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 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:53:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/audio/2010/dec/31/best-of-podcasts Welcome to our pick of audio highlights from 2010, presented by Pascal Wyse. Hopefully there is something for everyone here: poetry from Simon Armitage, World Cup fury from Football Weekly, music from Orbital, a man with a lampshade for a head and a guided walk along the Thames with Ian Sinclair.You can listen to the original podcasts these clips were taken from via the links below. Thanks for listening – and Happy New Year.Tech WeeklyThe Books That Made MeMedia TalkMusic WeeklyFootball WeeklyElection DailyThe Bike PodcastThe Business PodcastAudio walksHaycastScience WeeklyFilm WeeklyPascal Wyse (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:39:27 +0100 895786 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html#1196159277505788215 Yes, it's 2010: The Year of the Unfinished Blog Post. And I was all set to say fuck it once again and half-assedly dump some fragments of what could have been the last two weeks'game recaps when Sports Nation Atlanta had to go and drop this shit bomb on us this morning. Hurricane Katrina, conversely, is no laughing matter. Ask Roddy White, who found out last week that even though New Orleans has exploited every iota of their 2005 disaster to better celebrate a Super Bowl win, any mention that the "Who Dat Nation" might be a little self-righteous in their usage of Katrina as a plot device is simply off-limits.Roddy's tweet exposed a loophole that's gone previously unnoticed by most NFL fans: New Orleans is more than willing to capitalize upon Hurricane Katrina as a means of fabricating a redemption narrative for their football team. But those same opportunists squawk with incredulity when opposing fans, players and media treat that horrible disaster with the same triviality.Before we address this question of whether we have the right to tell victims of horrific tragedy the ways in which they are and are not allowed to "capitalize upon" their misfortune, let's take a minute to look at where this so-called trivialization originates.American football fans spent 40 years not paying very much attention to the way New Orleans had woven its underperforming football team into its highly ritualized civic and spiritual calendar. New Orleans has a way of elevating or infusing joy into things that other cities may find embarrassing or, worse, take for granted. People think this is a lazy or backward or half-assed place but one thing New Orleans does not do half-assed is love. And New Orleans always loved its football team. For a while last year, people outside of New Orleans were forced to pay some attention to that. And many of those people, as is often the case, just didn't get it. And that's okay if they don't get it. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895469 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/N7LwE50KGBg/double-rainbows-annoying-oranges-and.html (Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)It’s time to rewind back through the YouTube videos that people in the U.S. and around the world were watching and searching for in 2010. These lists of most-watched videos reflect the people, places and events that captured our collective attention and imagination throughout the year. During 2010, you all watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos, and uploaded more than 13 million hours of video. We met a bunch of new faces, some new words and phrases entered our shared lexicon, and we celebrated as some new YouTube partners hit the big time with millions of views. Remember these moments?It started with a crime scene and ended up on the Billboard chart: when Antoine Dodson met the Auto-tune the News guys, a viral hit was made. Columnist Dan Savage took to YouTube to respond to a spate of suicides by gay teenagers by launching the “It Gets Better” project to send messages of hope to bullied gay teens. The campaign went viral, with everyone from President Obama to Pixar employees taking part. The next Justin Bieber? That was the buzz, as this performance by 13-year-old Greyson Chance went viral and led to a record deal for this sixth grader from Edmond, Okla.He’s an orange and, yeah, he’s pretty annoying. And that’s been the key to this channel’s meteoric rise in 2010: in less than one year, more than 1 million people have signed up for a regular dose of wise-cracking citrus.Paul “Yosemite Bear” Vasquez’s emotive footage of a spectacular rainbow in Yosemite National Park caught the attention of a few pop culture sites and comedian Jimmy Kimmel, whose tweet helped make this clip and the “double rainbow” one of the most beloved memes of 2010.And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for … here are the most-watched videos of 2010, compiled based on the view counts of videos uploaded during 2010. ... Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893035 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/photography-books-of-the-year-sean-ohagan Sean O'Hagan picks the year's best, including 50 years of rock photography, the war images of Don McCullin and Larry Sultan's strange take on his adopted home stateBest music bookA Star is Born: Photography and Rock Since Elvis (Steidl £26)A provocative, and seldom seen, portrait of the young Patti Smith – taken by Lynn Goldsmith in 1976 during a protest by Iranian students against America's support of the soon-to-be-deposed Shah – is just one of many extraordinary images in A Star is Born, a chronological record of photography's reflection of, and impact upon, the culture of rock. Smith (below right), as her T-shirt shows, is also protesting – against the arrest of Keith Richards on drug charges in Canada."There is something about the static image that imprints on the mass psyche," notes Mick Rock, whose defining images of David Bowie at his most androgynous are included here. There are several rare photographs of rock greats but also images from fan magazines, seminal periodicals and classic album sleeves. Photographers include Dezo Hoffman and Astrid Kirchner (each of whom styled the Beatles in their own image – wacky and moody respectively), Gered Mankowitz (who famously photographed the Stones stoned on Primrose Hill), Stephen Shore (who shot the Velvet Underground at Warhol's Factory in the late 1960s), and Charles Peterson (who chronicled the nascent grunge scene in Seattle).A series of illuminating essays also traces the trajectory of rock photography from its glossy showbiz roots to the rise of lo-fi digital photographs taken by amateurs and posted on the internet.Best genre bookStreet Photography Now by Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren (Thames & Hudson £29.95)Street photography made the news earlier in the year when several practitioners were stopped, questioned and, in some cases, held under the Terrorism Act. ... Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:06:02 +0100 892120 http://www.precisement.org/blog/Legifrance-ne-sait-plus-chercher.html Je cherche un arrêt de la chambre sociale de la Cour de cassation en date du 15 décembre 1998. Il a été publié au Bulletin des arrêts des chambres civiles (dit "Bull. civ."), partie V, n° 551. Voici la copie image du Bulletin papier : Pourtant, il est extrêmement difficile de trouver sur Legifrance cet arrêt par ses références de publication au Bull. civ. Le premier quasi-bug réside — depuis l'origine — dans le fait qu'il faut préciser la date complète de (...) (Source: Un blog pour l’information juridique) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893071 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html#2989644077613792385 Because I want to get to the football as soon as possible.Getting back to the "books-I'm-reading" meme I started yesterday, one criticism I have of Tom Bower's Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century is that it reads like an extended Fortune profile on the careers of major oil company CEOs. While Bower doesn't flatter his subjects or hide uncomfortable facts, the reader still gets the impression that we're almost supposed to be rooting for these executives as they struggle to buy off the appropriate Russian oligarch or downplay the appropriate spill or execute the appropriate Nigerian rebels and so forth. In any event, it's worth slogging through.Also worth a look, WikiLeaks cables: Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians' every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.The company's top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew "everything that was being done in those ministries". She boasted that the Nigerian government had "forgotten" about the extent of Shell's infiltration and was unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations.How many Gulf shrimp must you eat in one sitting to exceed the threshold by which FDA has declared them safe? Four Also if you're a child eating shrimp, you'd better be a fat child. Critics of the FDA program have also questioned using 176 pounds as the average weight of consumers in establishing the levels of concern for PAHs. Sixty percent of respondents to the NRDC survey said they weighed less than 176 pounds."That weight obviously also doesn't protect children," said Solomon. "Once again, we're not telling people not to eat Gulf seafood. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892014 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/8oA0m3c27hY/ The Memento Project has won the Digital Preservation Award 2010. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Institute for Conservation and the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) are delighted to announce that the Memento Project led by Herbert Van De Sompel and colleagues of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Michael Nelson and colleagues of Old Dominion University, USA, has won the Digital Preservation Award 2010. . . . "The ability to change and update pages is one of the web’s greatest advantages but it introduces a sort of structured instability which makes it hard to depend on web pages in the long term. For more than a decade services like the UK Web Archive and the Internet Archive have provided a stable but partial memory of a fragment of the web—but users had no way of linking between current content and earlier versions held by web archives." "The Memento project resolves this by letting users set a time preference in their browser. The underlying technology then deploys basic, under-used features of the HTTP protocol to direct users to whichever archived copy of a website most closely matches their request." [Richard Ovenden, Chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition] | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 04:05:22 +0100 891240 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/05/mark-kermode-dvd-inception-eclipse Inception; The Twilight Saga: Eclipse; Shrek Forever After; White Material; Erasing DavidIs Christopher Nolan the saviour of spectacularly intelligent cinema? On the evidence of his most recent work, the answer is an unequivocal "yes". Having used a bestselling comic-book franchise to create a pair of movies (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight) that are perhaps best described as art-house flicks posing as blockbuster fare, Nolan cashed in his hard-earned artistic and financial freedom with Inception (2010, Warner, 12), the $160m auteur vehicle that proves really expensive movies don't have to be stupid to be successful.Playing with riffs previously explored in such diverse (and, to some eyes, downmarket) screen thrillers as Total Recall, Dreamscape and Nightmare on Elm Street sequel Dream Warriors, Inception casts its characters' psyches as the scene of the crime, setting a team of industrial espionage agents loose within the subconscious of their unknowing sting. Leonardo DiCaprio is terrific as the team leader within the murky mansions of whose mind lurks a guilty vision of a femme fatale, while Ellen Page continues to impress as the diminutive architect of his money-making dreams.Treating his audience with the same respect he displayed in Memento and The Prestige, Nolan demands and expects that everyone keeps up as the narrative descends ever further into the windmills of its writer/director's mind. Nor does he skimp on the inventive action sequences, mounting snowbound setpieces that owe a weighty debt to James Bond, casting his own film as something akin to On Her Majesty's Psychiatric Service. ... Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:05:09 +0100 890361 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/01/presentations-from-the-2010-digital-library-federation-fall-forum/ Presentations from the 2010 Digital Library Federation Fall Forum are now available. Here's the major presentations: Collections in the Age of E-Research; Realizing Potential through Curation and Aggregation—Carole Palmer Search Engine Optimization for Digital Collections—Kenning Arlitsch,Patrick O'Brien,Sandra McIntyre Breaking Open the Silos: Building a Collaborative ILS Middleware Platform—Emily Lynema and Roy Tennant Authority and Vocabulary Data, RDF, Linked Data—John Mark Ockerbloom Curation Micro-Services—Stephen Abrams, Patricia Hswe, Delphine Khanna, Katherine Kott Digital Library as Partner in Transformative Scholarship—Stephen Davison, Todd Grappone, Elizabeth McAulay, Jennifer Weintraub Hydra: A Technical and Community Framework for Customized, Shared Repository Applications—Tom Cramer, Matt Zumwalt, Richard Green, Robin Ruggaber JHOVE2 Next-Generation Characterization—Stephen Abrams, Hannah Frost, Sheila Morrissey Key Performance Indicators: Adapting an Accountability Tool for Digital Libraries—Leslie Wolf and Lena Zentall Kuali OLE: Update from Our First Quarter Startup—Kristin Antelman and Michael Winkler Meeting the Mission: Preserving and Providing Access to Electronic Federal Government Publications (FDsys)—Lisa R. ... Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890073 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/9Un-lvIkvVg/ Presentations from the 2010 Digital Library Federation Fall Forum are now available. Here's the major presentations: Collections in the Age of E-Research; Realizing Potential through Curation and Aggregation—Carole Palmer Search Engine Optimization for Digital Collections—Kenning Arlitsch,Patrick O'Brien,Sandra McIntyre Breaking Open the Silos: Building a Collaborative ILS Middleware Platform—Emily Lynema and Roy Tennant Authority and Vocabulary Data, RDF, Linked Data—John Mark Ockerbloom Curation Micro-Services—Stephen Abrams, Patricia Hswe, Delphine Khanna, Katherine Kott Digital Library as Partner in Transformative Scholarship—Stephen Davison, Todd Grappone, Elizabeth McAulay, Jennifer Weintraub Hydra: A Technical and Community Framework for Customized, Shared Repository Applications—Tom Cramer, Matt Zumwalt, Richard Green, Robin Ruggaber JHOVE2 Next-Generation Characterization—Stephen Abrams, Hannah Frost, Sheila Morrissey Key Performance Indicators: Adapting an Accountability Tool for Digital Libraries—Leslie Wolf and Lena Zentall Kuali OLE: Update from Our First Quarter Startup—Kristin Antelman and Michael Winkler Meeting the Mission: Preserving and Providing Access to Electronic Federal Government Publications (FDsys)—Lisa R. ... Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:01:57 +0100 889840 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/6yO9hSFKKpE/updated-bbc-meme.html So, the BBC 100 book meme is going around again, so I thought I'd do an update of my previous post. My list is unchanged with the exception of The Count of Monte Cristo, which brings my total to 46. However, I have been trying to find the source of this, which is where in the web does it say that BBC things most people will have only read 6 of these books? The only thing I find is the BBC's list of 100 books from their Big Read project in 2004, which really seems to be a list of the 100 most popular books. It's slightly different from this list, and there's nothing that makes it a competition in how many books you've read. For fun, here's how I do with the original BBC Big Read List: 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien - yes 2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen - yes 3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman - yes 4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - yes 5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling - yes 6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee - yes 7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne - yes 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell - yes 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis - yes 10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë - yes 11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller - no 12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë - yes 13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks - no 14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier - no 15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger - no 16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame - yes 17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens - yes 18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott - yes 19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres - no 20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy - no 21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell - no 22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling - yes 23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling - yes 24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling - yes 25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien - yes 26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy - yes 27. Middlemarch, George Eliot - no 28. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889870 http://textundblog.de/?p=3872 Wer wie B’90/Die Grünen in NRW so was schreibt: .bbpBox{background:url(http://a1.twimg.com/profile_background_images/3199934/gruenenrw.jpg) #DEF3CE;padding:20px;} Wir sind weiterhin gegen den #JMStV, die Fraktion hat sich aufgrund parlamentarischer Zwänge anders entschlossen.Mon Nov 29 17:59:04 via TweetDeckB’90/Die Grünen NRWgruenenrw …fängt sich so was ein: http://parlamentarische-zwaenge.de/ Schönes Meme über einen traurigen Verfall der politischen Kultur. Update zum Hintergrund: Hinter dem Hashtag #JMStV verbirgt sich der Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag, siehe Artikel der Ruhrbarone: JMStV: Rot-Grünes Schaulaufen in NRW beendet. © Markus Trapp auf Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | 3 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:27:12 +0100 889226 http://lisnews.org/ten_things_you_won%E2%80%99t_find_your_lis_class_syllabus I generally try to avoid posts comprised of a list but every now and again I get inspiration to put one together. I give credit to Jill Hurst-Wahl for providing a catalyst with her blog post “What I want LIS students to know”. In doing my own reflection of the last couple of years, I’d like to offer my own advice on this avenue. So, without further ado… 1) Don’t buy into the “Old vs. New” librarian generation meme. At its most basic form, it is the idea that young librarians are just wishing for older professionals to die or retire to make room for them in the job market. In its advanced concept, it is the notion that older professionals are resistant to change and are actively engaged in the prevention of new ideas from being heard, implemented, or otherwise considered. This is bullshit. I wouldn’t rule out that the “get out” idea hasn’t passed through the mind of a new librarian. It’s a normal upward pressure felt when new members are trying to make room in a field that is crowded. Nor would is it completely unlikely that an older professional squashed, outmaneuvered, or otherwise dismissed an idea from a young or new librarian simply because they are set in their ways. But to me the embracing of the meme means two things: first, that older professionals are an obstacle to the development of younger librarians; second, that the older generation is incapable of handling change. That, simply put, is asinine shortsightedness. Without the older generation of librarians, there are no mentors, no guides, and no retained professional intelligence that can be passed onto the next generation (and likewise when the current young group becomes the older hands). Nevermind the notion that the older librarians cannot handle or manage change; it’s a rehashing of the saying that “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. There is no age limit on being a progressive librarian. ... Sat, 27 Nov 2010 07:13:07 +0100 888783 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/11/marketing-libraries-outside-echo_8589.html So. How was the evening? Well, pretty damn good. I came away from the event feeling totally revitalised and feeling pretty glad what I do. Meeting people like Gary Green, Phil Bradley, Laura, Jo bo Anderson and Bethan Ruddock actually did make feel embarrassed at how little I have done in comparison. It might just push me to do more.BUT. In response to Ned and Laura, I do say this. Both seemed to be critical of the echo chamber. The echo chamber has its problems. Agreed. But without that echo chamber how would those two groups from the evening of come together. Also echo chambers can act as a meme to users (which I think is a good thing?)Finally, I should point out Laura has put up a post on the event here. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889535 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/nov/22/ministry-of-stories-literacy-writing One of the first volunteers to work with children at Nick Hornby's new writing centre was Frances BoothFreshly sharpened pencils sit neatly on a table that still smells of wood. Five never-sat-on bright red chairs are tucked underneath. Paper is put out. The books on the shelf are straightened. We wait. There is a knock at the door. Into the writing centre tumble a class of children, full of excitement, and so they should be.Jubilee primary school is the first to visit this most unusual of venues – a monster suppplies shop doubling as a writing space, which was opened on Friday by author Nick Hornby. The centre's director, Lucy Macnab, explains to the children that there is a secret door they must open to enter. "What's the password?" she asks. "Monsters!!!" they yell.The secret door swings open, and the children run noisily into the room, careering towards a red mat where they shuffle into place cross-legged. There's no time to waste, they are told; 30 stories are needed by lunchtime. Are they up to the task? "Yes!!!".This is the moment the other volunteers and I have been waiting for. To see their reaction. The Ministry of Stories is finally open for business, after months of planning and painting, and the preparation of monster products. The pioneering literacy project is inspired by the success of novelist Dave Eggers's innovative 826 writing programme in the US. It is an oasis away from the classroom and curriculum targets where there is space and time to write."There is a definite need to improve literacy and writing skills for young people in the UK," says Macnab, who, along with Ben Payne, founded and directs the centre.As this year's Sats results show, there is much room for improvement with writing in schools, especially among boys. While almost 80% of girls achieved level 4 in writing in this year's English tests at key stage 2, only 64% of boys did. ... Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:30:01 +0100 887728 http://snailx.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/an-older-meme-of-books-gone-by/ This BBC meme is doing the rounds once more and I think, and hope, that it’s one of the memes that I meant to jump on the bandwagon for…and didn’t. For if I did, this attempt may be rather embarrassing. Or not. The basic idea is to specify which of the 100 you’ve read, with the BBC reckoning that most folk won’t have read more than 6 – with that being said, it’s more of a populist, over a classicist, sort of list, and with an entry or two seemingly listed more than a once. A list that lacks rigour but remains a curious thing. The rules, as per others, “Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety. Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt. ... Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:59:52 +0100 888772 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w46/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads by E-mail!Delivered by FeedBurner Another slow Thursday Threads week due to higher priority work duties taking precedent over scanning for trends. This week has a look at the explosion of video content uploaded to YouTube (which dovetails nicely with the Thursday Threads report two weeks ago about the record amount of internet traffic attributed to Google’s services), why the distinction between ‘digital natives’ and ‘digital immigrants’ should be dropped, how telecomm companies want a piece of the credit card business, and the movement of Momento to an Internet Draft. If you find these interesting and useful, you might want to add the Thursday Threads RSS Feed to your feed reader or subscribe to e-mail delivery using the form to the right. If you would like a more raw and immediate version of these types of stories, watch my FriendFeed stream (or subscribe to its feed in your feed reader). Comments and tips, as always, are welcome.Hours of Video Uploaded to YouTube per Minute Over 35 Hours of Video Uploaded Every Minute to YouTubeRemember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you’ve increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week. Another way to think about it is: if three of the major US networks were broadcasting 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year for the last 60 years, they still wouldn’t have broadcast as much content as is uploaded to YouTube every 30 days. ... Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:11:05 +0100 888100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/18/prince-william-kate-middleton-morton Biographer who wrote explosive book about royal marriage Diana: Her True Story plans another about princess's sonBiographer Andrew Morton, who with Princess Diana's covert assistance revealed the inside story of her marriage in the explosive book Diana: Her True Story in 1992, is to turn his attention to her son Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton.Morton is "already at work" on the book with a team of researchers, according to a spokesperson for his publisher Michael O'Mara Books. Michael O'Mara himself, who heads up the company, said Morton would "of course" be talking to the couple's friends, and addressing issues such as William and Kate's previous relationships.William and Kate is set for publication within days of the couple's wedding next year and is described as "both a celebration and a memento" of the event, incorporating photographs of the couple's big day. But unlike his mother, William may not welcome the attention of Morton, a former tabloid journalist whose gossipy studies have delved into the personal lives of celebrity subjects including Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Monica Lewinsky and David and Victoria Beckham.O'Mara said the book would be not just a picture book, but a full-length biography, and would take "a rounded, balance view" of its subjects, adding that it was "certainly not the idea to dig up dirty gossip". Morton has been "covering William's life since the day he was born", he said.Morton said the news of the royal wedding "has certainly brought a bit of glamour and excitement to the country, and, indeed, the whole world", saying that working on the book was "a hugely exciting prospect".Diana: Her True Story was originally published in 1992, and proved to be dynamite, revealing the unhappiness of the princess's marriage, and Prince Charles's long-standing attachment to Camilla Parker-Bowles. ... Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:28:56 +0100 886873 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w45/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads by E-mail!Delivered by FeedBurner It has been a long week, so for many of you this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads will actually be read on Friday. The spirit was willing, the topics were certainly out there in the past seven days, but the necessary distractions were numerous. Please enjoy this edition whenever you read it. As always, there is lots more on my FriendFeed aggregation page.Google Refine 2.0, a power tool for data wranglersGoogle Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.Google’s Open Source blog has this announcement of a major new release of their “Refine” software package. It is software that runs on your Windows, Mac, or UNIX machine and you access it with your web browser. If your first inclination for cleaning up data sets is to drag out Excel or write a script using regular expressions, check out the three demonstration videos and see if Refine might get you to your end result faster.Why Do eBooks Cost So Much? (A Publisher’s Perspective)So far in our experience at Thomas Nelson, the elimination of manufacturing and distribution costs are being offset by retail price reductions and the three additional costs I have outlined. The good news is that we are making about the same margins, regardless of whether we sell the book in physical form or digital. As a result, I don’t expect eBook retail prices to come down any more. If they do, then publishers will have to figure out how to make it work. But for right now, I think the pricing is fair, based on the associated costs. ... Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:20:20 +0100 886456 http://epist.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/serendipities-2010-november/ I find it helpful when other bloggers write a “things I’ve been reading” post — these summaries often put other posts from the same blog in context, or serve as timely little bibliographies of a meme flying across the web. One of my favorite side effects of reading many different things in a relatively short amount of time is the serendipity of themes running across all the readings. I hope I can get organized enough to start making a habit of collecting these little patterns and connections and summarizing them every couple weeks here on my blog. First, I have to give a shout-out here to the Sioux City Pubic Library.  Although the website is abominable to use, their service is exceptional.  I requested a couple brand new books, thinking I might get an interlibrary loan if I was lucky, but instead they bought the books for the library and had them ready for me in less than 2 weeks from my original request.  I was mighty impressed. So, this week’s readings.  The book I am reading right now – only about fifty pages into it, in fact – seems to be magically pulling together pieces from other texts and quotes I’ve been exposed to recently.  The book is Our Tragic Universe by Scarlett Thomas. I haven’t read anything else by this author.  I heard about this book in particular from Amazon’s Best Books of September 2010 newsletter, which made the book sound completely insane.  This appealed to me. Page 19 –  seemed to directly refer to the young adult book I breezed through just a couple days ago - Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony.  From my GoodReads review: “I loved this book for setting the scene of a post-oil-collapse America. ... Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:52:42 +0100 884748 http://www.lisnews.org/alternative_advocacy_ideas_library_funding_skeptics Last week, I found an article in the New York Times entitled “In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy” that got me thinking in regards to library advocacy. Specifically, this passage: Over dinner, Wes Jackson, the president of the Land Institute, which promotes environmentally sustainable agriculture, complained to Ms. Jackson, his daughter-in-law, that even though many local farmers would suffer from climate change, few believed that it was happening or were willing to take steps to avoid it. Why did the conversation have to be about climate change? Ms. Jackson countered. If the goal was to persuade people to reduce their use of fossil fuels, why not identify issues that motivated them instead of getting stuck on something that did not? (Emphasis mine.) There are some very familiar refrains that library advocacy invokes in a public awareness campaign in the last year: books and reading, computer access, education programming, assistance for the unemployed and underemployed, and lending aid in the time of the recession. But, as I would commonly see in comments on library funding news stories, what librarians find as a compelling reason does not resonate with everyone. Consider some of these comments left on various library budget stories. If the "public" supports libraries, the "public" can pay for them with their own "private" dollars. I AM the public, and I do NOT support the libraries, and I do NOT want my income confiscated to pay for them. They are completely anachronistic and need to be privatized. If they can stand on their own they will. If they cannot, they should not. Think of it: [Every] town spending millions of dollars on buildings, computers, and infrastructure, and then staffing them, and then continuously buying books, DVDs, and CD's so that one group of citizens can have free entertainment. OUTRAGEOUS. We have to stop worshipping the needy. ... Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:25:08 +0100 885600 http://lisnews.org/alternative_advocacy_ideas_library_funding_skeptics Last week, I found an article in the New York Times entitled “In Kansas, Climate Skeptics Embrace Cleaner Energy” that got me thinking in regards to library advocacy. Specifically, this passage: Over dinner, Wes Jackson, the president of the Land Institute, which promotes environmentally sustainable agriculture, complained to Ms. Jackson, his daughter-in-law, that even though many local farmers would suffer from climate change, few believed that it was happening or were willing to take steps to avoid it. Why did the conversation have to be about climate change? Ms. Jackson countered. If the goal was to persuade people to reduce their use of fossil fuels, why not identify issues that motivated them instead of getting stuck on something that did not? (Emphasis mine.) There are some very familiar refrains that library advocacy invokes in a public awareness campaign in the last year: books and reading, computer access, education programming, assistance for the unemployed and underemployed, and lending aid in the time of the recession. But, as I would commonly see in comments on library funding news stories, what librarians find as a compelling reason does not resonate with everyone. Consider some of these comments left on various library budget stories. If the "public" supports libraries, the "public" can pay for them with their own "private" dollars. I AM the public, and I do NOT support the libraries, and I do NOT want my income confiscated to pay for them. They are completely anachronistic and need to be privatized. If they can stand on their own they will. If they cannot, they should not. Think of it: [Every] town spending millions of dollars on buildings, computers, and infrastructure, and then staffing them, and then continuously buying books, DVDs, and CD's so that one group of citizens can have free entertainment. OUTRAGEOUS. We have to stop worshipping the needy. ... Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:25:08 +0100 884347 http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/cooks-source-magazine-commits-a-copywrong/ A lot of people completely misunderstand the nature of copyright and the Internet. It’s a common misconception that anything posted to the Internet is free for the taking. It’s even been used as the “innocent infringement” defense in peer-to-peer piracy lawsuits. But it’s less common to find a publishing-industry professional—in this case, the editor of a regional food magazine—who holds that opinion. But that’s exactly what happened to writer Monica Gaudio, who was startled to discover that Cooks Source magazine had republished one of her old essays, entirely without permission. Gaudio wrote to the editor, complaining about the re-use of her copyrighted article and requesting an apology and a donation amounting to $130, 10 cents per word in the article, be given to the Columbia School of Journalism. What she got back was a snooty response that Gaudio should be thankful they “improved” the article by editing it and included it with proper attribution. But honestly Monica, the web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy we just didn’t "lift" your whole article and put someone else’s name on it! It happens a lot, clearly more than you are aware of, especially on college campuses, and the workplace. If you took offence and are unhappy, I am sorry, but you as a professional should know that the article we used written by you was in very bad need of editing, and is much better now than was originally. Now it will work well for your portfolio. For that reason, I have a bit of a difficult time with your requests for monetary gain, albeit for such a fine (and very wealthy!) institution. We put some time into rewrites, you should compensate me! I never charge young writers for advice or rewriting poorly written pieces, and have many who write for me… ALWAYS for free! Since Gaudio posted about this to her LiveJournal, the news has spread faster than an Internet meme. ... Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:28:20 +0100 883990 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/ePfznY1kwZQ/evan_williams_at_web_2_whats_in_a_platform_.php I met with Ev at Twitter headquarters yesterday, a prelude to our conversation in less than two weeks time at Web 2 (I also spoke with him last year). As usual he was in a thoughtful mood, though an unexpected visit from Biz added some levity to the proceedings. Williams will be the final speaker at Web 2 this year, a program that begins with Eric Schmidt, continues with Robin Li, Ari Emmanuel, Shantanu Narayen, Jim Balsille, Mark Zuckerberg, Carol Bartz, and so many more. So by the time we get to Ev's session, something of a grand narrative should have unfolded, if I've done my job right. And it feels right to me to conclude with Twitter, because it is at once the growth story of the year, as well as the enigma - what, exactly, *is* Twitter, now that the service is pushing 200 million users and on the verge of a truly scaleable revenue model? I found Ev's thoughts refreshing. He recently handed the CEO title over to Dick Costolo (see my interview of him here), and is focusing on product. As we spoke, however, it strikes me that "product' is a bit too pedestrian a term for the issues and opportunities that Ev is tackling. They have a tiger by the tail. But what, exactly, is the nature of this tiger? Twitter is a service, most would say, one that, by its own definition, is "the best way to discover what’s new in your world." But it's also a network, one with important social overtones - Twitter has created a public attention and interest graph. And it's a platform, on which many developers have created applications and services. And of course it's an emerging standard, of sorts, not unlike email - a set of protocols for short messaging that has become a de facto standard across the web (including mobile, of course). And related: Twitter is beginning to challenge search in terms of driving referral traffic around the web. ... Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 883958 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/nvYFL7gbhUw/ceci-nest-pas-un-telephone.html Fascinerende luitjes, die tijdreizigers, zeker als ze opduiken in oude films. Check de video en lees vervolgens hoe het raadsel ontrafeld werd. Is het geen dijenkletser? Ceci n'est pas un téléphone. @ Afbeelding (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:24:00 +0100 882663 http://cmrlslibrarynews.blogspot.com/2010/10/scott-county-sports-stars-to-visit.html Scott County Sports Stars from the NFL and NBA, and others, will be at the Forest Public Library on Wednesday, October 27, from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m. The Forest Public Library, having just moved into a new building in August is welcoming these Stars home for a visit to see the new Library! Scott County Sports Stars scheduled to be in attendance are Marlo Perry, formerly of the Buffalo Bills; Todd Pinkston, formerly of the Philadelphia Eagles; Deuce McAllister, formerly of the New Orleans Saints; Rashard Anderson, formerly of the Carolina Panthers; and Willie Richardson, also a Mississippian, formerly of the Baltimore Colts. The group will be bringing pictures, pencils, and balls to give away. They will be autographing these items or personal sports mementos for the public. All sports fans and Scott Countians will enjoy this afternoon of hometown appreciation. For more information, call the Forest Public Library at 601-469-1481. (Source: CMRLS News) Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 880507 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002147.html Andy Powell has a nice post on general trends in educational use of networking. The context is a reflection on the future of federated access management but the points he makes are more generally interesting. He talks about the economic situation, outsourcing to the cloud and shared services, the varieties of openness, changing student expectations, the growth of mobile, the changing nature of the personal-institutional relationship, the changing nature of the publisher-consumer relationship, and issues of usability. As usual the entry is well worth reading. One thing in particular has stuck with me. He talks about the 'personal learning environment' (PLE), a phrase that emerged some years ago to refer to the bricolage of generally available services from which students and others might construct their learning experiences. It is often used in explicit contrast to the prefabricated workflow environments offered in the virtual learning environment (VLE). (The VLE is a UK term for the course or learning management system). Andy has a PLE trend ... Similarly, the emerging personal learning environment (PLE) meme (a favorite of educational conferences currently), where lecturers and students work around their institutional VLE by choosing to use a mix of external social web services (Flickr, Blogger, Twitter, etc.) again encourages the use of external services that are not impacted by our choices around the identity and access management infrastructure and over which we have little or no control. I was somewhat sceptical about the reality of the PLE idea until recently. My son started at the City of Bath College - his letter of introduction suggested that he created himself a Google Docs account so that he could do his work there and submit it using email or Facebook. I doubt this is college policy but it was a genuine example of the PLE in practice so perhaps my scepticism is misplaced. ... Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:54:18 +0100 880961 http://biblioragazzi.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/la-storia-dellebook-per-immagini-1/ Ok ok stiamo diventando un blog sull’ebook lo sappiamo Una carrellata per immagini (con molti buchi di cui potete dare colpa solo a noi perchè nel libro la storia è molto dettagliata)  tratta al solito dal libro di Roncaglia e dai materiali di ebooklearn sugli antenati di Ipad, Kindle etc… Iniziamo con il Memex ve [...] (Source: biblioragazzi) Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:30:51 +0100 879609 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/innovation-attention/ For many  campuses [and schools], the question is which learning technologies to support locally to support deeper student engagement with learning. The information in the Horizon Report, published annually by the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) and the New Media Consortium (NMC), can help.2 The report identifies and describes the key trends and critical challenges associated with those emerging technologies that are likely to have a significant impact on teaching, learning, creative inquiry, and student engagement in higher education over the next five years. It categorizes six areas of emerging technologies within three adoption horizons: a year or less, two to three years, and four to five years. A quick review of the report and its vast collection of examples and practices can serve as the preliminary research needed for an institution to proceed tactically. This article from Educause Review addresses three technologies from the 2010 Horizon Report: electronic books, mobile computing, and open content. Both mobile computing and open content are within the one-year-or-less time-to-adoption; electronic books are in the two-to-three-years adoption horizon. Read the full article ~  Deploying Innovation Locally. Other articles in the  current issue Attention, Engagement, and the Next Generation — Volume 45, Number 5, September/October 2010 – are also worth reading. Howard Rheingold’s article has some important points for us all to consider in  Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies. Always enjoy reading Howard’s thoughts! If we want to discover how we can engage students as well as ourselves in the 21st century, we must move beyond skills and technologies. We must explore also the interconnected social media literacies of attention, participation, cooperation, network awareness, and critical consumption. ... Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:36:29 +0100 877990 http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/oct/07/louis-marks-obituary Writer and producer behind a string of television classicsLouis Marks, who has died aged 82, was a writer for some of British television's most popular series and the producer of acclaimed single plays and a six-part adaptation in 1994 of George Eliot's Middlemarch. Marks also scripted four Doctor Who adventures, including The Day of the Daleks (1972), with Jon Pertwee as the Doctor, which introduced the Ogrons as the footsoldiers of the daleks. A scholar of the Italian Renaissance, he transported the fourth incarnation of the Time Lord, played by Tom Baker, to 15th-century Italy for the 1976 adventure The Masque of Mandragora. His script drew on influences such as a Machiavellian comedy, a book-burning priest and the musical surnames Rossini and Scarlatti.Marks was born in Golders Green, north London, the son of a Jewish jeweller. After attending Christ's college, East Finchley, he read history at Balliol College, Oxford. He then studied Italian Renaissance history in Florence. This led him into writing and academia. He contributed articles to journals, became head of history at a boarding school and, in 1955, founded the monthly magazine Books and Bookmen, of which he was editor.Marks entered television as a scriptwriter on The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Richard Greene, an early ITV success after the channel's launch in 1955. He wrote four episodes (1958-59) of the series, whose executive producer, Hannah Weinstein, had fled Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witchhunts in her native US. He also wrote episodes of Weinstein's subsequent action-adventure series, The Four Just Men (1960) and Danger Man (1964) before graduating to script editor (1965-66) in the later days of the long-running detective series No Hiding Place.In 1967 Marks created the ITV drama Market in Honey Lane. Made at Elstree Studios, two decades before EastEnders was launched there, it attracted more than 20 million viewers. ... Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:24:00 +0100 877325 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61089 Here's an Announcement From the LC National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program: For those who use the Mozilla Firefox browser, you now have the option to time travel through the web. MementoFox is a free extension that users can add-on to their browsers. The extension implements the Memento protocol, which the Los Alamos National Laboratory and [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:11:46 +0100 877080 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/06/nicholas-royle-top-10-writers-telephone From an essential plot device for Chandler to the voice of God in Muriel Spark, the author explains how the telephone has wormed its way into literature, and why the novel is itself a kind of phonecallNicholas Royle was born in London in 1957. His first novel, Quilt, a study of grief in which the news of a father's death is delivered suddenly and brutally by telephone, was published in August."I've chosen 10 writers on the telephone, rather than 10 novels, stories or poems, because in a sense everything these authors have written is 'on topic'. Their writings help us see in different and remarkable ways the extent to which literature and telephones are in cahoots. When the phone starts ringing in a novel or short story, the air is charged with magic and coincidence, superstition and death. The word telephone is literally 'voice at a distance'. We can think of the literary work as a telephone call (the author or narrator addressing us), but also as a kind of telephone network (both in the form of dialogue and in the narrator 'bugging' different characters, recording what they say or think)."Buy Quilt at the Guardian bookshop1. Mark Twain (1835-1910)Twain may well have been the first writer to name a character after a telephone operator. "Hello-Central" appears in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). But his funniest and most prescient work on the subject is "Mental Telegraphy" (1891), which argues that "the telegraph and telephone are going to become too slow and wordy for our needs" and proposes the invention of the phrenophone (or mind-phone) as a way of understanding the wild and bizarre nature of writing, coincidence and inspiration.2. Marcel Proust (1871-1922)Proust only comes to the telephone several years into In Search of Lost Time. ... Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:25:37 +0100 876834 http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/10/infamous-first-line-shuffle-meme.html It's Friday, and the two readers who stop by know that it is often quiz/meme day here. Anyhow, I have not done one of these things in a while, so here it goes. Happy Friday to everybody out there.As seen in Liz's Tavern, the instructions:Step 1: Put your MP3 or other music player on random. Step 2: Post the first line (or two) from the first 25 songs that play. Step 3: Let everyone guess what artist and song the lines come from. Step 4: Bold when someone gets them right. Of course, you're not supposed to search anything but your memory to find the songs based on the lyrics I post.The songs then:Song 1: Never win first place, I don't support the team.Song 2: Broken,/Yeah, you've been living on the edge of a broken dream.Song 3: Step right up and don't be shy.Song 4: I don't look good in no Armani Suits.Song 5: Well you can just believe.Song 6: Haven't we met?Song 7: It's funny how I find myself in love with you.Song 8: Lights go out, and I can't be saved.Song 9: Rat-tailed Jimmy is a second hand hood.Song 10: Summer. . .it turns me upside down.Song 11: When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone.Song 12: I was born an original sinner.Song 13: How can you see into my eyes like open doors.Song 14: I had to escape.Song 15: If you need a little lovin'.Song 16: I hold on so nervously.Song 17: Tell me doctor, where are we going this time.Song 18: My baby don't mess around.Song 19: Call you up in the middle of the night.Song 20: I am the Candyman - Coming from Bountyland.Song 21: On the first part of the journey.Song 22: Please allow me to introduce myself.Song 23: You could never know what it's like.Song 24: Hey driver/where're we going? I swear my nerves are showing.Song 25: A nice breeze blows in. (Source: The Itinerant Librarian) Fri, 01 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 875694 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/ZQYtN_BtPLg/9Lw47SGsqUc October 1st is Follow A Library Day on Twitter! It’s an easy enough thing to participate in. The Follow a Library website suggests this: “Participating is very simple: tweet on October 1st what your favorite twittering library (or libraries) is (or are). Use in your tweet the hashtag (or keyword) #followalibrary.” Simple stuff, right? Why not push that idea 1-2 steps further, to get a bit more bang out of your buck? On Oct 1, do what the organizers suggest – ask your Twitter followers to tweet their favorite Twittering library, using the #followalibrary hashtag. THEN, do three more things: Using your library’s Twitter account, actually ASK FOR FOLLOWERS. It IS Follow A Library day, and all. Make sure to use the #gfollowalibrary hashtag. Then ask your followers to retweet those posts. What’s that do? My library has 1427 followers… what if all of those followers retweeted those messages? And then shared what THEIR favorite library was with all those Twitter followers? Much better reach that way. Then ask another question using the #followalibrary hashtag – ask “Why are we your favorite library?” Those responses have the potential to be pretty valuable! Use responses as sort of a “check-in” with your library patrons, and share them with staff. Is it what you expected? Listen to what your twitter followers say about you and your library! OK – one more thing here. You’ve just asked your community to follow your library’s Twitter account on October 1st. What are you going to do to SUSTAIN that growth on October 2nd? Share: Related PostsHow a Meme Gets StartedHow We Post in TopekaFinding and Saving Those TweetsTwitter Search EnginesSupporting Your Community (Source: David Lee King) Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:27:35 +0100 873667 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/09/23/judging-book-covers With the demise of Bloglines, I’ve been going through all the posts I had bookmarked and pulling out the ones I wanted to mention in a post - this is one of those posts. Something I really like about feed aggregators is that, by reading feeds from a wide variety of sources, it is possible to spot coincidental trends (which I like doing). For instance, a couple weeks ago I noticed a few of posts all about book covers: Boing Boing featured an interesting infographic showing the trends in cover art of fantasy novels (a trend within a trend) The Huffington Post is always good for a meme - this time they reviewed both great covers designs of books about design and 11 bad memoir book covers A Fuse #8 Production, a School Library Journal blog, reviews some of the best childrens book covers of 2010 by some of the best cover illustrators Fail Blog always has humorous book covers (see the Amazon listing for the book pictured above) Of course, this isn’t a new trend - Awful Library Books has been around awhile, and I’ve talked about book covers, too. And speaking of book covers, remember to play with LibraryThing’s CoverGuess, to help build a database that can answer questions like, “well, I don’t remember the title, but it was a red book, and had like this guy on a street with maybe like a purple penguin?” (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:08:09 +0100 873664 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/2gA6keMNnXM/fol-social.html Future of Libraries 2010 Social Media Capital Patrick Sweeney This was a very helpful and practical presentation from Patrick Sweeney (http://www.pcsweeney.com) started by showing a popular viral video about social media, quoting statistics about various social media sites and their impact on society. (e.g. 80% of companies use social media for recruitment. Ashton Kutcher has more Twitter followers than the entire population of Ireland. YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine. 34% of bloggers write about brands and products). Social capital is “the collective value of all ‘social networks’ and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other” (Putnam). An example is at San Mateo County Library they are organizing programs and finding performers through Facebook connections and discussions. Facebook and Twitter are also a place to follow local government officials and partner agencies and engage with them by answering questions they have, re-tweeting their good content, etc. Make sure your online profile is up to date and accurate in directories, news sites, and online maps. Search for your library in Yahoo & Google and see what comes up. Is it accurate? Make sure that any news stories about the library contain updated information if anything has changed (change in policy, hours, etc.). People will go back and see this through web search, and you want to make sure it’s accurate. Go over Yelp, Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs to see what’s being said on other sites and profiles and –engage– by commenting, liking, and following. Look at what your staff are talking about as well — likely the library is often mentioned in their posts. One more way to reach out to your customers. Find out which sites your community is using. It might not be Facebook or Twitter. His library’s Hispanic community is mostly using MySpace, so that’s someplace they need to be. ... Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:18:34 +0100 874241 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/09/netflix-and-library-this-meme-goes-on.html Rebecca Fitzgerald post on tame the web Using Netflix at an Academic Library seems to have gone wild. Her original comments pointed the following :-Our academic library in New York started a Netflix subscription last Fall. We started out with one account allowing for the maximum number of DVDs, 8 at a time. By the middle of Spring semester, we had two accounts. The New Media professor took over the prior, and we made the new one for all other courses. New Media requires many movies for students to watch. Our library has a very limited budget when it comes to film purchasing, especially popular titles. Netflix has saved us an enormous amount of money (around $3,000) by allowing the physical rentals as well as instant play. The streaming movies have been a great success; instead of students waiting for the one DVD on reserve, they can go to the computer or into the library’s film viewing room, where we have a Roku player set up, and watch the movies on our flat screen TV. The amount we save just having the instant play is significant; it’s almost like having multiple copies of the movie on reserve.I was a bit concerned about this. It obviously goes against terms and conditions of netflix contract. These being that the films are for PERSONAL use only. Other have also mentioned this in more detail.Read write web has an interest article on the subject called Netflix Turns a Blind Eye to Illegal Use by School Libraries. Seems that:-Steve Swasey, Netflix' vice president of corporate communications, but indicated no plans to enforce the rules. "We just don't want to be pursuing libraries," he said. "We appreciate libraries and we value them, but we expect that they follow the terms of agreement."Not sure that the film studios would agree with that sentiment. As the experts on copyright etc libraries should be upholding it, rather than using it to our own advantage. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 873119 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/19/the-fry-chronicles-stephen-fry The second volume of Stephen Fry's memoirs recalls his Cambridge years and rise to fame in perfect prose and excruciating honestyWell, Kerry Katona Vol III this ain't. And it's possible that Mr Fry even wrote all of it himself.That Stephen Fry needs no introduction is what he has always wanted. He is writing today, of course, from a position of fame, but the period which this, the second volume of his autobiography, covers is the decade or so after he'd done his shameful late-teen jail stint for credit-card theft, and made it, despite his appetites, his addiction, his self-admitted "slyness", to Cambridge, last of his last chances, and with the world before him to either trample or embrace.What follows is many things: a grand reminiscence of college and theatre and comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect showbiz anecdotes, and genuine readerly excitement as we try to forget that we know what happened next; a rehabilitation, for Fry himself, as he finds himself becoming genuinely popular, and genuinely good at some things – acting of a limited sort, sketch-writing, hard, hard work – rather than just "being clever". And through all of it he tells us, with exemplary and often exruciating honesty, of his crippling self-doubts, his needinesses, the greed of his addictions, his drive, shallow though he knew it was, for fame. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. He knows he's always been seen, by friends and enemies alike, as confident, quintessentially English, languorously zing-full of bons mots, at ease in any surroundings. Inside, he says, there's an often terrified half-Jew poof, horrified by the unattractiveness of his body, unable to smile sweetly without looking smug, knowing he's been given a second chance and filled with terror at the thought of blowing it. ... Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:05:47 +0100 872521 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60647 Here Are a Few of the New Entries from an OUPblog Post: + hockey mom + hashtag + my bad + bromance + exit strategy + social media + social networking + steampunk + unfriend* + what’s not to like? + what’s not to like? + the new black Old Words, New Senses +friend + meme + riff + tweet Many More New Words, Phrases and Senses in this OUP Blog [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:26:12 +0100 872477 http://obpl.blogspot.com/2010/09/share-your-lifes-story-at-library-have.html Share Your Life's Story at the LibraryOn Saturday, October 9 at 1:30 p.m. Have you ever dreamed of writing your life story for future generations? Writer and diarist Sharon Yeskel will present an introductory workshop at the Old Bridge Central Library where you will learn how to start preserving your memories. Please bring a notebook or journal and a favorite photo or memento and we’ll do a few writing exercises to get you started.Send comments to: OBPL (Source: Old Bridge Library Weblog) Wed, 15 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 872510 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/11/salvator-rosa-paintings-james-hall Pathless landscapes and gloomy hollows, fiendish witches and brutal bandits – Salvator Rosa's paintings influenced Goya and delighted the Romantics. James Hall on a long overdue exhibition of the work of a brilliant rebelThe exhibition of Salvator Rosa (1615-73) at Dulwich Picture Gallery more or less coincides with the Turner prize, and what wouldn't we give for an artist cut from similar scintillating cloth in these dreary artistic days? The Naples-born painter, poet, musician, actor, satirist and wit was the first major visual artist to be an outspoken social critic and diehard alienated outsider. In this respect he makes Caravaggio, the shooting star of the previous generation, look inarticulate.Not only did Rosa specialise in edgy new subject matter – portraits of disgusted philosophers and disdainful hermits; lurid twilit scenes of fiendish witches and brutal bandits in apocalyptic wildernesses – he was also a daring self-publicist. Rosa showcased his most ambitious and sensational paintings in some of the first ever temporary exhibitions, at the Pantheon in Rome, all the while ridiculing the patron classes and modern mores in scathing satirical poetry and theatrical comedies: "Whenever he moves or speaks," marvelled a friend, "he dislocates the audience's jaws." Rosa's proto-romantic credo is tersely expressed in one of several self-portraits, smuggled into the side of a tumultuous battle scene painted for the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The elegantly moustachioed, pale-skinned Rosa crouches behind a dying horse. He dispassionately observes a Christian soldier sliding his sword blade into the blood-soaked throat of a fallen Turk whose right forearm has just been hacked off. The artist insouciantly holds up a silver shield inscribed with the first two letters of his first name and surname: SARO. This is Italian for "I will be". ... Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:05:43 +0100 870619 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/09/02/september-2nd-stream-2.html Shared I don’t usually do the shoe meme, but… new shoes!. I don’t usually do the shoe meme, but… new shoes! Shared SF Signal: MIND MELD: SF Books That Will Stand The Test of Time. Did you ever read an old science fiction book that felt dated? Maybe the predictions were way off base, or maybe or they were a reflection of the times in which they were written. Yet some books are considered timeless classics, which makes one wonder which of today’s books will fall into that category. So we turned to this week’s and asked them hey @foursquare –u have a douchebag badge but ur stalling on the library one? that’s really where u want to hang ur hat? http://ow.ly/2ytUA [shifted] Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:03 +0100 868718 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/24/alikewise-is-for-book-lovers It looks like Alikewise.com has been around all year, but I only heard about it this weekend - it’s a dating website that matches people based on the books they like. This is a great idea for a dating website - it seems a much better way to get at someone’s true nature than filling out a profile by guessing what will make you attractive. I checked around the site a bit (without creating a profile), and wonder if there’s a way to tie-in with sites like LibraryThing and Good Reads to capitalize on peoples’ full libraries. LibraryThing sort of already does this, with their You and None Other meme. But here’s something funny: at my first library, we toyed with the idea of a “singles night” book group. We thought it’d be a perfect program for Friday nights, after work, to come and meet other single people interested in books. It never happened, but I always liked the idea. Maybe that’ll eventually manifest in Alikewise meetups. And wouldn’t this be a heck of a social networking widget to add to a library catalog? “Like this book? Click here to meet other patrons that do, too.” via Burlington Free Press (thanks, Carney) and more at NPR (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:33:41 +0100 865045 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/me3Rj8_pz74/ After I posted Twitter Search Engines a couple days ago, Gary Price chatted with me about TwapperKeeper. Basically, Twapperkeeper can save tweets and hashtags, and creates an archive of them for you… so you, say, don’t lose track of a hashtag you created a couple of weeks ago. What other similar tools are out there? Check out these useful posts: 10 Ways to Archive your Tweets from ReadWriteWeb – Twapperkeeper is listed here. How to Backup your Twitter Archive from MakeUseOf.com – don’t want to lose your tweets? Check out one of these services. Finally, some useful tips from Danny Sullivan on how to search Google for old tweets. Hope you find these useful! Share: Related PostsTwitter Search EnginesMeta Social: Online Interactions & how to make them ROCKHow a Meme Gets StartedPersonal Accounts, Work Accounts – What To Do?Follow the Meat Department on Twitter! (Source: David Lee King) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:44:12 +0100 867301 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/RNlHUGmr_Dk/johnt Civilization Systems: Leadership & Adam Smith - On Ignoring the Basics http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/970948905/in-societies-where-the-decision-makers-are The High Cost of Poor Communication http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/974278717/sis-international-research-discovered-that-70-of http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/974273262/feedback-and-engagement The Esperanto of the Bacteria World § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM Bacterial Foresight § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/974735218/do-bacteria-have-foresight Introducing The 6 Laws Of Customer Experience « Customer Experience Matters In numero Nature’s Nature « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook The Good, the Bad and the Ugly « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook On memes… « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook Can you trust your own eyes, or hears? « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/975860368/fig-illusion-created-by-prof-akiyoshi-kitaoka (Source: Library clips) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 864948 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/xdMus8jWowY/ Twenty two days ago, I asked readers to tweet how they get permission to do stuff using the #getpermission hashtag in Twitter. Yesterday, I remembered that I needed to copy/paste some of those tweets into my How YOU Get Permission post … and failed miserably! Why? Because tweets pretty much disappear after about a week and a half. Technically the tweets are still there – they’re just not found by most search engines, Twitter’s included. So I did some furious searching, and actually found a few of those hashtag tweets! Which search engines worked? Here’s a list of Twitter search engines and what they found. Thankfully, there’s one #getpermission tweet out there right now, so theoretically, every search should at least find that recent tweet. Let’s see what happens! Found the most recent tweet plus something else: Topsy – found it, plus three others (including the ones I quoted in my last post). You have to click “all time” to get those. It’s obviously NOT all time, or it would have found everything else, too. Not sure what’s up with that. But hey – it’s something! twazzup – found it, plus found my last post, a news article that mentioned “get permission” crowdeye – found it plus one other, plus my blog post. Found the most recent tweet only: Twitter collecta icerocket tweetscan twitscoop itpints – found the tweet – also found some random youtube video that had “get permission” in the description of the video. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:43:25 +0100 867302 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1990 Les deux dernières journées de l'IFLA, samedi et dimanche, ont été riches en ce qui me concerne, car le dimanche matin se déroulait la session "Libraries and the semantic Web", que j'ai contribué à organiser, et l'après-midi la session "Development of systems for long-term storage and preservation of library collections" dans laquelle je présentais un article. Samedi, mis à part une courte (et extrêmement agréable) rencontre avec quelques membres du LLD XG, j'ai consacré la plupart de mon énergie à finir de préparer la journée du lendemain, ce qui incluait la modération de la session du matin, la préparation des différentes copies de mon article pour la traduction simultanée, etc. La session "Libraries and the Semantic Web", bien que se déroulant un dimanche 15 août à partir de 8h30 (!), a attiré environ 250 personnes, dont la plupart ne dormaient même pas ! Nous avons eu droit à une ouverture riche et éclairante par Richard Wallis, suivie par 6 présentations toutes pertinentes et de haute qualité dont vous retrouverez les textes sur le site de l'IFLA et les présentations sur Slideshare. La session a aussi été assez bien couverte sur twitter (#ifla2010) y compris par votre serviteuse qui twittait depuis la tribune ;-) La session de l'après midi, consacrée à la préservation numérique, s'est très bien passée aussi. Il y avait environ 120 personnes, ce qui n'est pas mal du tout pour la dernière session de la conférence. Les autres présentations portaient sur le système e-Depot de la KB, et sur Hathi trust. La défection d'un des intervenants a été habilement compensée au pied levé, grâce au brio des animatrices de la session, par une intéressante discussion avec la salle permettant de faire un peu le tour des initiatives en cours. Et puis c'était la fin : la session de clôture, avec ses récompenses, ses remerciements... ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:58:50 +0100 867977 http://figoblog.org/node/1990 Les deux dernières journées de l'IFLA, samedi et dimanche, ont été riches en ce qui me concerne, car le dimanche matin se déroulait la session "Libraries and the semantic Web", que j'ai contribué à organiser, et l'après-midi la session "Development of systems for long-term storage and preservation of library collections" dans laquelle je présentais un article. Samedi, mis à part une courte (et extrêmement agréable) rencontre avec quelques membres du LLD XG, j'ai consacré la plupart de mon énergie à finir de préparer la journée du lendemain, ce qui incluait la modération de la session du matin, la préparation des différentes copies de mon article pour la traduction simultanée, etc. La session "Libraries and the Semantic Web", bien que se déroulant un dimanche 15 août à partir de 8h30 (!), a attiré environ 250 personnes, dont la plupart ne dormaient même pas ! Nous avons eu droit à une ouverture riche et éclairante par Richard Wallis, suivie par 6 présentations toutes pertinentes et de haute qualité dont vous retrouverez les textes sur le site de l'IFLA et les présentations sur Slideshare. La session a aussi été assez bien couverte sur twitter (#ifla2010) y compris par votre serviteuse qui twittait depuis la tribune ;-) La session de l'après midi, consacrée à la préservation numérique, s'est très bien passée aussi. Il y avait environ 120 personnes, ce qui n'est pas mal du tout pour la dernière session de la conférence. Les autres présentations portaient sur le système e-Depot de la KB, et sur Hathi trust. La défection d'un des intervenants a été habilement compensée au pied levé, grâce au brio des animatrices de la session, par une intéressante discussion avec la salle permettant de faire un peu le tour des initiatives en cours. Et puis c'était la fin : la session de clôture, avec ses récompenses, ses remerciements... ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:58:50 +0100 867121 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1988 Mercredi, après avoir dansé sur ABBA à la session d'ouverture (mais je souhaiterais aussi saluer la performance des deux autres artistes, un guitariste et une chanteuse, qui étaient vraiment époustouflants) nous avons dégusté un déjeuner à base de pommes de terres et de saumon fumé, offert par la présidente. Les sessions de conférence ont ensuite démarré, mais seulement jusqu'à 16h, où nous attendait un nouvel événement : l'ouverture de l'exposition et des stands. Une nouvelle occasion de boire un verre, et de retrouver (entre autre) les collègues de l'ABES, que j'en profite pour saluer ici. J'ai fait une belle collection de reproches quant à mon manque d'assiduité sur Figoblog, alors, saisie de remords, je me suis dépêchée de m'enregistrer parmi les blogueurs officiels de l'IFLA, ce qui m'a permis d'obtenir un joli ruban bleu pour décorer mon badge. J'ai également profité d'un peu de temps libre pour visiter la Bibliothèque publique de la ville. C'est un endroit extrêmement agréable, avec plein de fauteuils ikéa et de places confortables pour travailler, une offre de livres dans de nombreuses langues, et des animations variées. On profitait aussi des échos du festival qui a une scène juste en bas sur Götaplatsen. Le lendemain, deuxième jour de la Conférence, j'ai assisté à la présentation par OCLC de leur nouveau service "Webscale Management System", un service de gestion de bibliothèque "dans les nuages". Très intéressant, mais c'est encore un travail en cours, qui n'existe que sous forme de pilote aux Etats-Unis pour l'instant. Juste après cela, le petit sous-groupe de travail sur le Web sémantique que j'anime au sein de la section IT s'est réuni pour discuter de ses actions pour les années à venir. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:26:44 +0100 867980 http://figoblog.org/node/1988 Mercredi, après avoir dansé sur ABBA à la session d'ouverture (mais je souhaiterais aussi saluer la performance des deux autres artistes, un guitariste et une chanteuse, qui étaient vraiment époustouflants) nous avons dégusté un déjeuner à base de pommes de terres et de saumon fumé, offert par la présidente. Les sessions de conférence ont ensuite démarré, mais seulement jusqu'à 16h, où nous attendait un nouvel événement : l'ouverture de l'exposition et des stands. Une nouvelle occasion de boire un verre, et de retrouver (entre autre) les collègues de l'ABES, que j'en profite pour saluer ici. J'ai fait une belle collection de reproches quant à mon manque d'assiduité sur Figoblog, alors, saisie de remords, je me suis dépêchée de m'enregistrer parmi les blogueurs officiels de l'IFLA, ce qui m'a permis d'obtenir un joli ruban bleu pour décorer mon badge. J'ai également profité d'un peu de temps libre pour visiter la Bibliothèque publique de la ville. C'est un endroit extrêmement agréable, avec plein de fauteuils ikéa et de places confortables pour travailler, une offre de livres dans de nombreuses langues, et des animations variées. On profitait aussi des échos du festival qui a une scène juste en bas sur Götaplatsen. Le lendemain, deuxième jour de la Conférence, j'ai assisté à la présentation par OCLC de leur nouveau service "Webscale Management System", un service de gestion de bibliothèque "dans les nuages". Très intéressant, mais c'est encore un travail en cours, qui n'existe que sous forme de pilote aux Etats-Unis pour l'instant. Juste après cela, le petit sous-groupe de travail sur le Web sémantique que j'anime au sein de la section IT s'est réuni pour discuter de ses actions pour les années à venir. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:26:44 +0100 867123 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/zcGn/~3/fkdqpAPnpAQ/detroit-public-schools-im-in-campaign.html Libraries should be the king of cause marketing and yet we often miss the mark. Shiv Singh and Peter Carter write about the winner of this year's Effies Award in the Harvard Business Review. No, not a library but close- the Detroit Public Schools. The campaign increased enrollment and brought in $49 million in incremental funding. Not bad. They outlined five lessons in the blog . 1. Cause marketing matters more than ever. We live in a difficult world. Through these difficult times we expect brands to do more for our communities. If they take the lead, we'll reward them. The Detroit Public Schools campaign and Ford's "Drive One 4 UR School" are perfect example of this. People are excited to rally around important causes and brands that engage authentically in this effort can benefit too. The critical factor is to find a cause that authentically relates to your brand's equity and culture. 