 866426 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/26/google-the-great-risk-taker/ Safety is an illusion in today’s workplace. The current economy coupled with rapidly advancing technologies allows opportunities, or makes it necessary, for organizations to change the way they work. For individuals in many organizations, it could mean that risks (suggesting change, launching a new product, revamping a process) are not taken in an effort to maintain some kind of status quo (continued employment for example). The obvious downside for not taking a risk is that sometimes maintaining the status quo is equivalent to stagnation and failure. I have always been a glass half full, change equals opportunity, bring on the next challenge kind of person. I am sure that some of you share the excitement that this personal philosophy provides. Perhaps, like me, you look at Google and see a similar optimism. If you don’t believe that Google is a great risk taker, I have some examples from recent history. Google Wave. It was contemplated, tested in the market (see post comments), and canned as a failed experiment. Google risked investing time and resources and after evaluation, risked again by stopping development of a tool that some people found useful. Google’s new voice and video chat tool that is now available in your gmail. For Canadian’s who do not have access to Google Voice, this was announced yesterday: Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given that most of us don’t spend all day in front of our computers, we thought, “wouldn’t it be nice if you could call people directly on their phones?” Starting today, you can call any phone right from Gmail. I haven’t had an opportunity to adequately test this new service point yet, but as far as business risk taking goes, this is a great example. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:22:15 +0100 867048 http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/3/210?rss=1 (Source: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science current issue) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:59:52 +0100 867399 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Dbjx/~3/MB4a3mYqVZA/social-marketing-and-yammer.html The Social Media Club Gold Coast gathered at Broadbeach Library this evening. Tracy Whitelaw was the guest speaker and talked about convincing business to ‘go new school’ in their marketing. Tracy runs a business which provides advice on social marketing and related services to businesses, and offered some great insights into how ignoring social media channels can be a big risk. The slides will be available from the SMCGC site in the near future. I’m sorry I missed the speed networking at the beginning of the evening as there were a couple of new faces – a big welcome to you if you read this :). I had to dash off to get a cable for the projector or we would have been slideless. After Tracy’s presentation Michael Rees and I gave a short demonstration of Yammer and talked about how this microblogging tool can be used within an organisation, or for small teams. Yammer has not taken off to any large extent at MPOW, but it has great potential and I’m sure there are some great success stories out there (@Suelibrarian want to add a comment about your experience?). The demonstration inspired me to check out some features that I wasn’t aware of. There is now an option to extend the network beyond the email domain, by inviting external partners and collaborators or customers into the conversation. Tracy had talked about the importance of monitoring social traffic about your product or business so as to engage with the community. Yammer has a facility to include RSS feeds or keyword filters from Twitter or Google into the Yammer feed. This is a fairly simple way to easily include those streams to monitor tweets or posts about your business. It was a good night, but must remember to bring a spare cable just in case next time! Image by Idoknow19, used under Creative Commons Licence. (Source: Innovate) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:59:22 +0100 866067 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100817/02242310649.shtml (Source: Library Link of the Day) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:00:00 +0100 864866 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/jEbuPjhaJ_I/is_google_objective.php I was struck by this headline from TechCrunch: Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp? All Signs Point To Yes. The story is rather pedestrian - yet another dispute between a content and community service with the all powerful Google. Sure, it's Yelp, but at the end of the day, it's another company who has run afoul of the distribution giant, and is a bit confused by how things seem to be playing out. It's like Google isn't playing by the rules that, well, that created Google. I think the question, which I've raised before a number of times (it was a chapter in my book), must be raised again, if only to force clarity on how we think about the role Google now plays in our ecosystem. And that question is simply this: Is Google objective? Before I wax for too long with an answer, I'd love your thoughts. Ok, maybe I'll wax just a bit. Back in the day, Google was seen, as it is now, as a black box, but at least it was a fair black box. No matter who you were, your content or service was subject to the same rules as any other content or service. Entire industries sprung up attempting to charm Google's algorithms into favoring a particular page, or content class, or service. The premise was simple: Google may be all powerful, but at least it doesn't favor any one partner over any other one. I predicted, many times over, that this could not stand. Once Google started buying content assets like YouTube, or building its own favored "owned & operated" properties like Google Finance or Places, there was no way that it would happily and objectively cede its own distribution power to its competitors (competitors who, before Google expanded into content, were partners in a happy ecosystem of search). It has always been so, in a way. Google is a platform, and at some point, platforms always build out that which most benefits the platform, for any number of reasons. Twas so for Windows, for Facebook, for Twitter. But Google, many of us thought, was different. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866070 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/08/google-city-tours.html This is quite a fun one, which I hadn't noticed before. Google has produced some city tours, and the one for London looks like this: As you can see, it tells you how long it takes to walk from one location to another, and a suggested amount of time to spend at each attraction, though I'm slightly dubious about that - 45 minutes each for Westminster Abbey and the Cabinet War Rooms - I don't think so! However, it's a nice idea, and you can add or remove sites and get yourself ready for your trip. They also do them for San Francisco, New York and Dublin. Wouldn't it be great if a local library could do something similar for it's town or village! (Source: Phil Bradley) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865758 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16742 WSJ article about google's internal privacy policy battles: http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703309704575413553851854026.html A few points to take away from this: 1. IP address is not the only form of tracking, GA specifically sets tracking cookies, also flash and LSO tracking are becoming much more prevalent. 2. Google is a for-profit corporation and like any other is subject to market pressures. Larry Page fought against using cookies for advertising tracking, but eventually gave in. Right now the only thing stopping them from connecting together searches, gmail, ads, analytics, orkut, maps, android phone contacts backups, etc., is their current policy which could be changed at any time. What obligations do they have for this free service you're taking advantage of. 3. One reason to anonymize checkout records is so they can not be summoned by a court if you don't have them, but whatever data you send to google could be: "... concludes that it is required by law or (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865170 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/A57Eys6UJcU/ This morning, along with a lot of people in Australia, my gmail account came with a new feature, offering to let me make free phone calls to the US and Canada. “Huh”, I thought, “dumb google marketers presume we are all in the US and Canada and have just added the notice to *everyone’s* account – bet it doesn’t work”… BUT…. I opened the window, started entering a friend’s phone number – only to have it finished from my contacts lists – and bingo! – connected for free to a phone number in the US. The line (channel ?) quality was fine and the connection was fast with no dropouts. And it didn’t cost me a cent. How quickly my thinking has changed. I didn’t think “gee, this is just like calling from my phone”, but “hey, just like Skype”… Wonder how long before – if ever – I will be able to call within Australia for free. Right now it costs 2c per minute if I use this service … actually not too bad … And definitely what I would use when travelling overseas,  if for some reason Skype does not let me call home. (Source: Librarians matter) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:34:36 +0100 866138 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/7jSDvcTCEh0/een-spamfilter-voor-blogger.html Google kondigde twee weken geleden al aan dat het een spamfilter voor Blogger had gelanceerd. Die filter zou net zo krachtig moeten zijn als die van Gmail (over die filter ben ik inderdaad zeer tevreden). Zojuist zag ik dat het tabblad 'reacties' nu ook aan mijn account is toegevoegd. Dat gegeven deed me besluiten de woordverificatie voor reacties op dit weblog (captcha's) weer uit te schakelen. Ik heb die extra drempel bijna een jaar geleden met tegenzin in moeten schakelen, omdat spam de overhand kreeg. Als de filter niet goed werkt zet ik de verificatie weer aan, maar voor nu geldt: drempels weg! Tik je tekst, even een bolletje aanvinken (desnoods 'anoniem') en verzenden maar... Gerelateerd: Zullen spammers ooit opgeven? Spypig: inzicht in de inzichten van spammers Commentaren op weblogs: de werking van captcha's reCAPTCHA: draag een steentje bij aan het digitaliseren van boeken Reaguren echt zo moeilijk niet! Update 26 augustus: de eerste spam is binnen en werd inderdaad herkend en in quarantaine gezet door Blogger. De software lijkt prima te werken dus... @ Afbeelding: Candice Tripp (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:34:00 +0100 864821 http://www.oplin.org/4cast/index.php/?p=1325 Last week, Wired magazine ran a pair of articles by Chris Anderson (who wrote The Long Tail) and well-known journalist Michael Wolff under the heading “The Web Is Dead: Long Live the Internet.” Predictably, this provoked a lot of response from technology journalists. Why does it matter to libraries? Well, it might be something to consider as you decided whether to devote precious resources to a “killer” library website as opposed to a “killer” library app. Dead. Blame us. (Wired/Chris Anderson) ”Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it’s a world Google can’t crawl, one where HTML doesn’t rule.” Data. (Cisco Visual Networking Index) This is the data-laden report that supplied much of the information used by Wired magazine. The executive summary is full of interesting projections. Dead? Doesn’t look that way. (New York Times/Nick Bilton) ”Although Wired might be right in its assessment that apps are on the rise, with billions downloaded from Apple alone, many areas of the Web continue to grow dramatically too.” Not dead, just evolving. (GigaOM/Mathew Ingram) ”We now have applications for maps, applications for photos, applications for reading books, and apps for video and location-based ‘check ins’ and dozens of other things. That doesn’t mean the web is dead; it means that the web, and the way we use it, is evolving. Instead of wandering around on the web looking for interesting websites by using services such as Yahoo or AOL, we’re using task-specific devices in a sense. