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 RSS interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:52:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/03/vufind.html VuFind, the open-source discovery tool has released a new version.The next significant version of VuFind has been released this morning. Here are some of the highlights of the new release:Improved support for non-MARC metadata and authority recordsNew search tools: autosuggesters, snippets, keyword highlighting, alphabetical heading browseAlternate jQuery-based theme (for tighter integration with non-YUI sites)- Easier and more powerful favorite list managementMore API integration: book previews through Google Books/OpenLibrary/Hathi Trust, cover images from B&T Content CaféExpanded OAI-PMH and RSS output capabilitiesBetter discovery by search engines with automatic sitemap XML generation toolNumerous bug fixes, plus better-commented and standardized codeFor more information, and to download the new release, please visit http://vufind.org. (Source: Catalogablog) Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895898 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/vbpnqurgSdM/ Hace ya unas semanas he estado probando Google Chrome y debo decir que se ha convertido en mi navegador por defecto. He estado utilizando FireFox por varios años pero su lentitud y sus “crasheos” continuos me han llevado a migrar a Google Chrome. Seguiré usando a FF pero como navegador secundario. Además de su estabilidad y velocidad, Chrome me ha impresionado por su gran número de extensiones y lo fácil que es instalar y desinstalar las mismas. Comparto una lista de extensiones que son indispensables para el educador 2.0: 1. Diigo: Un complemento esencial para los que usamos el marcador social Diigo. 2. Adblock: Para navegar las páginas web sin anuncios 3. After the Deadline: Excelente corrector gramatical 4. Amplify: Permite cortar partes de una página y bloguear o “tuitear” la misma. 5. Diccionarios RAE: Para buscar  la definición de las palabras que necesite en dos diccionarios  de la Real Academia Española: Diccionario de la Lengua Española y Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas. 6.  Google Quick Scroll: Permite saltar directamente a los temas relevantes de un resultado de búsqueda de Google. 7. Wikipedia Companion: Extensión esencial para los usuarios de Wikipedia   8. Hootsuite Hootlet: Extensión para los usuarios de Hootsuite que facilitar publicación de textos en Twitter y Facebook . 9. Posterous for Chrome: La extensión esencial para usar Posterous desde Chrome 10. Awesome Screenshot: Excelente extensión de los creadores de Diigo para captura toda la pantalla o cualquier porción, anotar con rectángulos, círculos, flechas, líneas y texto, subir y compartir con un clic. 11. Google Reader RSS Subscriber: Permite subscribir un canal de RSS al  Google Reader pulsando un solo botón. 12. Quick Note: Para incluir tus notas relacionadas a determinada página web. También se pueden incluir imágenes. En total estoy usando más de 50 extensiones en Chrome. ... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:38:20 +0100 895823 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/ipad-media-publishers-need-to-rethink-their-strategies/ More opinion pieces based on the reports of declining iPad magazine sales have come to light. One by Mathew Ingram on the GigaOM blog widens the scope to look not just at magazines but at all those who put out content for the iPad. Ingram quotes a blog post by venture capitalist Fred Wilson, who makes a very quotable point about the strange preoccupation some publishers have with getting their content onto the iPad: I don’t understand why anyone would ever think that adding a presentation layer on top of web based content would make it something people would want to purchase when they are not willing to purchase the same content directly on the web. In other words, if people aren’t willing to pay for something on the web, that they can easily quote, relink, and otherwise share with their friends, why would they pay for something even more locked down? (And certainly, why would they pay full cover price for it?) And many of these apps don’t even try to take advantage of the multimedia capabilities that the iPad offers: they simply lock their web content up and try to charge for it. On his “Reflections of a Newsosaur” blog, veteran journalist Alan D. Mutter makes much the same points. Discussing the Wired magazine app, to which 61% of those who purchased the most recent issue gave the lowest possible score on the iTunes store’s review chart, he writes: The app is little more than a digital dupe of the print product, with scant interactivity to leverage the power of this sophisticated digital platform. “That’s not Wired,” said an iTunes customer identified as byron246. “It’s tired.” And he also points out the magazines tend to be glitch-ridden, too costly, and unsubscribable. “In other words, the hassle factor is too high.” The iPad and its apps are good for some amazing things—games, social networking, and devouring content in freer form using RSS readers and Flipboard. ... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:15:00 +0100 895815 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/eC6Mm0oVw6U/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: "Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford," "Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm," "Trust Me, I'm an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors," and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?" and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Google Book Search and Metadata," "Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?," and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force" and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes "The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?" and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Non-users' Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano" and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It," "OA Repositories: The Researchers' Point of View," "Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model," and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes "Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing," "Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal," and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:08:58 +0100 895591 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/reeder-adds-readability-article-scooping-support-fails-to-stir-up-controversy/ I just got around to doing a software update on my iPad. Among others it fetched a new update to the Reeder RSS reader, containing a remarkably useful feature that I am extremely glad to have. Although I mentioned the Reeder vs. MobileRSS controversy last week at the time the update actually came out, the nature of the update escaped my notice until now. Reeder has added a Readability button to its user interface. When I encounter a RSS feed that does not provide the whole article (some feeds are especially obnoxious that way—most notably The Bookseller’s, which only provides the first seven words of the article), I just hit the button and it uses Arc90’s Readability to fetch and render it into an easily-readable text version within Reeder’s normal interface, indistinguishable from a full-feed RSS post. Which means I no longer have to bother visiting the site, waiting for it to render, and squinting at the page trying to read it. (Or just starring the article and going back to read it later on my computer.) Of course, this doesn’t help with feeds such as Techmeme or Google News that contain links to other articles rather than the text of the articles themselves, but for reading feeds like The Bookseller or Ars Technica, I’ll take it gladly. Of course, I doubt that Ars Technica is any more pleased with this innovation than it was with the similar Safari Reader (which also used Readability code). Ars’s Editor in Chief Ken Fisher was upset enough with the Safari Reader function only giving ad impressions from one page, but Reeder users now don’t have to see any ad impressions at all from the site. (Also, full text RSS feeds of Ars Technica are only available to those who pay money to subscribe—which Reeder now essentially bypasses. ... Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:15:00 +0100 895407 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/The-Tempo-of-Process-Innovation-72886.aspx Innovation. Collaboration. Mobility. Cloud. These are the hallmarks of next-generation business process solutions?and the business process management (BPM) software that will enable them. It is no longer sufficient to drive benefits at the edges; BPM must drive fundamental change and growth across the organization. Select involvement in process improvement will not radically transform a business; all employees at all levels (both on-site and in the field) must "be part of the process" in active collaboration. Finally, the cost and scalability benefits of BPM SaaS (software as a service) must be fully realized.In short, business process management software must leverage the latest advances in social technologies and application delivery to increase an organization's tempo in responding to change and growing the business.BR>BPM today does some things very well. It automates repetitive processes to improve throughput and capacity. It increases efficiencies. . . . (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 895365 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Adding-Agility-to-BPM-with-BAM-72885.aspx A business process is a series of connected events that begins with an input and ends with an output. Your business process management application uses roles, resources, business rules and more to achieve increases in process speed, efficiency and effectiveness. But these results alone may not be enough: Your customers also want consistency in the output; adaptability to changes; and always "faster, better, cheaper." To achieve maximum return to the business, don't settle for a "black box" process that is concerned only with inputs and outputs. To achieve consistency in performance, you need to establish standards that are continually measured and reported in a timely manner. Your process must be adaptable in both its execution and its design as requirements change. The process should build in and facilitate a capability for continuous improvement.The key to achieving these additional goals is process visibility. If the process is visible, it can be measured. . . . (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 895364 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Who-Thinks-About-BPM3f-Not-Me.-Do-You3f-72884.aspx It's inevitable that a discussion regarding business process management has to stumble over definitions. When I sit down to think about it, it's clear as glass that everybody, in some way, accomplishes BPM every day. Whether it's a formalized, codified set of practices, or just a random "that's how we've always done it" kind of thing, BPM is ingrained in every business process you can think of. Otherwise, chaos would reign, life as we know it would cease, cats would be sleeping with dogs? it would be a righteous mess.But do people think of their jobs in terms such as "business process management." Does anyone get up in the morning and say, "Better get to the office, I've got lots of business process managin' to do."That one got a laugh from Karin Ondricek. Karin (pronounced KAH-rin) is senior marketing manager for content management and archiving at EMC Corporation. We talked for a while last week. I had planned for us to talk about the market for BPM, but we ended up talking more about the process of BPM. . . . . (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 895363 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/helpful-advice-for-new-kindle-owners/ Here are some handy tips from actual Kindle owners to newcomers who just got one in the past few days. I cribbed most of these from this Amazon Discussion Forum thread, and although I’ve edited it down to the ones I personally vouch for, the whole thread is worth a look if you’re just getting started. Shopping Don’t feel compelled to grab every free book offer just because it’s free. At the same time, don’t hesitate on free offers that interest you, because a lot of deals are time-sensitive. Pressing Alt+Home will take you straight to the Kindle store on your device. Take advantage of samples to help curb your impulse buys. Use eReaderIQ.com to keep an eye on expensive Kindle titles, so you can be alerted if the price drops. If you share your Kindle account with others, or if you like to maintain a gift card balance just for books, consider setting up a second account on Amazon that’s reserved solely for the Kindle. The Device Learn which Kindle model you own, so you can troubleshoot it or look for accessories for it without confusion.Here’s a chart to help you out. If you only occasionally deal with damp places when reading your Kindle, try a Ziploc-style plastic bag that seals. However, don’t rely on it for higher-risk areas like pools or boats–invest in a waterproof case or bag. Instead of turning it off, put your Kindle in sleep mode when you’re not reading it, by sliding and releasing the power button. Only turn off your Kindle completely (by holding the power switch for 5-7 seconds) if you’re not going to use it for a week or more. To save battery life, turn off the wireless function if you don’t need it. You can turn this on/off under the main menu. Download Calibre and use it on your PC the way you would use iTunes–that is, to organize all of your ebooks. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:36:34 +0100 895261 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/ecologia/navidad-y-ecologia/ La Navidad y, por extensión, el invierno, es una época delicada ecológicamente hablando. En estas fechas, por razones obvias, el consumo se multiplica y produce un aumento considerable de desechos de todo tipo, tanto orgánicos como inorgánicos. Reaprovechar las cajas y el papel de envolver, utilizar musgo comercializado con autorización, reciclar la basura por su naturaleza o procurar regalar productos “sostenibles” son iniciativas que todos deberíamos tener habitualmente, sin aplicar a fechas concretas ni necesitar que nos lo recuerden. Sin embargo hay dos elementos que ocupan, de un tiempo a esta parte, los temas medioambientales. El más antiguo es el del árbol de Navidad. Hace años se hizo campaña para incentivar el uso de abetos artificiales porque así se evitaba la tala y, además, se podían guardar hasta el año siguiente. Pero últimamente se está imponiendo la idea contraria, avalada además por los colegios de Ingenieros de Montes e Ingenieros Técnicos Forestales: mejor utilizar árboles auténticos, ya que los otros generan gases de efecto invernadero durante su fabricación y tranporte. Los naturales, en cambio, ayudan a regular el dióxido de carbono durante su crecimiento y al terminar se pueden plantar en el jardín o ser recogidos por los servicios municipales para trasplantar o triturar y fabricar abono. Todo esto, claro, dando por sentado que se recurra a viveros, no a talarlos en el bosque.El otro elemento es la sal que se usa para derretir la nieve al disminuir el punto de congelación del agua. Cada año se emplean cientos de toneladas en España en carreteras, aceras, escaleras, calles y accesos. Sin embargo en otros países, y especialmente en sitios donde nieva mucho más que aquí como el norte de Europa, EEUU o Canadá, ha dejado de utilizarse o está muy restringida, con multas incluso. ... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 06:00:26 +0100 895132 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/ciencia/inventan-un-generador-electrico-de-pulsera/ El pasado 6 de diciembre se celebró en San Francisco el IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, una especie de jornadas que sirven para la presentación de inventos relacionados con la energía. Una de las novedades más llamativas fue este generador híbrido que produce electricidad a partir de la luz o de la diferencia de temperatura, según las condiciones que haya en el entorno.Ideado, al menos inicialmente para ayudar en las tareas agrarias, funciona con un sistema de semiconductores aplicado a una banda elástica que sirve de soporte y se adapta a la muñeca de una persona. Cuando hace buen tiempo trabaja en modo fotovoltaico y, cuando la luz solar no es suficiente, pasa al modo temperatura.Lo fabrica Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 06:00:06 +0100 895133 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/mobilerss-copies-reeder-interface-backs-down-when-called-on-it/ Yesterday, the developer of the Reeder RSS reader (which I’ve found to be the best RSS reader for either iPhone or iPad) noticed that MobileRSS’s latest version had added some disturbing similarities to Reeder’s interface. He posted some comparison shots on his site and tweeted about it, and the forces of indignant social-network-using Reeder fans went to work. It wasn’t long before both Instapaper and Read It Later, two of the major bookmarking/reformat reading services, both threw their support behind Reeder, and shortly afterward MobileRSS’s developer said it would be resubmitting the app with the similarities to Reeder removed. One of the things I find