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 Memes interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/124BjFKiRk4/15-things-about-me-and-books.html Photo by Lin Pernille A while back, some other librarians revived an old meme. Way back then, I started this list. Today, I found it in my drafts. I was a late reader. I don’t remember exactly how late (being home schooled at that point was probably a blessing). I do remember being a little mortified when my younger sister and I were both reading the Little House books at the same time. She’s six years younger, and was a very early reader. I think she was four at the time. Part of our normal school day included my mom reading aloud to us. She did this well into my middle school years (at which point my youngest brother was probably 4-ish). She read everything from Charlotte’s Web to the Lord of the Rings while we kids did quiet crafts on the living room floor. The saddest I’ve ever been at the end of a book was when the dogs died in Where the Red Fern Grows. Mom was reading it aloud, and we kids were scattered around the room trying not to look at each other as we each bawled softly. What a day. I remember being curled up under the coffee table and pretty sure I’d never come out again. Dad tried to read to us at bedtime up until I was about 11. He was insanely busy getting a PhD from Harvard, though, so books would take us an astonishingly long time to finish. To this day I think of Great Expectations as a 1000+ page book. Each time we sat down to read, Dad would have to recap the entire book up to that point and then read a chapter. Luckily, Swallows and Amazons fell at a time when he could read to us at least a couple times a week. The first librarian I ever knew worked in the children’s section of our public library in Dorchester, MA. She had a cupboard way up high where she’d hide new books that she thought I’d like so that I could be the first one to check them out. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:44:25 +0100 825342 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/new-topic-focused-news-aggregator-from-techmemes-founder-and-developer-gabe-rivera-hello-mediagazer/ It’s likely that many of you use Techmeme, a service that aggreates tech news from many sources on the Internet. Techmeme was originally compiled 100% algorithmically. However, since December, 2008 Megan McCarthy, has served as the ditor. Making the decisions about some of what goes on Techmeme. Today, Techmeme Founder and Developer, Gabe Rivera, McCarthy, and the other members of the Techmeme team launched another aggregated news site (aka vertical). This one brings together content about the media industry and is named, MediaGazer. Finally, often overlooked are the other topic-aggregation services that Techmeme provides: 1) Memeorandum: Political News 2) BallBuzz: Baseball News 2) WeSmirch: Celeb Gossip Btw, mobile versions are available for all of these sites. You can find the links on the lower right side of the page. The two mobile versions of MediaGazer 1) For SmartPhones and for more basic types of phones Finally, both a cool and useful way to “see” the headlines (in reverse chronological order) as they make there way into one of the services is to take a look at the “river” version also located, lower right side of the page. Here’s the MediaGazer River. If you’ve never visited Techmeme or any of these resources, they are well worth your time. They are also excellent tools to share with users who have interest in any of the topics covered. From paidContent: She [Megan McCarthy] said she doesn’t know how many sources are included in the media algorithm but the list builds out automatically as new sources are discovered. Why media? It fits their requirements: “lots of new coverage every day, lots of stories revolving around the same issues, and a variety of subtopics (video, media industry consolidation, blogs, future of journalism, newspapers, etc.) that people discuss.” As for staying standalone, “We’ve never raised any money—everything is bootstrapped. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:17:04 +0100 824602 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/dcRgaFGmUbU/ The Wall Street Journal has reprinted this section the Oxford work and it has some interesting history. Here’s part of it: In July 1945 Vannevar Bush, a pioneering engineer in the development of analog computing, published an article in which he introduced the Memex: a hypothetical instrument to control the ever-accumulating body of scientific literature. He envisioned an active desk that performed as a storage and retrieval system. A Memex user would consult a book by tapping a code on a keyboard, bringing up the text. The Memex had many features that are now familiar components of e-books: pages, page turners, annotation capability, internal and external linking, and the potential for storage, retrieval, and transmittal. However, Bush imagined that all this would be accomplished through the miracle of microfilm. (via Resource Shelf) Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:19:53 +0100 824587 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/literaturwelt/~3/qBPaelPTdMA/ Die Alligatorpapiere sind in den Print gegangen. Näheres zu dem Magazin für Kriminalliteratur, herausgegeben von Alfred Miersch und Thomas Przybilka, gibt es – bei den >>>Alligatorpapieren. Eine Ausgabe kostet sechsfuffzich, kann man abonnieren. Aus dem Inhalt: Die Befragung: Bruno Morchio (Von Gisela Lehmer-Kerkloh und Thomas Przybilka) Guillermo Martínez: Porträt und Interview (Von Doris Wieser) V Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro (Von Doris Wieser) Frank Göhre. Chronist der alten Bundesrepublik (Von Elfriede Müller) Feldmanns Schusswechsel. Regionalkrimis (Von Joachim Feldmann) Memento mori Nekrolog für das Jahr 2009/10 Stuart Kaminsky: Just a Midlist-Author (Von Jan Christian Schmidt) Der verwickelbare Schnüffler. Über Robert B. Parker (Von Thomas Klingenmaier) Abgesang auf eine sterbendes Krimijahr. (Von Jan Christian Schmidt) Krimipreise in Deutschland: Die PreisträgerInnen 2009/10 Krimi-Tipp No. 53. Thomas Przybilkas Informationen zur Sekundärliteratur Alligatorpapiere [Print] Magazin zur Kriminalliteratur Herausgegeben von Alfred Miersch & Thomas Przybilka. 76 Seiten, Format 20,3 x 14,5 cm 2010; EUR 6,50 (Source: Literaturwelt. Das Blog.) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:44:44 +0100 824472 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/hello-cleveland-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-opening-archive-library/ From the Article: There’s always been room at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the exciting, most popular relics, like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” jacket and John Lennon’s Sgt. Pepper uniform. But most of the not-so-flashy mementos were tucked away in storage. Visitors will get a chance to see those hidden artifacts beginning later this year, when the museum opens its library and archives in a recently completed high-tech building it shares with Cuyahoga Community College’s creative arts programs. The museum has begun moving photos, recordings, albums and covers, oral histories, scrap books and other packed materials from its iconic glass pyramid overlooking Lake Erie to the new, low-key building two miles away. [Snip] The library will be the most comprehensive repository of rock history, with materials donated by hall of fame inductees and wannabes who see it as a way to preserve their stories, said Deborah Campana, librarian of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Beyond its research value to scholars, the library should appeal to rock fans, Campana said. Access the Complete Article Source: AP (via The Daily Caller) See Also: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives Web Page (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:37:05 +0100 822483 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/02/is-library-20-dead.html With the closure today of Ning Library 2.0 happening today, the decrease in blog posts and increase in micro blogging, it seems that library 2.0 as a meme is on the demise. In some ways this is true.This maybe seen in the closure of the Ning site, in which Bill Drew said of its closure:-The network has not seen much traffic the last few months and most people requesting to join are posting profiles full of link spam. The return is no longer worth the work. I am not transferring it to anyone else......... It grew far beyond my wildest hopes. At one point it got over 50 posts a day but is now getting less than 4 posts a month.It seems that library 2.0 had lost its cadre of zest for many users. Although Bill points out many users and post joined at first this dropped. Without a conversation (and too much spam), people would disappear.Other area's where there seems a decline in what has been termed web 2.0 is a decline or at least change in blogging, especially with some of the early library 2.0 bloggers. Jenny Levine's Shifted Librarian has changed her blog into a lifestream rather than a blog. This she describes as:-lets me run a stripped-down version of my own personal Friend Feed (but without the comments on individual items). It totally rocks.Michael Casey's influential Librarycrunch has become the Michael Casey blog, therefore its become an individual blog, rather than a more group/borg blog.Brian Mathews blog the Ubiquitous librarian said recently:-However I’ve noticed a steady overall decline in post quantity in 2009. Walt probably has an algorithm to measure that. I think the probable cause is that many of us were moving past the newbie stage of librarianship and were really starting to sink our teeth into the profession. Now we’re just too busy for constant online reflection. Additionally, Facebook and Twitter have evolved to replace the long form narrative (blog posts) in favor of quick bursts of ideas. In many ways, the Library 2. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822980 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/thursday-thirteen-13-tips-from-waiters.html This is from the Reader’s Digest, August 2008, and supposedly, real wait staff offered “tips.” I think #12 is important. Don’t take so much time that you hurt the waiter and the owner both! And #5 is good in any business. Treat people as you want to be treated. #4 is funny and suggests a touch of hostility, don't you think?1. Avoid eating out on holidays and Saturday nights. The sheer volume of customers guarantees that most kitchens will be pushed beyond their ability to produce a high-quality dish. 2. There are almost never any sick days in the restaurant business. A busboy with a kid to support isn't going to stay home and miss out on $100 because he's got strep throat. And these are the people handling your food.3. When customers' dissatisfaction devolves into personal attacks, adulterating food or drink is a convenient way for servers to exact covert vengeance. Waiters can and do spit in people's food. 4. Never say "I'm friends with the owner." Restaurant owners don't have friends. This marks you as a clueless poseur the moment you walk in the door. 5. Treat others as you want to be treated. (Yes, people need to be reminded of this.)6. Don't snap your fingers to get our attention. Remember, we have shears that cut through bone in the kitchen. 7. Don't order meals that aren't on the menu. You're forcing the chef to cook something he doesn't make on a regular basis. If he makes the same entrée 10,000 times a month, the odds are good that the dish will be a home run every time. 8. Splitting entrées is okay, but don't ask for water, lemon, and sugar so you can make your own lemonade. What's next, grapes so you can press your own wine?9. If you find a waiter you like, always ask to be seated in his or her section. Tell all your friends so they'll start asking for that server as well. You've just made that waiter look indispensable to the owner. The server will be grateful and take good care of you. 10. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821361 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/02/facebook-causing-end-of-usa-yearbook.html (Found via here). Seems students at the University of Virginia won't have a hardcover memento of their college years. The school founded by Thomas Jefferson has become the latest college to decide there's no place for the traditional yearbook in the age of Facebook. See the whole story here.Now, many might see this as the end of another American tradition. Or the end of print. Well, it maybe. But I find something far worst about this. My worry is all those horror movies that use the yearbooks to show who the baddies are are or who has been killed. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820998 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/02/strategies_for.php "There are two basic rules of life: Change is inevitable, and everybody resists change." (Craine 2000) Changing professions or changes within a profession often runs a close second to losing a loved one. Deathlike feelings of change are now only a mouse click away. Librarians and Information professionals know that because of new technology, change manifests itself in the sheer volume of information which accumulates within organizations and among its professional ranks. Both struggle to manage the myriad of documents they produce and find in order to turn them into useful knowledge. Managing that change requires addressing the needs of the organization and its professionals as well as caring for the psychological impact change has on people within the organization. Understanding the newer fields of RIM and PKM plus the psychology of change is crucial for today's information professionals Resource Information Management or RIM addresses the need for information management at an organizational level. In 2007 the digital information universe was 281 exabytes (1exabyte = 1 billion gigabytes), and in 2011 it will be 10 times that figure. (Weller - Collison 2008) Coupled with compliance issues, legal, international and societal expectations managing information growth is critical. Proper information handling can make a difference between winning and losing court cases, being fined for non compliance and keeping abreast of international competition. RIM monitors events in the business environment and creates advantageous information policies within the organization. Organizations are now turning to a field known as Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) to address the information needs of its professionals. It is all about organizing and capturing the personal information and knowledge used by professionals who make organizational level decisions. Phil Schnyder sees the process as two steps. ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:38:00 +0100 819524 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/lJPz8doBfqI/ The more Internet memes you know, the funnier this is. (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:33:33 +0100 819420 http://www-cdn.educause.edu/sites/default/files/cni09-sierra.mp3 EDUCAUSE has completed posting podcast interview from the Fall 2009 CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall Task Force Meeting on December 14-15, 2009, Washington, DC. The interviews are organized on a single page. You can find each on listed and linked here. : + Bernard Frischer, leading digital humanist, on 3D modelling in the humanities. + Tito Sierra, Associate Head for Digital Library Development at North Carolina State on new mobile library projects at NCSU. + Brett Bobley, CIO for the National Endowment for the Humanities, on using supercomputers in humanities research. + Paolo Mangiafico, Director of Digital Information Strategy for Duke University, on initiating a campus-wide digital information plan. + Marsha Semmel, Deputy Director for Museums and Director of Strategic Partnerships at the Institute of Museum and Library Services, summarizes opportunities and updates from the IMLS. + Memento, protocol-based time travel for the web, is explained by developers Herbert Van de Sompel, Robert Sanderson, and Michael Nelson. + The Open Annotation Project, also discussed by Van de Sompel, Sanderson, and Nelson, is making progress towards the establishment of an interoperable annotation environment for scholarly artifacts. EDUCAUSE/CNI (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:53:23 +0100 818748 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/EaJ7GshJueU/ A recent meme in publishing is that some readers are exhibiting a sense of “entitlement” about buying ebooks. I’d like to humbly offer myself as Exhibit A. It is true: I feel entitled to buy books. I insist upon it, actually*. Seriously, is it ever a good idea to disparage your customers? To treat them like they are annoyances? To suggest that they simply don’t understand how things work, when, really, why should they? Especially when, in at least one instance, the publishers were the ones who changed (or attempted to change) the rules? So, as a person who happily pays for books, this is what I feel entitled to: the book in the format I prefer at the time my awareness in said book is sufficient that I go to make the purchase at the price I deem reasonable based on my extensive experience as a book consumer. The truth is, I don’t care about ebook windowing (except that it’s, as far as I know, a relatively new idea, and to take readers to task for expecting simultaneous releases is a bit much, no?). I don’t care about ebook pricing games. I don’t even care how long it took the author to write the book, the amount of research that went into it, and that it was handwritten in blue ink on yellow paper. None of these things are indicators of whether or not I’m going to have an awesome reading experience. Basically, a publisher has one chance to get my money. If the marketing is done right, my awareness of a book is raised and my interest is piqued. Depending on the book — some I want as print, some (most) I want as digital — I will then attempt a purchase. If the book is not available, based on my previous behavior, I will either buy something else or find myself distracted by other bright and shiny things. The book that brought me to the store will never be purchased, barring a secondary marketing campaign coupled with renewed want. Here’s why. ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:47:59 +0100 818842 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/leskovec Tuesday, February 16, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:30:00 +0100 818803 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/14/february-14th-stream.html Shared Happy Valentine’s Day!. Posted jeffjarvis: Good god, YouTube is only 5 years old (today). Feels like a generation. http://bit.ly/aoemae. Posted anildash: Every warning sign posted in a public space is a memento of someone’s past transgressions. In this spot, this rule was broken.. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:40:11 +0100 819415 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/Uj4dmQA71vs/ From The Independant: Medicines not working? There’s an app for that (Is anyone else completely done with the “There’s an app for that” meme?) Novartis, for example, signed a $24 million (£15.3 million) deal last month with US-based Proteus Biomedical to create “smart pills” that can transmit data from inside the body to monitor patients’ vital signs and check they have taken medicines as prescribed. Bayer is connecting its glucometer for diabetic children to Nintendo’s video-gaming consoles to promote consistent blood sugar testing. And Johnson & Johnson’s Lifescan unit has an iPhone application that lets users upload readings from their connected blood glucose monitors to their Apple phone. _______________ Feed-only Footer: [This space for rent] Want to reach about 3,500 RSS subscribers to this feed? Please get in touch. (Source: davidrothman.net) Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:56:50 +0100 817945 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/6X8m61GA0pM/005124.php Yesterday I stopped by Twitter HQ to see Dick Costolo. Dick recently moved to Marin (my home turf) and took Twitter's COO job. I'd say that taking such a job means Dick's hair is constantly on fire, but if you know Dick, you know that's really not an issue. (He's level headed, he's a pro, and, well....let's just say he doesn't wear his hair long).   Among other things (FM has partnered with Twitter in the past, and will continue to do so), we discussed how Twitter might crack the code around explaining its user base, how those users engage with the service, and how the service is growing - especially given the recently hot (and to my mind not well understood) topic of *if* it's growing. Dick assured me it is - echoing a recent tweet from founder Evan Williams. Much has been written around the topic of Twitter's growth, but the shorthand is this: You can't rely on Comscore or web-based measurement services like Compete or Quantcast, because they do not measure the entire Twitter ecosystem, which is distributed in nature. For example, these services do not measure use of Twitter's API, which accounts for more than half of the service's traffic (through apps like TweetDeck, Twitteriffic, Exectweets or Stocktwits, for example). They also don't measure mobile usage, and some don't measure international traffic, which Costolo said in some countries is growing "straight up" - quite like it did in the US early last year. Regardless, these services do show a flattening of traffic to the US domain, which if not explained, will continue to cause consternation and questions around whether the Twitter ecosystem is indeed continuing to flourish. And when the service begins working directly with marketers, those questions will need to be addressed. Not to mention the issue of inactive accounts - folks who join but don't understand how to extract value from the service - witness Radiohead, as one example. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817830 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/02/11/bookshelves-of-librarians Librarians are social creatures, right? Despite dowdy stereotypes, many of us are out there Web 2.0′ing it up - among other things, we like sharing our photos on flickr and our books on LibraryThing. So, I thought a fun meme would be to combine the two - show photos of our personal books and bookshelves. I spied one of Jessamyn’s, and uploaded photos of all my bookshelves.* I’m curious to see how other people organize books in their own space. My Bookshelves (click for descriptions) Non-fiction Reference Fiction And since timing is everything, this is doubly fun considering LibraryThing’s announcement this week about expanding LT’s photo capabilities. So upload photos of your own shelves (librarians and non-librarians) to flickr or LibraryThing or somewhere and share your personal organizational system.   *I didn’t photograph all the books in places other than shelves: coffee table, bedside table, bathroom bench, car, piled on the floor, etc. I tell myself those are all “temporary shelving locations.” Also: I can’t decide if “bookshelves” should be one word or two - so I use both. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:36:50 +0100 817392 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/10/lagoze-lost-identity-the-assimilation-of-digital-libraries-into-the-web/ Carl Lagoze has made his doctoral dissertation, "Lost Identity: The Assimilation of Digital Libraries into the Web," available. Here's an excerpt: The idea of Digital Libraries emerged in the early 1990s from a vision of a "library of the future", without walls and open 24 hours a day. These digital libraries would leverage the substantial investments of federal funding in the Internet and advanced computing for the benefit of the entire population. The world’s knowledge would be a key press away for everyone no matter where their location. This vision led to substantial levels of funding from federal agencies, foundations, and other organizations for research into fundamental technical problems related to networked information and deployment of the results of this research in numerous digital library applications. The result was a number of exciting and influential technical innovations. But, the attempt to transplant the library to the online environment met with some unexpected obstacles. The funding agencies and many of the members of the digital library research community mainly focused on the technical issues related to online information. In general, they assumed that the new technology would be applied in a largely traditional (library) context, and largely ignored the profound social, economic, cultural, and political impact of turning "books (and other information resources) into bytes". The extent of this impact was demonstrated by the concurrent evolution of the World Wide Web, a networked information system not bound by legacy institutional conventions and practices or funding agency mandates and, therefore, able to organically evolve in response to the profoundly democratizing effect of putting information online. This has provided the context for the recent revolution in the web known as Web 2. ... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817639 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/FwjAgp3VIgE/ Carl Lagoze has made his doctoral dissertation, "Lost Identity: The Assimilation of Digital Libraries into the Web," available. Here's an excerpt: The idea of Digital Libraries emerged in the early 1990s from a vision of a "library of the future", without walls and open 24 hours a day. These digital libraries would leverage the substantial investments of federal funding in the Internet and advanced computing for the benefit of the entire population. The world’s knowledge would be a key press away for everyone no matter where their location. This vision led to substantial levels of funding from federal agencies, foundations, and other organizations for research into fundamental technical problems related to networked information and deployment of the results of this research in numerous digital library applications. The result was a number of exciting and influential technical innovations. But, the attempt to transplant the library to the online environment met with some unexpected obstacles. The funding agencies and many of the members of the digital library research community mainly focused on the technical issues related to online information. In general, they assumed that the new technology would be applied in a largely traditional (library) context, and largely ignored the profound social, economic, cultural, and political impact of turning "books (and other information resources) into bytes". The extent of this impact was demonstrated by the concurrent evolution of the World Wide Web, a networked information system not bound by legacy institutional conventions and practices or funding agency mandates and, therefore, able to organically evolve in response to the profoundly democratizing effect of putting information online. This has provided the context for the recent revolution in the web known as Web 2. ... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:01:56 +0100 817359 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/10/lagoze-lost-identity-the-assimilation-of-digital-libraries-into-the-web/ Carl Lagoze has made his doctoral dissertation, "Lost Identity: The Assimilation of Digital Libraries into the Web," available. Here's an excerpt: The idea of Digital Libraries emerged in the early 1990s from a vision of a "library of the future", without walls and open 24 hours a day. These digital libraries would leverage the substantial investments of federal funding in the Internet and advanced computing for the benefit of the entire population. The world’s knowledge would be a key press away for everyone no matter where their location. This vision led to substantial levels of funding from federal agencies, foundations, and other organizations for research into fundamental technical problems related to networked information and deployment of the results of this research in numerous digital library applications. The result was a number of exciting and influential technical innovations. But, the attempt to transplant the library to the online environment met with some unexpected obstacles. The funding agencies and many of the members of the digital library research community mainly focused on the technical issues related to online information. In general, they assumed that the new technology would be applied in a largely traditional (library) context, and largely ignored the profound social, economic, cultural, and political impact of turning "books (and other information resources) into bytes". The extent of this impact was demonstrated by the concurrent evolution of the World Wide Web, a networked information system not bound by legacy institutional conventions and practices or funding agency mandates and, therefore, able to organically evolve in response to the profoundly democratizing effect of putting information online. This has provided the context for the recent revolution in the web known as Web 2. ... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:01:44 +0100 817797 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5920 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITYFebruary 10, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media [1] [TUESDAY 2/16/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Meme-tracking and the dynamics of the news cycle" with Jure Leskovec, assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/02/leskovec) [2] [SAVE THE DATE 2/22/10] Berkman Special Event: Jonathan Zittrain on "Minds for Sale" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/zittrain)read more (Source: Berkman Blog) Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:09:42 +0100 817070 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/lmrMx0zp7dc/hoe-die-antwoord-het-web-verovert.html "You must sound more like everyone elsethan anyone else is able to sound like everyone else." Met deze woorden typeert Lee Siegel populaire cultuur op het web, in zijn vlijmscherpe boek Against the Machine. Ik lees dat boek met veel belangstelling. Het bevat scherpere en genuanceerdere webcultuurkritiek dan het boek van Andrew Keen. Aan deze woorden moest ik denken toen ik zojuist las over de Zuid-Afrikaanse Band Die Antwoord. BB besteedde al twee keer eerder aandacht aan deze White Thrash-formatie maar mijn aandachtsspanne stond geen doorklik toe. Nu ik lees dat de band een internethype is geworden (vooralsnog zonder daar financiële vruchten van te plukken), werd ik wél verleid tot een verkenning. Ik begrijp nu wel waarom Die Antwoord aanslaat. De sound is best lekker en de presentatie van het trio vervreemdt een beetje. Je luistert en staart naar het geheel zoals je staart naar de in Nederland geplaagde MC Martin, maar je weet je lachen in dit geval gesmoord door de credibility van de drie. Merkwaardig. Waarschijnlijk is het deze vreemde mix die Die Antwoord als een raket doet gaan. Op Blogs, op Twitter, op YouTube, in The Times. Het is fascinerend. Dit is 'de Viral Loop' van Penenberg. Dit is 'de populariteitswedstrijd' waar Siegel op doelt. Dit is het web. Siegel, Lee. Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping  Culture and Commerce--and Why It Matters.  New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. Recensie New York Times @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:12:00 +0100 815981 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryGarden/~3/lGaIBoz-U2E/ By Peter Bromberg I have a new post over at ALALearning Here’s a taste: A small meme developed on Twitter yesterday prompted by the following tweet by David Wedamen,  “Just had a GREAT idea from @brandeislibn. Conferences should be built around TEACHING not PRESENTING. Wouldn’t that be something?” (Thanks to Michael Stephens for retweeting and bringing to my attention.) Alice Yucht built on the idea with her tweet, “how about Conferences should be about LEARNING, not Show-n-Tell ?”,  which got me thinking about how we approach conferences, and conference presentations, in the library profession.  If the goal of the conference is that attendees will learn, what do conference presentations have to look like to achieve that goal? I believe the goal of presenting should be… Read the rest of this post over at ALALearning (Source: Library Garden) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:47:31 +0100 814631 http://mauicclibrary.blogspot.com/2010/02/loves-lost.html Everyone is invited to participate in the library's VALENTINE'S DAY "LOVES LOST" PERSONAL ALTAR PROJECT.This is an opportunity to pay homage to lost or deceased loved ones, friends, ancestors, beloved pets, devastated communities, war-torn countries, and others by contributing to the creation of the Loves Lost altar in the library. Please visit the library to view and/or contribute a memento to the altar. Circulating library materials are also featured on the altar.The Love Lost alter will be featured in the library for the month of February. (Source: Library News) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 814858 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/looking-for-lily.html It seems that Lily never made it, poor thing. Lily; beautiful living through faith is a magazine in my premiere issues collection. For some reason, I didn't code the template of that blog to alert me when there were comments. Maybe I figured no one would comment? Anyway, that entry has had more comments than any other because people are looking for it. Because I need to start cleaning out (I should write a Thursday Thirteen meme on my odd ball collections, some of which have only 2 pieces)--and my first issue hobby which used to fit in the back of a closet until the mid-80s, is totally out of control. So the most persistent one will get it. She e-mailed and left a Facebook comment, plus a comment at the blog. The problem with sorting and arranging them either by size or topic is I always open one up and start to read.Knowing it would be leaving me soon, I decided to reread Lily (I usually don't read my first issues, just examine them for bibliographic data and research the provenance a bit). There's a very nice story about Laurie Smith, one of the TLC channel decorators. So I blogged about that at my faith blog, Church of the Acronym. She compares the goal of home decorating with that of maintaining and enhancing the soul. There's a yummy bread recipe I might copy, too. (Source: Collecting my Thoughts) Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 813972 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/9CSwG35I5wU/ A few days back my good friend, and fellow IBM colleague, Aneel Lakhani, tagged me on an on-going meme that’s been going around for a little while now called "The Web in Twenty" where participants have to eventually provide answers to three different questions: How has the Web changed your life? How has the Web changed business and society? What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years? So, since it’s been quite a while that I have last embarked on chiming in on one of those blogging memes I thought it would be a good time to do that over the course of the weekend and the actual blog post is up and running already. Over at my Posterous site under the same title: "The Web in Twenty", which will give me, by the way, a nice opportunity to kick things off again over there after the holidays, the business travelling and catching up from last week. Regular blogging activities will resume there as well with the same spirit as before, starting off with that entry I have just shared. I wonder though whether the folks I tagged (Rick Ladd, Paula Thornton, John Tropea, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche and Stephen Downes) will dive in as well and share their insights with us … What do you think? Do you reckon they will chime in? Tags: Internet, Web, Future, 2030, Memes, Internet Memes, Metablogging, Blogging, Predictions, Rick Ladd, Paula Thornton, John Tropea, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, Stephen Downes, Aneel Lakhani, Tagging (Source: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog) Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:27:58 +0100 814669 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/EROoh1htMBI/ I know that plenty of folks out there do not buy into the argument of the generational divide; most people think it’s just something that has been designed and developed to sell the concept of Enterprise 2.0 to businesses (Specially, if you think about the good old KM meme of "Knowledge Transfer" of senior employees about to retire to younger ones). So naming conventions like Traditionalist, Boomer, Gen X or Millennial all seem to be bogus, but are they really? I mean, when was the last time, while at work, you stopped doing what you were doing and started looking around at the various peer knowledge workers close to you? I bet that in most cases you may have found two or three different generations working together in the same project, being part of the same team or belonging to the same communities. So how do they get along well with one another then? How are they managed? Not sure what you would think, but I *do* believe there is such distinction of how various generations get to collaborate and share knowledge across with their peers in the same working environment. That’s also the incredibly provocative phenomenon that this YouTube video titled "How Will You Manage?" (Put together by Kronos) tries to cover over the course of nearly 5 minutes. If you are an skeptic on the concept of the generational divide I would strongly encourage you all to have a look and watch it. It may, or may not, change your perspective on things, specially around those folks working closer with you. However, one thing I can certainly assure you is that it would make you think twice about the whole subject and I am certain you won’t be looking at your peers in the same fashion as before any longer. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:24:15 +0100 814670 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/01/thursday-thirteen-cleaning-desk-top.html For many years when I was working at the Veterinary Medicine Library at Ohio State, I would have an annual review with my boss, Jay Ladd. He always did this in my office rather than his, because that way he could look around and see how things were progressing in my library (located a mile or so from the Main Library). Of course, you want to make a good impression, so we’d make sure the public areas were neat and dusted. But what to do about the mess in my office? I soon perfected this method. Scoop up everything on the top of my side desk, computer desk and top of the filing cabinets and dump ot into a large box which would then go under my desk (not visible to anyone but me). What I learned from many years of doing this was that if I left the box unpacked for 6-8 weeks or so, most of the “to do” list just disappeared. Since Christmas (or maybe before) the clutter in my home office has been growing. So this morning, it all went into a box. I need a list of 13 things, so this will just scratch the surface of what's in the box.1) Garage Slab, vol. 1, no. 1. This goes with my hobby bloggy, In the beginning, but I just got this one last week and haven’t entered the information yet.2) Three 8 x 10 group photos of class reunions. I do that blog too, MMHS1957 and I think one of them is missing, but although I pulled out the photos, I haven’t checked yet.3) A recipe for pie pastry and apple pie on a 3 x 6 lined index card found in a library book. Beautiful handwriting. Appears to be exactly the same as what I learned from my mother who was the best pie baker east of the Mississippi River.4) 4 or 5 returned Christmas cards. Need to change the addresses in my records, but haven’t yet. Computers are not handy that way.5) My I-Touch that I’ve never learned to use, inside a small plastic case designed for a calendar.6) My little notebook for new words--one of my 2009 New year’s resolutions. ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812750 http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2010/01/ipad-launches-winner-epub-and-web.html With the media industry salivating over Apple CEO Steve Jobs' announcement of the new iPad as if it were awaiting an injection of Viagra, you'd think that the machine would do everything except change a flat tire. Well, the hoopla is over, and the iPad is...a large iPhone, essentially. Nice, sexy, though functionally not really a breakthrough device compared to the impact that the original iPhone had on mobile markets. However, then the other shoes started to drop after the klieg lights on the announcement stage began to cool off a bit. The two key factors: price and e-book packaging. First, the price. At $499, the iPad is coming out at a blow-away price point that will make its purchase an attractive and simple alternative for many people who would otherwise be considering a PC or Mac as their next step-up from a mobile phone - or a slightly more pricey unlocked Google Nexus One superphone. This matters in a big way to global markets, where billions of people who are experiencing Web content for the first time on mobile phones will be looking for their next step-up device for content consumption. Keep your eyes open also for possible subsidies on this price point as mobile network-enabled versions of the iPad hit the market. Just as King Gillette figured out how to give away razor handles to sell disposable razor blades, Apple will find many ways to lower the cost of hardware acquisition to lock people into their software and ecommerce services. Since the iPad technology and apps are largely warmed-over iPhone components, one assumes that not much R&D was required to launch this model, so there must be a good amount of "wiggle room" in the iPad's pricing for such deals. Its aggressive price point also pegs the iPad as a highly attractive alternative for educational markets, the original market that launched Apple's growth years ago as a scrappy alternative to then-crude PCs. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812573 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/PBAhINC39sA/ It’s Library Day in A Life Round 4, where a number of librarians document what their day was like. I did the first round on 29 July 2008, Meme: What’s a Librarian’s Day Like?. I’ve spent last week trying to find time to complete a post called “Whatever Happened to ….Me?”, where I reflect on why things have gone so quiet on this blog. The process reminded me of the blog post that I half wrote for Library Day in a Life Round 3 on 28 July 2009 – but didn’t publish because it seemed so banal. It was the day I resigned from my job at Murdoch University – and had a lot of to-ing and fro-ing and being a mum …dropping between writing/speaking commitments, motherly duties, meetings at the university, preparing for my new job, with some chicken husbandry thrown in. Makes a good backdrop if I ever finish the other blog post that I have in the pipeline… Here’s what I wrote then: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 28 July 2009 Again, I’m documenting an atypical day for librarydayinthelife (link) Today I resigned from my job as Emerging Technology Specialist at Murdoch University. It went something like this… 6:30am – Sound of duck quacking wakes me. Switch off iPhone alarm. Via comments on Twitter and Friendfeed, discover that presentation in Washington DC that included a video clip of me (and based around my post about why learning about emerging technology is part of every librarian’s job) went well – and the audience actually liked it. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:19:03 +0100 812662 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/01/embouteillages-dans-les-nuages-.html Au mois de Janvier 2008, il y a donc déjà 2 ans de cela, la LoC (bibliothèque du Congrès), était la première institution à décider de "déporter" dans les nuages, une partie de ses collections iconographiques. (Pour rappel : mes commentaires de l'époque). Depuis cette date, ce qui était une initiative isolée est devenu une partie extrêmement importante du site FlickR, puisque pas moins de 31 institutions (bibliothèques, musées, archives, centres de recherche) ont rejoint le volet baptisé : FlickR : The Commons.Or dans un très récent communiqué, on peut lire que le site FlickR n'accueillera pas de nouvelle institution durant l'année 2010. Dans l'un des groupes de discussion liés à ce sujet, un membre du staff de FlickR assure que le projet "Commons" n'est pas du tout remis en question et reste une priorité de FlickR (qui - rappelons-le est propriété de Yahoo!), et que la raison de cet arrêt momentanné est celle d'une trop grande file d'attente dans les demandes, demandes que FlickR dit ne plus être en mesure de traiter. Il arrête donc les nouvelles demandes d'inscription pour traiter celles qui sont déjà en cours. Soit ce qui ressemble au premier embouteillage connu - ou en tout cas déclaré comme tel - de l'ère de l'informatique en nuages. Que le projet FlickR Commons soit victime de son succès n'est guère étonnant. C'est l'archétype même du projet "gagnant-gagnant". ... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812026 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/miNOvfGtFYM/ “[T]he book is already ‘dead’ (or superseded) if by ‘alive’ you mean that the institution in question is essential to our continued commerce in ideas” – Stuart Moulthrop, ‘You Say You Want A Revolution?’ As a book technology researcher in an English department I often have to talk to roomfuls of archivists, literary enthusiasts, and downright bibliophiles about the joys of digitisation. It can be a tough sell. If I’m feeling brave I like to kick off with that great quote above and get ready to duck. You see I don’t think they always understand that I’m on their side; when I say that books are no longer essential I don’t mean we should go all Fahrenheit 451. No, I mean that when we do hold on to them, and for dear life, we’ll be doing it because we care, not because we have to. This seems to be much better than assuming that they’ll always be around, and that they’ll always be our most effective tool for receiving information. But perhaps I should just be grateful that people still care about books. As soon as that passion can be at least partially turned from pages to screens with the right device then we’ll suddenly have a lot of Telereaders in our midst… In the meantime people’s continuing obsession with bookish bodies fascinates me. Reading Henry Plotkin’s Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge (Amazon link) I realised that if bodies are the result of evolution, then evolutionary theory might be a useful way to interrogate books. In this piece I’d like to begin to look at books as evolved creatures and suggest that they don’t just hold knowledge, they are knowledge. First let’s consider a key aspect of Plotkin’s book: his attempt to move the debate as to what constitutes ‘knowledge,’ from philosophy to biology. Knowledge, as we predominantly (or ‘common-sensically’ as Plotkin would have it) envision it, can be described as a state in the brain matching a state in the world. ... Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:30:55 +0100 811153 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2883 No doubt folks have seen at least 1 of the growing video remixes of Hitler in the bunker. Well here's a new one from Critical Commons that highlights digital scholarship, open courseware, and fair use. Nicely done. Critical Commons provides information about current copyright law and its alternatives in order to facilitate the writing and dissemination of best practices and fair use guidelines for scholarly and creative communities. Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative, culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible. At the heart of Critical Commons is an online tool for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating and curating media within the guidelines established by a given community. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based teaching, learning and creativity, both inside and outside of formal educational environments. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:00:48 +0100 810993 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html#5331213164853255917 Before we look back at this (admittedly quite memorable) football season I'd like to spend a few minutes looking back at the Greatest Football Season of All Time. 1987 was the Saints' 21st year in the NFL. And although the team and the city already enjoyed a strong bond forged in humor, hope and heartache, 1987 was the year it finally all paid off. This was not only the first Saints team to advance to the playoffs, it was the first to even win more games than it lost in a single season. After 20 years. Think about that. Nobody had seen anything like it before. Nobody knew how to act. So they just did was comes naturally in New Orleans. They made it ridiculous.If you're a casual observer and are surprised at the way New Orleans takes to football season, if you're surprised at the way it dominates the evening news, the front page, the bakery section at the supermarket, if you notice people reading a bit too much into the color of their brake tags,or if you get a look at shit like this or this or these peopleSaints Superfan Secondline from rob davis | photography on Vimeo.And you're wondering what it is about this year that has caused people lose their damn minds, know that all this is just a continuation of a theme begun over 20 years ago. This time around we really have seen it before, though. Everything you see in the atmosphere surrounding this team, we saw then and we saw it then for the first time. And it was even bigger and crazier than this. Really it was.Maybe I just feel this way because I was 13 years old then and everything that happens when you're 13 seems really important. But I don't think that's all there is to it. '87 was the genesis of so many memes that live on today. Take, for example, this year's absurd proliferation of Saints-themed music. Heard the "I Believe" song lately? That was 1987. ... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812561 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/01/thursday-thirteen-magazine-clutter.html Before I cleaned off the living room table I decided to count the magazines. Actually, there were more than 13, but two of the titles weren't really ours by subscription, residency or membership. In no particular order:Timeline--this is the publication of the Ohio Historical Society, and we are members of Conestoga, and by virtue of that membership, we get the magazine and a newsletter, plus on-line notices. The on-line site of Timeline has a photo of a Lustron. I haven't seen that issue. My grandparents had one of those built in 1949. American Artist--we could stock a small library with our back issues which we don't seem to be able to throw away.Thrivent Magazine--this used to be called Lutheran Brotherhood and we have an IRA through this organization which made up a new word when it merged with something else.Inland Seas--This was a Christmas present from our son and comes with a membership in the Great Lakes Hisotrical Society. Includes a newsletter. We have a home on Lake Erie.Watercolor Artist--the newest issue is in my husband's office.Columbus City Scene--local what to do.Capital Style--a recent Columbus magazine. So far I haven't subscribed but it keeps finding its way to my door. Published by the Columbus Dispatch.Lake Erie Living--really nice for anyone of the states or provinces bordering Lake Erie. I also have the premiere issue in my collection.JAMA--although this journal of the American Medical Association is often over my head, I enjoy the poetry, essays, CDC reports, and editorial discussions. I have a donor for this one. When I accumulate a stack of 10 or so, I give them to a Columbus vo-tech teacher who passes them along.Bird Watcher's Digest--another Christmas present. Published in Ohio--really interesting material even for a novice bird watcher like me.UA Magazine--PR and advertising stuff about the community in which we live, published by Columbus City Scene. ... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 810335 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/kOdo4AvR-ww/ Comparto una charla que ofrecí el semestre pasado para la clase de Introducción a la Psicología. Me parece que los conceptos que se discuten pueden ser útiles y relevantes para aquellos que les interese el tema del estrés. Se discute también el área de la llamada “psicología de la felicidad” y lo que revelan algunas de las investigación que se han llevado a cabo. Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? 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Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: estrés, felicidad, Psicologia Entradas relacionadas Meme de la felicidad (2) El gen de la felicidad (0) La carrera de ratas (0) Siguiendo el meme de la felicidad (5) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:02:23 +0100 812622 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/15/a-case-for-digital-media-literacy-tracking-down-a-meme/ A Case For Digital Media Literacy: Tracking Down A Meme Here are things to think about before retweeting something that you might need to “re-call” later: If a tweet sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This theme is very common in email hoaxes and legends. If a tweet sounds too bad to be true, it probably is. Think “so-and-so just died!” If the tweet contains a call to action but no link for verification, do not retweet without verifying! If the tweet is full of ALL CAPITALS and !!!! you probably want to run away. If the tweet is time-sensitive (related to a natural disaster or a major news story) then put on your virtual hoax-meter. In other words, THINK before retweeting. Re-read the tweet; think critically about its message. Source: Kathy Gill, Senior Lecturer at University of Washington, Blogger and Internet Consultant (WiredPen) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:43:09 +0100 808873 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/01/thursday-thirteen-thrift-shop-buys.html Today's Wall Street Journal has an article on Alicia Kan giving up her executive look wardrobe for a more relaxed look. She sold her designer clothes and reinvented herself. Three years ago I lost 20 lbs. and since I already had an old wardrobe (retired in 2000) and didn't need anything new, I discovered The Discovery Shop, a resale thrift shop that supports cancer research. I found much more than clothing. Here are some of my favorite buys:1) Silverplate flatware, Reed and Barton 1776, service for 8, with all the serving pieces, $35. I use this set for every day and thoroughly enjoy it.2) Soup bowls to match my fine china. Not the exact pattern, but close enough that I won't have to pay $50.00 a piece to buy them. I have Countess pattern in Syracuse China, and the bowls are King's Court, Wedding Band pattern. $4.00 each.3) A CD of Urbie Green and Umpteen Trombones. I used to play trombone and this CD is fabulous! $1.004) Two beautiful Christmas cups, $1.00 each. Dunoon Stoneware Scotland, Jane Brookshaw (she has a series).5) At least 5 pair of dress khaki slacks for my son to wear to work, $4 each. All name brands and in good condition.6) Jeans and cotton slacks for my husband to wear for Haiti mission work; then they leave their clothes there. Some were better than his own. $3-5.00 each.7) Numerous pairs of lined wool slacks, made in USA, with natural waist fit, already professionally shortened with dry cleaning tags still attached. Various sizes as my weight changed. Average cost $5.00 each.8) Pendleton pants suit, tan tweed, short jacket, fitted waist, lined slacks. $25.9) London Fog raincoat, zip liner, $10.10) White dress pants suit, summer. $25.11) Coleman, light weight zip front jacket, blue and gray, for my husband. $5.12) Cat's Meow buildings, 2 bookstores and a library, $3 each.13) Talbot and Coldwater Creek jeans--black velveteen, pink, red, charcoal gray, olive, burgundy, all new with tags. ... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 808406 http://snailx.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/15-things-about-me-and-books/ Having read the post on Ruminations regarding the 15 things meme, I thought it was worth doing myself. It was fun to write and mostly came out in a single stream of consciousness last night. It puts in print, some of the things that are in my head regarding my relationship with my books over time: some historical, some current. I loved Dr Suess as a child, not just the rhymes but the pictures of odd things and escher like stairways and arches and such. My sister also loved Dr Suess and there are already arguments over who will get which. Though it seems our mother, showing foresight, has put my name in some and my sister’s name in others. As a child I had bad teeth, and required many fillings. The dentist was on the first floor in Burwood, overlooking Burwood Rd; across the road was a bookshop, The Bookworm I think. After each filling, mum would buy me one or two of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series; a painful filling garnering two books as reward or perhaps compensation. I think I eventually acquired all 21 in this manner. As a child I wanted to own a children’s bookshop, then shut it down so that I could work my way through all the books, selfish bugger was I. I got a merit certificate in 6th class for library participation – simply because I’d borrowed the most books. One of my favourite books as a young lad, was “Palio: The Wildest Horse Race in the World“, about a horse race in Italy with various competing contradas, each named after an animal. When flicking through it a few years ago with my then partner, it opened to a page with the emblem of the Contrada of the Snail. I’d never considered that as a possible inspiration for the nickname I chose. She managed to procure, with much difficulty, a pennant from said contrada (as the book was based on real events), and it now hangs on my wall in the main room – a family crest of sorts. ... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 07:01:05 +0100 808844 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/01/rapport-tessier.html J'ai donc lu en intégralité le rapport Tessier sur la numérisation du patrimoine écrit (en version pdf). Rappelons-le, ledit rapport était censé apporter des éléments circonstanciés de réponse à la question : la BnF doit-elle signer avec Google ? La réponse est un "Oui mais".En guise de préalable je voudrais adresser les plus chaleureuses félicitations à mes étudiants de deuxième année Métiers du livre de l'IUT de la Roche sur Yon, lesquels, deux jours avant la remise du rapport, avaient dans leurs copies d'examen, listés au moins deux des préconisations essentielles de la commission Tessier : le troc "un livre pour un livre" (p.31) et l'affichage de la provenance du fichier sur le site consulté (p.32). Bravo à eux. Si Frédéric Mitterand cherche à recruter pour sa prochaine commission, qu'il n'hésite pas à les contacter :-)Allons-y donc pour mes remarques et notes de lectures.Les 4 pistes principales suggérées par le rapport sont les suivantes (p.3) : "changement d'échelle de la numérisation" : of course. Je voie mal comment l'on pourrait être contre ... "changement du mode de fonctionnement de Gallica" : j'y reviendrai en détail ci-après mais j'indique tout de suite que la manière dont Marc Tessier envisage ce changement me semble être l'archétype même de la fausse bonne idée. "partenariat avec Google Livres par échange de fichiers numérisés sans exclusivité sur les fichiers échangés" : j'y croie dur comme fer (même si je sais - n'est-ce pas Calimaq ;-) ?) que les millions d'euros du plan de relance affectés à la numérisation pourraient permettre d'offrir une alternative. Je reste cependant convaincu qu'atteindre une masse critique full-text francophone me semble une urgence et un préalable. ... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809737 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/f9J8jgj567k/3474 You may have noticed that the T is for Training group has been posting 27 things about themselves. Well somehow I missed that email (as I am a member of the group – but get way way way too many emails in general). Here are my answers – better late than never 1) Your One Sentence Bio I am a librarian, open source evangelist, blogger, writer, teacher, dog lover and overall technology enthusiast. 2) Do you blog? If yes, how did you come up with your blog name? Yes! I’m terrible at coming up with titles, so I figured what I’d be writing about was what I was learning so the title simply had to be ‘What I Learned Today…’ 3) What is your professional background? I started as a web assistant at the Jenkins Law Library in Philadelphia right out of undergrad. My years there made me want to learn more about librarianship and so I went to get my masters while there and finished it while working as the metadata librarian at the Princeton Theological Seminary. It was my work in these two roles and my online ramblings that moved me from working in libraries to working toward getting libraries to learn more about open source! 4) What training do you do? staff? patrons? types of classes? I train librarians in all walks of life. At work I train librarians how to use Koha after they finish their migration. In my spare time (ha ha) I train librarians around the world how to use various technologies to make their lives easier, their work more efficient and their budgets less scary. An archive of my training can be found on my Publications & Presentations page. 5) What training do you think is most important to libraries right now? All of it!! Libraries are filled with people of such varying skill sets and backgrounds. No one can know everything about the library and so I find that the librarians who are constantly learning are the most valuable and I’m happy to help them keep learning. ... Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:08:16 +0100 807886 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/11/the-january-2010-issue-of-the-digital-preservation-newsletter-is-now-available/ Access the Newsletter (2 pages; PDF) Articles Include: + The Memento Project describes time travel for the Web + Read about Digital Preservation Pioneer Martin Halbert + Library of Congress and the changing nature of digital technologies featured in a Voice of America video + The Director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program participated in recent events: The Stewardship of Digital Assets Workshop and the Digital Tools for Information and Democracy Conference + Announcements: Information on the activity and public comments of the Public Access Policy Forum; ACM and IEEE award Fran Berman for leadership + Registration is free for the Federal Web 2.0 Webinar: The Library of Congress and Digital Technology, January 27, 2010 (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:30:33 +0100 807389 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/01/winter-web-cleaning/ Since I have a lot to do in the next few days, I’m completely distracted by work that ought to be done, but doesn’t really need to be at this point. Therefore, my web presence is getting a good winter cleaning. Things that need to be done: Update my CV so that I can… Submit the past year’s work in our campus reporting system Write annual letter about what I’ve done Finish up the wiki book loose ends Reply to a bunch of new email Get ready for Midwinter Things that are happening instead (technically, in addition to): In conjunction with the CV, updating my CV site (and being reminded of how much more it needs updating to contain all the information I’d like it to contain) Organizing my documentation for promotion in my dossier. I’m not going up until next fall, but with the baby on the way, I’d like to finish by May. I started now, before students came back, and because that work fits nicely with updating my CV. I didn’t think this process would be all that bad, but it’s become clear it’s going to take a while. I’m documenting the process for a future blog post. Adding Google Analytics to my websites so that I can do better reporting on the impact of them for the dossier and CV. Things that didn’t need to happen, but happened anyway: Fixed/streamlined the contact me section on my website and this blog. Updated the places I am on my website, though now I think I need to remove several that I am not actively participating in. Finally got around to cleaning up categories on this blog! There are a bunch of uncatagorized posts, but there’s at least a framework that makes sense now. Added a list of the big memes I’ve participated in on the sidebar here. Worked with John to figure out and fix some weird things in my CV site’s stylesheet. ... Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:30:38 +0100 807701 http://bclyaknow.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-cds.html The holidays may be over, and school is back with a vengeance...but don't get bummed out! We've got a bunch of new CDs!POP / ROCKCobra Starship - Hot MessFlyleaf - Memento MoriKings of Leon - Aha Shake HeartbreakWithin Temptation - Mother EarthCHRISTIANBarlowgirl - Love & WarCasting Crowns - Until the Whole World HearsRAPSean Kingston - TomorrowLady Sovereign - JigsawWORLDHoroscopos de Durango - DudaWisin Y Yandel - Los Extraterrestres (Source: YA KNOW @ BCL) Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 806521 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/01/07/blogging-para-impacientes/ Este post lo publiqué en Weblog Magazine, el 3 de Septiembre de 2009 Uno de los mejores artículos sobre los blogs es Deep Thinking about Weblogs, escrito por Andrew Grumet en junio de 2003. En él se explica, con mucha claridad, cuáles son las cuatro características fundamentales de los weblogs: diferencia con las páginas web estáticas tradicionales, torrente de contenidos que representan, renovado uso de las viejas tecnologías y, sobre todo, la facilidad para ser publicados. Decía el autor de dicho artículo que, al principio, los webmasters pasaban mucho tiempo dedicados a elaborar su sitio y a transferirlo desde su máquina local al servidor web. Y, aunque se tuviera mucho que expresar, se podía abandonar la idea al perder el tiempo en cocinar el pesado código HTML. La sencillez de administración de los sistemas de publicación de blogs, comparada con la ardua tarea de los webmasters de la época pre-blogs, hizo que fuese realmente fácil compartir contenidos en Internet y que cualquiera, incluso si se carecía de conocimientos informáticos, pudiese tomar la voz pública. En la actualidad, estamos asistiendo a otra revolución, una vuelta de tuerca más, con el microblogging: Twitter y Tumblr son herramientas extremadamente sencillas de utilizar, mucho más que sus hermanos mayores Blogger o Wordpress. Eso y el acceso, tanto para leer como para publicar, en movilidad, en cualquier momento y lugar, gracias a los telefónos móviles con conexión a Internet, es lo que está haciendo cambiar los hábitos de los bloguers y lectores de blogs. A los blogs, cuyos posts contienen textos breves, un enlace, una imagen o un vídeo, se les conoce como tumblelogs o miniblogs. Realmente, Twitter es una variante de éstos, mucho más inmediata y efímera. Pero, hoy queremos destacar tres nuevos servicios con los que se puede crear un tumblelog. Con ellos y con apenas un clic, se dispone de un espacio listo para utilizar, sin preocuparse de nada más. ... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:08:48 +0100 806956 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/07/detecting-spam-in-a-twitter-network/ Article by: Sarita Yardi, Daniel Romero, Grant Schoenebeck, Danah Boyd From the Abstract: Spam becomes a problem as soon as an online communication medium becomes popular. Twitter’s behavioral and structural properties make it a fertile breeding ground for spammers to proliferate. In this article we examine spam around a one-time Twitter meme—“robotpickuplines”. We show the existence of structural network differences between spam accounts and legitimate users. We conclude by highlighting challenges in disambiguating spammers from legitimate users. Access the Complete Article Source: First Monday Hat Tip: S.C. and P.S. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:08:05 +0100 806222 http://www.traffick.com/2010/01/google-suggest-and-term-scam.asp There are so many positive, non-controversial uses of Google Search, it makes it hard to believe that sometimes there are serious problems in it that constitute the proverbial "growing threat" that you'd expect to see flagged in a USA Today Editorial.Take, for example, the search results for my latest query. Needed to use up some ingredients in my kitchen, needed to build a tasty winter dish around that need: immediately thought of tex mex chili.Do a search - get some recipes. This is fun! No controversy. No Google Suggest results leading me to search for "tex mex chili SCAM!"You can just imagine it, right?At texmexchiliscam.net, rico88 writes a review. "Oh sure, first it all seems innocuous, with the need for tomato sauce, chili powder, beans, and meat. But that's when they HOOK you. NO ONE tells you about the 2 CANS OF CORN you have to buy to make this so-called 'easy' 'dish'. I am betting the Green Giant is behind the whole thing."nochilinocry chimes in: "There's one reason he's called the GREEN Giant, and that's the $$$$ he rakes in on a daily basis for this Tex Mex Chili $cam!!"Yeah, that's never gonna happen.That's why I love making chili. No tinfoil hat required.So...One of those growing threats -- on searches that really do lend themselves to the use of controversial, value-laden terms -- is the presence of words like "scam" in the Google Suggest results. The problem is real: that's proven by yesterday's Google lawsuit loss in France. Google must remove the term "arnaque" manually from Google Suggest phrases in relation to a specific company. (There have been complaints from other companies, too.)The problem seems trivial until you realize just how widespread it is. And it could grow further.As more consumers see Google Suggest results, just imagine how pervasive the problem of oversimplifying all criticism of businesses into the word "scam" can be. ... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 806342 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/01/thursday-thirteen-rerun-edition.html I originally wrote this in December 2006, about 3 years ago; 13 things I was wondering about. Still haven't answered these important questions, some of which were making small headlines that year.This is the season of wonder, so I've been wondering, in no particular order, while you've all been fighting the crowds at the mall:1) Have Catholics advanced spiritually more with the vernacular rather than the unifying language of Latin? 2) Do Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians have a better grasp of the gospel with loud rock music? 3) If every household now has 2 or 3 fuel efficient cars, are we really better off, environmentally speaking, than when we had one gas hog that could hold six people comfortably?4) Has bussing children for 45-60 minutes to and from school ever improved the quality of education or even built friendships and understanding among the races and income groups?5) How many lawyers will get rich from restaurant operators (passing the costs on to us) trying to figure out compliance with Ohio's new minimum wage law (now part of our constitution) and the anti-smoking bans?6) What do little children strapped into safety seats in automobiles think about or learn listening to mommy chatter on the cell phone while ignoring them?7) Do restaurant employees really "lávase las manos" before leaving the restroom?8) Do baseball caps on guys really hide thinning hair, or do they increase the fallout and make it difficult to give their wives a kiss?9) Will Nicole Kidman change Keith Urban's drinking behavior or has she made another bad marriage?10) Will the visual quality and intellectual content of YouTube be a passing fad?11) Do gun enthusiasts, hunters and collectors really need assault weapons?12) Did George Clooney really share his bed with Max his 300 lb. ... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 806145 http://walt.lishost.org/2010/01/a-truncated-meme/ Some libloggers (and others, no doubt) have been posting their ten most popular posts for 2009. Well, why not? As it turns out, there’s a good reason why not: This blog has had several homes over the past year–not only the brief move to Scienceblogs, but a move to a different machine within the LISHost galaxy because of an odd situation. As a result, Urchin (LISHost’s stats package, now owned by Google) only shows me data for 2009 in two clumps: January 1 through mid-March, and mid-November through the end of the year (and continuing). So I’ll give you the recent Top 10–ignoring Feeds and other pages other than direct views of posts. Top Direct-View Posts, November-December 2009 On Learning: A Reprint (November 23, 2009) The long and short of blogs (But Still They Blog, 4) (December 7, 2009) LITA at Midwinter 2010: A Publicity Update (December 15, 2009) Technology signposts (November 27, 2009) Cites & Insights: Opinions Desired (December 4, 2009) Slapstick Festival (November 12, 2009) Cites & Insights 9 now available as trade paperback (November 17, 2009) Confidentiality, policy and more at the new LLN. (December 14, 2009) But Still They Blog: Now available (November 29, 2009) Cites & Insights 2010: A Third Option? (December 6, 2009) I’m not sure what to make of that list. So I won’t make any thing of it at all. Maybe next year I’ll have a full year’s worth of data. Maybe not. (Source: Walt at Random) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:32:06 +0100 807880 http://hedgehoglibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/01/15-things-about-me-and-books.html The venerable Steve Lawson and Warmaiden got me thinking about this...1. I learned to read at four and was almost instantly a voracious reader. Sending me to my room was rarely an effective punishment because I'd go and read.2. The only books I ever remember my mother telling me no about were the Fabio-covered bodice rippers when I was thirteen or fourteen. Running into parents who are a lot more restrictive always throws me, though I try not to judge.3. The Incredibly-Patient-Mother's rule about how many library books was that I had to be able to carry them, by myself, out to the car. I learned a young age how to stack up books quite highly, set my chin on the top to balance, and carefully teeter out to the car. I'm sure it was quite a sight.4. One high school English teacher told me, at age 15, that I was "too young to appreciate Jane Austen." As a result, I didn't read them until after college. Austen is one of my favorite authors. I've never fully forgiven her for that.5. Over the past year or two I've finally started getting rid of my college texts. Admitting that perhaps I no longer am interested in the Norton anthologies was incredibly painful. Now if I could just admit to myself some things about the beginning library science books....6. I started listening to audiobooks in junior high or high school, long before the current trendiness. Primarily I listened to Lilian Jackson Braun's Cat Who series and Clancy's The Hunt for Red October (Recorded Books/Frank Muller version). I listened to these at bedtime, which meant a fair amount of rewinding in the morning to figure out where I'd fallen asleep. George Guidall's voice still makes me sleepy.7. Out of desperation one semester, I slogged through Jane Eyre over a couple of weeks because it was the only thing I had in my dorm room that wasn't course related. I was surprised how much I enjoyed grabbing a chapter here and there.8. I read historical and paranormal romance novels. ... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:20:00 +0100 805909 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seealso/~3/K4TS4aNWZ3E/fifteen_things_about_me_and_books.html The History and Future of the Book class is off to a good start, I think. On Monday we spent a lot of time talking about what makes a book a book, and how we respond to books and why. The group as a whole is interested in talking and debating, though with twenty in the class, it’s a little hard to make sure we hear from the quieter people. One of the things we asked them to do last night was to participate in a very old internet meme. We had them read John Scalzi’s 15 Things About Me and Books and then post their own 15 things to the couse website. I can’t show you their posts, but I thought I might as well show you mine: I had a fight with my girlfriend in college when she borrowed a book from me (Romeo and Juliet, I believe) and returned it dog-eared. I remember looking at the books on the spinning display in my elementary school library, especially ship on the cover of “The Voage of the Dawn Treader” and especially especially “The Dragon’s Handbook” which had green pages and which I checked out repeatedly. The illustrations for the book “Pick a Peck of Puzzles” freaked me out so badly as a kid, I think I had to hide the book from myself. Like Scalzi, I burned a class text once (“David Copperfield.”) Unlike Scalzi, I don’t feel too bad about it. I used to read books on my Palm Pilot while walking to CC from home. I watched a co-worker steal a book when I was still a pretty new employee at Denver’s Tattered Cover bookstore. He advised me “when you have your review with a manager and they ask what you like about working here, don’t say ‘free books. ... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:12:44 +0100 806971 http://www.traffick.com/2009/12/traffick-infinite-regression-awards.asp "We love ourselves, don't we?" So said The Church Lady. And yes, lady, we do. We, the Internauti, the digeridoochebags who endlessly refer to ourselves in our posts/tweets/dead-trees-missives, etc. Even when our subject matter is that this or that form of media is a sinking ship.The Reggies roll on.Last year, Traffick revived the somewhat-annual Internet Internet Infinite Infinite (Keyword Stuffing) Regression Awards with the help of Matt Larkin, a fine budding writer who will someday fully get the hang of boasting about himself. But to cap off this pivotal Year to Forget, it's back to yours truly, the creator of the Reggies.Without any further ado:Best Tweet About an Article that Criticizes Tweeting: By the guy who tweeted about the New York Post article "Tweeting is so shilly". Note, among other things, an encrypted critique of The Huffington Post, found in the sessionid of the destination URL.Best Blog Post About the "Death" of Blogging: This one that really hammers the scare quotes in there. It's from 2008, but we had to wait and see whether blogging actually died before we went ahead with this. Nyaaah nyaaaah, didn't die!Best SERP for [search engine]: It's still Dogpile.com. Google has a sense of humor. Don't ever deny it. And no, my vintage Dogpile shirt is still not for sale.Best, er, I mean lamest, Paid Search Ad that Gives Money to Google to Try to Salvage a Competing Search Engine's Market Share: An AdWords ad for Bing. "Visit the Bing(TM) Official Site to Make Key Decisions Quick & Easy." WTF? I can see Obama's whole cabinet heading there right now, on the strength of that ad. Too bad George W. didn't have Bing to work with when he was The Decider. But it's not too late to take some endorsement cash. Move fast, sir. If you don't take the money, Shatner will. ... Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 804748 http://www.lisnews.org/how_blogs_make_it_quotblogs_readquot_list I had three people ask questions on how the "Blogs To Read" list gets put together each year, so I thought it wise to share. First and foremost, it's not a popularity contest. Every year there have been a couple that received an avalanche of votes, and they usually make it on to the list. But more important that popularity is quality. Blogs make it on the looooong list by being suggested. I go through every blog I can find and look back at what they wrote this year. I get email, IMs, and comments on LISNews full of blogs from all over. I ask past winners, friends, and anyone else I can find. I start with as many as possible. The first list this year was about 180 blogs, which I quickly cut in half, and then with a bit more work in half again. I'm currently working my way through the final list of 30(ish) blogs now. There are 5 that I have short listed (2 crowd favorites and 3 obvious choices) which leaves just 5 more. I'm going to try to reduce that short list of 30 to about 10 and get feedback from the other LISNews authors. And that should do it. The final list is going to be difficult this year, the short list looks like a great bunch of blogs. I don't have strict rules to eliminate blogs, but I did come up with this list that explains how the list is reduced. I go through the list, read and reread every blog and try to objectively decide if it will fit on the list this year. Below are the things that I use to create the final list: Things that get blogs excluded: Infrequent posting: This year I also excluded any blog that hasn't updated in a month. Short posts: Anyone can post a single link every day. Too many posts consisting of just a big long quote: Wow, you can copy and paste! Too many posts of life stream stuff: We're all impressed you found Twitter. Too much personal or off topic stuff: Yes, your cats are super cute. ... Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:17:34 +0100 803280 http://lisnews.org/how_blogs_make_it_quotblogs_readquot_list I had three people ask questions on how the "Blogs To Read" list gets put together each year, so I thought it wise to share. First and foremost, it's not a popularity contest. Every year there have been a couple that received an avalanche of votes, and they usually make it on to the list. But more important that popularity is quality. Blogs make it on the looooong list by being suggested. I go through every blog I can find and look back at what they wrote this year. I get email, IMs, and comments on LISNews full of blogs from all over. I ask past winners, friends, and anyone else I can find. I start with as many as possible. The first list this year was about 180 blogs, which I quickly cut in half, and then with a bit more work in half again. I'm currently working my way through the final list of 30(ish) blogs now. There are 5 that I have short listed (2 crowd favorites and 3 obvious choices) which leaves just 5 more. I'm going to try to reduce that short list of 30 to about 10 and get feedback from the other LISNews authors. And that should do it. The final list is going to be difficult this year, the short list looks like a great bunch of blogs. I don't have strict rules to eliminate blogs, but I did come up with this list that explains how the list is reduced. I go through the list, read and reread every blog and try to objectively decide if it will fit on the list this year. Below are the things that I use to create the final list: Things that get blogs excluded: Infrequent posting: This year I also excluded any blog that hasn't updated in a month. Short posts: Anyone can post a single link every day. Too many posts consisting of just a big long quote: Wow, you can copy and paste! Too many posts of life stream stuff: We're all impressed you found Twitter. Too much personal or off topic stuff: Yes, your cats are super cute. ... Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:17:34 +0100 802946 http://tecnicalia.com/2009/12/23/tec_el-fundador-de-4chan-hablara-en-el-ted-2010/ Christopher “m00t” Poole, el joven fundador del foro en línea 4chan, participará en la próximas conferencias TED 2010 (Febrero 9-13, Long Beach) compartiendo escenario junto con varios líderes de pensamiento en California. Poole mantuvo  su identidad en secreto durante años y después de crear el sitio a los 15 años en el 2003 rara vez aparecía públicamente. Pero ahora en el TED 2010 estará compartiendo la sesión con el tema de “Provocación” junto con Michael Sandel, Filósofo moralista de Harvard; Kevin Bales, Activista que lucha contra la esclavitud; y James Levlock, Defensor de la hipótesis de Gaia. Los usuarios de 4chan han dado lugar a una subcultura polémica e influyente en la red. Entre sus contribuciones al mundo se encuentran “memes” como el Rickrolling y los LOLcats, pero sus miembros también son conocidos por realizar ataques a sitios web (como la encuesta de TIME), personas y la Iglesia de la Cienciología. Link: 4chan Founder “moot” to Speak at TED (Gigaom) Via: FayerWayer Articulos relacionados: Reviviendo la conferencia de Lawrence Lessig en TED 2007Robert Lang, el maestro del origamiLas conferencias TED en tu escritorio¿Es este nuestro último siglo?Construyendo un tecno-sexto sentido (Source: tecnicalia.com) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:36:49 +0100 802938 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2009/12/5-uk-library-stories-of-2009.html Following on from from lisnews Ten Stories That Shaped 2009, I thought I would do my 5 UK stories.1. Cilip 2.0. This was a discussion started by Brian Kelly & Phil Bradley which looked at Cilip Bob McKee failure to take on board some of the web 2.0 technologies within CILIP. The power of the network caused Cilip to rethink there policy and have an open forum on the event in April and produce a draft paper on the subject.2. Woodsiegirl meme on 'why i became a librarian. I like blogging because sometime one persons post can spiral into a bigger discussion (see above). Well blogger Woodsie girl discussed why she became a librarian. A few others started adding there reasons why and the wikiman made a wiki for others to enter and discuss the subject on. This was actually pretty life affirming and a great idea.3. Many had heard that Wirral maybe closing many libraries in that area. Thankfully all 11 were saved. Many local people voiced there concern on the closures, making politicans back down (for the moment).4. Most stupid idea of the year? Culture minister Margaret Hodge's suggestion that libraries should link up with internet bookseller Amazon. Um, people go to libraries so they don't have to pay and store it. A library and a bookseller are two divergent markets and its not possible for one to be the other without major changes in the organisation (read money). 5. UK mashup still going strong. It was good to see many librarians meet this year for two mashups in Huddersfield and Birmingham. I went to the Huddersfield one and was really great to see a profession working to help our users experience (and learn something to).Anyhow, thats my top 5? Anybody have any others? (Source: librarytwopointzero) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 804080 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/22/facebook-memology-top-status-trends-of-2009/ Direct to the Complete List and Explanations Status updates on Facebook help people understand their friends and the people around them–how they’re feeling, what they’re doing and what they’re thinking. In the United States alone, people on Facebook are sharing hundreds of millions of words every day, thousands per second, in status updates. When taken as a whole, these words offer a unique barometer into the issues, world events and thoughts that are connecting people. In the tradition of year-end lists, we’re introducing Facebook Memology. “Memology” refers to the study of how “memes,” or new ideas and trends, are spreading on Facebook. For this year’s list, the Facebook Data Team mapped the top trending words and phrases in U.S. status updates for 2009. 15 Trending Words and Phrases are Listed Each entry has an explanation. Here Are the Top 5 1) Facebook Applications (Specific words: Farmville, Farm Town, Social Living) 2) FML 3) Swine Flu (Specific words: Flu, Swine Flu, H1N1) 4) Celebrity Deaths (Specific Words: Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Billy Mays) 5) Family (Specific Words: Family, Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter, Kids) Source: Facebook Blog (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:01:09 +0100 802651 http://scruffynerf.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/its-time-to-move-along/ I have to say that my decision to start a blog back in September of 2005, when I started graduate school, was one of the most edifying parts of my educational experience. It gave me a venue to work though my school experiences as well as my thoughts on various topics relating to library science. I have definitely missed blogging. It seems to me that I was more attentive to different trends in the library world and more thoughtful about how they impacted the things I was studying and my library work. However, I made a conscious choice when I began blogging to try to focus my comments on graduate school rather than on my work as a systems librarian. I didn’t always follow this internal mandate – after all, I my profession certainly colored my educational experiences and my opinions on various issues. The strictures that I had set became a problem for me when I got close to finishing school. I grew more and more frustrated with my experiences in a distance program and more focused on work because of things that were happening in my library (and in the greater institution). I had several issues that I wanted to write about, but I definitely started discarding the majority of my posts because they were becoming more and more removed from my educational experience. This trend only continued once I actually graduated. The ironic thing is that I really wasn’t conscious of why I kept starting posts and then deleting them until quite recently. In August, I participated in the “Library Day in the Life” meme which caused me to seriously think about blogging and whether or not I wanted to continue. I definitely wanted to continue, but still found myself stymied. Shortly thereafter, I realized that I wasn’t able to blog under the original constraints that I had set for this blog as one about my library school experiences. Ultimately, I decided that I needed to formally put this blog to bed. ... Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:01:06 +0100 802796 http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/2009/12/facebook-meme.html Facebook's new privacy settings are creating quite a stir - particularly as people start to recognize the impact of Google's social search initiative, which extends Google's reach to Facebook and Twitter content. In response, lots of folks have been posting this meme as their current status:If you don't know, as of today, Facebook will automatically index all of your info on Google, which allows everyone to view it. To change this option, go to Settings --> Privacy Settings --> Search --> then UN-CLICK the box that says 'Allow indexing'. Facebook kept this one quiet. Feel free to Copy and paste onto your status for all to see. Much to my delight, I'm starting to see some great riffs on this theme. Here's the most popular one:If you don't know, as of today, Facebook will automatically start plunging the Earth into the Sun. To change this option, go to Settings --> Planetary Settings --> Trajectory then UN-CLICK the box that says 'Apocalypse.' Facebook kept this one quiet. Copy and paste onto your status for all to see.From my friend Steve:If you don't know, as of next Thursday, Facebook will automatically bring on the end of civilization as we know it. To change this option, go to Settings --> Phylogeny Settings --> Simians then UN-CLICK the box that says 'Get Your Hands Off Me You Damned Dirty Ape.' Facebook kept this one quiet. Copy and paste onto your status for all to see.From my friend Carol:As of today, Facebook staff will be allowed to eat your children and pets. To turn this option off, go to settings, then privacy, then meals. Click the top two boxes to prevent the employees of Facebook from eating your beloved children and pets. Copy this to your status to warn your friends! Okay, my/your turn now! (Source: Gargoyles loose in the library) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 801474 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/nYBAYf9FnB0/ Remember last year’s  Thriller video from the National Library of Australia’s Christmas Party (Michael Jackson Library Video Mashups )? I’ve played it in a couple of presentations this year about libraries using media.  