2. Taking the right posture in an economic downturn can bring success. The economic downturn caused a lot of suffering, but it also created an opportunity for brands to say, "We understand what you're going through and we are going to do something different as a result." Programs that did well in 2010 were ones that understood the impact of the economic crisis and responded to it with the appropriate voice and tone. For example, Hyundai brought compassion and assurance to a new car purchase by offering to refund your money if you lost your job. 3. Advertising is dead, long live advertising. There's a meme in the world of business that consumers do not like advertising and even more broadly, that marketing communications does not work. If there's anything that the finalists and the winner showed is that there's a very direct line from successful marketing programs to an organization's bottom line. The Detroit Public Schools turned around a 10 year decline in enrollment with some paint and lumber. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866130 http://santafelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/santa-fe-scavenger-hunt.html I love cracking open the Santa Fe Reporter on Wednesdays and heading to the Outtakes section. In addition to making sure that I'm not quoted in the Eavesdropper, I like the Meme, the place where a picture truly is worth a thousand words. It's neat when I recognize the object in the photograph, and it's also neat when I then have a week to locate the object of visual humor / derision / irony.This week, on page 10 of the Reporter, we're honored to be featured in one of those somewhat embarassing tableaux. The meme resides on the second floor of the Main Library. Since we see it every day, we've long meditated on its overall Kafkaesque uselessness. However, it never occured to us to share it with the wider world.If you also participate in this kind of scavenger hunt, my apologies for ruining your weekly Meme. And to whomever noticed its ridiculousness enough to snap a photo of it, thank you! (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864785 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/sk_GktXQPqU/ Today’s links of interest: Women in Publishing Twitter DirectoryWhen Jane Litte of Dear Author started the #womeninpublishing meme this morning, we bet she didn’t expect such an amazing response. Galleycat consolidated names and links to the entire hashtag feed. What’s amazing about this list? How people define the idea of women in publishing. Oh, and the amazing community we’ve created online. (Source: Booksquare) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:15:06 +0100 864906 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/AWtk6cxmSGs/ Earlier on today, on my blog post around 10 Reasons NOT to Ban Social Media in Organisations I was eventually sharing a number of different arguments as to why social computing within the enterprise is a worth while effort to pursue further. Those arguments were trying to provide a reply to the original resource that stated why some businesses out there may not be that open and receptive, just yet, to social networking. So I thought in this blog entry I would continue to pick things up and share some further insights, specially around a number of those headings picked up by this meme itself. Namely, it’s about controlling the message, employees will goof off, social media is a time waster and employees can’t be trusted. How do I plan to continue the conversation? Well, with a little help of my friends, of course! In the past, you would remember how I have been talking about a special group of KMers, right? A bunch of really smart, witty, incredibly insightful, thought-provoking, passionate and rather enthusiastic people about the topics of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Communities, Learning and Social Networking. Yes, that’s right! That talented group of great thinkers! Well, every Tuesday at noon EDT they get together on Twitter (I try to join them as many times as I possibly can), pick up a topic and a moderator and they embark, in my opinion, on some of the most interesting and exciting conversations you can have around on the Internet at the moment, covering various different areas, but perhaps with a special focus on KM itself, after all. Like last week’s, around the topic of "Let go of Control; Encourage and Monitor", moderated by my good friend, and KM extraordinaire, Stan Garfield. ... Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:59:18 +0100 866213 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/tdy6-Ld98EQ/ieder-creatief-werk-is-afgeleid.html The whole history of human culture evolves through copying, making tiny transformations (sometimes called "errors") with each replication. Copying is the engine of cultural progress. It is not "stealing." It is, in fact, quite beautiful, and leads to a cultural diversity that inspires awe.Question Copyright is een heerlijke website. Lees er meer over de Boekenbevrijder (lijkt me niet handig, die hardware), vrije content, Sita sings the blues en de Minute Memes. Of koop er een leuk t-shirt, whatever. Ieder creatief werk is afgeleid. En je weet het. Gerelateerd: Kewl: boeken rippen met de Atiz Booksnap Over downloaden, gratis en welvaart Niet voor winst maar uit passie App van de week: Genius Scan @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:14:00 +0100 862051 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/24/ten-best-nameless-protagonists-mullan John Mullan goes in search of anonymityRoxana by Daniel DefoeDefoe's "memoir" of an invented 17th-century courtesan has acquired a title that is but one of his anti-heroine's pseudonyms. "The Fortunate Mistress" (as the novel was originally called) keeps her true name secret, masquerading as a "woman of quality" in order to beguile rich men.The Aspern Papers by Henry JamesThe namelessness of James's narrator seems fitting in a tale of genteel deceit. He tells us of his obsession with a dead poet called Jeffrey Aspern, whose papers may be in the possession of a former lover, now living in Venice. He can only gain these manuscripts by marrying her dowdy niece. What to do?"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins GilmanA doctor has confined his wife to her bedroom, decreeing that she is suffering from some nervous affliction. She keeps a secret journal, whose entries constitute this short story. Her fevered imagination is fed by patterns in the wallpaper. Her namelessness has made her, for some, a representative of 19th-century womanhood.Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierDu Maurier's melodrama is narrated by the most famously unnamed character in 20th-century fiction. She has married rich and charming Maxim de Winter and returned to his estate, ruled by the terrifying housekeeper Mrs Danvers. The story is of course dominated by the personality – and therefore the name – of Maxim's dead wife.The Power and the Glory by Graham GreeneGreene liked to find unusual names – Bendrix, Querry – for his protagonists, so his refusal to name the alcoholic Mexican priest on the run from the anti-clerical authorities is significant. The protagonist's discovery of a religious mission through danger and suffering is made a Greenian parable about the need for religious belief. ... Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:05:58 +0100 861766 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/E5cC3NFWy9o/ Often lost among all the ‘iPads mean that ebooks WIN!’ articles is the idea that for many of us, for the long foreseeable future, it is not an either/or scenario. Some books may be well-suited to e-reading, while others are (and will remain for various reasons) a better experience in print. So with that said, what would the home of a tech-loving reader look like? Where do the books live? Where do the toys live? And what sorts of choices would such a person make over what to purchase for any given title? I offer, as case study, my own humble abode. I live in a very expensive city and housing prices are unbelievable. I don’t have the space for a massive print library and I am, like many of my peers, a renter. I have had to move a lot, not always by my own choice, and every time I do I purge the print books. Ebooks have been a great thing for me! The apartment is a cookie-cutter one-bedroom, very typical of what you’ll find in my area. THE BEDROOM: WHERE THE FANCY BOOKS LIVE The bedroom has two book areas: a large bookcase in the corner which has my teaching books, files, and assorted books which don’t belong elsewhere, and two matching baby bookcases (sold as closet organizers originally, if I recall—and I do have three more IN the closet now that I think about it) serving as bedside tables. One of these has all my French pleasure books and the other has the feel-good books: poetry, self-helpy stuff and anything religion-related. I don’t read most of these books very often, but when I want them, I am very glad to have them. Most of my personal French reading is done on the Kindle now because it has a built-in dictionary which is very handy. But I tutor and sometimes find myself trolling the shelves for stories and activities. And I do find poetry better suited for the printed page—I have to be in the mood, but when I am, it is something I enjoy a lot. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:25:42 +0100 861295 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/21/glen-baxter-top-10-memento-mori From St Augustine to Nietzche, the author chooses the fearless autobiographical writers who taught him how to write his own, A Preparation for DeathGreg Baxter was born in Texas in 1974, and has lived in Dublin for the past 10 years where he works as a journalist, and runs the Some Blind Alleys creative writing courses. His memoir A Preparation for Death is an unflinchingly honest account of his self-destructive personal decay in his early 30s, and his redemption throug writing.Buy A Preparation for Death at the Guardian bookshop"My interest in autobiography began quite late, relative to my interest in books. I had always assumed heavy lifting in literature could only be accomplished by novels, and I very much wanted to be a heavy lifter. Also, I felt and still feel a natural revulsion toward memoir. Nothing that had ever happened in my life was worth, in itself, a page of published text. But I was sick of my own fiction, and sick of the tired and relentless procession of award-winning novels that all looked the same, and became, through their success, the primary influences of a new generation of fiction writers. The bitterness I felt at not being recognised as a figure in literature almost destroyed me as a writer: I only wrote to be praised, or to avenge, or to insult."It was through an intense study of autobiography – beginning with The Art of the Personal Essay, edited by Philip Lopate – that I learned how to write without ambition, and for myself. Every great autobiographical work is a private preparation for death: an author hunts down his weaknesses, his delusions, his inherited values, his everyday enslavements, and murders them in plain sight. Below are some of the works – books and essays – that inspired this sort of ruthlessness in me."Death of Death: "Asthma" by SenecaAll the best autobiographical writers – those who teach us how to live well and how to die well – are to varying degrees stoics. ... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:15:26 +0100 861215 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/07/viral-marketing-of-library.html (Found via here). NPR has an excellent article entitled 'Why the next big pop culture after cupcakes might be libraries'. The article looks at the impact of the viral marketing of libraries via the (excessively) meme'd Old Spice video and Lady Gaga also. The article looks at the positive article's that seem to being picked up, on the importance of libraries in this 'big society' no skills/pay/promotion world.The article then looks at the positive impact of libraries on societies to. Obviously, people have to pay for them, but they do provide a cultural outlet for many users. But in Britain when I think of of Cameron, Conservatives and libraries I think of Goring:-Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my browning. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861575 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=797 The Internet: Everything You Ever Need to Know The Guardian   •  June 20, 2010 Perspective is everything. Open University professor John Naughton freely admits that this is not really everything you need to know about the Internet, but he makes a useful point about taking the long view of this game-changing technology. As Zhou Enlai observed when asked about the significance of the French Revolution, “It’s too early to say.” I’m sure you know John Naughton. If not you should familiarize yourself. He’s an always-interesting commentator on the Internet, technology and the World Wide Web. His news and magazine columns are always worth the time and his blog (online diary) Memex 1.1 is personal and wide-ranging. This piece is a nice reminder of some important things we forget (or didn’t really see clearly) about the Internet. (Michalko) (Source: hangingtogether.org) Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:23:23 +0100 861202 http://freerangelibrarian.com/2010/07/16/lucky-gal/ This is a general catch-up post prompted by the number of people I ran into at ALA who asked, “How ARE you?” in that very pregnant manner that means, so, is your life still screwed up? And no disrespect to people who enriched our lives during the Florida Experiment — I particularly miss my writing friends! — but that was a particularly awry three years for me, personally and professionally. It was a “growth experience,” and I appreciate my new life so much more, but I could have skipped the over-long teachable moment and come out just fine. On my jobs in Florida, it was a matter of “fit”; I took work that was available, and I tried to contribute back to the places I worked, and I particularly learned a lot working for a vendor. But ultimately these were not the kind of professional opportunities such as I have now that fits me like a tailored suit. I particularly never felt that I contributed back to the places I worked in ways that befitted my potential, and that’s a hard thing for me. So now I live in San Francisco in a delightful neighborhood near where I grew up and every weekend we go out and do fun things in the best city in the world, I have an annoyingly long commute where I crawl back and forth across the Bay Bridge in Sparkle, my stalwart Honda (no, I can’t really take public transit), and I have a terrific job where I put in too many hours and have far too few resources and work with the most delightful people (in the library and campus-wide, including the students, who in the words of a faculty member have apparently been sprayed with something that makes them extra-nice) who make it all very satisfying. My commute is tame in the morning because I leave the house at oh-dark-thirty, enabling me to skim across the Bridge where to my right  as I approach Oakland are those strange cranes that have always looked to me like dinosaurs. ... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:08:24 +0100 860130 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6256 From the MediaBerkman blog: Take a look at the headlines of any major newspaper or news magazine. Check out the non-fiction bestsellers at Amazon. The net is on everyone’s minds. Or more specifically, the way the net is on our minds is on our minds. Nicholas Carr’sThe Shallows paints a bleak picture of what the net is doing to our plastic brains, cheapening our relationships, and ruining our attention spans. Clay Shirky’s recent release Cognitive Surplus on the other hand celebrates the web’s power to enable quick, smart, crowdsourced action and creativity. Hundreds of other authors and thinkers have responded with their own variations and theories on what the internet is doing to us, and what we are doing on the net. With all of this thinking on the net, we thought it was time to do some thinking on the thinking on the net. And luckily we have two great thinker thinkers in house. Our very own David Weinberger has suggested jokingly that there should be a Myers-Briggs test for net fanaticism, while memetracker and ROFLCon founder Tim Hwang has grouped net thinkers into schools. Today, they explain how different thinkers think on the net, and importantly, why the heck everyone’s so interested. CONTINUE OVER TO MediaBerkman FOR THE AUDIO AND MORE... (Source: Berkman Blog) Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0100 859861 http://splat.lili.org/node/382 There are always new technological tools being created and disseminated and, much like web memes, they can catch on fairly quickly and spread as more individuals make use of a service/tool/technology to make their lives, both personal & professional, enriched by experiences. For example, I've been noticing increased interest and use of QR Codes as a way to enhance the way one interacts with a 2 dimensional picture via a smart phone, be it a product like a Calvin Klein advert, to how they are being used in libraries. More recently another concept is emerging to enhance this 2 dimensional interactivity to a more immersive, 3rd dimensional experience. Again, because today's smart phone technology (or rather, mini computers that happen to be able to make phone calls), a secondary (or is it tertiary?) level of interaction is becoming possible--this is augmented reality (AR). This is Wikipedia's entry on AR: Augmented reality (AR) is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are augmented by virtual computer-generated imagery. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality  in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing one’s current perception of reality. In the case of Augmented Reality, the augmentation is conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user becomes interactive and digitally usable. Artificial information about the environment and the objects in it can be stored and retrieved as an information layer on top of the real world view. ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:57:05 +0100 860541 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/Iya93sxLBf8/ It’s been fun today watching the #inatweet meme take off on Twitter. Which made me think it’d be fun to document it a bit – memes, trends, and interesting topics CAN originate from your organization (it’s certainly happened to my library before). Here’s how the #inatweet meme started: Justin Hoenke (@justinlibrarian) was talking to Joe Murphy (@libraryfuture) about Dropbox, a cool file sharing and storage service, and I chimed in too (’cause Dropbox really IS a cool tool). Justin asked Joe and I if “either of you point me in the direction of a good place to start for learning about Dropbox?” I just said “they have a video about themselves – I’d start there.” Joe, however, tweeted this: “Dropbox in a tweet: Transfer/synch files across comps & mobile devices via web or software @JustinLibrarian @davidleeking.” And I replied back “@libraryfuture @JustinLibrarian good job! Hey, u cld start a meme – describe *** in a tweet!.” … And of course Joe, master of all things social, actually DID it – “Let’s do it! @davidleeking Librarians- share an intro to a useful tech in a 1 Tweet blurb & use the #inatweet hashtag. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:04:40 +0100 858367 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/HxbBKsFC2oQ/ OK, I know we don’t "do" enterprise 2.0, but I thought it was a catchy title. In case you haven’t scrolled down yet, this is a gigantic post even for my standards. It started off reviewing an evolving theme of enterprise 2.0 moving to process-based solutions, and on the way I stumbled across another perspective on the world of "knowledge work" and "processes" called "Adaptive Process Management". I was going to break this post into parts, but I had already written it in a woven whole piece, so bad luck you are just going to have to read it bit by bit yourself. Michael Idinopulos from the Transparent Office blog is on the money continuously…he has a very realistic take on enterprise 2.0. In his latest post he takes the enterprise 2.0 movement full circle…it’s not about tools, it’s not about culture, it’s about processes. Don’t I know it, I mentioned this a while ago, and I recently wrote a massive post not long ago on ad-hoc work. It’s actually about all these things, "design" needs to be sweet, people need to be willing to give it a go, but they will do this moreso if you make the tools irresistible and in-the-flow…kind of like you can’t do without a remote control for your TV. And we do this my embedding the tools into existing processes, and also assembling these tools for adhoc work in a more solidfied way. I’ll just note here, as I do at the end of this post, that socialising business processes is closing the current circle of the state of the enterprise. Next is leaping to another circle where there is a shift in organisational structure from a process to network based organisation. ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:39:24 +0100 857273 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/0unokpnWPWI/ You may have thought that our 30 bloggers had run dry by Day 29. Not so! Opinions from an OPL made some observations about the penultimate day, but there were also many more fascinating facts coming forth. The big meme mover was 30 things – those things you have done this month, on top of keeping up with this challenge. It was exhausting reading through the posts by Buntoting Librarian, Miss Sophie Mac, Bonito Club, Strawberries of Integrity and Rien d’Important, but so worth it to do so. New Technologies Interest Group explored the benefits of social networking, SkinniBitch discussed Mentoring in Libraryland and a Public Librarian found support from surprising directions. Fascinating insights, each and every one. Suelibrarian defined special libraries, whilst in a surprising parallel (which has happened a lot in these 30 days), Sally Sets Forth defined public service. Check them out and see if you agree. One more day to summarise. With this level of quality coming out of the penultimate day, I am really looking forward to catching up with the last day posts – from everyone! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:37:00 +0100 856062 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/as_2o4lFbs0/ Manic Monday was a mixed bag of treats, some tiring and waning with many memes and exclamations of ‘non posts’ or  reasons for skipping days. So today I will avail you with the five posts that inspired me most (and inspired me greatly at that!): Skinnibitch wrote a particularly thought provoking post on mentoring – managing to highlight way too much in such a short space  - the value of a mentor, how to practically and proactively find a mentor and career mapping. FromMelbin introduced a fascinating topic under in disguise (and one close to my own heart) of working with students to contribute design ideas for a future new library.  My first thought turns to services and infrastructure however in this case it is focusing on designing out crime. snail talks about the price gulf in books in Australia compared to alternatives online both in print and ebooks. I find this topic fascinating as I often lament the decline of the bookstore in my life, and even more so the decline of purchasing books from bookstores rather than searching for a cheaper (& usually a good 50% cheaper) copy online. I always love it when people get passionate about things…for a great inspiring dose of passion and some good photography tips take a read of Miss Sophic Mac and learn about her camera collection…and then read her story of why she became a librarian. If her passion hasn’t inspired you to do something…anything then I’m not sure what will. Another passionate post – this time from sallysetforth on the importance of accessibility with some staggering statistics on print disabilities and how little this issue is addressed. Read it, stop hyperventilating and then think about how you can start closing this gap in your library. ... Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:29:20 +0100 856063 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/27/charlotte-moore-hancox-house-family The Moore family has lived at Hancox, a large, rambling Sussex house, for five generations. Rowan Moore recalls his childhood there and how its ramshackle charms fired his lifelong passion for architectureA broad stair, the work of a pretentious 16th-century owner, winds up from a dark hall towards a bright landing, the shifts in light modulated by wobbly plaster and oak. Tall timber shafts rise to the ceiling, warped in memory of their former life as tree trunks in the nearby woods. Newel posts end in handsome carved finials shaped like poppy heads, one of them violently mutilated by an alcoholic, in the time when this was a Church of England home for inebriates.Weaponry is lodged here and there: a halberd, flintlock pistols, bayonets, a boomerang and a German helmet, with eagle-and-swastika insignia, taken by my uncle when he was liberated from his prisoner-of-war camp in 1945. Ancestors and obscure relatives gaze out of large, darkened portraits. A portrait of my great-grandfather, in his robes as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, is propped against a wall, waiting for decades for someone to get round to putting it up.This is Hancox, the house where I grew up, and where five generations of my family have lived. It is now the subject of a moving book by my sister Charlotte, who lives there. Based on the letters, diaries and mementos accumulated in its attic, cupboards and bookshelves, her book tells the stories of interconnected families living in Hancox and nearby Sussex houses, a century or so of eccentricity, endeavour, love, adultery, disease, early death, political radicalism, brilliance, insanity and – a recurrent theme – ornithology.For me, Hancox is the place that first shaped my feelings about architecture and set me on a career of studying, writing about and occasionally designing buildings. ... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:05:27 +0100 855186 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/bHBRTWSSI8E/ Friday again featured a number of memes.  Morgan asked 20 questions on day 20 so I thought I would ask you a few more: Who said don’t be afraid to change direction when she reflected on why she became a librarian? Who described her life according to They Might Be Giants and The Cure? Whose son passed a milestone getting his P-plates? Who is an RSS evangelist? Who is participating in the 10,000 steps challenge? Which school librarian watched students dance for joy? Which blogger answers her own question about why she became a librarian? Who quotes Lord Byron? Whose blog featured a couple of furry friends? Who spend a lovely day on her own in Daylesford? Only four days to go. Keep them coming people. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:14:16 +0100 856066 http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/06/tv-meme.html I am once again using a prompt from the blog Ruminations to get some writing in. Ok, it's just cheap entertainment for me. So, here are the questions as provided with my replies.Do you snack while watching TV? Sometimes.What is your favorite TV show? This varies. These days I watch a lot of stuff on places like the Discovery Channel and History Channel. From those, I like Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, and Deadliest Catch (though not as much as I liked it the first season or so). I also watch Ice Road Truckers and Swamp Loggers when I see it is on and I remember. What TV show makes you run to change channels? Most reality television makes me want to run for the hills. I will be blunt: I do not give a rodent's derriere for shows like Jersey Shore, the Real Housewives of Wherever the Hell (or whatever a bunch of prima donna overrated mostly over the hill trophy wives with vacuous lives call themselves), Survivor, the one on TruTv about the repo people, etc. I believe that eons from now, when whatever advanced race finds evidence we existed, they will be able to point to reality television as one of the major reasons for our societal decay and our intellectual fall. These shows pretty much just highlight the worse humanity has to offer. That they are popular says a lot about how low society has gone.How do you view your TV guide: online, on-screen, newspaper, magazine, other? I rarely view a TV guide in any form. I just catch stuff as I see it. There are a couple of shows I remember when they are on, and I try to make it point of watching them. Otherwise, I don't worry about it too much. Have you ever been surveyed for your TV-viewing habits or do you know anyone who has been? No on both counts.Do you watch TV news and/or current affairs regularly? I watch current affairs fairly often, but at times I watch the stuff in short spurts and in the background. In other words, I may have CNN turned on, but I will be on the laptop reading online feeds or doing something else. ... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 856044 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/_WANu8mtv4w/ In library-related news: Bun-toting Librarian answers “Why am I a librarian?” Connecting Librarian writes about work experience students in the library, and commenters add their own… well, experiences. Creative Circ shares their library’s plans to create a “library based on trust”. In the handy ‘miscellaneous’ category: Opinions from an OPL writes about organisational aps. Bonito Club writes about Flutterscape, “a Japanese take on social networking and online purchasing”. justgirlwithshoes writes about friendship. The memes diversify into: Food: Walking Upside Down “cheats” with a recipe for ginger crunch that I’m going to have to try as soon as I get home, and LiberryDwarf posts a link to honey cookies. Poetry: Sharing poems are FromMelbin (with more in comments) and SallySetsForth. And political reflections on #spill are starting with Skinnibitch, haikugirloz, sardonicsmile, snail and Librarians Matter reflecting on the media through which they heard the news, and Rien d’Important thinking back to past breaking news events. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:49:54 +0100 854632 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/jun/23/religion-marilynne-robinson Marilynne Robinson's latest essays set out a concept of "parascience" which is clear and usefulOne of the things I see I missed while I was away was Rowan Williams' review of Marilynne Robinson's latest collection of essays, Absence of Mind. I had the book with me to reread while I was away, since it bears a great deal of thinking about; but worked my way through The Symbolic Species instead when I wanted non-fictional reading. That would be worth a really long and considered post, not least because it is an example of thinking about evolution done right. The discussion about how the features of language adapt to the workings of our brains should be required reading for anyone who takes "memes" seriously. But that's beside the point. The piece on his website is a reminder of just how good a critic Rowan Williams is. It's a great mystery that someone who can can write so perceptively about other people's thought will so often express his own so clumsily. But even if he weren't Archbishop of Canterbury, he would be a literary critic worth publishing, and this is a review worth reading anyway. What follows may not be, but I have a couple of pages of scrawled notes that I am reluctant to throw away even if there is no longer time to work them up into something longer.Robinson's critique of "parascience" is not entirely original, but it has seldom been so clearly expressed. At times, it is remarkably sympathetic. Her account of Freud is a triumph. It does not restore him as a scientific thinker; I don't think anyone could do that now. He is clearly located as a "parascientist" – someone who is using the language and prestige of science to stake out a philosophical or political position. But the philosophical and political position of a cultured Jew in early twentieth century was one worth defending. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:41:20 +0100 854389 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/DbXOx2l1mwY/ Day 22 of the challenge exhibited such a wide range of meme love. You can discover all sorts of interesting thing about our challenge bloggers, through the memes they post on. Check out a Public Librarian, From Melbin, Just girl with shoes, Strawberries of Integrity , Miss Sophie Mac, Rien d’important and Opinions from an OPL and share a bit of the librarian love. On learning more about our colleagues, we had the trip back in time with Suelibrarian, sardonicsmile and Librarian with different hats and who each told us their story of becoming a librarian. (cue the light piano music and sit back and enjoy their journeys) Gadgets also were explored by Ruminations and Angels have the phone box II – with a definite leaning to iPhones (as is at least one meme doing the rounds) and snail making us all envious with his new Kindle. And finally, the foci on personal security and personal privacy were well explored by New Technology Interest Group and Bun-toting librarian respectively. Lots of great stuff there, so go and discover! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:35:37 +0100 854633 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6217 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Ethan Zuckerman tells Galvão to shut up. * danah boyd reverse engineers mainstream interest in 4chan. * Jake Shapiro opines on Apple's no-donation policy for apps. * David Weinberger is extroverted about his Internet exceptionalism. * And Doc Searls is still a utopian. * CMLP reads the FTC's collation of perspectives on saving print media. * Herdict on motivations for Net censorship in Indonesia. * Weekly Global Voices: "South Korea: Tensions Went Under World Cup Anesthestia" * New on Publius: "Moving Beyond One Size Fits All With Digital Citizenship" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "It’s a bit of a cliché to say that Americans don’t understand football, and especially don’t understand the importance of international tournaments like the World Cup. But sometimes we literally don’t understand what’s going on. As I write this post, “CALA BOCA GALVAO” is the top trending topic on Twitter. Galvao refers to Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Galvão Bueno, who announces Brazilian national football team matches on Rede Globo, a massive Brazilian television network. As Raphael Tsavkko Garcia explains on Global Voices, Galvão Bueno’s style of announcing is deeply unpopular in Brazil, and Brazilian twitterers have been posting their dissatisfaction: “Cala boca, Galvão” translates as “Shut up, Galvão”, and the phrase has been heavily in use since the global tournament started." From Ethan Zuckerman's blog post Save the Galvao – the World Cup and good natured global taunting "Amidst all of this, 4chan has “popped. ... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:15:00 +0100 853176 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/qs5Re5UmqXo/ I’ve been on leave, busy, or sick for most of June so far, so today was the first day I’ve had the chance to actually read all of the posts for any day, and I’m super impressed! Beyond the memes, Day 16 brought us videos: sallysetsforth posts a Simon’s Cat video, Connecting Librarian posts “Who You Gonna Call?”, and Walking Upside Down includes some TEDtalks in her musings on creativity. Among the biblioblogging gems of the day: Librarians Matter continues the discussion on ebooks and DRM; Creative Circ bounces some thoughts off an article about indignation in organisations; a Public Librarian asks about staff satisfaction surveys; Edgar on the New Technologies Interest Group’s Blog asks about philanthropically funded libraries in Australia; and, very practically, moonflowerdragon provides the html code for hanging indents for APA style reference lists. Of course librarians must talk fashion: sardonicsmile describes her “trying to keep warm in the library outfit” while haikugirloz writes about runners/sneakers and looking after your feet. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:31:40 +0100 853289 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/kWDFrKtTf0s/ Looking over what happened yesterday, day 15 in the 30 blog posts in 30 days challenge, it looks like there were a few people like me, who were starting to get challenged on the next blog post. But look at what treasures we all came up with! Apart from my blog news at Connecting Librarian, Bun-toting Librarian entertained us with streams of consciousness, moonflowerdragon got immersed in meanings behind tree graffiti and New Technologies Interest Group’s Blog posted a library joke. On the meaningful experience spectrum, Miss Sophie Mac went searching for the perfect paragraph and Just girl with shoes looked at personality profiling. On the sharing library related topic side of things, Sallysetsforth shared an ugly experience with a library user, Walking upside down shared space with the Shanachies, Librarians Matter shared her experience of using Wordpress for a library website, virtuallyalibrarian shared her frustration with library ebook services (me too!),  sardonicsmile shared her experience of librarians dating patrons and Creative Circ shared on data and research in librarianship. The memes also continue in strength, as do the personal discoveries, the crafts, the interesting moments, the achievements and so much more that have helped make the 30 blog posts in 30 days challenge such a success. Well done to all involved.  Keep up the good work! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:13:07 +0100 853290 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/96wrIQBwjmU/ With a public holiday across half the country, AFL matches and the early morning and early painful start to the day with the World Cup – there was a distinctly sleeperish feel to many of the days posts. Jenelle and Naomi blogged specifically on being tired with several others, Virtually a Librarian, FromMelbin, Bonito Club,  LiberryDwarf, Options from an OPL, Miss Sophie Mac,   mentioning long weekends, tiredness and similar themes for coming down with meme fever. Cookering is a recurring and delicious theme across the challenge.  For day 14 I was delighted with Sallysetsforth’s recipe for coconut macaroons which I have tasted and can personally attest to their yumminess.  Bookgrrl’s pumpkin feast is definitely one to write home about with thai pumpkin soup, pumpkin scones and red lentil and pumpkin dahl. Lastly on the foody theme, Walking Upside Down keeps me recipe guessing and salivating with her weekly menu plan. A special mention, I empathised with Justgirlwithshoes trying to dry laundry in Melbourne’s Winter but also celebrated in the construction of a new clothesline (this is close to my own heart, having just recently installed our own outdoor clothesline). Nearing the halfway mark, and with the Winter cold now firmly set in , reflecting also seemed to be on the cards. Librarian with different hats reflected specifically on #blogeverydayinJune and on how much she has learnt from other librarians and the value in reflecting on daily life. ... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:19:52 +0100 853291 http://acrlog.org/2010/06/14/reflections-on-blogging/ Editor’s Note: ACRLog is hosting a team of ALA Emerging Leaders. Each month one of our Emerging Leaders will contribute a guest post, and each will focus on some aspect of gearing up for the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. This month the series takes on a slightly different topic than the Annual Conference. Miriam Rigby, Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Librarian for Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnic Studies,Geography & Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, shares some thoughts about blogging. One of the questions posed to our Emerging Leaders team when we took on this project to write posts for ACRLog and ACRL Insider, was whether blogs were still relevant. Based on my habits, which include subscribing to over 60 blogs through Google Reader, my initial gut reaction was “of course!” But then I started wondering, “are blogs the new Second Life?” No offense to people who find Second Life useful or entertaining, but outside of the realms of librarianship and advertising, very few people I know think it is relevant; some are surprised to hear it still exists or is used at all. And these people are visibly shocked when I tell them of ACRL conference presentations in which Second Life is used, or even discussed. Anecdotes, to be sure – from a small pool of people no less – but noteworthy, I think. Blogs seem different though. The New York Times has dozens of blogs. There are mega-blogs run along the lines of traditional news sources, with multiple, regular columnists and editors; take Boing Boing or Gizmodo for instance. There are even peer-edited blogs such as In the Library With the Lead Pipe. ... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 852232 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/4JiNWLASVFI/ As we approach the mid-point of this challenge, meme madness has really set in. Saturday’s posts featured responses to a stack of memes that are doing the rounds, including a post from Kathryn who decided a meta meme post was in order. But we weren’t all a-memeing. Some were busy bartering with crafts, others were pondering why we continue to do stuff the way we always have, and others pondered the potential disconnect between ethics and organisational loyalty. Two posts yesterday really struck a chord with me. One of these was a post from Ruth, on her learnings from a day of crafty barter and other fun. This eloquent post is full of lots of little gems, like “It can be good to enjoy the process more, and worry less about the outcome”, “I will try new things with friends without feeling the pressure of needing to have an outcome” and (perhaps the most apt for me) “everyone in the world is more patient than me”. In the second post that stood out for me yesterday (another eloquent insight), Kalgrl reminded us that all people have a right to be treated with dignity and humanity. Go read it. We all need a reminder like this from time to time. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:24:09 +0100 853293 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/7-kBkUCXTyM/ Adding my 2c to the “unread by the bed” meme for the 30 posts in 30 days challenge. Currently reading: Margaret Attwood’s Oryx and Crake on my iPad. I work in a public library. Good books  follow me home. Most sit in the pile by the bed for a couple of months and then are returned, briefly opened, but unread. By the bed pile: Most  seem to be less known works by authors who have had a bestseller. The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga Tales from Firozsha Bahg, Rohinton Mistry My Nine Lives, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Telling Tales, Melissa Katsoulis history of literary hoaxes. I almost bought it as “aeroplane reading” last time I was in Melbourne, but it didn’t look wonderfully marvellous, so I saved my $$ House of Horrors, Nigel Hawthorne about the guy in Austria who kept his daughter locked away and had a second family of several kids with her. I picked up just any book when I was testing things on the database, forgot to return it and so I’m somehow reading it – sensationalist and voyeuristic Moral Disorder, Margaret Attwood Island Beneath the Sea, Isabel Allende Bleeding Kansas, Sara Paretsky set in Lawrence, Kansas where I spent a couple of weeks last year. Totally separate from the V. I. Washawski series Her Fearful Symmetry, Audrey Niffenegger half way through then read a review panning the last third of the book, so have a dilemma – I’m enjoying it so far, do I want to ruin it by completing the story ? Not next to the bed pile These ones are on the “library book” shelf and I haven’t picked them up, or they are on their way back and I can’t quite part with them yet. The Triumph of the Airheads, Shelley Gare About the decline of public intellectual standards in Australia. Skimmed it already The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch Unread. ... Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:17:59 +0100 851849 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/vAGQ9la50R4/ For many a long weekend awaits and 30 posts in 30 days is taking it’s toll. Keeping up with posting yourself plus reading and commenting on blogs is time-consuming albeit fascinating. So Friday is the day of the meme and photo. There are a number of memes doing the rounds: Book meme passed on by @flexnib Television meme started by @malbooth Traversal meme started by @snailx Show us your home screen meme started by @jenelle About you meme passed on by @gigglesigh It is a great way to find out more about fellow bloggers. I know now for example that there are a number of Doctor Who fans amongst the group. UTS bloggers @malbooth and @misssophiemac continue to challenge librarians/libraries to be more creative. Drawing a link between creativity and innovation. I must say that I agree without innovation we will stagnate and lose relevancy to our users. It can be risky thinking outside of the box and pushing boundaries but the benefits for an organisation are worth the risk. Which ties in nicely with the post by New Technologies Interest Group on the Empowering Change report – a call for open government, social media use and innovation in the public service. It is important that libraries keep an eye on what is happening with Gov2.0. There was also some prolific blogging from @snailx who is reviewing films from the Sydney Film Fest.  I have already started a list of must see films. Photo posts included Con with pictures of her chis and Kate shared stories about her dogs Daisy, Memphis and Edie. Our other Kate posted some terrific photos of shoes and craft. Have a lovely long weekend to all those fortunate enough to have one. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:33:42 +0100 851832 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/th85u9MRmuU/ I’ve been reading the book meme (Con) , TV meme (Mal), travel meme (Ghylene), the film meme (snail), the two things about you meme (Ghylene) and the “what’s your start screen?” meme (Jenelle) in the 30 posts in 30 days blog posts. Rather than write a post for each of  the memes, here is the shrink-lit version. I snack with most activity, Reading Garner, Helen or Smith, Zadie. Books are never marked or mutilated, I remember where my eyes were situated. . I don’t watch news, I do download stuff Being Erica,  Big Bang, and Big Love 90 second ABC News on iPad saves my time (Which I wouldn’t spend with Channel Nine) . Amsterdam is furthest North I’ve been, Cygnet in Tasmania most Southern I’ve seen, Calcutta’s bustle, history and vigour I’d recommend But not to a squeamish or nervous friend . Being There, The Graduate, Singin’ in the Rain, I could watch again and again, I love movies shot with 3D Sound of Music I’m yet to see*. . Two names I’ve had (from my mum), Bugalugs and Sparrow Bum, I’ve worked in a parade as a clown And  in an orchard thinning apples down . Now for the starting screen Briefest one you will have seen ‘Cause this is a shrinklit one Here’s the ap that I find most fun . . . . .*not really, I just wanted to give snail a heart attack – seen it 5 times and sang along each time Post 12 of the  30 posts in 30 days challenge. (Source: Librarians matter) Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:50:56 +0100 851850 http://itinerantlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/06/some-reading-related-book-meme-thing.html I cannot resist blogging a book related meme, so when I saw this one over at Ruminations, I had to do it. Now Constance Wiebrands, the blogger at Ruminations, is doing some crazy do a post every day for 30 days challenge. I call it crazy only because I don't have time to blog every day. Constance is a lot braver than I am at this point. Heck, I am lucky these days if I can blog once a week. Work has just taken a big toll of blogging, but one has to work to make a living, so you get the idea. At any rate, I am going to do a little something for fun for a change.The meme then:Do you snack while reading? Not really. When I am on the computer, I will eat in front of it. I often take my lunch while working, and I am often catching up on news over lunch. However, I don't usually eat while reading books. The exception is when I travel. If I am in some strange place, usually by myself, and I have a good book, I will read while I eat. What is your favorite drink while reading? A good cup of coffee. I can do tea too, or a small alcoholic drink, say Irish cream and milk. However, drinking alcohol while reading is extremely rare for me. Do you tend to mark your books while you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? If they are college textbooks, I don't mind marking them and making notes since I would usually need those notes later, and more often than not, the books are not keepers; they are getting sold back. Otherwise, I do not mark my books. I do make notes in my personal journal if I find passages in a book that interest me or that I want to remember. Overall, I do not like writing in books. The textbook exception is mostly because I see them as disposable (and often, since I bought them used, some other person may have already marked it, thus I don't feel obligated). How do you keep your place? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book open flat? Bookmarks. In fact, I have a small, but very nice collection of bookmarks. ... Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 851804 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/PGqWOG3lLtM/ Welcome to the commentary on day nine of the 30 posts in 30 days blogging event. I imagine that nine is an awkward number for this. The bigger milestone is tomorrow. If this were a marathon, day nine is when some people (like me) might start feeling the pain barrier. Anyway, this is what I noticed today, in no particular order- imaginings – if libraries didn’t need to worry about privacy, if a library was given a million dollars to improve circulation, a life where we have the time and means to be an artist memes – books (and a picture of a bookcase) and dinner and TV and more books useful professional ideas – not being so introspective and engaging with a broader group of stakeholders, Trove’s new list feature, using spreadsheets for data personal – pets, donating blood, purchases of books and bags, exhaustion, adjusting to being the mother of a teenager about blogging – where we draw lines between personal and professional and what goes on the blog, conserving ideas for future posts, how we got into blogging and how blogging has changed us discussion – Gov 2.0 in action, vodcast followed by a lively debate about the future of libraries in the post-gatekeeper era observations – Japanese chemist shops, ironic wardrobes, nuance, exhaustion and films life’s little victories – over white boards I am not a participant in this. I’m not a prolific blogger, maybe averaging at 12 posts per year. There are frequent moments when I wish I did more, but then I say to myself, less is more. I must admit to having some initial misgivings about this extended meme. I was worried that it could lead some padding, people blogging just because of the public commitment rather than 
because they really had a post to write. I was worried that the quality to quantity ratio would go through the floor. But no, I was wrong. Sometimes more is more. ... Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:12:02 +0100 851834 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/aGR4jZu_tcY/ Marketing guru Seth Godin has made a blog post listing a number of interesting suggestions to Amazon for how to win the e-book war. He suggests that Amazon should concentrate on price and come out with a stripped-down $49 “paperback” Kindle, that they could then give away free with purchase of a certain number of Kindle books, or with signing up for an e-book club. Writes Godin: The only way to get authors and publishers to embrace this device is to sell 20,000,000 of them. You either become the best and only platform for consuming books worth buying or you fail. And the only way to create that footprint in the face of an iPad is to make it so cheap to buy and use it’s irresistible. Godin has long been clueful about e-books. Back in 2001, he gave his book Unleashing the Ideavirus, about marketing via memes, away for free through Peanut Press. (I read it and found it fascinating. I wish I still had the Peanut Press/eReader version, but it has long since vanished from the site. He’s still giving away a PDF of it, though.) I agree that a $49 e-book reader would be a big advantage for whatever e-book seller is the first to come out with it. At the rate prices are falling overall, it’s probably not more than a year or two away. Related: Seth Godin on giving away e-books Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:15:00 +0100 851012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/N_haABZRzIo/ I must have spent a good work day today reading blogs – possible because I only worked half a day. I spent a large portion of my desk shift at work patiently going through Kate’s netvibes page. After returning home I resumed the task, and it’s now officially Day 9 of the challenge (at least in my time zone) and I am up to date with all of the blogs participating in this fabulous challenge. For the first time since it began. Chuffed? I think so. Zaana’s already summarised what’s happened meme-wise over the last few days, but I can see another meme emerging thanks to @KateTT, she’s set apubliclibrarian, ruminations and rien d’important thinking about their Fantasy Dinner Guests – and chefs. I’ve gotta say Ghylene, I think we’re on the same page there. Hamish without Andy but not the other way around – brilliant! Reading multiple posts from some of the blogs showed me how much we are feeding off each other – crafty posts started on the weekend have continued into the week, with Justgirlwithshoes making me wish I crocheted so I could keep my fingers as stylish as her daughter’s and liberrydwarf adding in her thoughts on the iPad. I was inspired by Bonito Club to blog about pets. Regular posts have begun to emerge as Walking Upside Down shares her weekly dinner menu (I can’t look at it as there are far too many carbs!) On stand-alone posts, I found out that I can give blood when I didn’t think I could thanks to moonflowerdragon and I continue to be moved by FromMelbin sharing memories of his brother with us. As it’s a weekday I notice a lot more library-related, or professional posts. I love the Librarians Matter post on blogging – definitely a think-post, and to me, a feel-post, as in we’re all still feeling our way through this blogging thing, and the personal/professional divide. ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:09:10 +0100 851835 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/4L4txAdVhHQ/ Week 1 in the #blogeverydayinJune challenge has come to a close.  It’s been an exciting and productive week to say the least! I am most impressed that all participating bloggers remain on the bandwagon to date. It seems @flexnib with her Day 6 meme about reading habits provided some light relief for a third of the blogging enthusiasts, particularly as some enjoyed a WA public holiday. The meme has provided some interesting librarian type revelations – drinking tea seems to be the favourite drink whilst reading with some very specific tea requirements – Lady Grey or green tea on Angels have the Phonebox, Madura loos in a pot for Strawberries of Integrity, Daintree white no sugar for moonflowerdragon and the very specific strong English Breakfast tea with a drop of milk and no sugar for our meme originator ruminations. Coffee made a fleeting appearance but in its generic coffee form, no grande double skinny mocha latte with a half sugar to be found! I was quite surprised to learn that perhaps I am the only librarian who regularly defaces books by marking them and making notes in them (and dare I add I have done this to a number of library books in my time – slap!).  I am grateful to Virtually a Librarian for joining in me as a confessed ‘dog earer’. With more respectable librarians it seems whilst bookmarks are preferred its more likely a receipt of some kind will be used. I must admit I have never considered the idea of being irritated by a book enough to throw it – although my mother did raise me with an immense respect for books (I cut my doll’s hair and drew all over them but I never once defaced a book – well in my childhood anyway!) But two of our meme participants admitted to it – LiberryDwarf threw Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper and whilst Feral Librarian Tales admitted to the ‘crime’ declined to share the victim. ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:23:19 +0100 851836 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/T0_7V1_6eoc/ …the librarians continued to blog. Personally, I’m not really sure what I was thinking when – without even a moment’s hesitation – I jumped on Con’s bandwagon and decided to join in with #posteverydayofjune. I have to tell you though, at 11.30pm on day six, the head scratching began in earnest: what on earth made me think I could blog more in a single month than I did in the last two years combined? And more importantly, what on earth could I possibly blog about, after a day of doing absolutely nothing? But not all #blogeverydayofjune-ers were similarly plagued. In fact, some of us managed to have our brains switched on to the important stuff, even on a Sunday. Kathryn continued in her quest to make ‘think’ posts throughout June, with a look at why she hasn’t left Facebook, while Michelle talked about motivation (and I wondered if she could possibly send some my way – though it’s not work related motivation I’m lacking, but motivation of the domestic kind). Sophie decried generalisations about the information seeking skills of the digital natives and told us that Information literacy is dead, long live information literacy (I hear you sister!). Over at Creative Circ, Ruth pondered whether academics should get longer loan periods than other university library customers – a slight challenge to me personally, as the equity-for-all librarian in me knew my reaction should be ‘of course not!’, while the academic with several research project balls in the air wanted to say ‘hell yes!’. On the non-library-world front, Penny kept the appliance love going, and Kate took us on travels of the literary, life and film varieties, from Sweden to Gungahlin to Abu Dhabi. ... Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:30:42 +0100 850200 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/05/memento-mori-muriel-spark-novel Muriel Spark's novel may be about the various physical and mental afflictions of old age, but far from being depressing or morbid, it is a wonderfully funny and exhilarating read, argues David Lodge'Memento Mori remains one of the great novels of the 1950s," Martin Stannard says in his excellent biography, Muriel Spark (2009), and indeed it does. But it was not a typical 50s novel, and it has not dated. Perhaps the only period-specific detail that would require annotation for younger readers is that cars parked in the streets at night in those days were obliged to have side and rear lights switched on. Formally the novel seems as fresh and original today as it did when it was first published, and thematically more relevant to the preoccupations and anxieties of the present century's first decade than to those of the 50s.The novel is about death – in itself a timeless subject – but specifically about death as variously perceived, feared, denied, and anticipated by the elderly. As medical treatment and technology continue to improve, especially in affluent developed countries, death is postponed longer and longer for more and more people, but this is a mixed blessing. We have to live longer with all the indignities and afflictions of old age, from incontinence to Alzheimer's, while we await the inevitable end, about which our secular materialistic society has nothing comforting to say. It is not surprising that a considerable number of novels and plays in the last decade or so have dealt with this subject matter – I have written one myself – but in the 50s it was an unusual choice for a youngish novelist at the beginning of her career.I say "youngish" because Spark was 41 when Memento Mori was published in 1959. ... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:06:10 +0100 849700 http://www.outilsfroids.net/news/i-expo-2010-ne-ratez-pas-l-atelier-de-la-veille-a-l-analyse Evenements_ - InfosOutilsFroidsComme je vous le disais hier Véronique Mesguich et moi-même allons animer une pleinière et deux ateliers lors d'I-Expo. J'ai déjà parlé de la pléinière alors qu'en est-il du premier atelier? Premièrement il se tiendra le 9 juin de 14h à 17h. Deuxièmement il devrait être particulièrement intéressant puisqu'il regroupe des spécialistes d'un sujet trop souvent balayé d'un revers de la main, celui de l'analyse de l'information issue du travail de recherche et de collecte mené par les veilleurs. Présentation :Nous sommes passés presque sans transition d'une ère où trouver l'information était un effort, à une ère où elle abonde et doit être filtrée sous peine de nous submerger. Si les outils nous permettant d'y accéder sont innombrables (moteurs de recherche, annuaires, ...), il en va différemment de ceux qui nous permettent d'en tirer parti, car, quel que soit le... (Source: Outils Froids) Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:52:35 +0100 849359 http://bibliotheque20.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/cons-terr-de-bib-changez-de-carriere/ Attention billet corporo-corporatiste * Ce jour, j’apprends que mon statut a changé depuis le 1er janv 2010. Je vais m’intéresser à la carrière des conservateurs territoriaux de bibliothèques –  hors conservateur en chef (je m’y intéresserais ds 10 ans  ;^P ) Ce que je comprends : Fusion des grades 1ere classe et 2e classe des conservateurs territoriaux des bibliothèques Point positif : vous ne pouvez plus rester coller au grade de cons’ terr’ 2e classe 3e echelon (mais est-ce que cela arrivait ??) Point négatif : ca va etre un peu plus long d’accéder aux plus hautes strates Bon, je suis pas très expert en RH-Adm°. Ca m’a pas l’air franchement débile ni indécent – meme si je pense que globalement : c’est moins bien (vous me direz, c’est pas comme si on n’avait pas déjà le statut le plus pourri de toute la filière culturelle, qui elle-même a le statut le plus pourri de toute la FPT) Je vous laisse : Le tableau comparatif que j’ai fait : cons_comparatif le pdf d’avant : Tableau_Conservateurs_carriere les pdfs actuels : indices    cons_indice / Déroulement cons_duree   Source : décret : 2009-1582 et 2009-1583. Chercher : là  * ADDENDUM Simulation Avant , En 14 ans, si vs avez passé deux ans au 3e echelon de 2e classe, Vs avez gagné 100 - et êtes sur la dernière marche depuis 10 mois si vs avez passé un an au 3e echelon de 2e classe, Vs avez gagné : 103 – et êtes sur la dernière marche depuis 22 mois Après, En 14 ans, Vs avez gagné 100.5 - et êtes sur la dernière marche depuis 0 mois * NB : Formule très simple : Somme (Indice*durée min) à chaque échelon (Source: Des Bibliothèques 2.0) Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:24:52 +0100 850462 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/AjI71DQzE8E/ In the previous post I reviewed a video interview with the talented Jordan Frank from Traction Software, which was on social tools and ad-hoc processes. This video got me inquiring further into what others have said about this over the past couple of years. So I headed to my bookmark collection, and this post is what resulted. But first I’ll repeat a few highlights from Jordan’s interview: Workflow systems are great until they fail…a need to have a collaboration safety net. Collaboration is not necessarily about making the things that are planned go right, it’s about dealing with the things that are unplanned that go wrong It’s hard to troubleshoot when what happened till now is not easily accessible or not recorded in a raw fashion You can’t anticipate a workflow for fixing a problem (with social tools like Teampage) you can model informal processes on the fly Make sure when business conditions change your business processes don’t get left behind I also linked to one of Traction whitepaper’s that demonstrates the bottom-up enabling tools we now have to better cope with getting things done, and by default achieving the original aims of KM and being an agile organisation. Emergence by default Social computing is about many things: discovery, connection, conversation, emergence, crowdsourcing, transparency, engagement, innovation, collaboration, findability, diversity, sharing, learning, helping, sense-making… Helping and sense-making have an immediate impact eg. stuck on an issue, asking a question, getting an answer and moving on…whilst this happened others got to learn for free. In a way emergence happens anyway as a result of sense-making ie. emergence that surfaces from "In-the-flow" working, which is in contrast to "Above-the-flow" emergence (crowdsourcing, sharing your experience, etc). ... Sat, 29 May 2010 09:15:20 +0100 847946 http://bibliotheque20.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/le-user-content-est-il-compatible-avec-linstitution-culturelle-en-france-le-cas-nuit-des-musees-2010/ La nuit des musées. Evenement européen, formidable, qui, me semble t il, marche très bien. Les musées sont blindés, la soirée, pour peu qu’il fasse beau, toujours réussie : Tous les Francais se retrouvent ainsi au musée une fois par an. Franchement cette nuit des musées est une vraie réussite. La nuit des musées 2.0 En 2010, Fluctuat.net nous le rappelle, ils ont fait les choses en grand en matière de comm’ en ligne. Orchestré par la plume de l’incontournable Buzzeum : Blog compte twitter et hashtag dédié groupe flickr compte facebook et groupe (je crois, mais j’ai pas trouvé – je comprends décidément rien à Facebook) groupe dailymotion Comm’ avec affichage et “QR code” sur les affiches Mon point de vue sur les résultats L’institution à la très bonne idée de nous faire un retour chiffré et vrai sur cette nuit. Franchement c’est modique. Voyons-en quelques uns : Vous pouviez poser vos photos de la “Nuit” sur votre comptes flickr et les tagger pour qu’elles remontent. Résultat : 31 membre et 71 photos Vous pouviez poser vos vidéos de la “Nuit” sur votre comptes dailymotion et les tagger pour qu’elles remontent. Résultat : 14 membre et 18 vidéos – alors qu’il y avait des voyages à gagner !!! Franchement c’était le bon plan… Le compte Facebook n’est pas spécialement plein d’amis (d’autant que 75% d’entre eux doivent être des muséo-geeks du secteur) et le mur n’est pour ainsi dire pas commenté Le groupe sur Facebook (Heureusement Buzzeum nous donne le lien) aurait pu marcher (genre : “on fait un apéro géant au Louvre ce soir : qui en est ? ” – “Et nous, une beuh-tournante à Pompidou”), et a qd meme 1.800 fans. ... Fri, 28 May 2010 12:45:18 +0100 848610 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/05/25/may-25th-stream.html Posted acarvin: Zarrella: If you have 100k followers and 10% of users RT, & 10% of theirs also RT, etc, meme dies out in six generations. #g2e. Posted acarvin: Zarrella: the more links you tweet in an hour, each link gets fewer clicks. More clicks on wknds b/c fewer tweets then. #g2e. Posted ALA_TechSource: RT @librarythingtim: LibraryThing/Facebook integration, phase 1: Reviews http://bit.ly/d7H3c1. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Wed, 26 May 2010 04:57:18 +0100 848123 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1985 Le W3C vient d'annoncer le lancement d'un groupe d'incubation "Bibliothèques et Web de données" (Library linked data). Pour moi, c'est l'aboutissement de plusieurs mois de réflexions, prises de contact, argumentation, maturation, explications, bref pas mal de travail pour aboutir à ce résultat, même si ce n'est qu'un début ! Je suis donc extrêmement heureuse de pouvoir vous en dire plus sur cette initiative. Pourquoi le W3C ? Le W3C est le principal organisme de normalisation du Web. Traditionnellement, les bibliothèques font un important travail de normalisation, soit au sein d’organismes propres à leur communauté (IFLA) soit au sein d’organismes de normalisation traditionnels (ISO, AFNOR). La normalisation est d'ailleurs perçue comme un réel atout de notre communauté. Aujourd’hui, la tendance est à la recherche de convergence, c'est-à-dire à ne plus faire des normes spécifiques à une communauté, mais des normes valables dans un environnement plus global. S’agissant de technologies de l’information, cet environnement global s’appelle le Web. Il est donc vital que les bibliothèques, aujourd’hui presque totalement absentes de la normalisation au W3C, se mobilisent et se coordonnent pour y participer. La participation à tous les groupes de normalisation qui travaillent sur des standards potentiellement applicables en bibliothèque est inenvisageable. Ces groupes sont trop nombreux, leur propos est souvent très technique et requerrait de mobiliser fortement les informaticiens des bibliothèques, ce qui est impossible. L’autre solution était donc de créer une structure, au sein du W3C, correspondant au domaine des bibliothèques, qui leur permettrait de s’exprimer en tant que communauté sur leurs besoins et leurs usages des normes du W3C. C'est le rôle de ce groupe. ... Fri, 21 May 2010 06:57:16 +0100 847534 http://figoblog.org/node/1985 Le W3C vient d'annoncer le lancement d'un groupe d'incubation "Bibliothèques et Web de données" (Library linked data). Pour moi, c'est l'aboutissement de plusieurs mois de réflexions, prises de contact, argumentation, maturation, explications, bref pas mal de travail pour aboutir à ce résultat, même si ce n'est qu'un début ! Je suis donc extrêmement heureuse de pouvoir vous en dire plus sur cette initiative. Pourquoi le W3C ? Le W3C est le principal organisme de normalisation du Web. Traditionnellement, les bibliothèques font un important travail de normalisation, soit au sein d’organismes propres à leur communauté (IFLA) soit au sein d’organismes de normalisation traditionnels (ISO, AFNOR). La normalisation est d'ailleurs perçue comme un réel atout de notre communauté. Aujourd’hui, la tendance est à la recherche de convergence, c'est-à-dire à ne plus faire des normes spécifiques à une communauté, mais des normes valables dans un environnement plus global. S’agissant de technologies de l’information, cet environnement global s’appelle le Web. Il est donc vital que les bibliothèques, aujourd’hui presque totalement absentes de la normalisation au W3C, se mobilisent et se coordonnent pour y participer. La participation à tous les groupes de normalisation qui travaillent sur des standards potentiellement applicables en bibliothèque est inenvisageable. Ces groupes sont trop nombreux, leur propos est souvent très technique et requerrait de mobiliser fortement les informaticiens des bibliothèques, ce qui est impossible. L’autre solution était donc de créer une structure, au sein du W3C, correspondant au domaine des bibliothèques, qui leur permettrait de s’exprimer en tant que communauté sur leurs besoins et leurs usages des normes du W3C. C'est le rôle de ce groupe. ... Fri, 21 May 2010 06:57:16 +0100 846769 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/iM7QoEZYzqY/ My posts of late have been on the DIY meme, which is possible now that we have enabling social tools. These grassroots tools empower you to achieve part of your vision, and hopefully your visibility will lead to others helping you finalise it. I’m hoping that my current project I’m tinkering on will be an example of this concept. I’m not building it using social tools, but I will spread the word using social tools. I figure you get more participation with some good design thinking. That’s why my vision is for a browserless desktop app that streams latest content from our CoPs and allows you post to the CoP eg. something like Tweetdeck. Now I’m not a techie person, I have limited skills…but my limited skills will get me further than trying to get something approved and developed. This idea would not be seen as important, but hopefully it will be once people are hooked on a Proof of Concept version. I have made a HTA file on my desktop that opens a little pop-up box. It lists all the blogs, forums and wikis that I regularly use, and even has links to the post entry form for each object. This is so much better than opening a browser and using my Favourites, and better than a desktop folder with lots of shortcuts. My little app is nicely presented as a list with some fancy javascript accordion features, and a window that rolls-up. BTW - I don’t understand how it works, I just found stuff on the net and chunked it together and tested and tweaked it till it worked. I can share this file so others can use it. Even better I have the contents of the file in an iFrame the refers to a HTML page on our server. This way I can write new versions and not have to re-issue people new files. Anyway, so far so good. But what I really want is to be able to publish content to the CoP from inside the app (which I can already do if the links open within the app, but this is not ideal). ... Sun, 16 May 2010 21:30:04 +0100 844613 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/08/pablo-picasso-politics-exhibition-tate Tate Liverpool's new exhibition explores Picasso's politics. Despite his devotion to the French communists, the artist really subscribed only to a party of one – himself. By Alex Danchev'Art is never chaste," said Pablo Picasso. "Art is dangerous." Picasso was not much of a speech-maker, but he could surely turn a phrase. His characteristic mode of intervention was single-burst point-scoring. He was a riddler. "Braque and James Joyce," he told Gertrude Stein, "are the incomprehensibles that anybody can understand." He relished the flip, the quip, the bon mot; he delighted in making mischief. "It's well-hung," he said, of a rival's exhibition. He who invented so much did not invent self-fashioning, but he is the supreme exemplar of artistic self-fashioning in modern times. He was a consummate self-publicist. "You can't be a sorcerer all day long," he remarked knowingly to André Malraux. It was but a short step from shaman to showman.When it came to his art, he was serious as a pope. Towards the end of the second world war, he was goaded by an interviewer on the relationship between art and politics. He interrupted the interview to hurl himself on a piece of paper and scribble a statement, a mini-manifesto, so that he would not be misunderstood. "What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he's a poet – or even, if he's a boxer, only some muscles? Quite the contrary, he is at the same time a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously? No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 23:09:11 +0100 842253 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6088 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Stuart Shieber maximizes his irony. * Ethan Zuckerman maps the ROFLverse. * CMLP on science journalism online. * Doc Searls is reading an encyclopedia of economic history. * John Palfrey gears up to write a new book. * Weekly Global Voices: "Announcing the Breaking Borders Award Winners" * David Weinberger's book slips the leash. * ProjectVRM springs your shopping cart. * Peter Suber freezes the OAN blog. * Jake Shapiro posts his talk from the FCC's recent public media workshop. * A year ago in the Buzz: "Theater of the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "Justin Zobel has described his experience in submitting three papers to the 2002 WMSCI conference, all three completely unsuitable for publication in any venue whatsoever. (One, for instance, consisted of alternating sentences from two other papers on different topics. Zobel’s excerpts of the papers form very entertaining reading.) All three were accepted for publication with no reviews or comments provided, even after repeated prompting." From Stuart Shieber's blog post World’s most excruciatingly ironic conference? "Turns out I was underestimating ROFLCon. Yes, there were panels where the main question seemed to be, “What’s it like to be a microcelebrity”… which may have included the panel danah and I moderated. And yes, there’s nothing to make you feel old and decrepit like walking into a panel where you don’t know a single one of the internet memes being celebrated. (No, I’d never heard of cornify. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 22:00:00 +0100 842370 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/9UonWOjX6aU/ It’s been exactly a month since we last took a systematic look at the population of ebook price points in the Kindle Store, so it seems a good time for a fresh look after five weeks of experience with the agency model. under the agency model, we were told, some of the big publishers were colluding with Apple to take retail ebook pricing out of the hands of retailers such as the Kindle Store and replace Amazon’s standard of $9.99 as a price for newly released ebooks with a 30% to 50% increase to price points between $12.99 and $14.99. The remarkable news is that very little has changed when it comes to Kindle Store ebook prices, and if anything in the past 30 days the trends are toward lower prices. Alas, publishers! How can you make collusive price fixing work if some of you are playing for an edge and hoping that your partners, er, competitors will maintain their unpopular high prices? After a brief period in late March and early April when we saw slight increases in the percentage of books prices over $9.99, there have been small but significant decreases at the same levels since April 7. Among the 511,259 ebook listings in the Kindle Store as of 9 a.m. today, May 7, 2010, the total percentage of books prices above $9.99 has decreased from 22.69% to 21.73%, essentially a full percentage point. Meanwhile, while the percentage of titles priced at exactly $9.99 has decreased slightly from 11.01% to 10.62% during the past months, listings at all price points from 99 cents up to $9.98 have increased. Other recent trends: - The overall size of the Kindle Store catalog has continued to increase by about 800 titles a day, growing from about 487,000 on April 7 to over 511,00 this morning. - The increase of over 63,000 in the number of Kindle Store titles since February 25 is roughly equivalent to the total number of listings in Apple’s iBooks Store at launch. - The number of free titles in the Kindle Store declined from 4.2% to 4. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 17:10:34 +0100 842160