most interesting about this is that it’s a case of a “ripoff” similarity that was resolved not through costly, lengthy legal action, but rather through the voices of indignant users and curious press—and resolved within a day of its announcement, at that. If you’ve got the community on your side, do you really need the lawyers? (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:15:00 +0100 894678 http://50.16.230.151/article/thursday-threads-2010w51/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurner When I say “<blank> is a question answering system. A question can be posed in natural language and … <blank> can come up with a very precise answer to that question” — what comes to mind to fill in the <blank>? If you guessed a system developed by IBM to appear alongside human contestants on Jeopardy, you’d be right. That quote comes from video posted by IBM earlier this year that is the topic of the first DLTJ Thursday Threads entry. This weeks other entries look at possible erosions of copyright first sale doctrine, the state of open access publishing, and a proposition for new definitions to terms of art in data modeling.If you find these threads 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.Reference Librarian of the Future? IBM Supercomputer ‘Watson’ to Challenge ‘Jeopardy’ StarsIBM 'Watson' Video on YouTubeAn I.B.M. supercomputer system named after the company’s founder, Thomas J. Watson Sr., is almost ready for a televised test: a bout of questioning on the quiz show “Jeopardy.” I.B.M. and the producers of “Jeopardy” will announce on Tuesday [December 14, 2010] that the computer, “Watson,” will face the two most successful players in “Jeopardy” history, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, in three episodes that will be broadcast Feb. 14-16, 2011.For I.B.M., “Watson” is an important test of artificial intelligence. Scientists there have been talking to “Jeopardy” about a man vs. machine match-up for the better part of two years. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:06:53 +0100 895465 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/seguridad/hidden-para-mac-gratis-hasta-enero/ Hidden es una solución de seguridad para mac que funciona como ya es habitual en este tipo de software. Lo instalas en el macbook y, si te lo roban, puedes activar el software via web para que haga fotos de los cacos y revele su posición por geolocalización.Normalmente su precio son 20 dólares, que tampoco está mal para una solución de este tipo, pero resulta que ahora nos lo ofrecen gratis total hasta que termine el año.En Neumattic pueden leer por que siempre es bueno disponer de algo como esto en nuestro mac.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:09:47 +0100 895134 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/diseno/ataudes-ecologicos-para-todos-los-gustos/ No es la primera vez que hablamos del tema ni, probablemente, será la última, puesto que cada poco aparecen nuevas propuestas. Buscar la forma de construir ataúdes “sostenibles”, que sean respetuosos con el medio ambiente no sólo en el proceso de descomposición sino en la propia fabricación, es ya una constante y hay empresas funerarias que trabajan regularmente en ello.Un buen ejemplo lo tenemos en los modelos de la foto. Parece que se imponen los diseños a base de mimbre y otras variedades vegetales (incluso hay uno de hoja de plátano), que son perfectos tanto para enterrar como para la cremación. También es curioso el de lana. Hay alguno para frikis, como el que tiene aspecto de iPhone pero todos son de materiales reciclables y autodegradables. A mí, sin embargo, el más insólito me parece el submarino, pensado para que sirva de refugio a los peces y base para el crecimiento de algas.En este enlace se puede consultar el post completo.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:00:59 +0100 895135 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/mEwp63KA2c8/4465 This came across a few lists I’m on today and I thought it would be beneficial to some of you. Using the file that some Colorado Libraries have created you can import a batch of freely available ebook classics to your system. More info here: The Colorado Library Consortium created a project to clean up the most popular MARC records from Project Gutenberg called eDiscover the Classics. We identified the top 500 or so downloads and cleaned up those records and made them available to other libraries. We launched the website a few weeks at: http://www.clicweb.org/e_discover/e_discoverhome.html Since that time the records have been further enhancements by Douglas County Libraries and University of Denver. If you have already downloaded the MARC records we encourage you to get the new set of records and reload them into your catalog. Here is a link explaining our clean-up efforts: http://www.clicweb.org/e_discover/history%20of%20record%20enhancement%20.pdf Please consider these MARC records a gift to the library community! The more patrons think of libraries as a source for content for their Kindles, Nooks, IPads, MP3 players, etc – the better! Valerie Horton Related posts:Free Audio Books eXtensible Catalog (XC) gets more funding Penguin RSS (Source: What I Learned Today...) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:53:42 +0100 894487 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6526 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 22, 2010 [SAVE THE DATE 1/11] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Master Switch" with Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2011/01/wu) [SAVE THE DATE] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE MASTER SWITCH ================================================================================== 1/11/11, 12:00pm ET, Harvard Law School **Please note earlier start time for this date only** RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) Topic: The Master Switch Guests: Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch and Professor of Law at Columbia University Tim Wu presents his widely acclaimed new book THE MASTER SWITCH:  The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. "A Masterpiece" - Lawrence Lessig.   "A ripping yarn" - The Atlantic About Tim Tim Wu is an author, policy advocate and author of The Master Switch.  He is a professor at Columbia Law School, the chairman of media reform organization Free Press. Wu was recognized in 2006 as one of 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine, and in 2007 Wu was listed as one of Harvard's 100 most influential graduates by 02138 magazine. Tim Wu's best known work is the development of Net Neutrality theory, but he has also written about copyright, international trade, and the study of law-breaking. He previously worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc.), and Harvard Law School. Wu has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Forbes, Slate magazine, and others. He can sometimes be found at Waterfront Bicycles, and he once worked at Hoo's Dumplings. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:48:00 +0100 894458 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/Vx2VookZpHA/ Originally posted as a comment on Brian Kelly’s Is It Too Late To Exploit RSS In Repositories?: I used to advocate the adoption of RSS a lot, and came across some of the problems you mention repeatedly, such as the inability to consume certain pages in off-the-shelf feed consuming apps. Many of the problems resulted from non-standard character encodings, or incorrectly encoded item.description text. Links/URLs were occasionally missing or pointless (e.g. pointing to the root domain from which the feed was served, rather than anything relating to the particular feed item). Generating sensible URLs for feed items could also turn up issues with the way pages were served, eg on sites where session variables or other arbitrary keys were required. The reason the problems were allowed to slip through was because of the context in which the feeds were published. Eg request goes in for ‘we need a feed’; developer adds feed, runs it through validator, job done. But the job isn’t done, just as the job isn’t done when a someone publishes a public/open data set but doesn’t do anything more than that, or someone publishes an OER and considers that now it’s public, it’s useful. I spend way too much of my time trying to glue things together, and finding more often than not that they don’t play nice. For example, Guardian datastore data often falls just short of being easily combined with other data sets, even other Guardian datastore published datasets, though this is getting better all the time as workflows are tweaked ever so slightly… One possible solution, where things are published /with the intentions that others re* them/ is for the publisher to demonstrate a simple remix or combination with at least one other information source. If you publish an RSS feed, demonstrate one or two off-the-shelf ways of consuming it. This is what any user is likely to try first, so save them the grief of finding out it doesnlt work by making sure it does. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:39:06 +0100 895052 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/SW12BPQvIpM/the_year_in_writing_2010.php This has become something of a tradition at Searchblog (well, OK, it's the second time in three years), in which I review the year in posts and note those of which I am particularly proud. For me it's a way to remember what I've been on about, and catalog some of my sketches for further work (perhaps as a book, ahem). So in chronological order, here are the posts I liked from these past 12 months, with some commentary as well: January Predictions 2010 I'll be getting to this in a post later this week. Search Getting Worse? What Did I Mean?! I wrote a series on this. This is a summary. Google's Tortured History With China In which the eventual unraveling of Google's business in China began. The Evolving Search Interface: Mobile Drives Search As App Or why mobile is a major threat to Google, and why Google responded with Android. Why The Apple iPad Will Disappoint (The Obama Effect) I was wrong about the iPad being a dud, but not wrong about it disappointing me. It pretty much made everyone else happy, but I don't like it mainly for the politics of it. And it did disappoint nearly everyone when it was announced, but then became a major hit. As to why I was unhappy: The Tuesday Signal: Birth of Another Orifice Google Rolling Out Social Search: But Does It Leverage Facebook?  Glimmerings of what has become a full out data sharing war between the rivals. February Thursday Signal: Are You Checked In? I realize, in this post, that checking in is a new field in the Database of Intentions. Updated: Google to Air "Search Stories" Ad During Super Bowl... My big scoop of the year. Sigh, I guess Searchblog isn't much of a news outlet, is it?! The Thursday Signal: Is Google Losing Its Customer Focus? In which I determine it is, based on Buzz. I Don't Like The iPad Because... I guess I had to keep hammering on this. This is about how the iPad is loved by all traditional media because of its locked distribution model. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894485 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/redes-sociales/twitter-compra-el-equipo-de-fluther/ Twitter anunció hoy la compra del equipo de Fluther, un servicio cuya función en recibir preguntas de los usuarios y buscar personas susceptibles de contestarlas, estableciendo conversaciones.Según cuentan en el blog oficial, cuando el equipo de Fluther se incorpore a Twitter se ocuparán de ayudar a los usuarios a descubrir contenido relevante en Twitter. Porque en realidad no han comprado Fluther, sino tan sólo su equipo de desarrolladores, aunque deberíamos decir ‘contratado’ en realidad.Me parece muy interesante que Twitter se decida a poner un poco de orden en el caos ordenado en que se están convirtiendo nuestras timelines. Cada vez es más dificil separar los contenidos relevantes del ruido. Lo maló será que utilicen la posible herramienta que haga eso para insertar contenidos patrocinados, que seguramente así será. Esperemos a ver que da de sí.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:38:13 +0100 895136 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/blogs/los-servicios-de-blogging-mas-fiables/ En Pingdom, una empresa que ofrece servicios de monitorización de webs, han realizado un estudio sobre cinco servicios de blogging: Blogger, WordPress.com, Typepad, Tumblr y Posterous, con el fin de analizar su downtime (el tiempo que están caídos los blogs allí alojados) y su fiabilidad.El resulta no creo que sorprenda a nadie. Blogger ha resultado ser el servicio con menos caídas, y Tumblr el que más fecuentemente las sufre. Parece que además, durante el tiempo que duró el análisis, algunos blogs de Tumblr estuvieron caídos varios días.Pueden consultar todos los detalles en el blog de Pingdom.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:27:05 +0100 895137 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/-sMdqscS3xg/ Serie: Edu 2.0Serie sobre el uso de Edu 2.0 como CMSConfiguración del curso en Edu 2.0 y herramienta de noticiasProntuario en Edu 2.0Añadiendo lecciones en Edu 2.0Herramienta de recursos de Edu 2.0Correo en Edu 2.0Calendario y Foros en Edu 2.0Herramienta de grupos en Edu 2.0Blogs en Edu 2.0Wikis en Edu 2.0Chat en Edu 2.0Añadir videos en Edu 2.0Códigos extraños cuando se utiliza el editor de Edu 2.0Creación de pruebas en Edu 2.0Registro de calificaciones en Edu 2.0Integración de fuentes de RSS en cursos de Edu 2.0Administración de un centro en Edu 2.0Crear copias de seguridad en Edu 2.0Los profesores que utilizan el sistema para manejar cursos en línea pueden crear un copia de su curso pulsando la pestaña de “Admin”: En la próxima página pulsas sobre el botón de “Exportar como archivo .zip” Descargarás un archivo en formato html que puedes navegar fuera de Internet. La limitación es que ese archivo no puede ser utilizado para crear otro curso en Edu 2.0. Para crear un curso nuevo basado en un curso anterior debes seleccionar “Admin” y “Copiar”: En la próxima pantalla pulsas sobre “Clase”: Accederás una página en donde puedes seleccionar los elementos y contenidos que deseas mantener en el nuevo curso: Al final obtendrás una nuevo curso con los componentes seleccionados de una clase anterior. Este es un proceso sencillo  en donde no se necesita  la ayuda de un administrador o intermediario como en otros sistemas de manejo de cursos. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:38:58 +0100 894098 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/actualidad/de-viejos-mapas-a-collages-artisticos/ Matthew Cusick es un artista tejano nacido en Dallas (EEUU) que tiene la particularidad de utilizar materiales de reciclaje en sus obras. En concreto todas la variedades de papelería de usar y tirar, con especial devoción por los viejos mapas, paginas de libros anticuados, biblias ilustradas y recortes de revistas. Con todo ello confecciona collages fascinantes, a menudo con temática pop, a los que retoca con tinta, pintura acrílica, yeso o carboncillo. Este forma de hacer arte ha sido bautizada por el propio autor como Map Works, por la predominancia de utilización de mapas. Con ellos ha realizado originales retratos, como los del jefe apache Gerónimo (en la foto) o las protagonistas de Los Ángeles de Charlie, entre otras muchas obras que ya han estado en varias exposiciones por todo el mundo.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:00:34 +0100 895138 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/6YXVIrAb6lc/ It is entirely possible that I’m just dense, but everything I’ve read recently about libraries and “transliteracy” seems like nonsense to me. Here’s how I’ve been thinking about it. Literacy Very briefly, the term literacy1 refers to either: 1. The ability to read and write or 2. Knowledge of, skill in, or competence in an specific area or subject. The former is a very real concern if the university professors and academic librarians I know are to be believed.2 Still, I think we’re mostly concerned with the latter. Sorts of Literacies: My wife and I frequently talk about our aspirations for the cultural literacy of our children. We think that they need to hear stories from Mother Goose, the Brothers Grimm, Aesop’s Fables, and (to the surprise of some who know us) both the Hebrew and Christian bibles. We’re atheists, but we know that stories from the bible(s) are frequently referenced in literature and in life- and that knowledge of these stories will enhance their understanding of the world around them. Plenty of people tell me that they need help with something because they are not computer literate. I don’t know that I much like this term (I think that lack of confidence is a more frequent problem than actual incapability), but the popularity of its use can’t be denied. People know that to be “computer illiterate” is to be unskilled in the use of computers. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:47:30 +0100 893912 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/siWOGbrDg4U/ Irgendwie habe ich gerade einen Technik-Lauf, deshalb noch der Hinweis auf das Angebot Twittertim.es, mit dessen Hilfe man aus Twitter-Accouts/-Listen auch wieder zeitungsähnliche Webseiten – wie letzthin am Beispiel von paper.li geschildert – erstellen kann. Lambert Heller beispielsweise hat so ein Teil erstellt, das er bibtweets genannt hat. Daran sind zwei Dinge bemerkenswert: Es wird nicht nur der betreffende Eintrag angezeigt, sondern Tweets von Freunden und von Freunden von Freunden, die diesen Eintrag betreffen. Man hat somit ein bißchen Information über die Verbreitung dieser Meldung. Man kann, muss aber nicht die erzeugte Webseite lesen. Man kann das auch per Twitter abonnieren und hat es dann in seiner Timeline mit integriert oder per RSS – so mache ich es -, damit man es schön im RSS-Reader lesen kann. (Source: netbib weblog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:16:04 +0100 893851 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/Xi_UcOPummM/ Ich habe mir den Titel “Das neue Bloglines wird vom alten netvibes betrieben” verkniffen, denn alt ist Netvibes nun wahrlich nicht. Jedenfalls kann man jetzt seine Feeds vom alten ins neue Bloglines migrieren. Dabei bleibt etliches – wie bereits @librarymistress auf Twitter anmerkte – auf der Strecke und muss nochmal händisch eingetragen werden. Die Optik ist Bloglines-like geblieben, die Umsetzung ist wie jene in Netvibes, man kann zwischen Listen-, erweiterter und Widget-Sicht umschalten. Man kann auch einzelne Ordner/Tabs öffentlich machen. Ganz nett, jedoch habe ich mich jetzt schon an GoogleReader gewöhnt, wo ich freilich – das muss erwähnt werden – merklich schlampiger lese. Manches geht mir durch, was ich bei Bloglines (alt) auf jeden Fall zur Kenntnis genommen hätte. Netvibes ist bei mir für Spezialthemen auch in Betrieb, ich bin sehr zufrieden damit. (Source: netbib weblog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:36:22 +0100 893854 http://documentacion.lacoctelera.net/post/2010/12/19/curso-fuentes-informacion-electronicas Tenía pendiente colgar por aquí la presentación de un curso sobre fuentes de información que dí hace poco en el Experto en Metodología de la Investigación y Análisis Prospectivo, organizado por la Universidad de Granada y el MADOC, sobre fuentes de información electrónica. En el módulo, además de bases de datos académicas y profesionales, prestamos especial atención a las posibilidades de la web 2.0, alertas rss, twitter, redes sociales... Dado el tipo de usuarios al que se dirigía (analistas de inteligencia) fue curioso comprobar cómo esta parte les resultó de lo más interesante, y bastante desconocida. En el último tema también se trataron asuntos de vigilancia tecnológica (que me perdonen los especialistas), y algún software para hacer análisis de redes y para extraer conocimiento a partir de las bases de datos de producción científica y de patentes. Ahí va. Introduccion al uso y gestion de recursos de información electronicos View more presentations from Alvaro Cabezas. ---------------- Cabezas Clavijo, Álvaro. Introducción al uso y gestión de recursos de información electrónicos. Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina. Ministerio de Defensa. Universidad de Granada. Granada, Noviembre 2010 (Source: Documentación, biblioteconomía e información) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894840 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/NNLgApmB7Dc/evidence-based-library-and-information.html Evidence Based Library and Information Practice - Vol 5, No 4 (2010) is now available. RSS Feed (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:34:19 +0100 893634 http://www.outilsfroids.net/news/iceberg-n-45-du-26-09-2010-au-06-10-2010-53-services-articles-et-outils Et le rattrapage continue avec ce 45ème Iceberg : Flux RSS tags et utilisateurs dans YouTube 36 Reputation Monitoring Feeds You Can't Afford to Ignore Video Where What You See is What You GetLa caméra qui permet de partager des vidéos en temps réel Tuyauterie 2.0: comment relier vos comptes de médias-réseaux sociaux entre eux L'e-réputation en 12 questions (Source: Outils Froids) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 13:49:34 +0100 893442 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/google/google-ngram-viewer-la-tortilla-vence-a-la-pizza/ Google Labs acaba de publicar una nueva herramienta que bucea en el interior de los millones de libros digitalizados por Google estos últimos años: Ngram Viewer. Así, podemos rastrear el uso de las palabras que queramos en los libros a lo largo de los años, ver su evolución, cuando se hablaba más de una cosa…Los datos arrancan en el año 1800 y van hasta el 2008, con lo que podemos tener una visión bastante amplia de como ha evolucionado el lenguage y su uso historicamente.Incluso no se limita sólo al idioma inglés, sino que podemos buscar términos en chino, francés, alemán, ruso y también español.Por ejemplo, si comparamos el uso de ‘tortilla’ con el de ‘pizza’ en la literatura hispana veremos que la tortilla sigue venciendo, y por muchos puntos.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:51:32 +0100 893883 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogpocket/~3/TXmtOfqS1j4/ Click here to view the embedded video. Flipboard acaba de actualizar su versión para iPad añadiendo algunas nuevas funcionalidades. La más esperada era el poder añadir contenido directamente desde Google Reader. Ahora sí que puedes disfrutar verdaderamente leyendo feeds. En el vídeo que acompaña a este post, te invito a que lo compruebes. En él puedes ver, si no lo conoces, cómo funciona un aparato como el iPad. Lo rápido, lo sencillo y lo intuitivo llegan al paroxismo con Flipboard. Una vez que has añadido tu cuenta de Google Reader, puedes acceder a cada suscripción o carpeta de suscripciones e interaccionar con sus entradas, como si estuvieras dentro de ese agregador. Además de marcar como favorita cualquier entrada, puedes escribir notas, ver los posts originales y enviar los posts por e-mail, compartirlos y marcarlos como leídos. También puedes añadir cualquier carpeta como “cajita” del escritorio de Flipboard. Una gozada. Música del vídeo: Bones Square by Ogg Vorbis Blogpocket.com: blog ganador en los Premios Bitacoras.com 2010, en la categoría Premio Especial Honorífico También puedes leerme en Twitter y en Weblog Magazine Y si te gusta la música, no dejes de suscribirte a Acordes Modernos, finalista en los Premios Bitacoras.com 2010, en la categoría Mejor Blog Cultural (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:01:56 +0100 893877 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/actualidad/el-vaticano-se-convierte-en-la-mayor-planta-europea-de-energia-solar/ El Vaticano se ha convertido en el país europeo con mayor número de watios verdes per cápita, procedentes de energía solar, desplazando a Alemania, que tiene 80. Ello es posible desde el pasado mes de octubre, cuando se terminó la instalación de paneles solares en los techos de varios edificios, con una inversión total de 660 millones de euros. El pequeño estado es grande, pues, en electricidad verde, hasta el punto de pasar a ser la mayor planta del continente en energía limpia.Como ejemplo baste decir que todo el techo de la Sala de Conferencias de la iglesia de San Pablo está cubierto ahora por células fotovoltaicas con capacidad equivalente al suministro de electricidad a 40.000 hogares.Pero parece ser que la cosa no acaba ahí. Según L’Osservatore Romano Benedicto XVI parece decidido a ser recordado, entre otras cosas, por ser el Pontífice Verde y planea convertir el célebre Papamóvil en un vehículo eléctrico, además de extender la instalación de paneles a otras áreas como la cafetería. Pretende así dar ejemplo a otros líderes políticos, aunque de momento no parecen imitarle.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 06:00:35 +0100 893884 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/28-delicious-alternatives-to-delicious.html Well, we've all seen the news that the single most insane idea of the year award can go to Yahoo who are apparently going to be closing Delicious. Quite why they're not prepared to ask people to pay for access, or even to offer it to someone like the Library of Congress to take over defeats me, but clearly straightforward thinking isn't their forte else they wouldn't be taking this stupid step in the first place. So, if you want to choose a different bookmarking resource, what options are available to you? The good news is that there's quite a lot. A1 Webmarks. I don't personally like the look and feel of this service, but that might just be me. Bibsonomy does what you'd expect from a social bookmarking service. It has an RSS option, tagging, share bookmarks and see what others have saved. Blinklist is nice looking, but you can't import stuff, so is of limited value to refugees. Bookmarks2 is a 'simple and not social bookmarking service' according to the site. Save a link with a mouse click, access from any computer, register for free, tag bookmarks, but it doesn't look like you can share what you've found. Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. The emphasis is on academia, so is probably of little use for many of us, but if you're in that area, take a quick look. Buddymarks stores your bookmarks online, imports current bookmarks, easily add new ones, share them, use tags and categories. Connotea has been around for a very long time now and is designed for the academic community. I'd be inclined to use this over Brainify if I was an academic. Diigo If you're going to be going anywhere, it's probably here. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893388 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/cine/2010-270-peliculas-en-6-minutos/ Un trabajo realmente impresionante: 270 películas de 2010 en 6 minutos. Y la lista por orden de aparición.Vía Kottke.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:14:44 +0100 893885 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/16/rebuilding-a-law-library-part-3-is-there-a-place-for-law-reports/ [This is the third in a series of articles about the trends, theories, principles and realities that have influenced the redesign of the new library of Osgoode Hall Law School – part of the renovation and rebuilding of the law school currently underway. This instalment is written in response to Eric Appleby’s recent post on “The Future of Headnotes”. When you walk into an academic law library, the first that meets your eye is row upon row of bookstacks as far as the eye can see, filled with published law reports. It’s an impressive sight; and, in the 21st Century, an anachronism. Fact is, our extensive collections of bound law reports are no longer used. Osgoode’s have been in storage for over a year as the new library is being built, and no one has missed them. Almost all the information contained in printed law reports is now available online. Law firms are already disposing of their collections. The plan for the new Osgoode Hall Law School library and my advice to my colleagues is to “let them go!” The judgments of our courts are now born digital – written, distributed and stored in electronic format. The printed volumes of published law reports are offshoot of a digital production process; consequently, it is curious that the publication of law reports, simultaneous in both print and online formats, is structured in such a way that the print market subsidizes the online market, despite the fact that the online formats are used almost exclusively. As subscriptions to the print editions of law reports are cancelled, the ever fewer remaining subscribers must bear the cost not only of printing and binding the published reports, but of editorial and other production costs. As more subscribers cancel, subscription costs go up and up (as much as 20% annually in some recent years) to protect publishers’ revenues. Most series of law reports now carry annual subscription costs in the thousands of dollars. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:00:27 +0100 893961 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/redes-sociales/facebook-y-clicker-ofrecen-recomendaciones-de-programas-de-tv/ Facebook se ha aliado con Clicker, una guía online de televisión, para ofrecer recomendaciones de shows y programas. Basicamente implica que Facebook lleva las reseñas, recomendaciones, opiniones, y tus gustos televisivos a un sitio de terceros.Imagino que esto supone una amenaza para Miso, la red social de recomendación de películas y series de televisión, que tendrá que darle una vuelta de tuerca a su modelo de negocio, si es que lo tiene.Lo cuentan en el blog oficial: Reality TV for the rest of us.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:56:29 +0100 893886 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w50/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurner This week’s Thursday Threads highlights includes two legal cases that bear watching. The first is the case of SkyRiver/Innovative Interfaces versus OCLC (covered on DLTJ previously); now that the case has been moved to OCLC’s home court (the federal district court located in Columbus, OH), it is asking for the case to be dismissed. The second legal cases is the UCLA streaming media case, with issues ranging from fair use to licensing terms to DMCA violations; if this one goes to trial we might get some new case law surrounding the intersection of copyright and libraries. The remaining two pieces are a look at how publishers (and librarians) should avoid paving cow-paths and the origins of the hash symbol.If you find these threads 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.OCLC Files Motion to Dismiss SkyRiver/Innovative LawsuitThis case arises because Plaintiffs believe they are entitled to free access to OCLC’s proprietary WordCat service, a comprehensive database of library records, developed over the past forty years. While framed as an antitrust case, Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleges only that OCLC has engaged in the types of appropriate behaviors expected of competitors: compete vigorously on price (or, at worst, price a product too high), work with libraries to develop new products, introduce innovative new products that threaten Plaintiffs’ profitability, and sell less expensive subscriptions than à la carte services. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:52:54 +0100 894346 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/gmail/gmail-permite-dar-acceso-a-terceros-a-tu-cuenta/ Google anunció ayer una nueva función en Gmail, mediante la cual podemos dar acceso a nuestra cuenta a otras personas. El proceso es realmente sencillo y, una vez completado, la otra persona podrá consultar, leer, responder o borrar nuestro correo sin necesidad de saber la clave. Para ello debe disponer de una cuenta Gmail, con la que podrá acceder al nuestro tan sólo cambiando la cuenta en la pestañita superior que le aparecerá para cambiar entre ellas.Esto es realmente útil en el caso de empresas que dispongan de cuentas a las que quieran dar acceso a todos o alguno de sus empleados. Pero también es interesante en otros casos, como familias o grupos de trabajo. En mi caso, por ejemplo, donde todo mi trabajo se desarrolla online, es esencial el acceso a la cuenta de correo. Si en algún momento, por la razón que sea, no me fuera posible acceder al correo (para gestionar mis dominios, el hosting, etc…) me quedaría más tranquilo sabiendo que mi mujer puede hacerlo por mi, sin necesidad de saber la clave. Poniéndonos en lo peor, ella podría incluso asumir la gestión de todos mis asuntos en caso de necesidad. Claro que esto depende de cada uno, y del nivel de confianza que tenga con la persona a quien vaya a dar acceso.En el video pueden verlo perfectamente explicado.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:22:55 +0100 893887 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/9lZkK1rdrXM/ Für sich selbst, aber auch für andere oder auch als Dienstleistung einer Bibliothek kann man mit Hilfe von paper.li zeitungsähnliche Seiten erstellen. Quelle der Einträge sind ausgewählte Twitter- oder Facebook-Accounts. Paper.li sammelt und strukturiert die Informationen dabei ähnlich wie Tabbloid, das zeitungsähnliche Texte aufgrund von RSS-Feeds in einer PDF-Datei ausgibt. Wir hatten das ja einmal besprochen. Wenn Sie gerne sehen möchten, wie so etwas aussieht: Vascoda hat gerade sein Blättchen “The Vascoda Weekly” herausgebracht. Wäre das nicht eine nette Quelle zum deutschen Bibliothekswesen? Einmal wöchentlich, das riecht nicht nach Informationsüberflutung, oder? Und wer mehr möchte, für die/den ist auch ein Fensterchen mit einem “Livestream” der Twittereinträge der Quellen möglich, so wie man das mittlerweile auch von manchen Tageszeitungen her kennt und gewohnt ist. Wer ein tägliches Produkt sehen möche, der/dem empfehle ich noch die Zusammenstellung zum Thema eBooks von Kooptech: The ebooks Daily! Auf der Webseite von paper.li kann man übrigens nach weiteren Beispielen stöbern! (Source: netbib weblog) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:35:23 +0100 893142 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/flipboard-adds-google-reader-flickr-display-capabilities/ Shortly after Apple called it the “best iPad app of the year,” awesome social reading app Flipboard has a major new update out that adds a couple of much-requested capabilities to the social network reader for the iPad: it now supports Flickr and Google Reader feeds. As Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb reports, it actually incorporates most of the functions possible in Google Reader, including starring items, sharing items, marking as read, and so on. That’s certainly a lot