I have asked the audience “what do you think of when you think of the National Library of Australia?” both before and after I play it. Now I can add Volume Two – this year’s Can Can’t Dancers . It includes all those features that make a library what it is – boys being girls, cartwheels, superman poses on book trolleys, bookthrowing, office chair choreography and even the splits. Thankfully (?) this appears *not* to be part of a meme, so I can’t link to other videos of similar shennanigans in libraries like I did last year… Enjoy…. (Source: Librarians matter) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:10:06 +0100 801268 http://www.outilsfroids.net/images/thumbs/imgloader.aspx?idarticle=ac760081-a813-4ffa-8737-f67df6706b8d&img=imgmin&iditf=0.http://www.editions-eni.fr/imgloader.aspx?idarticle=ac760081-a813-4ffa-8737-f67df6706b8d&img=imgmin&iditf=0 RessourcesVeille - OutilsVeilleSi Jean-Noël Anderruthy est bien connu par les pros des moteurs de recherche (il tient le blog Google XXL) il gagnerait à l'être un peu plus par ceux qui font de la veille sur le web. Les articles qu'il écrit tous les mois pour La Lettre Recherche et Référencement sont en effet des ressources extrêmement utiles pour qui veut faire une veille de qualité à moindre coût. Il y décrit dans le détail les méthodes qu'il emploie pour surveiller des pages web avec des méthodes pointues regroupées sous le terme de "web scraping", qui permettent d'obtenir vraiment ce que l'on souhaite grâce notamment à Xpath. Il a également proposé des articles très intéressant sur la manière de mêler Google maps et flux RSS ainsi que sur l'utilisation de Yahoo! Pipes.J'ai donc acheté la semaine dernière son livre intitulé "Techniques de veille et e-réputation" (paru en juin 2009) et... (Source: Outils Froids) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:01:00 +0100 799499 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/09/mls-announces-9-5-million-in-save-america%e2%80%99s-treasures-grants-to-preserve-cultural-and-historic-treasures/ From the Announcement: A memorial to the victims of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the mementos of Civil War officers, and a blockhouse from an 18th-century Russian trading fort in Alaska are among the thousands of historically significant objects that will be conserved with the 2009 Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grants. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in collaboration with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), the National Park Service (NPS), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), awarded $9.5 million in grants to 41 organizations to conserve significant cultural and historic treasures related to American history and culture. [Snip] This year, IMLS will administer grants to six institutions: (Full Descriptions in the Announcement): 1. National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York ($200,000) 2. Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA ($150,000) 3. Kolmakovsky Redoubt Collection, Fairbanks ($75,000) 4. Denver Museum of Nature & Science Anthropology Collections, Denver ($324,385) 5. Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT ($600,000) 6. Chapel Car 5 Messenger of Peace, Snoqualmie, WA ($180,000) Source: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:24:13 +0100 798914 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/08/ala-weighs-in-on-todays-open-government-directive/ From ALA’s Washington Office, District Dispatch: The following comments were made by Jessica McGilvray, Assistant Director, Office of Government Relations. The Obama administration released the Open Government Directive this morning – a step toward a more open government. On President Obama’s first day in office he demonstrated his dedication to an open and accountable government by tasking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to create this directive and our community has anxiously been awaiting its arrival. In short the Directive “is intended to direct executive departments and agencies to take specific actions to implement the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration set forth in the President’s Memorandum.” Today’s Directive requires executive departments and agencies to: 1. Publish government information online, 2. Improve the quality of government information, 3. Create and institutionalize a culture of open government, and 4. Create an enabling framework for open government Source: ALA District Dispatch See Also: Open Government Directive (11 pages; PDF) See Also: Presidents Memeorandum (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:58:16 +0100 798777 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/12/mostly-harmless-end-of-year-meme/ This meme’s a little silly but entirely harmless–the first sentence of the first post of each month in 2009. January: 14 shopping days for early birds. February: This isn’t a proper post-conference summary. March: What’s new and improved at the PALINET Leadership Network (PLN)? April: [Seems to be missing at the moment...but it would have been a 4th-anniversary post.] May: Million Dollar Kid, 1944, b&w. June: What’s new at the Library Leadership Network? July: I was reading the July 2009 Consumer Reports (as usual, I’m about a month behind on magazines) and reached a set of ratings for chain restaurants. August: This one’s a little different. September: What’s new at the Library Leadership Network (LLN)? October: Warning: This is another in what’s likely to be a very long set of posts, over several months, related to the project I’m currently calling But Still They Post: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009. November: Another post of no known significance… December: What do ResearchBuzz, The Handheld Librarian, LibraryPlanet.com, The Rabid Librarian’s Ravings in the Wind and wiredfu have in common? This lineup once again confirms the validity of the third word in the name of this here blog… (Source: Walt at Random) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:32 +0100 798652 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/BkM-LGoF9Bs/ OCLC has made available a webcast of Herbert Van de Sompel's presentation "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." You can find out more about Memento at Van de Sompel's e-print, "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." Related Posts Webinar: "DuraCloud: Enabling Services for Managing Data in the Cloud" "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" OCLC Presentations on Digital Curation and Web-scale Management Services "Saying What We Do—Doing What We Say: Preservation Issues (Metadata and Otherwise) in Institutional Repositories" OCLC and HathiTrust to Collaborate on Enhancing Access to Digital Repository Materials (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:40 +0100 798597 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2009/12/03/webcast-memento-time-travel-for-the-web/ OCLC has made available a webcast of Herbert Van de Sompel's presentation "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." You can find out more about Memento at Van de Sompel's e-print, "Memento: Time Travel for the Web." Related Posts Webinar: "DuraCloud: Enabling Services for Managing Data in the Cloud" "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" Papers from the European Research Area 2009 Conference Digital Videos: Presentations from Access 2009 Conference (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:14 +0100 797258 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/02/now-available-from-oclc-research-webcast-of-herbert-van-de-sompels-presentation-memento-time-travel-for-the-web/ From the Web Page: Herbert Van de Sompel, Research Library Prototyping Team Lead at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spoke at OCLC on 19 November 2009. A recording of his presentation and the discussion that followed, including video and slides, is now available as a streaming webcast. Individual files of the audio and slides from his presentation are also available. From the Presentation Abstract: Have you ever felt frustrated by your inability to get to old versions of Web pages? Did you bookmark a page last year, and revisited it recently only to find that the current content isn’t even remotely related to what caught your interest back then? Remnants of the past Web are available, and there are many efforts ongoing to archive even more Web content. It’s just that the past Web is not as readily accessible as today’s. For example, if you want to see an archived version of http://cnn.com, you can go to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and search for it there. Or if you want to see an old version of the Wikipedia page about—say—clocks, you can go to the current page and from there follow a link to one of the many prior versions. And, if you are interested in stories that featured on the BBC news site on your last year’s birthday, you can explore the archive that Matthew Somerville set up in his spare time. But doesn’t doing so feel more like walking to a library, than using the Web the way you usually do? Wouldn’t it be much easier if you could just connect to cnn.com, Wikipedia, or news.bbc.co.uk indicating that you are interested in the pages of March 20 2008, not the current ones? If you could activate a time machine in your browser or bot? The Memento solution that we propose to achieve this is based on existing HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add the temporal dimension. ... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:14:36 +0100 796889 http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2009-12-02.htm Herbert Van de Sompel, Research Library Prototyping Team Lead at Los Alamos National Laboratory, spoke at OCLC on 19 November 2009. (Source: OCLC Research) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:32:47 +0100 796933 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1287906.html Blast from the past. Fifteen years later, still one of the great wtf videos: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/01/classic-meme-celebra.html p.s. 15 years! Has it really been that long? ... (Source: Google Blog Search: Bentleyblog blogurl:http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:30:08 +0100 796604 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2009/12/01/webinar-duracloud-enabling-services-for-managing-data-in-the-cloud/ DuraSpace has released a webinar on "DuraCloud: Enabling Services for Managing Data in the Cloud" with Michele Kimpton and Bill Branan. Audio Presentation Related Posts Webcast: "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" Data Preservation in High Energy Physics Closing the Digital Curation Gap Project Towards Repository Preservation Services. Final Report from the JISC Preserv 2 Project Digital Videos: Presentations from Access 2009 Conference (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:04:11 +0100 797262 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html#5598353219484014785 Is it me or does it seem kind of late in the game for this decade retrospective trash journalism to start showing up? Maybe it means the 00s were too weird for the cheap meme-pushers to get a marketable bead on. Or maybe it means that the popular culture has finally become so overheated with the industrial feedback loop of commercial kitsch and manufactured nostalgia it has generated that we're no longer capable of distinguishing one ten years of post-modern goo from whatever came before it well enough to turn it into a decent magazine cover anymore. Or maybe we're just bored with the concept of linear time altogether... which wouldn't be so bad, really. (Source: Library Chronicles) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 797654 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/3vHuv6uzrKs/poem-of-the-week-george-gascoigne The Elizabethan writer manages to fuse a geriatric lullaby and a love poemAs novelists and readers blush at fictional failures to rise to the challenge of writing sexily about sex, let us celebrate on Poem of the Week the wit, lyricism and, yes, subtle eroticism of Gascoigne's Lullaby. At once, that personalising title issues a warning. The Elizabethan memento mori (of which George Gascoigne's poem is a species) is as unlikely to be autobiographical as the average Petrarchan sonnet of that period. Still, when a poem's perspective seems especially distinctive, it's tempting, and perhaps justified, to look for personal reference in it, as we do when we seek the identity of Shakespeare's "master-mistress" or read Wyatt's poignant lyrics in the light of his relationship with Anne Boleyn. However, it's worth remembering that in 1572 when the poem was collected in A Hundred Sundry Flowers, George Gascoigne was most probably not yet 50. He could have been syphilitic, or otherwise infirm, of course. On the other hand, his narrator may be as unreliable as his erection.Gascoigne was a restlessly innovative writer. Here, he has spliced genres and produced something new, amusing and beautiful – a geriatric lullaby which is also, virtually, a love-poem. Assonance is revelled in, but perfectly controlled. The frequent repetition of the word "lullaby" is a master-stroke and ensures that the poem has all the onomatopoeic lilt of a true lullaby. The liquid consonant, L, infiltrates the sound-scape. We frequently meet with "still" and "stilled": "will" is three times a rhyme-word, picked up twice by "still" and once by "skill". And we also have "beguile/ beguiled", that lovely old word meaning "deceive (d)". Further alliterative effects include the repeated "w" sounds in the first and final stanzas. ... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:22:19 +0100 796098 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2009/11/reperes-pour-le-futur.html "10 ans après la création du protocole d'interopérabilité de l'OAI, 20 ans après la création du web et 40 ans après la création du net, nous sommes encore à des années lumières de pouvoir faire ce qui ne prendrait pourtant à chacun de nous que quelques clics pour le rendre possible du jour au lendemain : libérer la littérature scientifique ("refereed research") en ligne. Il est désormais trop tard pour pouvoir précocémment le faire, mais il n'est pas trop tard pour le faire ..." Stevan Harnad dans un billet du 30 Novembre 2009, intitulé "From Here to Eternity". A méditer immédiatement après la lecture du billet précédent, rédigé en Français par Harnad, intitulé "la liberté libre" et dans lequel, une énième fois, avec un acharnement sisyphéen, il assène encore et toujours le même argumentaire : "la cible principale du mouvement pour le Libre Accès est la littérature lectorisée (contrôlée par les comités de lecture): les 2,5 millions d'articles publiés chaque année dans les 25,000 revues scientifiques qui se publient sur notre planète. Pour cette littérature-là, les auteurs/chercheurs ne souhaitent que ce que leurs textes soient accessibles gratuitement en ligne à tout utilisateur pour pouvoir les rechercher, télécharger, lire, imprimer, analyser, citer --  bref, pour utiliser leurs contenus -- mais pas pour réutiliser ou republier (...)." La suite du billet est (beaucoup) plus surprenante. Elle fait état d'une (apparente) querelle entre S. Harnad, inventeur et héraut de l'Open Access et Lawrence lessig, inventeur et héraut des licences Creative Commons. Harnad indique à la suite de son billet : " (... ... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 798338 http://www.precisement.org/blog/Cataloguer-par-l-exemple-des.html Sur la liste Compubib, Annick signale une information exceptionnelle, un outil extrêmement pratique pour les professionnels du catalogage : « Sous le titre "Full ISBD Examples" [Exemples ISBD complets], l'IFLA [Fédération internationale des associations de bibliothèques] vient de publier en ligne un recueil de descriptions bibliographiques complètes conformes aux prescriptions de l'ISBD, (octobre 2009, avec une mise à jour du 19 novembre). Il s'agit d'un supplément (...) (Source: Un blog pour l’information juridique) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 796559 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/eZAjDrABdpc/ NOTE: I’m not a futurist or organisational anthropologist, but it seems that my interest in knowledge and networks has led me into thinking about such matters as fundamental as the future of organisational structure. A while ago I posted on how organisations can become more agile. People can connect horizontally…the silos blinders can be removed. What this means is talent is revealed and self-organisation (which we already do regardless) can really shine. Work groups can form that attract the right people in a decentralised way, and then disbanden. My past post I’m refering to is called, We are more than our job title describes, so let’s get social!…get into it, as this is a big aspect of the state of enterprise 2.0 that we will eventually reach. As I mentioned in a few previous posts, it’s fine that we can use bottom-up tools to connect the enterprise in a network fashion, but this has to be accepted from top-down. Jack Vinson says it pithy in a response to my post: “…business doesn’t reward collaboration. It rewards individual action.” And then Bertrand Duperrin equally said it simply and effective in another way in a tweet to me: “Tell me how you’re measured & I’ll tell you how you work” My posts in question I’m talking about are: I don’t want to share, that’s counter to meeting my objectives…and reward!! Sensemaking KM and CoPs (Just-in-time vs Just-in-case), engaging and embedded KM, and a competitive vs collaborative culture This seems to be the meme of late, as I just read Venessa Miemis say: “It’s becoming more accepted that collaboration, not competition, is a more effective avenue towards producing emergent, innovative results. ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:27:27 +0100 794341 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/z_I9WI9AZ9E/memento-project.html "The Memento project proposes new ideas related to Web Archiving, focusing on the integration of archived resources in regular Web navigation." Memento is a collaboration between:* The Prototyping Team of the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory: Luydmilla Balakireva, Robert Sanderson, Harihar Shankar, Herbert Van de Sompel.