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:24:56 +0100 866800 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/9nt896e2YSU/mapa-da-web.html Gráfico traça o mapa da web com ícones Autor: Vinicius Aguiari.Fonte: Info Online . Data: 25/08/2010.O site Nmap.org colocou no ar um infográfico com a representação dos 300 mil maiores sites da web, de acordo com o ranking do site Alexa.com.No gráfico, o tamanho do ícone do site corresponde ao seu alcance na web. Como o esperado, o Google lidera, seguido do Facebook e do Yahoo!. Segundo o infográfico, o Google tem um alcance de 91,79% na web, enquanto Facebook e Yahoo! atingem 29,17% e 23,45% dos usuários. YouTube, MSN, Wikipedia, Wordpress e Gravatar são outros que aparecem no topo da tabela.O ícone do Google ocupa uma área de 11 936 x 11 936 pixels. Já o menor deles tem apenas 16 x 16 pixels e pertence a um site com apenas 0,00001% de alcance na web. A área total da imagem é de 37 440 x 37 440 pixels.O infográfico pode ser visualizado em uma versão interativa [URL: http://nmap.org/favicon/], que permite ampliar ou reduzir o seu tamanho, ou em modo para impressão. (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:02:00 +0100 865231 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/08/25/i%e2%80%99d-like-to-thank-my-agent-my-publisher-and%e2%80%a6google/ Matt Dellinger – “Writing the acknowledgements for my first book, “Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway,” was a heady but nervous experience. Like delivering an Oscar acceptance speech, maybe, without the tux or the orchestra. I spent a long time on the book (eight years from the first interviews to publication), and I felt the need to be thorough. I thanked my editor, my agent, my family and friends, people who had guided me professionally, people who had pitched in, people on whose couches I’d slept, my college professors, the book’s subjects… And of course I thanked Google. How could I not?” (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:55:42 +0100 865812 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16732 The fear here is not so much that we librarian-types will be looking over the logs, but that we will get a national security letter and the FBI will want to come in to look at the logs.  So we have this convoluted system to hash out the IP addresses with random salts that works on logs that are about to turn 30 days old. The reports from AWstats pale in comparison to google analytics. Urchin can use cookie rather than IP/hostnames; piwiki looks interesting, but google analytics is the best of breed and somebody else runs it for you for free for up to some very large traffic cap. My opinion is that as long as we a) make it clear in the privacy statement on the site that we are using google analytics plus whatever else we are doing b) turn on this anonymizeIp privacy option in the javascript that calls the tracking API ==> http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gaJS/gaJSApi_gat.html#_gat._anonymizeIp c) let users know they can elect to opt out of the behavioral tracking d) turn off IP logging on our (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865180 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/24/daily-tweets-2010-08-24/ Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars http://icio.us/yep5n4 # A Busy Summer for DSpace — GSoC & DSpace 1.7 Updates http://icio.us/zbb1mr # Wireless Net Neutrality so Bad, Verizon Already Agreed to It http://icio.us/pei4ir # RIAA: U.S. Copyright Law "Isn't Working" http://icio.us/12c3hr # Open to Change: How Open Access Can Work http://icio.us/2kduu2 # Pass the Hat: Voluntary Payment as a Complementary Model for Music Copyright http://icio.us/pmswpv # Literature Review: IncReASe Project http://icio.us/kook4i # Literature Review: EM-Loader Project http://icio.us/3ihzcy # Comparing Social Sharing of Bibliographic Information with Institutional Repositories http://icio.us/vjv1nu # For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review http://icio.us/btqxtd # Free Data Services [British Library] http://icio.us/pqmqd2 # Common as Air http://icio.us/dst5ja # (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:00:39 +0100 866056 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/24/new-and-improved-or-not/ One of the lovely surprises awaiting those who have been away from the reference desk for a while is the numerous spanking new database interfaces that have sprouted up. There seem to be more than usual this year, and while some are improvements, others, frankly, need a good spanking. One that has us particularly flummoxed is the new JSTOR interface that defaults to searching material your library doesn’t have and offers new layers of confusion. (”Is this article available at my library in another database?” “Sorry, we can’t tell you that, but we can provide a handy link through our publisher sales service to purchase articles.”) As an aside, do publishers seriously expect people to purchase articles for $12, $25, or $35 a pop? Really? They have not met my patrons. But I digress. I was coasting along in blissful ignorance until I got this guest post from our occasional correspondent from Bowling Green State University, Amy Fry. I have a feeling JSTOR will be getting a lot of feedback on their “improvements.” Here are some thoughts to start the conversation. —- What Were They Thinking? Amy Fry Electronic Resources Coordinator Bowling Green State University Today is the first day of the new semester at BGSU, and also the first school day of the new JSTOR interface. What were they thinking? JSTOR began life as a journal archive, but librarians have long treated it as an all-full-text, all-scholarly database for journal literature. While its search interface lagged, with limited options to weed out unwanted items or zero in on the most relevant results, its content was stellar, and librarians felt confident promoting it to students as a reliable place to find full-text scholarly sources. As a result, JSTOR has a strong brand not only with librarians, but with faculty and students at all kinds of institutions. Those days appear to be over, at least for now. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:21:06 +0100 866722 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/08/ask-scotland.html Ask Scotland is an online information service provided by Scotland's libraries that lets you get real answers from real people direct from your desktop. Your questions will go to a librarian who will research your query and send a customised response. There's also a chat now option.Not entirely sure about the sample questions though - 'Why do Scots wear kilts?' being the first one and just a tad stereotypical? Recently answered questions seemed to relate to history, rather than anything else. There's an answerbase which is searchable, and is great for giving a feel for the extent of the answer, which are - as one would expect - clearly laid out with citations and links. Really good resource, and a lovely example of what libraries can do to counteract the 'it's all on Google' nonsense. (Source: Phil Bradley) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865761 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/24/new-and-improved-or-not/ One of the lovely surprises awaiting those who have been away from the reference desk for a while is the numerous spanking new database interfaces that have sprouted up. There seem to be more than usual this year, and while some are improvements, others, frankly, need a good spanking. One that has us particularly flummoxed is the new JSTOR interface that defaults to searching material your library doesn’t have and offers new layers of confusion. (”Is this article available at my library in another database?” “Sorry, we can’t tell you that, but we can provide a handy link through our publisher sales service to purchase articles.”) As an aside, do publishers seriously expect people to purchase articles for $12, $25, or $35 a pop? Really? They have not met my patrons. But I digress. I was coasting along in blissful ignorance until I got this guest post from our occasional correspondent from Bowling Green State University, Amy Fry. I have a feeling JSTOR will be getting a lot of feedback on their “improvements.” Here are some thoughts to start the conversation. —- What Were They Thinking? Amy Fry Electronic Resources Coordinator Bowling Green State University Today is the first day of the new semester at BGSU, and also the first school day of the new JSTOR interface. What were they thinking? JSTOR began life as a journal archive, but librarians have long treated it as an all-full-text, all-scholarly database for journal literature. While its search interface lagged, with limited options to weed out unwanted items or zero in on the most relevant results, its content was stellar, and librarians felt confident promoting it to students as a reliable place to find full-text scholarly sources. As a result, JSTOR has a strong brand not only with librarians, but with faculty and students at all kinds of institutions. Those days appear to be over, at least for now. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865354 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/23/daily-tweets-82310/ Now Available: Fedora Repository 3.4 http://icio.us/qht4lr Creative Commons OpenOffice Plug-in Version 0.7.0 Released http://icio.us/xwdpzv Enter the "Liquid Journal" http://icio.us/pxz2wf Will Google's Net Neutrality Shift Complicate the Book Settlement? http://icio.us/bbhbj2 A Case of Bad Credit?: The United State and the Protection of Moral Rights in Intellectual Property Law http://icio.us/g1emas Teaching the End of Print — Using Books Poised on the Edge of Oblivion http://icio.us/iygqzq So Much for Transparency: Latest ACTA Draft Won't Be Released http://icio.us/fjvpvc Did Weak Copyright Laws Help Germany Outpace the British Empire? http://icio.us/wp3bgf (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:40:42 +0100 866057 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/lpQf_zilfw0/viviendo-en-la-nube.html Por: Jose Camilo Daccach T. No es muy extraño que llegase a quedarse sin su computador, o por un daño, o por un virus, o varias otras razones. El computo en la nube ayuda a sobrellevar el problema, pero tiene que estar preparado.Siempre he tenido en cuenta el dicho de que en algunas cosas hay que actuar como Tarzán, no soltar una liana hasta que no se tenga agarrada la otra. Pero con la ida de mi portátil no cuadraron las cosas y llevo una semana sin equipo propio de cómputo, manejando todo en la nube, esperando llegue el otro computador. La experiencia ha sido enriquecedora y queremos compartirla con ustedes para cuando se les ofrezca.Hay varios elementos a tener en cuenta: los datos o su información, los programas que usa, y otros menores. Es indispensable de todas maneras que estas indicaciones servirán no solo para cambiar de computador, sino que serán de tremenda ayuda para cuando se quede sin equipo por cualquier situación como una invasión de virus, o daño del disco duro.Datos Aquí hemos recomendado en varias ocasiones que es indispensable tener una copia de sus archivos de datos. Por lo general están todos en una carpeta que se llama “Mis Documentos” lo que hace muy fácil arrastrarlos hacia un sistema de almacenamiento externo. Un disco duro externo que se puede conectar por USB en forma sencilla, se puede conseguir por unos US$150 para una capacidad de 1,000 GB, mucha más capacidad de la que llegará a necesitar. Por US$300 conseguirá uno con las mismas capacidades pero de un tamaño tremendamente reducido que hasta le permitiría llevarlo en un bolsillo.Así no se piense quedar sin su computador, la tranquilidad que da saber que sus datos están en otra parte copiados vale la pena cualquier inversión. Hay que tener en cuenta que algunos datos no estarán en el mismo directorio, sino en los de la respectiva aplicación, como el correo si usa una aplicación para leerlo en su PC, o las plantillas de Office. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:55:00 +0100 865224 http://kairosnews.org/it039s-literature-jim-but-not-as-we-know   From Vooks to ebooks, from the iPad to the Google settlement, and from print-on-demand to new styles of writing, this article attempts to analyse the effects of the digital revolution on the publishing industry, and to make some educated guesses about how things may develop in the next few years. "An alternative to the Big Publishing model is already with us, and despite the odd viral phenomenon it consists in the main of very large numbers of small-scale products reaching small audiences, rather than small numbers of very high-profile products reaching huge audiences. This alternative model is enabled by digital technology, and it replaces high production values and market-minded editorial controls with the principle that people's desire to publish themselves and to look at each other's efforts is itself a profit motor." To read the whole article, go to http://www.hyperex.co.uk/reviewdigitalpublishing.php or http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=406 . - Edward Picot personal website - http://edwardpicot.com (Source: Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:27:51 +0100 865036 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FrequentlyAnsweredQuestions/~3/hK24ca_Ji4Y/printingscsu.html Students and faculty who have been away for the summer may have missed the fact that SCSU is now charging for printing in the public computer labs, including the main floor of the library. The cost is $.05/page (black and white, single sided) on your HootLoot ID card only. Students who rarely visit campus should make an extra effort to bring your ID card if you have one. If you don't have one and want one, you can visit the Card Office in Wintergreen during their business hours. Online students can get a non-picture card by emailing the Card Office (see the Note: Online Students). If you don't have an ID and can't get one in time, or lose yours, you can buy a copy card and use that for printing. Copy cards are $5, and you get $4 worth of copies/printing. (The photocopiers are $.11/page.) There is a card machine in the library by the Reference Desk; you can buy a card and put money on an old card or an ID card. You can also put money on an ID card (not a purchased copy card) via the Card Office website.It's probably an even better idea to bring a USB "thumb" drive to the library. You can save all your articles, documents, etc., to the drive and print them elsewhere if the printers are down, card machine is down or out of cards, etc. You can scan printed items instead of photocopying. No online student should be without a USB drive these days. And they have gotten a lot cheaper. Staples had them at the check out counters for $10 for 2G, and I've seen $10 for 4G and $20 for 8G ones on sale. They are usable across platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux) and you can even load programs onto them. If you visit another library, they may be your best bet for getting articles, since you may not be able to get printing privileges.Or you could go the all-online route. You can email PDFs and other files to a Gmail or other large capacity email account. ... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866523 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/08/search-for-tutorials.html I always like to try and say something positive about resources that I take a look at, but sometimes it's very difficult. Such is the case with ThinkTutorial which is a great idea - tutorials based on a variety of different computer/internet related subjects. It describes itself as "a database of simple, easy to follow tutorials covering all aspects of popular computing." There are currently 383 tutorials available, covering subjects such as Facebook, Google, Word, Firefox, Twitter and so on. I have no idea who actually creates the tutorials - that's simply just not referenced and consequently I'm unhappy right at the start. If I don't know who created it, how do I trust that they've got it right? And if a tutorial is pants, is it because that particular person didn't know what they were doing, and are they better in other subject areas or what? Consequently I'm not trusting the data to begin with.Second point - the search option is rubbish. I ran a search for 'Twitter' and got 6 tutorials. However, going through their 'topics' option I got 15. The tutorials themselves are also pretty dire. This is the full text of the tutorial on 'How to send a tweet on twitter' - Type your message into the What's happening box on the top of your screen. [Image] Click Tweet. [Image] Seriously. That's it. Nothing about 140 characters even! The one for Facebook chat is just as sparse: Click on the Chat button at the bottom right of your screen. [Image] Double click on the friend you wish to chat to. [Image] Enter your message into the bottom of the chatbox and hit enter. There were a few Facebook tutorials, but nothing on privacy, which is the hottest topic related to Facebook. A real disappointment, and I don't really think this site/search resource has anything to recommend it at all. (Source: Phil Bradley) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865762 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3079 As you might have noticed, I was inspired to register for a PACER account because of the presentation from the Six State Virtual Conference. Today I'd like to share my brief initial experience with PACER. I received my password a few hours after applying for it. Today I logged into PACER and decided to look for documents related to Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger. I realize that some documents in this case are already publicly available, but I wanted something to search that I knew would be in the system. First I clicked on the database link for the Northern District of California, since I knew the case was heard in San Francisco. The resulting search screen offered my several choices, including searching by attorney name. I tried Theodore Olsen, knowing he was one of the attorneys. I got back two cases, but neither was Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger. I was charged $0.08. According to PACER documentation, I would have been charged $0.08 even if I had zero results. So I did a quick Google search to learn that Perry's first name was Kristen and did a party search for Kristen Perry. I immediately got Case Number 3:09-ev-02292-VRW, better known as Perry et al v. Schwarzenegger. This also cost me $0.08, but since I got a useful result, I didn't mind. I looked at the Case Summary ($0.08). I looked at the Case File Location ($0.08) and determined the case files might still be with Judge Walker. Then I looked at the Docket Report. There were 742 files associated with the case. PACER determined that this should be charged as 30 pages or $2.40. Browsing through the list I decided to pull up a 10 page letter from "Voter X" which was sent to Judge Walker during the trial. This person said they feared retaliation from pro-same sex marriage forces and represented themselves as just one of the many voters who voted for Prop 8. The letter was written like a legal brief and I suspect the author was an attorney or paralegal. Viewing and downloading this letter cost me $0. ... Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:59:09 +0100 865727 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/gSaHSsC1q2A/extensie-van-de-week-twitter-symbols.html Een leuke tip voor de gebruikers van Google Chrome en Twitter: Twitter Symbols. Deze browserextensie voegt een extra knopje toe aan Twitter, waarmee je allerlei symbolen aan je tweets kunt toevoegen, zoals het icoon van een hamer en sikkel, schaakstukken of smiley's zoals die ook in MS Word worden getoond. Is dit handig? Mwoah. Is dit geinig? Absoluut. Update: @echites en @lukask wezen mij erop dat de symbolen niet worden weergeven in sommige Twitterclients. In ieder geval ook niet in Tweetdeck en Seesmic. @ Via Mashable (nog zes andere extensies) (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:58:00 +0100 864831 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/08/canadian-association-of-law-libraries_22.html The Education Committee of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) will soon be holding the second session of the CALL Webinar Series.Farida Karim will be presenting "The Elevator Speech: Justifying and Promoting our Libraries" on August 26th, 2010 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT.The registration forms and details regarding the rest of the sessions can be found on the CALL website in the Professional Development section:"Google organizes the world's information and makes it universally accessible and useful. Every touch point of your brand creates an impression on your customer. But what is it? How do you corral your brand? How do you express it? Effective brands are defined succinctly and competitively in a single sentence. Your statement needs to express what is different about you and why it matters. It should be short enough to write on the back of a business card and definitive enough to describe the brand's purpose. ""Make your brand known! The goal of this webinar is to introduce information professionals to the concept of identifying your brand and learning how to consciously manage it. The workshop will help you respond – clearly, succinctly and with confidence – to any of the following: What is my brand? What is the impact of my brand on the business? What value do I generate? I am the person who . . . . What is my 45-second elevator pitch?"This session will be one of five webinars offered from now to the end of March. It is possible for CALL members to register for all five sessions for $175 + $22.75 HST = $197.75 or per webinar for $ 40 + $5.20 HST = $45.40.Non-members can also buy a series ticket for $275 + $35.75 HST = $310.75 or $ 60 + $7.80 HST = $67.80 per webinar. (Source: Library Boy) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864928 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/b0U6443g9o4/muismijden.html RSI wordt door veel mensen onderschat. Nog steeds. Terwijl het veel voorkomt en de samenleving veel geld kost. Ik onderschat RSI niet meer. Een jaar of zes geleden was ik zelf bijna het haasje. In die tijd werkte ik overdag in de bibliotheek, veelal achter de pc, zat ik 's avonds thuis nog een paar uur achter de pc, voor de lol, en rondde ik de dag af door nog twee uur Unreal Tournament online te spelen. De linkermuisknop was de trekker/schietknop van mijn wapens. Dat was teveel van het goede. Op een gegeven moment kreeg ik last van tintelingen en een slap gevoel in mijn arm en vingers. Later ging het zelfs pijn doen. Ik meldde me dus bij de bedrijfsarts en kreeg een van de grappigste adviezen ooit van een arts. Nadat hij me had gevraagd of ik rookte en ik dat had bevestigd zei hij: "dan moet je je werkzaamheden regelmatig onderbreken om een sigaretje te gaan roken". Met dat koren op mijn molen vervoegde ik me uiteraard graag bij mijn chef. Mijn werkplek werd bekeken door een ergonoom. Hij zorgde ervoor dat ik een stoel met leuningen kreeg en dat mijn beeldscherm op een verhoging werd geplaatst, opdat ik ertoe verleid zou worden rechtop te blijven zitten. Met online gamen stopte ik. Dat was simpelweg te intensief, als dagafsluiter. Sindsdien heb ik eigenlijk geen noemenswaardige klachten meer gehad, ondanks het feit dat ik dagelijks heel wat uren achter de pc of laptop zit. Tot vorige week. 8 dagen terug pakte ik eens ouwerwets flink door. Werken aan projecten, volop in de weer met alle communicatiekanalen en mijn favoriete websites: ik zat die dag meer dan 12 uur met de muis in mijn hand. Zonder na te denken, onderuit gezakt. Ik kreeg de rekening de volgende dag meteen gepresenteerd: een knoop tussen de schouderbladen en jawel: een tintelende en slappe arm. Code Rood! Defcon 2! We gaan neer, Houston! Als ik nu ergens niet op zit te wachten zijn het RSI-klachten. Dan kan ik het kleine ondernemerschap wel vergeten. ... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:28:00 +0100 864834 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/tRwkApC1Eqc/ Hoy en la mañana participaré del Simposio Aprendizaje 2.0 que se llevará a cabo en la Universidad Católica de Mayagüez. Hablaré sobre los usos del RSS y su valor en el aprendizaje 2.0. Incluyo la presentación: El RSS: Herramienta omnipresente en el aprendizaje 2.0 View more presentations from DigiZen. Otros recursos sobre el tema que pueden ser de interés: 1. Guía sobre cómo usar el Google Reader 2. Introducción al RSS 3. Guía en SlideShare sobre Google Reader: Guía para Google Reader View more presentations from DigiZen. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:49:27 +0100 864913 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DepravedLibrarian/~3/T4N9gn-IG-0/ Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric Schmidt – Telegraph In an interview Mr Schmidt said he believed that every young person will one day be allowed to change their name to distance themselves from embarrasssing photographs and material stored on their friends' social media sites. (tags: digital google internet socialmedia privacy youth) Tracking The Companies That Track You Online : NPR Julia Angwin recently led a team of reporters from The Wall Street Journal in analyzing the tracking software. They discovered that nearly all of the most commonly visited websites gather information in real time about the behavior of online users. The Journal series identified more than 100 tracking companies, data brokers and advertising networks collecting data — which are then sold on a stock market-like exchange to online advertisers. (tags: privacy tracking internet) (Source: Depraved Librarian) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:05:28 +0100 866591 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DepravedLibrarian/~3/vGmzVwksGq8/glee Tracking The Companies That Track You Online : NPR Julia Angwin recently led a team of reporters from The Wall Street Journal in analyzing the tracking software. They discovered that nearly all of the most commonly visited websites gather information in real time about the behavior of online users. The Journal series identified more than 100 tracking companies, data brokers and advertising networks collecting data — which are then sold on a stock market-like exchange to online advertisers. Young will have to change names to escape 'cyber past' warns Google's Eric Schmidt - Telegraph In an interview Mr Schmidt said he believed that every young person will one day be allowed to change their name to distance themselves from embarrasssing photographs and material stored on their friends' social media sites. (Source: Depraved Librarian) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 866592 http://lisnews.org/watch_net_neutrality_fcc_hearings_thursday_night Note from Senator Al Franken of MN: A few weeks ago, Google and Verizon announced a proposed policy framework that they claimed would protect net neutrality, but it does not apply to wireless Internet services. It does not protect net neutrality -- it undermines it. We've set up a special link so you can watch the hearing, courtesy of the UpTake -- it starts at 6:00 Central Time (7:00 Eastern) tonight. Please invite your friends to watch by Tweeting and posting to Facebook. This is a big opportunity for us to stand up for net neutrality -- and stand up to big corporations who want to own the flow of information in America. (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:34:09 +0100 865318 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/me3Rj8_pz74/ After I posted Twitter Search Engines a couple days ago, Gary Price chatted with me about TwapperKeeper. Basically, Twapperkeeper can save tweets and hashtags, and creates an archive of them for you… so you, say, don’t lose track of a hashtag you created a couple of weeks ago. What other similar tools are out there? Check out these useful posts: 10 Ways to Archive your Tweets from ReadWriteWeb – Twapperkeeper is listed here. How to Backup your Twitter Archive from MakeUseOf.com – don’t want to lose your tweets? Check out one of these services. Finally, some useful tips from Danny Sullivan on how to search Google for old tweets. Hope you find these useful! Share: Related PostsTwitter Search EnginesMeta Social: Online Interactions & how to make them ROCKHow a Meme Gets StartedPersonal Accounts, Work Accounts – What To Do?Follow the Meat Department on Twitter! (Source: David Lee King) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:44:12 +0100 867301 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/ufXl4iifhpM/finding_a_yogurt_shop_a_mile_away_im_not_feeling_lucky_.php I don't know about you guys, but I see way too much of this when I search Google lately. Tonight I was looking for a particular frozen yogurt shop in Edgartown, which is a town on the island where my family has spent portions of the summer for the past 100 or so years. This was a relatively new shop, but not that new. Anyway, we forgot the name, so I Googled "yogurt edgartown." Here's what I got: OK, none of the local results are even on the island, much less in Edgartown. So strike one. I'm familiar with the first result below the map, but that's not the place I mean. Strike two. The third result is clearly some kind of aggregator, but maybe they have an up to date directory I can look at. It's called "American Towns." I've never heard of it. Do I trust it? I dunno, maybe. So I click. I get this: Look at that for a minute. There's exactly ONE "organic" result on that page, and by the way, it's not what I'm looking for. The rest are ads that in no way help me. This is not an unusual result for me lately. How about you? When it comes to finding places via Google, I'm not really feeling lucky anymore. Any suggestions as to what I should have done to find that yogurt shop? Wait, I have an idea. What if Foursquare or Facebook had Places search? Man, that'd be great! I could search for yogurt shops in Edgartown, and I bet, without a doubt, I could find what I'm looking for. Do they? Nope. Should they? Yep. Just saying. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865620 http://acrlog.org/2010/08/18/is-a-response-even-worth-our-time/ A Facebook friend messaged me to say “ACRLog needs to take this on”, in reference to this comment associated with a Slate piece on why tenure should be abolished. Andrew Sullivan who blogs for The Atlantic shared a few paragraphs from the Slate piece with his readers. It generated a fair number of comments in favor of and against tenure. No one in the academic librarian community seemed to care much about the original piece or the bulk of the comments until one of them attacked our right to have tenure. My personal inclination is to ignore this comment completely. What I would like to take on is why academic librarians get their panties in such a twist so worked up about this sort of thing? This is an off-the-cuff comment to an opinion piece. It’s not like it’s a well researched, well thought out essay in The Chronicle that might actually dignify a response. For all we know the comment is from a disgruntled librarian who got turned down for tenure and now holds a grudge against librarians who have tenure. Are we so insecure about our professional status and our right to claim tenure status that we have to defend it against every feeble critique. And what’s the point of doing so anyway? Is there anything any of us could write that would change the commenter’s mind – or the mind of anyone who’s against tenure? We’ve all seen dozens of impassioned arguments for and against tenure. Have you ever read a single response or comment along the lines of “What you had to say actually made me change my mind on this issue”? I sure haven’t. ... Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865356 http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewfeature&id=2573 Yahoo is busy integrating social networking features from Facebook and investing in online content. Microsoft touts its new search engine, Bing, every chance it gets in an attempt to take on Google. And AOL, the ailing Internet services company, has spent the last year restructuring and divesting. At the recent Supernova conference in Philadelphia, Brad Garlinghouse, president of AOL consumer applications, described the company's transformation as an attempt at a "second act." Wharton faculty weigh in on what it would take to bring aging Internet companies like AOL up to speed.  (Source: Knowledge@Wharton) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:14:34 +0100 866489 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/short-article-note-on-web-20-tools-for.html Citation for the article:Deitering, Anne-Marie, et.al., "Library Instruction 2.0." Public Services Quarterly 5.2 (April 2009): 114-124.Read via Interlibrary Loan.This piece is mostly a list of some Web 2.0 tools with some suggestions and tips on how they can be used for library instruction. If you are a pretty savvy librarian who knows how to use the major 2.0 tools, you can probably safely skim the article. There are some basic tips that can be useful, which include: Using Delicious (http://delicious.com) and tagging to highlight issues with the concept of tagging versus a controlled vocabulary. (116).Using Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader) to organize and track information. I use Google Reader quite a bit for my current awareness needs. Using Creative Commons, both for finding content that may be used freely and for your own material. My blogs are licensed with Creative Commons, by the way. There are a couple other items included. This article is one to keep handy when you need some ideas to enhance or supplement your library instruction. The only catch is that it came out in 2009, which means most of it was likely written up in 2008 or earlier, and the Web has changed a bit since then. Some of these tools are pretty much common, and there are many other new ones. On the other hand, I do get a good amount of students (and some faculty) who have no idea what a feed reader is. However, the tools listed here seem to have stood the test of time (if we can understand that time moves quite swiftly in the Web). I am keeping the article in my files for future reference, plus it would be interesting to consider what other tools librarians would add to this list by now. (Source: The Gypsy Librarian) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:48:00 +0100 866512 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/SWwQRr2kPsg/over-gratis-freemium-en-luie.html Slideshare ontdekte ik in het najaar van 2006. Ik was toen onder de indruk van deze 'YouTube voor Powerpoints'. Onder de indruk ben ik nog steeds, het verschil met toen is echter dat het platform nu veel meer concurrenten heeft, zoals Scribd, Google Docs en Zoho. Het is, kortom, niet langer de enige website die ik bezoek, als ik op zoek ben naar voorbeeldpresentaties of documenten die ik in kan sluiten op Mijns Inziens. Nu Slideshare bekend heeft gemaakt dat het zal overstappen naar Freemium (een verdienmodel waarbij consumenten gratis, vaak door adverteerders gesponsorde producten krijgen, maar moeten betalen voor extra diensten of content) wordt er veel over het bedrijf en het model geschreven. Wat mij daarbij opvalt is dat veel mensen deze stap zien als een bewijs voor de theorie dat het concept gratis beperkt houdbaar is. Dat concept hééft ook de nodige beperkingen. Het is inderdaad niet houdbaar op het moment dat je een dienst of product levert, waar tientallen of zelfs honderden mensen tegen betaling aan werken of hebben gewerkt. Zodra 'brood op de plank' een rol speelt moeten er ook inkomsten gegenereerd worden, dat is niet zo ingewikkeld. Dat verandert echter niets aan het gegeven dat er ook vele duizenden diensten en producten ontwikkeld worden door samenwerkende liefhebbers. Klik je een uurtje een weg door Open Source-gemeenschap SourceForge, en je begrijpt wat ik bedoel. Toch vraag ik me, net als afgelopen zondag bij de betaalde websites van kranten, af hoeveel mensen er uiteindelijk bereid zijn te betalen voor hoeveel diensten. Als ik lees dat Ning (dat over een paar dagen helemaal niet meer gratis is) inmiddels 45.000 betalende klanten heeft weet ik niet goed wat ik daarvan moet denken. Zijn dat nu veel of weinig mensen, als je er vanuit gaat dat er tot op heden bijna 300. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:29:00 +0100 864842 http://bsf.org.br/2010/08/16/lista-de-telefone-email-contatos-de-bibliotecas-bibliotecarios/ De vez em sempre eu preciso entrar em contato com algum colega bibliotecário em busca de artigos, informações, solução para problemas, etc. A essência do nosso trabalho é essa mesmo, cooperação. Eu criei uma lista no google docs com os contatos das pessoas responsáveis e respectivas bibliotecas, apenas para facilitar essa troca profissional. Quem quiser incluir os seus contatos, basta me mandar por email (moreno.barros@gmail.com) ou via twitter (@moreno) ou deixar nos comentários as informações necessárias (nome da biblioteca, cidade, acervo/coleção/especialidade, nome do bibliotecário, telefone e email institucional). A lista já está disponível em: http://bit.ly/contatobibliotecas Infelizmente, por enquanto não vou poder abrir a lista para inclusão colaborativa. E só irei incluir os contatos das pessoas que me enviarem. Muitas dessas informações estão disponíveis online, sim, e existem outras listas de contatos, mas eu estou criando esta de qualquer forma. Faz parte do início de um mapeamento nacional que eu vou fazer com a ajuda de outros colegas. Explicações em breve. Posts relacionados:Projeto de produto – transporte de livros em bibliotecas LEI Nº 12.244 – Dispõe sobre a universalização das bibliotecas nas instituições de ensino do País. (Source: Bibliotecários Sem Fronteiras 2.0) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:15:07 +0100 867117 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002126.html A couple of recent events interestingly relate ... First, I read in Search Engine Land of the resignation from Yahoo of Srinija Srinivasan. Srinavasan was once arguably "the most powerful person in search" writes Danny Sullivan. This was when "humans edited the web" and Yahoo emerged as its central directory. Srinivasan oversaw this activity. Sullivan writes that Yahoo was better than the 'automatic' or 'crawler-based' search engines of the time such as Excite or Alta Vista: "Yahoo, in contrast, wasn't about the sheer volume of content. It was about listing the best of the web." The 'best of the web' is an interesting phrase as it was also used by another set of services which emerged at around the same time in another part of the galaxy. These were the so-called subject gateways developed within UK higher education And they were one of many examples of humans editing the web that emerged in the academic and library communities (think of Internet Scout, CORC, BUBL, NISS Gateway, Internet Public Library, LII, and others). The original subject gateways were funded in parallel with early JISC funding of electronic library developments; they came together as the Resource Discovery Network, which morphed into Intute. These projects went beyond 'pointing' to creating metadata for selected websites. The connection between these is that the second event I am thinking of is the announcement by JISC that the funding for Intute was being cut. This marks the end of an era, as an article in the current issue of Ariadne notes. Of course, what changed along the way was the emergence of Google and the pagerank algorithm. This was a service also based on choice, not in this case the editorial choice of compilers, but the aggregate choices made in linking behaviors. If Yahoo, or the subject gateways which were the basis of Intute, were to be set up today, they would probably talk about 'curating' the web. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:51:50 +0100 866756 http://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/archives/2010/08/15/androids-app-inventor-drag-and-drop-programming/ It took a while, but Friday afternoon I finally got an invite to use Google’s App Inventor program. What is App Inventor? It’s Google’s attempt to simplify building apps for Android devices. Apps are built using a drag and drop interface, and reflected instantly on a connected Android device. I was skeptical about the system’s ability to produce apps of any real functionality, but I was happy to be proven mostly wrong. Building a well-structured UI is admittedly almost impossible, with only basic layout and design tools available. But the app inventor does provide easy access to surprisingly complex elements of the Android functionality. The GPS, barcode scanner, camera, speech recognition, and accelerometer are among the tools easily usable via drag and drop. After placing buttons and labels to design the UI, a separate drag and drop interface is used to establish how those elements interact with each other. A series of blocks click into each other, with a bit of typing to provide some details. It’s a nice system, and my skepticism about App Inventor’s potential beyond the toy level was quickly overcome. I ran through the first tutorial app (touch the picture of a cat and it meows! This didn’t help my skepticism…) in a few minutes. Less than an hour later I’d built an app to search the UNC catalog via an ISBN barcode scan. It relies heavily on our existing catalog webapp to do the actual search, but still! I mastered using the barcode scanner for apps in less than an hour. My previous attempt at Android programming (in Java, before App Inventor existed) took me four hours to build an app that simply displays an image. And that simple task drew on every single bit of programming know-how I could dredge up from my undergrad days. The barrier to entry for using App Inventor is almost absurdly low. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:03:55 +0100 866039 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Dbjx/~3/J6DmyxXF4QY/gooreader-trial.html I’ve been trying out Gooreader, a desktop appliction for searching and reading books from Google Books. I only tried the free option, so I couldn’t save to pdf. It looks it might be quite helpful for some folks, however, on a small screen 9inch netbook I couldn’t read the books comfortably. On zooming in, the text become legible but extends beyond the edges of the screen and I could not find a way to grab and move the page across. I just wanted one of the hand icons to grab and drag it.   So, I’ll probably be uninstalling it from this device. Maybe I’ll give it a try on a larger laptop, or maybe a desktop, but I was hoping that it would be useful on a very portable device. (Source: Innovate) Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:12:21 +0100 866068 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/SyZq9-EDfnY/no_quaero_good_luck_with_that_china.php China has announced it will build a state run search engine to compete with, no wait, dominate and overrun, its own semi-autonomous upstarts Baidu (CEO Robin Li is coming to Web 2 this year) and Yahoo-backed Alibaba (CEO Jack Ma came in years past). All I can say is "Good luck with that, China." If search engine share is seen as equivalent to vote counts at a rigged election, I have no doubt that the Chinese state engine will have a commanding share within a year. But in the hearts and minds of sophisticated Chinese users, there will be no doubt as to what the state run service is really all about. Control. Reminds me of a highly touted, and now forgotten, European effort to start a continental search engine called Quaero. You don't remember it? You are not alone. Fortunately, you hang out with search geeks like me. Here's my final piece on that albatross. It can't be a lot of fun to run Baidu right about now. Makes me wonder if Google knew this was coming when it chose to step out of China. If it didn't, man, does it look smart now. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865623 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2010/08/14/smart-phone-worth-it/ So in late July I ordered a HTC Droid Incredible to replace my old Motorola Krazr cell phone. I’ve wanted a smart phone for a while and while the idea of an iPhone is appealing the idea of AT&T as my cell carrier is not. I’d tested out the Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris back in January and liked HTC’s tech better. Since then I’ve been biding my time trying to decide if I was going to get a phone or not. After six months of waiting, I decided enough was enough and purchased the Incredible. After three weeks, I’m very happy. The main things I wanted to use it for work fabulous. Email, address book and calendar are slick. Since I put all my contacts into Gmail before I got the phone, I literally signed the phone into my Google Account and presto all my contacts. My Google Calendar and Gmail were just as easy. Setting it up to talk to OCLC’s Exchange server just took a few minutes of the OCLC Help Desk’s time. I easily plugged the phone into the rental car and played music off it on my trip to upstate NY. When I neglected to bring the hotel’s address for the IDS conference, Google Maps put me on the right road in less than 2 minutes. Notes were super easy to take with GoogleDocs and I was able Tweet the conference on Twitter. On that trip I honestly didn’t need my laptop. I also like that I can check my bank account from the phone. Plus the application for Toodledo, which I use to manage my To dos is great. Getting voicemail from GoogleVoice is also WAY easier that before. I’ve also use the web browser to look at my LibraryThing account when I’m at the used bookstore or want to recommend a book to someone and can’t remember the title. Last.fm is pretty awesome too. When I get sick of the music on the phone, I can use Last.fm to stream other music. A few things I haven’t gotten/found a app for in the Android market yet. ... Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:05:10 +0100 866372 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/L1J4H848fOw/ Gooreader es una aplicación de escritorio que facilita la búsqueda y  lectura de libros desde Google Books. En su versión de pago convierte los documentos en formato PDF. En este video se explica su funcionamiento: GooReader La interfaz de GooReader para leer libros es mucho más conveniente que la de Google Books. Otra función que encontré muy útil es que  organiza los libros por tres categorías: “Full View, Partial View y No View”. Goo Reader es una excelente alternativa para “sacarle el jugo” al maravilloso Google Books. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:32:00 +0100 864919 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/TARBNHY18rQ/lib-sites-and-sources-2010-08-13.html Flurry’s AppCircle Makes Android Apps Easier to Find (via @mashable) – http://mash.to/2oucI From @jeffjarvis: This Week in Google is up: Carrier-humping net-neutrality surrender monkeys: http://bit.ly/9v8xpl From @ashuping: We need one of these for libraries | Unsuck It Translates Awful Corporate Speak into Plain English http://ff.im/-p96Ve From @Lifehacker: Google Voice Actions Controls Your Android Phone with Plain Speech http://lifehacker.com/5611403/ Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:10:00 +0100 866672 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/f1-9NG2OmZM/article-project-gutenberg-on-quest-to.html It is likely that you know the project (Project Gutenberg), which  began on July 5, 1971.  Since 1971, thousands of volunteers have transcribed and scanned public domain books for it.  The Project provides those books -- over 33,000 at this point -- on the Internet for free, with books being available for use on a wide variety of PC and mobile devices.  In this LA Times article, Michael Hart discusses his new goal - 1 billion ebooks!He scratched his math, based on various premises, down into an e-mail. His vision for a larger digital reading ecosystem includes all e-books, whether from his own organization or others or from for-profit ventures including Google's.That is a bold goal doable, as he calculates, if scanned books are also translated into other languages and thus not 1 billion unique titles.Think of it...1 billion books available online.  Even if some of those are not totally free, that is still more books available to a person through his/her computer than from most local libraries.  That would put a tremendous amount of knowledge at the fingertips of those with Internet connections.  For them, the trick will be getting them to find, access and use the books, because that will not be automatic. For those without Internet connections, the need will be providing the resources they need so that these books are not out of sight and unavailable. Yes...I know...these will mostly be books in the public domain and thus not recent works. But we should cherish, use and learn from them anyway, because there are put of our heritage and culture. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865697 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/article-project-gutenberg-on-quest-to.html It is likely that you know the project (Project Gutenberg), which  began on July 5, 1971.  Since 1971, thousands of volunteers have transcribed and scanned public domain books for it.  The Project provides those books -- over 33,000 at this point -- on the Internet for free, with books being available for use on a wide variety of PC and mobile devices.  In this LA Times article, Michael Hart discusses his new goal - 1 billion ebooks!He scratched his math, based on various premises, down into an e-mail. His vision for a larger digital reading ecosystem includes all e-books, whether from his own organization or others or from for-profit ventures including Google's.That is a bold goal doable, as he calculates, if scanned books are also translated into other languages and thus not 1 billion unique titles.Think of it...1 billion books available online.  Even if some of those are not totally free, that is still more books available to a person through his/her computer than from most local libraries.  That would put a tremendous amount of knowledge at the fingertips of those with Internet connections.  For them, the trick will be getting them to find, access and use the books, because that will not be automatic. For those without Internet connections, the need will be providing the resources they need so that these books are not out of sight and unavailable. Yes...I know...these will mostly be books in the public domain and thus not recent works. But we should cherish, use and learn from them anyway, because there are put of our heritage and culture. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864957 http://splat.lili.org/files/splat/text.jpg Want to let people text reference questions to your library? Now is a great time! Wow, there are now so many services you can use for text message reference, and so many reasons to do it, I wonder why people are not doing it! First of all, almost everybody texts. Secondly almost all younger people text. Thirdly, some texting options are free or super close to free.Oh, but you also need to know that SMS stands for "short message service" and it also means texting. Texting=SMS. Yup. Why do it? Librarians can provide more value added answers than ChaCha Librarians provide more value added answers, and cost less, than KGB Google's texting an answer service only really provides crappy answers 88% of all teens are texters (Pew Internet) 65% of all adults send or receive text messages (US Census/LA Times) Go where your users are! Check out some of the libraries offering a text message service: http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Libraries_Offering_SMS_Reference_Services Things to think about: Who is your audience? Teens? Public? Students? How can you market it to them? Can you market this service on a regular basis (it helps)? How much money can you spend? some are free, some have minimal costs with perks! decide on a service: use InfoQuest - a consortium or Google Voice or Springshare's product or  something else Determine staffing: will reference desk people staff it? Staff in their offices? Determine the hours available: one cool thing about the Springshare product is that it offers after hours auto replies to say that the library will get to the question in the morning! Will this service replace an existing service? Keep in mind that some research shows that offering many virtual reference services can cause competition among them, and not compliment one another. Phew. Got all that? What do you think? Let's talk! Post a comment below!   AttachmentSize text.jpg60. ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:38:00 +0100 866151 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/tWrW5S6PJQc/lib-sites-and-sources-2010-08-12.html EFF Review of Verizon and Google’s Net Neutrality Proposal (via @hackernewsbot) – http://bit.ly/aYVEks How social media can hurt your library (via @librarianbyday) – http://bit.ly/WImUq OverDrive Integrates Project Gutenberg Content In Libraries http://ow.ly/2o3FU (via @DigiLibraryBlog, via @ebooknewser) RT @charbooth excellent concise list of ped. tips: RT @facultyfocus: The Top 10 Requirements of Good Teaching. http://bit.ly/bLXQ8o RT @mashable Automatically Organize Your Travels Plans with Gmail and TripIt – http://mash.to/2o8R2 RT @lrainie Hey @jeffjarvis, @acarvin, @ElzbethMllr, @douglevin, @scrawford: our new broadband findings are live http://pewrsr.ch/brdbnd10 The Future of the Internet: Security, Freedom, The Web into the World (via @lrainie via @jeanlucr) – http://j.mp/cUX0bR From @Lifehacker: A Guide to Organizing Your Android Home Screen http://lifehacker.com/5610032/ Early bird deadline for LITA Forum registration Aug 15 – register now and save $50 (via @ALA_LITA) – http://bit.ly/ayergj 20 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks: two parts (via @sabram) – http://bit.ly/aVrqrb Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:10:00 +0100 866673 http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-dont-think-were-in-kansas-anymore.html Read about Google and their homage du Wizard of Oz on the 71st year of its existence!A search in GALILEO using wizard of oz as the search phrase turned up over a thousand articles. However, the first batch had nothing to do with the movie. I added garland as a second search term and that narrowed the results to just articles about the movie.Sometimes you think a search phrase will be specific enough until you see the results and realize- oops, need to narrow that down.-klsView from the Library maintained by The Librarian at Chattahoochee Technical College, North Metro Campus c2010 (Source: View from the library) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865901 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/08/blekko-to-slash-the-web.html I've been playing around with a new tool/resource called Blekko which is currently in a closed beta. They seem quite friendly though, so it's worth asking for access (via Twitter seems the best approach). It took me a while to understand what they were actually offering, but it's essentially a slightly different type of customised search engine. You simply chose the sites that you want to include in your universe, create a slashtag and off you go. The social element is to allow others to use your tags if you wish. There are lots of tags already available, so results for say global warming /conservative and global warming /liberal will give very different results; no surprise as they use different data sets. It's really not a new concept - we've had custom search engines around for years now, with people such as Rollyo and Google custom search. This is another twist on the same concept, the main difference being that the different custom searches are available for anyone to use. However, it's a pain to try and find them, and then to check to see which sites are in/excluded from the searches. They can't be embedded anywhere else though, which is unfortunate, but this is still only in beta testing, so that may appear later.There are some useful slashtags, such as /humor or /blogs but overall I'm struggling to find a reason why I'd want to use a service like this, when I can do all of this and more with the previously mentioned custom search engines. It would be a great addon for an existing search engine to provide, and this is problem with Blekko - it's a fantastic feature, but it's not a compelling search resource in its own right. (Source: Phil Bradley) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865766 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/eqSpRAx4D5Y/4015 I just logged into Gmail to find that things are changed – not much, but changed just the same. Things look a bit cleaner and I love that my contacts are now at the top of the screen (before they were below my ton of labels). I’m also checking out the changes to contacts which were much needed for someone like me who uses my Google contacts for everything. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:14:50 +0100 866091 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/1uC6v9cUoQQ/feedthru A call to arms to developers: How far can you take our travel advice? There's a lot of cognitive surplus in education, in the sense that we make up contrived exercises and activities for students to engage with rather than using the real world. So why shouldn't we set students AUTHENTIC exercises, such as helping the Foreign Office develop their ad hoc RSS powered just-as-good-as-a real-api services...? We're All Google's Lab Rats So every Google query is part of one or more live experiments? It's time we started experimenting on our students... ;-) (I would *love* to be able to run A/B tests on course materials via the VLE...) PLAYBACK: Digital Books Come of Age (Or) The Textbook is Dead; Long Live the Textbook » Spotlight "Blackboard and Barnes and Noble, the leading operator of college bookstores, recently announced a partnership to enable students to purchase e-books, textbooks and other course-related materials directly through Blackboard Learn, a widely-used online teaching and learning platform. Barnes and Noble also will integrate its NOOKstudy application more seamlessly into Blackboard." http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/feeds/ou-xcri-cap.xml Thinking that following my Talis training last week, if I had a couple of free hours I'd convert this "OU course info as XML" doc into turtle triples and import them into my Talis platform developer datastore to see what sort of queries the data might then suggest? The data isn't very graph like, though, so it'd really need supplementing with "this course studied with that course" data from Course Profiles...? (Source: OUseful Info) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 866546 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/8GdRTGW9h28/or_maybe_its_really_about_google_tv.php Yesterday I posted some thoughts on the Google-Verizon framework, offering what turns out to be a pretty widespread sensibility, at least in the punditocracy, that this whole thing feels off, not like Google, counter to the brand. There had to be another reason Google would do this, something super important that forced its hand, something so crucial to its own perceived future that it would be willing to upset its core brand advocates. But what? I wrote: "it gives me the sense that the two parties are colluding in some way, creating and/or obscuring potential loopholes which will allow side deals in other parts of their business." I then suggested this had to do with Android. And perhaps it does. But a very well placed source just sent me a thoughtful note, and it immediately stuck a nerve. Perhaps this has not to do with Android as much as it does the future of television. Google TV, according to those that see it, is very very powerful stuff, and a major weapon on Google's war with Apple (not to mention Microsoft and others). It's streaming, interactive HD with the web folded into it (and it's based on Android). And to work, it will need a fast lane on the ol' info superhighway. A really fast lane. And perhaps, preferential treatment to boot. Might Google petition that Google TV is an "Additional Online Service" outside the protected net neutrality framework it's developing with Verizon? Such a service sure would drive subscriptions for Verizon and customers and advertisers for Google. Hmmm. I think I'll ask. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865625 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/O6UMUT5eb6c/lib-sites-and-sources-2010-08-10.html From the always helpful @mashable: 5 Useful Tools to Track Twitter Unfollowers – http://mash.to/2n07Q Practical Approaches for Adding Online Learning to Your Training Program (from @WebJunction) – http://fb.me/GFUJUC3e Google and Verizon Agree to Net Neutrality Compromise http://wp.me/p4P8c-zDN (from @gigaom) Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:10:00 +0100 866675 http://erikhoy.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-og-metaweb.html Google erhvervede midt i den danske juli-hedebølge Metaweb. Dette er officielt søgemaskinefirmaets seneste forsøg på at udvikle et semantisk søgesystem til korte svar på spørgsmål. Men som sådant er det ikke noget nyt: Søgemaskinen Ask er ligefrem levet af sådanne funktioner i årevis.Så hvad kan grunden være? Googleblog siger at det er fordi Metaweb har en database med 12 millioner film, bøger, TV shows, geografiske lokaliteter, mm. Bag de lidt kryptiske formuleringer gemmer sig en base, Freebase. Det ser ud til at være et emnekatalog med en række ressourcer. Hvem der har udvalgt det, og til hvilket formål står mig ikke særlig klart. Det er sådan set nemt nok at gå til. Der er både en emneindgang, og en søgemulighed med gode forslag så snart du starter at skrive i søgefeltet.Men så hører tilgængeligheden også op. Det er et udvalg af ressourcer som ikke umiddelbart giver nogen mening. Nogle er fuldtekst, mens andre er bibliografiske henvisninger eller leksikale artikler om en bestemt bog, film el. lign. Eller slet og ret henvisninger til andre ressourcer, som fx Wikipedia.Måske ligger hemmeligheden i at bag Freebase står frivillige som leverer stoffet. Formålet med det hele er at finde den rette information til de rette læsere. Men dette formål er jo snart sagt hvad alle påstår at ville.Eller ligger hemmeligheden i hvem der står bag? Ledelsen af Metaweb og Freebase er tilsyneladende nogle nørder fra de mest kendte universiteter i USA, Stanford, MIT og Yale. Så måske er formålet i sidste ende at støvsuge markedet for kloge hoveder. Denne form for "kannibalisme" er set før, og af andre firmaer. Tænk blot på Yahoo's opkøb af bl.a. All The Web, eller Ask af Teoma for år tilbage.Tilsyneladende har Google valgt at skyde med spredehagl for at imødekomme dette behov. For over et år siden var det Google Squared fra Google Labs. Andre har været "lignende sider" og den nye venstremenu. ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867271 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/online-session-utilizing-rss-feeds.html FOR DALL MEMBERSTitle: Keeping Current--Utilizing RSS FeedsPlace: Online SeminarLength: 20 MinutesInstructors: Jennifer Stephens & Barbara FullertonDate: Wednesday, Aug. 18thTime: 10 a.m. CSTDuring this session, attendees will learn:1. What is a RSS Feed 2. Why is it important to use them 3. How to locate RSS Feeds4. How to use Readers like Bloglines and Google Reader 5. How to add a feed like Lex Scripta 6. How to view a feed 7. How to organize feeds8. FAQs If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP by Monday, Aug. 16th to Barbara Fullerton at Barbara.fullerton@morningstar.com or 214-800-4576 and the webinar instructions will be provided to you.Jennifer Stephens, DALL BlogmasterBarbara Fullerton, DALL Placement (Source: Lex Scripta) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865392 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/08/09/links-zu-lambert-academic-publishing-lap-und-vdm/ Jürgen Plieninger schreibt in Netbib: Interessanter Titel, dünn und teuer (65 Seiten für mehr als 50 Euro, Respekt!). Blick auf den Verlag: Nein, “Lambert Academic Publishing”. Blick auf den Kollationsvermerk: Doch! Dieselbe Adresse in Saarbrücken: “Dudenweiler Landstr. 99 66123 Saabrücken”. Man sollte also bei den Bestelldaten nicht nur kritisch nach VDM, sondern auch nach “Lambert” schauen. Die Liste der Verlage, die zur VDM Verwaltung Aktiengesellschaft gehören, umfasst neben VDM und LAP noch einige weitere. In Wikipedia steht dazu noch: Der Verlag Dr. Müller ist auf die Publikation deutsch-, französisch- und englischsprachiger Dissertationen und Forschungsarbeiten spezialisiert. Für Autoren sind die VDM-Dienstleistungen kostenlos. Das Geschäftsmodell von VDM basiert auf einer Gruppe von Akquisemitarbeitern, die das Internet nach in Frage kommenden akademischen Autoren durchsuchen und diesen per E-Mail ein Angebot für die Rechte an ihren Manuskripten machen. Manuskripte werden üblicherweise nicht lektoriert, da man annimmt, als akademische Texte hätten sie „ausreichend hohe Qualität“. Ein Korrekturlesen findet aus ökonomischen Erwägungen ebenfalls nicht statt. Die Auswahl von Cover, Klappentext etc. wird vom Autor selbst über ein Onlineformular erledigt. VDM Publishing behauptet von sich selbst, mehr als 10.000 neue Titel zu publizieren und damit „eines der führenden Verlagshäuser für akademische Forschung“ zu sein. Was andere über LAP/VDM schreiben: What Strange Spam Is This? (mit über 100 Kommentaren) Investigating “Lambert Academic Publishing” with Google Square (Nachschlag zum 1. ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:41:55 +0100 866199 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/x6GYecHtIGs/google_has_a_history_of_agonizing_will_this_be_a_chapter_or_a_conclusion.php The Wall St. Journal has a compelling story about Google executives, including Page and Brin, struggling with the vast amount of actionable data available to the company, and what to do about it, even before Facebook pretty much forced the Internet giant to play their hand. A must read. If any of you recall Google's agony over China, its entry and then its withdrawal, this will certainly sound familiar. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865627 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MaestrosBibliotecariosDePuertoRico/~3/j1KopJbnmUE/todo-google-para-educadores.html Open publication - Free publishing (Source: Maestros Bibliotecarios de Puerto Rico) Sat, 07 Aug 2010 11:14:33 +0100 867037 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/PWx3h28THF4/demand_media_files_to_go_public_first_impressions_from_the_s-1.php It's the dog days of August, and a Friday to boot, and I certainly didn't expect this to land in my mail box this morning: The Demand Media Inc. S1. But I had set an alert for the company - and several others like LinkedIn and Facebook - because I consider Demand to be one of the most important digital media companies to "take the next step" in several years. The information revealed in the filing explains why. While Demand has been at the center of a months-long debate around whether or not "content farming" is a defensible practice, the facts are the facts: This model is working, and not just in a one-dimensional fashion. The question remains if Demand will be seen by investors as more than a secondary search arbitrage play - it is dependent on Google for a large portion of its revenues, at least for now. But CEO Richard Rosenblatt, who for the record I count as a friend and colleague (he shares an investor, Oak, with my company FM), has steered the company higher up the content food chain - creating and purchasing brands such as eHow, Livestrong.com, and others, and fostering content partnerships with respected brands like USA Today and Hearst. Revenue for 2009 was nearly $200 million, and seems on track to grow past $250mm or more this year. I'll have more on the company during the weekend, once I've had time to really grok the filings. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865629 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/K1h4tVh6p2c/idsconf10-ids-future-administrator.html August 3, 2010 -- Wednesday Session #1 & 2 (11:00 am - 12:50 am) • IDS Future (Administrator Track) The IDS Project is rapidly growing in size and evolving in complexity. As directors of IDS libraries, we need to discuss the major opportunities and challenges the Project is facing as we continue developing a nationally recognized and quite unique resource-sharing cooperative: IDS now offers an "article only" membership to special libraries, including medical and legal, that have very few books to loan, do not use LAND, but are ready to share their incredible print and electronic journal collections. The New York Public Library is a wonderful IDS Project member. Another large urban public library and a major public library system In New York, both operating ILLiad, may be interested in joining the IDS Project. The collections of large public libraries strongly complement those of our academic libraries and would raise fill rates. The LAND delivery system is all too frequently not meeting its contractual delivery performance standards. Is it "good enough"? Can it be fixed? Are there viable, cost-effective alternatives? The IDS Project is exploring a subscription to Google Books as a potential "game-changer" resource-sharing strategy. Learn more about this potential strategy and how it might serve our Project. The new IDS Search engine will be released to all interested IDS libraries this summer. It is a high-quality union catalog with major scoping capability from local to international. It provides users with an excellent discovery tool for quick, no fee, inter-library delivery of over 33 million books and media items held within the IDS Project. What role will IDS Search play in our libraries? Will it replace or supplement the union catalogs we now offer users? Union catalogs, such as IDS Search, operate off of the OCLC WorldCat API platform. ... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:57:00 +0100 864883 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/ZGq33e08vPs/idsconf10-future-of-physical-delivery.html August 3,2010 -- Tuesday Session #4 (4:10 pm - 5:00 pm) • The Future of Physical Delivery: LAND & Alternatives (Joint Session: Workflow and Administrators) In the past 12 months approximately 50,000 loan requests from IDS Project libraries for physical materials were filled by other IDS libraries. All these items are transported among our libraries via LAND, the Nylink statewide delivery system contracted to Velocity Express, Inc. Velocity's ability to meet its contractual delivery time commitments remains problematic. For the past four months, the IDS Project administrative team has conducted a study of LAND using a system of GPS trackers. A presentation on the results of this study will be followed by a discussion of IDS directors and librarians, including an exploration of alternative solutions and development of short- and long-term recommendations. Nylink and Velocity Express representatives will be in attendance. Tweet From IDS administration is about to show results of GPS tracking of deliveries. Hit it, Ed. #idsconf10 jenica26 resetting the program has not worked out so well. Some benchmarks not met re: LAND. #idsconf10 jenica26 47% of LAND deliveries sampled were one or two days late, looking solely at courier time. #idsconf10 jenica26 Velocity drivers do not scan the barcodes, my driver doesn't have a scanner.  #idsconf10 oelibrarian Why? Google maps zoom in w/GPS data indicates drivers were taking vans home rather than going to hub to complete deliveries. ... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:34:00 +0100 864887 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16642 Interesting development regarding Google discussed by Jeff Jarvis on Buzz Machine: http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/08/05/evil/#comment-420779 ************************************************* Robert L. Balliot Skype: RBalliot Bristol, Rhode Island http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm ************************************************* (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864741 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16643 I haven't really kept up with Wave but it has been available on our Google Apps site for sometime now. But I haven't heard anything about it being a, for lack of a better word, dropped project. Did I miss something? Thomas On Thursday 05 August 2010 09:14:58 Robert L. Balliot wrote: (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864740 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/04/research-from-microsoft-ms-research-street-slide-browsing-street-level-imagery/ by Johannes Kopf, Billy Chen, Richard Szeliski, Michael F. Cohen Presented at SIGGRAPH 2010 Now this is cool! “A multi-perspective street slide panorama with navigational aides and mini-map.” From the Abstract: Systems such as Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside enable users to virtually visit cities by navigating between immersive 360° panoramas, or bubbles. The discrete moves from bubble to bubble enabled in these systems do not provide a good visual sense of a larger aggregate such as a whole city block. Multi-perspective “strip” panoramas can provide a visual summary of a city street but lack the full realism of immersive panoramas. We present Street Slide, which combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of bubbles with the overview provided by multiperspective strip panoramas. We demonstrate a seamless transition between bubbles and multi-perspective panoramas. We also present a dynamic construction of the panoramas which overcomes many of the limitations of previous systems. As the user slides sideways, the multi-perspective panorama is constructed and rendered dynamically to simulate either a perspective or hyper-perspective view. [Snip] We demonstrate our Street Slide system on a series of intersecting streets in an urban setting. We report the results of a user study, which shows that visual searching is greatly enhanced with the Street Slide interface over existing systems from Google and Bing. Access Full Text Paper (8 pages; PDF) It does get technical but those of us (non-techies) should get something out of it. You can also download and view two videos (in right column) of this page. A 4:42 second video is also embedded on the abstract page. Hat Tip: Flowing Data (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:30:18 +0100 864672 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/04/new-mobile-web-site-research-medical-library-the-university-of-texas-md-anderson-cancer-center/ The mobile site went live a few weeks ago. It appears crisp and clean on our iPhone and the icons look great. You can access the mobile site at: http://www3.mdanderson.org/library/mobile/ The mobile site includes: + Library Hours + Library Location (with Google Map) + Access PubMed (Links to Unbound Medicine Version of Medline) + The UptoDate Service (Login Required, Only Available on Certain Platforms) + The Library’s Twitter Feed + Contact Information Built using iWebKit Source: MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas See Also: July was a busy month at the Research Medical Library. The also went live with a new OPAC. Here’s a video the library made available with a brief intro. They’re using Voyage/WebVoyage from ExLibris. The Research Medical Library is also part of the Texas Health Science Libraries Consortium. (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 21:15:48 +0100 864674 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16639 Amigos has scheduled web-based technology training in our live online classroom. Available courses include the following titles. All times below are Central Time. Creating Mobile Websites September 28, 30 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. http://bit.ly/cP5prd Creating Mobile Websites December 7, 9 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. http://bit.ly/cP5prd Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections September 7 - 10 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT http://bit.ly/4mOpCL Digital Photography Basics August 10 - 13 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. CDT http://bit.ly/38vcNf Image Editing Fundamentals September 21-22 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. http://bit.ly/dcHG0n Know & Go: RDA Update October 25 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. http://bit.ly/9CfFcs Know & Go: What Is Google Up To? October 11 11:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. http://bit.ly/9Dinqo Medicine on the 'Net August 17, 19 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CDT http://bit.ly/ccjzdO Tech Topics: QR Codes October 22 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. http://bit.ly/ct7ibI Tech Topic (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864612 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/04/celebrity-biography-jonathan-margolis Angelina Jolie is reportedly upset about a new unauthorised book about her, and Jonathan Margolis, author of several celeb biographies, is beginning to see whyThere can't be many people who feel a pang of empathy for Angelina Jolie, who, along with her PR team, is reportedly upset about an unauthorised biography of her by Andrew Morton.The assiduous Morton's book, apparently pieced together from interviews with unnamed sources – oh, and Jolie's childhood nanny – is a veritable juice-a-thon. In it, so it's being said in the States, we learn that Jolie once had a fling with Leonardo DiCaprio, that she was raised for two years by nannies in a Los Angeles serviced apartment, and that she has a tattoo on her bottom in honour of her former husband, Billy Bob Thornton, written in the helvetica font.Well, as a red-blooded hack of over 30 years' standing (some of this standing outside the firmly closed doors of celebrities), I have something a little bizarre to say. Owing to an odd recent turn of events, I think I'm slightly on Angelina Jolie's side on this.In the 90s, when I was green in judgement, red in bank account, I wrote a series of unauthorised biographies of figures in comedy whom I admired. The first was John Cleese, then Billy Connolly, Michael Palin, and last – my contractual-obligation album requested by the publishers because they thought it would sell – Lenny Henry. The books were pretty good and actually did sell OK, Lenny Henry apart (wherein lies a tale I'll mention in a bit).But my subjects suffered a lot of grief from their unauthorised biographies. Cleese wrote to everyone he knew asking them not to speak to me. Plenty did anyway, but Cleese later commented dismissively that he found 200 mistakes in the first chapter alone. Connolly was furious and I believe remains so. Palin, because I suspect he just can't help being nice, agreed to read the manuscript when I bumped into him at a reception. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:27:36 +0100 864316 http://reference.sonoma.edu/library/?p=225 Major or Department:: Geology Are you (select one): SSU Faculty Your Comment : Great new maps page, we geologists love maps! On this page: http://library.sonoma.edu/regional/regmaps_sonoma.php I know it says that Acrobat Reader is needed to open the maps, and it would be helpful to state (in my opinion) more prominently on the page that the maps download as a PDF rather than open up the way Google maps opens up in a browser page. Thanks! Keep up the good work! Matt James Geology Response: Thanks for the suggestion, Matt! We really appreciate your feedback and are glad you find the regional topo and geologic maps useful. Our Web Team worked wonders with them. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions about our new web design. Thanks, –Paula Hammett, Librarian (Source: At the Library) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:23:36 +0100 866574 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/9otk8eNeryk/ Shiny! If you are like me, you may have too many online identities for your own good. I often want to swap between a vanilla-ish gmail account that I use for creating screencasts and a bells-and-whistles-all-my-email-redirected-here account that I use as my main workspace. I used to have to have one account open in Chrome and one in Firefox to achieve this, but starting today, Google is rolling out the option to use multiple identities in the same browser. You just change a setting in your account settings and then you can select which account you are working with from a dropdown box in the top right of the screen in the place where your account name is usually displayed. To check whether it is enabled for you, go to your google account settings. You will now have a “Multiple Sign In” option, like this: Then when you select the “Change” option, you will be asked to acknowledge four points about using the sign-in, and then you are away… (Source: Librarians matter) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:24:26 +0100 866143