more than the Pulse RSS reader has yet managed to do. I tried the new feature out, and it is really neat to see my Google Reader Feed appear as my own personalized magazine. Given that I don’t know many of the people who are my Facebook friends, but I personally selected every newsfeed I want to read, this feels more like a personalized “me-gazine” than ever. On the other hand, I don’t think this is going to supplant Reeder as my normal Google Reader reading method any time soon. As the screenshot demonstrates, I can only see a few stories at a time, from all my sources put together, flipping backward through time—and given that I have to scan through literally hundreds of headlines per day seeking bloggable nuggets, I just don’t have the time for pleasure browsing all of them like that. Reeder lets me focus on single sources and go through and check all their articles off one at a time, and I do that starting the moment I wake up—I take the iPad into bed with me since I use Easy Relax Ultimate to help me sleep, and go through my Reeder feed before I even get out of bed in the morning. Of course, for the average person, who doesn’t have to worry about digging for gold, this could be the best way yet to read Google Reader. However, Robert Scoble notes that this still isn’t quite the version of Flipboard he is waiting for. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:55:56 +0100 893170 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/4qoWhxWzrYg/flipboard-uitgebreid-met-google-reader.html De iPad-app Flipboard maakte informatie al bloedmooi maar doet daar in de nieuwste versie nog een schepje bovenop. De ontwikkelaars schrijven op het weblog van het bedrijf dat Google Reader en Flickr nu ook zijn toegevoegd aan de toepassing. Dat op zich is al goed nieuws maar er wordt aan toegevoegd: We have also made a lot of improvements to give you a more beautiful layout, including fully-justified text with hyphenation and faster access to the stories with faster load times. We have eliminated the “read on web” button and now Flipboard automatically loads the original web page, RSS feed or Flipboard Pages view of a story when a reader taps on an excerpt. There is a deeper integration with Flipboard Pages, a way to display web content in a magazine-style layout that Flipboard is currently testing with nine publishers and creates a beautiful, end-to-end reading experience.Kort gezegd komt het erop neer dat de app korte metten maakt met het probleem van 'onvolledige rss-feeds'. Als een website ervoor kiest om de informatie slechts gedeeltelijk te tonen in de nieuwslezer, haalt Flipboard automatisch de rest van de informatie op. Daarmee is de dood van de pageview nu echt ingetreden, ook voor 'de gedwongen pageview'. Goed zo! Half nieuws zuigt. Gerelateerd Volledige of gedeeltelijke rss-feeds: het grote debat De pageview is echt dood: inzicht in Feedburner Nieuwe methoden voor het meten van internetverkeer Nederlandse kranten en RSS; half nieuws @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:25:00 +0100 893172 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/death-of-delicious-social-bookmarking.html Delicious, the popular social bookmarking service owned by Yahoo! that allows users to store, annotate and share bookmarks, may be shutting down, according to various web sources.ResourceShelf is not so sure.Many libraries have been turning to web 2.0 tools such as Delicious:MIT Updates Virtual Reference Pages Using Social Bookmarking (July 9, 2007): "The library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us to keep its virtual reference web pages up to date (...) What is interesting is that MIT uses an RSS feed to send the links from the del.icio.us account to its virtual reference collection, making maintenance a much easier task."Use of Social Tagging in Libraries Spreading (September 17, 2007): "The article Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us in the online version of Library Journal describes how more and more libraries are turning to social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us to organize information about recommended resources and replace the traditional subject guide."More News From Federal Library Web 2.0 Interest Group (September 16, 2008): "In the summer, federal government librarians in Canada created a Web 2.0 Interest Group (WIG) to explore ways of incorporating collaborative technologies into their work (...) It was a great opportunity to see what work has been done on the Web 2.0 front. Here are a few of the projects mentioned at the roundtable that opened the meeting: ... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information has launched a CISTI Facebook group, a wiki for posting known problems about its online services, and has created dozens of subject guides using delicious.com social bookmarks ... The Communications Security Establishment, Canada's electronic intelligence agency, uses wikis, mashups and social bookmarking ... Natural Resources Canada uses screencasting, wikis, blogs, and delicious. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893286 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/WYvZrgqAqqM/weve_still_lost_the_backlink_and_i_for_one_want_it_back_.php Remember back in the halcyon days of the web, when bloggers shared a sense of community with each other, linking back and forth to each other as a matter of social grace and conversation, as opposed to calculated consideration? Well, if not, that's how it was back in 2003 or so, when I started blogging. Now, that signal (who linked to you recently) is gone, and honestly, not just for blogging. It's also gone for most of the web. Of course, you can find it, if you want to geek out in your refer logs. But honestly, why have we buried it there? The funny thing is, this is the very signal Larry Page was looking for when he came upon the idea for Google with Sergey. Backrub, remember? I sense there's about to be some serious reconsideration of the value of declarative and transparent backlinks. I don't know why, but call it an itch I'm scratchin', rather like that of RSS.... All of this brought on by my continued and early explorations of Tumblr.... (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893118 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/15/new-columnists-new-followers/ We’re delighted to announce that over the next few weeks you’ll be meeting three new columnists on Slaw. May we introduce, in alphabetical order, Simon Lewis (yes, yet another Simon!), Robert McKay, and Lewis Parle, all of whom “come from away,” as our Maritime readers might say. Simon Lewis, from Sydney, Australia, is a lawyer and the director of Sinch Software Ltd., which supplies IT tools and systems to law firms. Not surprisingly, he’ll be joining the Legal Technology group of columnists. You can follow him on Twitter @SinchLegal. Robert McKay, also a law graduate, is a director of Dunedin Academic Press and a consultant in the legal, professional and reference publishing sectors in the United Kingdom. He has had extensive experience at the executive level with a number of publishers over the years, including CCH Information, ABG Professional Information, Tolley Professional Information, and Sweet and Maxwell. Robert will join the Legal Publishing group. Lewis Parle is the Programme Director of Independent Academic Research Studies (IARS); a youth-led social policy think-tank in London, England, with an interest in law and policy reform in the fields of criminal justice, human rights, restorative justice and public legal education. Lewis also works for Matrix Chambers in its Legal Information Team on its Legal Aid Link project. In addition to being a member of the bar, he has a strong interest in history, having completed a Masters in Historical Research before studying law. Lewis will write in the Justice Issues group. We’ve noticed that in the last few days Slaw has acquired dozens of new followers on Twitter. To Kathryn, Dana, Steven, Tiffany, Paul — and the many others — we’d like to say welcome, and thanks for following us. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:36:18 +0100 893962 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/Z9dv4CLMWF8/de-beperkte-schade-van-geen-pagerank.html Zonder pagerank hoef je niet meer te rekenen op veel spontaanbezoek via Google maar als je het over een wat langere periode bekijkt, valt het best mee, met de schade. Bovenin een indruk van de statistieken van de RSS-abonnees over een periode van 3 jaar, onderin een visualisatie van de bezoekers van M.I. in die periode. Best stabiel, toch? @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:08:00 +0100 893011 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogpocket/~3/rcTA2KaJv2A/ Va terminando el año 2010 y como hicimos el año pasado, recogemos aquí las estadísticas de acceso a Blogpocket.com (según Google y FeedBurner), I. Visión general de usuarios II. Los posts más vistos 1. Imagechef, para crear imágenes personalizadas 2. Un vídeo grabado el 11-S a escasos metros de las Torres Gemelas 3. 