* The Computer Science Department of Old Dominion University: Scott Ainsworth, Michael Nelson. (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:42:34 +0100 793335 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2009/11/19/memento-time-travel-for-the-web/ Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila L. Balakireva, Scott Ainsworth, and Harihar Shankar have self-archived "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" in arXiv.org. Here's an excerpt: The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representations that change over time, and many of those representations are lost forever. A lucky few manage to reappear as archived resources that carry their own URIs. For example, some content management systems maintain version pages that reflect a frozen prior state of their changing resources. Archives recurrently crawl the web to obtain the actual representation of resources, and subsequently make those available via special-purpose archived resources. In both cases, the archival copies have URIs that are protocol-wise disconnected from the URI of the resource of which they represent a prior state. Indeed, the lack of temporal capabilities in the most common Web protocol, HTTP, prevents getting to an archived resource on the basis of the URI of its original. This turns accessing archived resources into a significant discovery challenge for both human and software agents, which typically involves following a multitude of links from the original to the archival resource, or of searching archives for the original URI. This paper proposes the protocol-based Memento solution to address this problem, and describes a proof-of-concept experiment that includes major servers of archival content, including Wikipedia and the Internet Archive. The Memento solution is based on existing HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add the temporal dimension. The result is a framework in which archived resources can seamlessly be reached via the URI of their original: protocol-based time travel for the Web. Read more about it at "Time-Travelling Browsers Navigate the Web's Past" and the Memento project website. ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 793776 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2009/11/19/memento-time-travel-for-the-web/ Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila L. Balakireva, Scott Ainsworth, and Harihar Shankar have self-archived "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" in arXiv.org. Here's an excerpt: The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representations that change over time, and many of those representations are lost forever. A lucky few manage to reappear as archived resources that carry their own URIs. For example, some content management systems maintain version pages that reflect a frozen prior state of their changing resources. Archives recurrently crawl the web to obtain the actual representation of resources, and subsequently make those available via special-purpose archived resources. In both cases, the archival copies have URIs that are protocol-wise disconnected from the URI of the resource of which they represent a prior state. Indeed, the lack of temporal capabilities in the most common Web protocol, HTTP, prevents getting to an archived resource on the basis of the URI of its original. This turns accessing archived resources into a significant discovery challenge for both human and software agents, which typically involves following a multitude of links from the original to the archival resource, or of searching archives for the original URI. This paper proposes the protocol-based Memento solution to address this problem, and describes a proof-of-concept experiment that includes major servers of archival content, including Wikipedia and the Internet Archive. The Memento solution is based on existing HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add the temporal dimension. The result is a framework in which archived resources can seamlessly be reached via the URI of their original: protocol-based time travel for the Web. Read more about it at "Time-Travelling Browsers Navigate the Web's Past" and the Memento project website. ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:01:26 +0100 793234 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/A6w-uNe6ciY/ Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Robert Sanderson, Lyudmila L. Balakireva, Scott Ainsworth, and Harihar Shankar have self-archived "Memento: Time Travel for the Web" in arXiv.org. Here's an excerpt: The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representations that change over time, and many of those representations are lost forever. A lucky few manage to reappear as archived resources that carry their own URIs. For example, some content management systems maintain version pages that reflect a frozen prior state of their changing resources. Archives recurrently crawl the web to obtain the actual representation of resources, and subsequently make those available via special-purpose archived resources. In both cases, the archival copies have URIs that are protocol-wise disconnected from the URI of the resource of which they represent a prior state. Indeed, the lack of temporal capabilities in the most common Web protocol, HTTP, prevents getting to an archived resource on the basis of the URI of its original. This turns accessing archived resources into a significant discovery challenge for both human and software agents, which typically involves following a multitude of links from the original to the archival resource, or of searching archives for the original URI. This paper proposes the protocol-based Memento solution to address this problem, and describes a proof-of-concept experiment that includes major servers of archival content, including Wikipedia and the Internet Archive. The Memento solution is based on existing HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add the temporal dimension. The result is a framework in which archived resources can seamlessly be reached via the URI of their original: protocol-based time travel for the Web. Read more about it at "Time-Travelling Browsers Navigate the Web's Past" and the Memento project website. ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:01:13 +0100 793449 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/zSGq9YadyjI/london-jan-morris-love-affair I know people who swear by the charms of Lagos or Grozny. For them, as me, a city is where friends are. Take note, Jan MorrisI once sat next to a woman at dinner who asked me where I lived. When I replied, London, she frowned and said, how simply ghastly for me. "It is an awful place, absolute hell. I hate going there, the people, the traffic, the tube, the dirt. You must be dying to escape."Stung by hearing my beloved home so abused I asked where she lived. Gloucestershire, she replied. "How ghastly," I said, "it is an awful place, absolute hell. I hate going there, the people, the horses, the filthy lanes, the boredom. You must be dying to escape." How extraordinarily rude, she said, and turned away for the rest of the evening.Hating cities is apparently fine, but hating the country is not permitted. Now I read that my old friend, the travel writer Jan Morris, has fallen out of love with London. She proclaimed so in last Saturday's Guardian: "When once it welcomed me like a dowager to her run-down stately home, now its greeting is more like the air-kiss of a tabloid celebrity." When Jan steps off the train at Euston, she said: "I find myself entering a different city altogether from the one that used to thrill me."I take comfort only in the knowledge that disagreeing with Jan is always exhilarating. We have disagreed everywhere, on the slopes of Snowdon, surrounded at Pen-y-Gwryd by mementos of the 1953 conquest of Everest (in which Jan took part). We have disagreed among the Italianate splendours of Portmeirion. We have disagreed on the banks of the swirling Dyfi and in Jan's stone eyrie upstream from Lloyd George's grave in Llanystumdwy. Disagreeing with her is more enjoyable than agreeing with anyone else. She has mastered the art of dissent, which is to clothe courtesy in laughter. ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:01 +0100 793166 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/yj7CYTvJ-H0/ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged-us-economy With the US government bailing out rich idiots, it's no wonder the sex-addled critic of socialism is more popular than everThere's an Ayn Rand revival in America these days. Sales of her books Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead have skyrocketed in the past year, along with the number of Rand-themed articles in mainstream publications.This is due to our government's "force the frugal to subsidise the prodigal" bailout schemes. When you face higher taxes and a larger national debt to bail out rich idiots who make more money in a day than you do all year, it's easy to think: "Know what I'd love to read right now? A thousand small-print pages ranting against looters."And thus you add Atlas and Fountainhead to your personal library. (Rand's first novel, We The Living, gets far less attention. Were it as well-known as the other two, she wouldn't have quite the callous reputation she does now.)Rand had a sharp eye for the evils of policies valuing the collective over individual rights. One of the best scenes in Atlas describes a factory that decides to operate on the communist principle "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". People are rewarded not for how well they work but how needy they claim to be, and the "abilities" and "needs" of any individual are determined by majority vote. Those deemed most able are forced to work the hardest, and you can't get anything as simple as new underwear without convincing the factory council that your old ones need to be replaced.But for all Rand's genius at illustrating problems, her solutions, like her sex scenes, would be cataclysmic in real life. No mere human could meet the standards of a Randian hero. They're motivated purely by logic and cool reason, free of the petty emotions others strive to overcome. And they take "mind over matter" to impossible extremes. ... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0100 793171 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=A_Case_in_Antiquities_for_lsquoFinders_Keepersrsquo Article in the NYT that discusses who owns antiquities. For library relevance there is a portion of the article that has a rip, mix, burn meme in it. (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:10 +0100 792647 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LawLibrarianBlog/~3/wUQnoQugPxk/this-sounds-better-than-the-wayback-machine.html Like the Wayback Machine, here's a brand new website that allows users to travel back in time. Called Memento Web, The Wired Campus blog describes it this way: A new Web site called Memento Web will allow anyone curious about... (Source: Law Librarian Blog) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 792966 http://www.acmebook.com/823 A Joy to Work With !   Dear Manny- My mother’s poetry book looks terrific! I just wanted to thank you and your crew for the incredible job they did. It looks so gorgeous and is such a nice memento for her friends and family to have to remember her by.   I appreciate your getting it turned around in such a short time so it would be available at her memorial. Everyone commented on how great it looked. I only wish my mom could have seen it – she would have been thrilled!   You and Sara were both such a pleasure to work with. I know this was a small job for Acme and appreciate all the care and attention you put in to make sure it got done well and on time.     I’m so glad to learn about the availability of on-demand printing and Acme’s scope of services and look forward down the road to getting some of my own poems printed this way.   Again, a huge heartfelt thanks for all your hard work and being such a joy to work with!   with gratitude, Meris Delli-Bovi     (Source: Acme Book News) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:03:10 +0100 794555 http://www.lisnews.org/case_antiquities_%E2%80%98finders_keepers%E2%80%99 Article in the NYT that discusses who owns antiquities. For library relevance there is a portion of the article that has a rip, mix, burn meme in it. There is also interesting discussion of the Rosetta stone. Excerpt from article: As the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dr. Cuno has his own obvious motives for acquiring foreign antiquities, and he makes no apology for wanting to display Middle Eastern statues to Midwesterners. “It is in the nature of our species to connect and exchange,” Dr. Cuno writes. “And the result is a common culture in which we all have a stake. It is not, and can never be, the property of one modern nation or another.” Full article here. Article mentions this book: Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:44:06 +0100 792999 http://lisnews.org/case_antiquities_%E2%80%98finders_keepers%E2%80%99 Article in the NYT that discusses who owns antiquities. For library relevance there is a portion of the article that has a rip, mix, burn meme in it. There is also interesting discussion of the Rosetta stone. Excerpt from article: As the director of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dr. Cuno has his own obvious motives for acquiring foreign antiquities, and he makes no apology for wanting to display Middle Eastern statues to Midwesterners. “It is in the nature of our species to connect and exchange,” Dr. Cuno writes. “And the result is a common culture in which we all have a stake. It is not, and can never be, the property of one modern nation or another.” Full article here. Article mentions this book: Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:44:06 +0100 792402 http://librarian.lishost.org/?p=2885 Social Responsibility Round Table of the American Library Association. Resolutions, 1970-2004. SRRT MEMBERS KATHARINE J. PHENIX AND KATHLEEN DE LA PEÑA MCCOOK COMPILED THIS LIST OF SRRT RESOLUTIONS IN 2006. WE KNOW IT IS NOT 100% ACCURATE, BUT IT PROVIDES A STARTING POINT. WE OBTAINED A COMPLETE SET OF THE SRRT NEWSLETTER AND DEPOSITED THIS SET at THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA. ====== 1970- 2004 ALA COUNCILOR/PRESIDENT BALLOT RESOLUTION BE IT RESOLVED That the ALA ballots for the position of Councilor and President provide a short statement of the candidates professional concerns, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That a complete report of votes cast for the candidates for these positions be listed in the ALA Bulletin, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That the actions of the Council be taken by role call vote on policy matters and the results (distributed to the members) published. ALA, 1970. Midwinter 1970 Council Meetings. ALA Social Responsibilities Newsletter, 1 (4), 4. DESEGREGATION SUPPORT RESOLUTION A Black Caucus formed during Midwinter week. At their meeting on Wednesday evening, they prepared the following resolution for presentation to an adoption by the third session of Council, January 23, 1970. ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:35:22 +0100 793578 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/17/the-internet-time-machine-from-the-momento-project/ This is a must read from start to finish. Here are a few snippets to wet you whistle. Access the Complete Article from New Scientist Bookmarking a page takes you to its current version – but earlier ones are harder to find (to see an award-winning 1990s incarnation of newscientist.com, see our gallery of web pages past, right). One option is to visit a resource like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. There, you key in the URL of the site you want and are confronted with a matrix of years and dates for old pages that have been cached. It’s a lot of hassle. But it shoudn’t be, says Herbert Van de Sompel, a computer scientist at Los Alamos. “Today we treat the web like a library in which you have to know how to go and search for things. We’ve a better way.” That “better way” is a system that gives browsers a “time-travel” mode, allowing users to find web pages from particular dates and times without having to navigate through archives. [Snip] “In addition to language and media type, we negotiate in time. So Memento asks the server not for today’s version of this page, but how it looked one year ago, for instance,” says Van de Sompel. [Snip] Jakob Voss, a developer with the Common Library Network in Göttingen, Germany, is an early Memento user – and he is already advocating use of Memento for sites with frequently updated pages like Wikipedia. “Memento is only a proof of concept but it looks very promising and could be a great enhancement to the web. There is little support in today’s browsers for digging into archives, especially those with dynamic content management systems like wikis and weblogs,” Voss says. You Can Try a Demo Here and Learn More Here Access the Complete Article from New Scientist Source: New Scientist (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:48:54 +0100 792231 http://www.outilsfroids.net/images/thumbs/Capt.png OutilsCartographieD_Information - OutilsPersonalKnowledgeManagement - OutilsMindMappingJ'attire votre attention sur Capt, de la société française Noétika. Il s'agit d'une petite extension pour Mind Manager 6 et 7 extrêmement pratique lorsque vous voulez intégrer des images, photos, schémas, etc.Elle reste en effet en haut de votre écran et vous permet d'un simple clic de délimiter la partie d'écran que vous voulez capturer avant de l'envoyer directement dans la carte déjà ouverte. Je parle de cette fonction qui qui est celle que j'utilise le plus mais Capt permet également de capturer du texte dans un document ou même du texte libre pour jeter des idées au fil de l'eau. Un menu déroulant permet de choisir la carte vers laquelle vous voulez diriger la capture ou le texte.Ainsi vous... (Source: Outils Froids) Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:34:27 +0100 791912 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/TSEZ4w7-_ss/ At the end of my last post I mentioned that KM (even Talent Management) or social computing need a top-down approach, shift, or message when it comes to collaboration, sharing, and organisational effectiveness…or better put a balanced approach. Why? Sure you will get lots of success in sense-making and sharing by facilitating the use of grassroots tools that are bottom-up just like email (but better than email). BUT, is the use of new tools enough to catapult into a new way of working…it will take a long time to hit that tipping point. Even if we do all the right things like facilitate, understand human behaviour, create and nurture conditions for participation, have an enterprise-wide concept…I don’t think it’s enough. We need a complementary top-down shift to a new culture of working, as I said in my last post, a move from a competitive to collaborative organisation. NOTE: I’m referring to within the walls of an organisation. I’m yet to think about this concept industry-wide ie. companies collaborating, rather than competing…a new type of capitalism I guess…got many links on the natural enterprise, but no time to read them What do I mean by top-down? I mean how are we measured and rewarded for what we do… If I’m rewarded just for my achieving my personal output, I don’t have an incentive to share as what I know gives me the edge, it’s not about the organisation, it’s all about me. Workers are instilled to be efficient robots, which leads to…I don’t have time to help you out, or an interest, as that is less time that I spend on achieving my objectives, and helping you out doesn’t get me a reward anyway; my objectives are important as that’s what gets me a reward. ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:26:22 +0100 790738 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002021.html We are pleased that Herbert Van de Sompel will be talking about Memento, a joint project of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Old Dominion University, at OCLC later this month. We will make a webcast available; see the details here. If you are in Central Ohio, come by .... Here is a recent paper describing the work: The Web is ephemeral. Many resources have representa- tions that change over time, and many of those represen- tations are lost forever. A lucky few manage to reappear as archived resources that carry their own URIs. For ex- ample, some content management systems maintain version pages that reflect a frozen prior state of their changing re- sources. Archives recurrently crawl the web to obtain the actual representation of resources, and subsequently make those available via special-purpose archived resources. In both cases, the archival copies have URIs that are protocol- wise disconnected from the URI of the resource of which they represent a prior state. Indeed, the lack of temporal capabilities in the most common Web protocol, HTTP, pre- vents getting to an archived resource on the basis of the URI of its original. This turns accessing archived resources into a signicant discovery challenge for both human and software agents, which typically involves following a mul- titude of links from the original to the archival resource, or of searching archives for the original URI. This paper proposes the protocol-based Memento solution to address this problem, and describes a proof-of-concept experiment that includes major servers of archival content, including Wikipedia and the Internet Archive. The Memento solution is based on existing HTTP capabilities applied in a novel way to add the temporal dimension. The result is a frame- work in which archived resources can seamlessly be reached via the URI of their original: protocol-based time travel for the Web. [Memento] (Source: Lorcan Dempsey's weblog) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:40:55 +0100 791455 http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2009-11-06.htm The public is invited to attend this free presentation in person or remotely online. (Source: OCLC Research) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:18:47 +0100 790678 http://blog.sedic.es/?p=2711 Jesús Andérez Jefe del Servicio de Documentación y Archivo ETB (EUSKAL TELEBISTA-TELEVISION VASCA) Ha tenido lugar recientemente en Pekin el congreso de la FIAT-IFTA bajo el lema “Un mundo nuevo, un nuevo pacto para los archivos”. En él han participado especialistas de todo el mundo, quienes han debatido las estrategias para hacer de los archivos audiovisuales un elemento dinamizador y que pueda generar valor añadido en los medios. Las presentaciones han girado en torno a temas de actualidad, como el impacto de la crisis económica en los archivos o la gestión correcta de los derechos de las obras audiovisuales, y tambien sobre temas de interés estos últimos años: qué nuevas exigencias plantea el archivo de contenidos nacidos digitales, experiencias en torno a los nuevos usos, mercados o plataformas de distribución para los contenidos de archivo. Por ejemplo, la experiencia francesa del INA, que ha comenzado a ofrecer contenidos online al público mediante herramientas web en un intento de mejorar la reutilización de sus fondos y su difusión en segmentos de población y contextos a los que tradicionalmente no se llegaba. Se han presentado las conclusiones del seminario de Estocolmo (mayo 2009) que estuvo dedicado específicamente a los problemas que plantea la selección de materiales digitales para el archivo. Otras presentaciones destacadas han abordado algunos aspectos técnicos de la conservación, como pueden ser los costes de los planes de digitalización de fondos históricos. En relación con la conservación, se han destacado como un nuevo problema el archivo de las versiones de alta definición (HD). ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:25:32 +0100 788701 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/YDvQXQInghc/ Oh, the irony of things… That is just probably a good title for the blog post I am just about to put together. I know, and I realise, this entry may sound a bit too strange, but as you may be able to see later on, it’s probably the best way to describe what happened last week. Yes, indeed, here I am again, putting together this article with some further insights on last week’s progress report on living "A World Without Email". Quite surprising, I tell you! I know by now you may be wondering what exactly happened. Intriguing, eh? I know. Not to worry. Done on purpose, although I can imagine how, probably, the embedded weekly progress report screen shot I will be sharing shortly may be able to clarify some of the stuff that took place and which took me by surprise a little bit as well! So I guess I better share that particular snapshot, so you get to see what I mean: Whoahhh! My goodness! How did that happen? I mean, how can it be that for the last few weeks I’ve had a steady count of incoming emails to say between 18 to 25 and, just last week, that all went away and jumped, sky high, into the total number of 35 emails in a single week! Ouch!! That hurts! Now, I do realise that most of you folks would probably think that 35 emails a week is not too bad; and I would probably agree with you on that about 21 months ago. However, today I don’t think it is that good. That’s right. After nearly 2 year’s having giving up on corporate email at work, it is interesting to see how sometimes that number of the emails received during the week comes pretty close to the number of emails I used to get right at the beginning on a daily basis. Plenty of progress, you would probably be saying, but for someone like myself who wants to receive less and less emails by the month that sounds like trouble ahead. And, believe it or not, I am the one who is creating that trouble. ... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:28:02 +0100 785897 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/lqi-BKn5h9A/ Presenter: John Law Started by doing observational research — 70+ sessions across 8 universities and 2 continents. Their observations led them to online focus groups with end-user researchers, which they followed up with conventional focus group sessions with librarians. They also used online surveys to quantify data about these groups and their behaviors, getting participants from Facebook advertisements.* Law shares snippets of a video of a student attempting to find resources on an interdisciplinary topic, starting at the library. The user quickly is frustrated by the library’s tools for indexing content sources (not content), and ends up spending a lot of time on dead-end Google searches. The difficulty is knowing where to look for content (not bibliographic data) on a library website. Users view the library’s gateway role as being in decline, no matter how much we think the library as portal/content source is increasing in value. There is a definite gap between perception and reality, aided in part by the difficulty in presenting relevant & timely content to our users in a way that they will find it (not in the way we think they should find it). Summon is intended to be a "webscale discovery" solution for libraries. Law has a snippet of video of a student using Summon, and (surprise surprise) he gets to relevant information quickly, using the tools to narrow the search results. Report: "Academic Libraries And The Struggle To Remain Relevant: Why Research Is Conducted Elsewhere" *This means that savvy users who have installed ad-blocking programs on their browsers were not involved in the survey. Presenter: Krista Godfrey First-year students have a lot of things coming at them all at once, and research is not high on their list. ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:00:14 +0100 786079 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2009/10/why-i-became-a-librarian.html There's a whole bunch of really interesting posts doing the rounds at the moment based on the 'Why I am a librarian' meme. You can see these over at TheLibraryRoutesProject wiki site, and I've enjoyed reading many of the entries. So here's my version.I was a fairly serious child - when I was six I wanted to become an archeologist, by the age of eight this morphed, don't ask me how, into becoming a journalist, and by thirteen I wanted to be a barrister. God, I must have been obnoxious! My cousin, older and apparently according to my mother, cleverer than I failed to make it, so obviously I wouldn't either. Consequently a re-think was in order. I'd always used the library from a young age, though my experiences were not always happy with it. I remember one time when I got a book out early in the day, read it and then took it back. This was in the days of the old Brown system and I got a real telling off from the librarian because she had to hunt through all of the tickets to find mine because she hadn't sorted them yet.This didn't entirely put me off though, and by the time I was sixteen I was determined to be a librarian. Not however because of the usual 'I love books' line. Oh no. Librarians I had discovered could find things. 'If you can find things that other people want, that's a fairly powerful position to be in' was my opinion (which hasn't changed either by the way) and so that was that. I did the usual student working in the college library while I did my A levels, and then took a year out (during which time I learned to touch type, which was one of the most sensible things I've ever done) before going to the Polytechnic of North London to do a degree in Librarianship. I took that course because it meant that I'd be able to stay at home - and in those days, not only did we get grants that we didn't have to pay back, we also had our travelling expenses paid!The course was dire. It was really, really bad. ... Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 785212 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/4Dw28kbw8h8/ A lot happened in publishing this week — so much that just as I wrapped my head around one thing, something new popped up to either make me re-evaluate my previous thinking…or to send me down a different rabbit hole. Let’s just put it out there: once you’ve gone subterranean, things start to make a lot of sense. Which probably accounts for my mood today. Here in the dark and dangerous world of the publishing underground, spirits are sapped and minds are bent. Sometimes you travel toward the bright light, only to find a seemingly insurmountable pile of “that’s how we’ve always done it” in your way. The intrepid, of course, find new routes and discover magical beings; they’re here, too. Follow the intrepid, I say, follow the intrepid! An Old Twist on the Price Wars Becomes New Again: Remember Crown Books? They were going to Destroy Publishing as We Know It (this is not the same thing as merely Destroying Publishing). Luckily, family tensions destroyed Crown Books first. Sometimes you catch a break. Now we have Amazon, Target, Wal-Mart, and Sears battling each other for dominance; their weapons of choice are front-list, high profile hardcover books. In any other situation, publishing would be thrilled to get so much free publicity (woe to those whose titles are not mentioned in every breathless news story!). However, this battle has bigger implications. Naturally, the industry fallback position is that these deep, deep price cuts will destroy the industry. No, but if the trend sticks, it’s going to add to the increased retailer pressure on book prices. Retailers will not subsidize the difference between wholesale and retail forever — as they’re doing here with print (and as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others have been doing with ebooks). ... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:58:50 +0100 784998 http://marincountyfreelibrary.blogspot.com/2009_10_01_marincountyfreelibrary_archive.html#437321539089400832 The Day of the Dead: a Bilingual Cultural Family Celebration at the Novato LibraryThe Day of the Dead is a traditional holiday that honors both the dead and the cycle of life. The Novato Library will be presenting two free events to celebrate the Day of the Dead:Day of the Dead Art Workshop with Rachel-Anne PalaciosCome to learn about the culture and tradition of this celebration, and to create paper flowers, calavera puppets and paper masks.When: Wednesday October 21, 4:30-6:30 pmWhere: Novato Library Children's RoomSetting of the AltarIf you wish, please bring photos and mementos for the altar of your beloved ones who have passed over. We will serve bread of the dead and chocolate.When: Thursday October 29, 4:30-6:30 pmWhere: Novato Library AtriumDía de los Muertos: Celebración Cultural Familiar Bilingüe en tu Biblioteca de NovatoTaller de manualidades de Día de los Muertos con Rachel-Anne PalaciosVenga a aprender sobre esta tradicional celebración y a crear flores de papel, marionetas con forma de calaveras, y máscaras de papel. Miércoles 21 de Octubre 4:30-6:30 pmArea infantil de la Biblioteca de NovatoColocación del altar de muertosSi así lo desea, por favor traiga fotos y ofrendas para colocar en el altar en honor a sus seres queridos. Se servirá pan de muerto y chocolate.Jueves 29 de Octubre 4:30-6:30 pmAtrio de la Biblioteca de Novato (Source: Marin County Free Library Blog) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784974 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2009/10/quand-sonne-le-glas.html Ding. Dong. Je l'ai déjà raconté dans ces colonnes, mais lors de chaque rentrée universitaire, à l'entame de l'un de mes cours consacré (notamment) à la "théorie de l'information documentaire", je fais un pari avec mes étudiants. Cette année, j'ai parié qu'avant la fin de leur première année de DUT (en Août 2010) ils pourraient acheter leurs ouvrages directement sur le site de Google, comme ils le font aujourd'hui sur Amazon. Pari gagné. Or chaque année depuis 4 ans, je gagne tous mes paris. J'avais parié qu'il  y aurait de la publicité sur Google Books ET que les ouvrages seraient téléchargeables (rappel : au départ, en 2004, Google Books qui s'appelait à l'époque Google Print jurait à qui voulait l'entendre qu'il n'y aurait jamais de publicité et que l'on ne pourrait jamais télécharger des oeuvres). Pari gagné. J'avais parié que Google réussirait à "acheter" les éditeurs en y mettant le prix pour sortir des procès sur le droit d'auteur. Pari gagné. J'avais parié que ce qui intéressait Google ce n'était pas d'être éditeur OU libraire mais les deux à la fois. Pari gagné. J'avais parié bien d'autres choses, concernant souvent les appétences culturelles de la firme de Mountain View. Je vous en épargne la liste. Pourtant bien que l'on tente souvent de m'en faire revêtir les atours, je ne suis ni une Cassandre, ni Elisabeth Teissier. S'il y a bien une stratégie qui est limpide du côté de Mountain View, c'est celle qui concerne la numérisation des livres. Le gong venant de retentir lors de la foire du livre de Francfort, on aurait mauvaise grâce à considérer cette annonce comme une surprise. Et pourtant ... Et pourtant à cette heure mes différents capteurs et relais d'informations dans les différents cénacles qui composent la chaîne du livre m'indiquent que l'on n'a toujours rien compris à l'affaire. ... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 783357 http://tecnicalia.com/2009/10/13/tec_mis-nominados-para-bitacoras-2009/ La gente de Bitácoras.com me ha animado a participar en un meme con mis elecciones para los premios Bitácoras 2009.  No soy hombre de memes pero la verdad es que este post pensaba hacerlo de todos modos así que aprovecho y le paso la pelota a Yoriento, Milleiro y La Brújula Verde. Me voy a saltar las categorías de Gastronomía, Viajes y Fotoblog porque no son temas que siga habitualmente y no he podido seguir lo suficiente los blogs nominados como para formarme una opinión decente. Mejor blog personal: Pons Asinorum El mejor, de largo. No tengo mucho más que decir sobre esta joya de los blogs españoles aparte de que me muero de ganas de restregárselo por la cara a todos los columnistas de prensa tradicional que miran por encima del hombro a las bitácoras. Mejor blog tecnológico: Carlos Leopoldo Esta me toca de cerca y la verdad es que me cuesta elegir sólo tres. Afortunadamente tengo la categoría de Software y Seguridad para cubrir huecos. Carlos Leopoldo es uno de los que he elegido por decencia. Es tremendo la cantidad de post que me ha dado para blogoff, lo cuidado y sencillo que está su diseño, lo que trabaja los post… Leyendo decenas de blogs tecnológicos lo que más valoro es la originalidad y no sé si será porque Carlos y yo no compartimos fuentes pero es un indispensable en mi GReader desde hace muchos meses. Mejor blog de software y seguidad: Kabytes Esta categoría (poniendo el énfasis en la palabra software) es intercambiable por la anterior. Kabytes, a pesar de ser un blog muy conocido creo que no tiene el reconocimiento que se merece. Muchas personas piensan que hablar de software significa dar noticias cortas, sin cuidar los textos, donde lo que importa es la inmediatez y los 50 plugins que has instalado en Wordpress. Kabytes sin embargo tiene un diseño sobrio pero efectivo y al igual que Carlos Leopoldo, cada post que publica se nota que tiene un gran trabajo detrás y que está revisado al detalle. ... Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:44:08 +0100 781891