3000 fondos de pantalla para Blackberry 4. La página de inicio de Google ya se puede cambiar de aspecto 5. Cómo se hace un blog 6. Google Page Creator, crear páginas web fácilmente 7. 20 aplicaciones para la Blackberry de productividad 8. Acceder a Messenger desde la web 9. Cómo instalar un servidor local con PHP 10. Las 500 mejores canciones del Rock and Roll en Rolling Stone Un año más, los posts sobre Imagchef y el 11-S han sido los más visitados. El post de 2010 mejor situado (en el puesto 18) es Cómo instalar UBUNTU en un netbook seguido de Cómo conectar tu módem router inalámbrico a Internet (puesto 29). III. Las principales fuentes de tráfico IV. Suscriptores a la fuente RSS (según FeedBurner) Durante 2010, los suscriptores de FeedBurner (los que nos leen mediante agregadores) crecieron bastante, situándonos en los últimos meses en la franja 4.000-4.500 readers. V. Twitter Es de destacar que este año hemos superado la frontera de los 2.000 followers en Twitter, un medio que ha desplazado a los blogs en la divulgación de enlaces. En Blogpocket.com también utilizamos Twitter para compartir gran cantidad de recursos que antes solo publicábamos en el blog. Ver también: Cómo anunciarse en Blogpocket Blogpocket.com: blog ganador en los Premios Bitacoras.com 2010, en la categoría Premio Especial Honorífico También puedes leerme en Twitter y en Weblog Magazine Y si te gusta la música, no dejes de suscribirte a Acordes Modernos, finalista en los Premios Bitacoras.com 2010, en la categoría Mejor Blog Cultural (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:45:06 +0100 893879 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6510 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 15, 2010 [TUESDAY 12/21] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Application Developers and the Future of Music" with Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/lucchese) Special announcement: The Berkman Center is currently accepting applications for 2011-2012 fellowships through our annual open call. The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on December 15, 2010. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/opencall20112012 [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on APPLICATION DEVELOPERS AND THE FUTURE OF MUSIC ================================================================================== 12/21/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) This event will be webcast live Topic: "Application Developers and the Future of Music" Guests: Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest In the same way that music's format shift from analog to digital democratized music distribution for artists, the next digital format shift is leveling the playing field for the creation of music applications. Any developer with talent and vision can now build an app that re-shapes the way we experience music. Some of these apps do so on a large scale by including the totality of recorded music, or, on a smaller scale with specialized functions, like that T-Pain autotuner app everyone was talking about last year. In a few short years, app developers have already changed music's role in our lives with new solutions for music discovery and recommendation, blog and news aggregators, music games, location-based listening, interactive remix apps, social music sharing, and countless other new music experiences. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:13:14 +0100 893062 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/OCR-on-the-go-72779.aspx New iPhone apps from ABBYY (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 894220 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/What's-on-their-minds3f-72782.aspx Appinions launches new platform (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 893803 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/A-helping-hand-for-SAP-72781.aspx Open Text's Extended ECM (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 893802 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Easier-content-delivery-for-Norwegian-universities-72778.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 893801 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/ciencia/empieza-la-expedicion-malaspina/ Hoy zarpó de Cádiz el buque oceanográfico español Hespérides, de la Armada Española, para iniciar la Expedición Malaspina. Este viaje ha sido bautizado así en honor del que capitaneó el marino Alejandro Malaspina al mando de las corbetas Atrevida y Descubierta a finales del siglo XVIII (1788-1794). Entonces se emplearon cinco años en circunnavegar el globo y los territorios coloniales del Imperio Español recogiendo especímenes, dibujando la fauna y flora y levantando mapas y cartas náuticas que se utilizaron a lo largo de todo el siglo XIX. Esta vez serán siete meses visitando Río de Janeiro, Ciudad del Cabo, Perth, Sidney, Auckland, Honolulú, Panamá y Cartagena de Indias antes de regresar al puerto de Cartagena a mediados de julio de 2011; en total 42.000 millas náuticas.Dos siglos después de la muerte del genial marino español -se cumplen este año- el Hespérides viaja llevando a bordo 57 marineros y 400 científicos (entre ellos algunos de la NASA) de especialidades diversas como Física, Biología, Oceanografía, Genética, Química e Historia aunados gracias a un presupuesto de 6 millones y medio de euros que aportan el Programa Consolider, CSIC, la Fundación BBVA o el Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, entre otros. El jefe científico de la misión es el lisboeta Carlos M. Duarte, profesor del Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados del CSIC.Y esa misión consiste en estudiar el calentamiento de los océanos recogiendo muestras de aire, agua, plancton hielo de diferentes épocas que permitirán establecer las condiciones atmosféricas y los componentes en cada una. Se hará en 350 puntos y a distintas profundidades, hasta 5.000 metros, algo que suministrará valiosa información sobre la composición del mar y su fauna y flora. Para ello se cuenta con un extraordinario artefacto diseñado por la Universidad de Cádiz, una roseta con 24 botellas Nishkin que permitirá llenarlas y manejarlas por control remoto. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:00:27 +0100 893888 http://conniecrosby.blogspot.com/2010/12/tis-season-great-book-sales.html I don't usually talk about sales on this blog, but I happened to notice a few book sales you may find of  interest--check these out: Information Today - library, information management and knowledge management titlesMichael Sauers has posted about the Information Today sale on books from Internet Librarian 2010 conference being extended to January 31, 2011: 40% off the retail price on all books. That is great news! I am reading The Accidental Taxonomist by Heather Hedden which I picked up from InfoToday at KM World. For anyone into taxonomy, I highly recommend it!! I  also purchased the new edition of Building & Running a Successful Research Business by Mary Ellen Bates which has been having great word-of-mouth reviews from colleagues, and Open Source Web Applications for Libraries by Haren Coombs & Amanda Hollister (shown in the image above). Lots of holiday reading in my future. Looks like I need the new edition of  Michael's book Blogging and RSS: A Librarian's Guide to add to my collection, too!Rosenfeld Media - user experience design titles Rosenfeld Media, the maker of fine books on user experience design (also affectionately known as UX)  currently has a 40% off sale on their books, epubs and webinars until January 1st. I have several of their titles on my shelf for reference. They are gorgeous books, beautifully designed and bound, with practical, well-written content. I try to pick up the latest ones every time I see they have a sale. Neal-Schuman Publishers - The Tech Set series for librariesI noticed the series my book Effective Blogging for Libraries is part of,  The Tech Set series, is currently on sale 30% off from Neal-Schuman if you purchase the whole 10 book set (there is an ad on the front of the website). The deadline isn't indicated, so you might want to check with them directly.In Canada this series is distributed by OLA Store. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893834 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62619 Montage allows users to create "a visual album of the web" about just about any topic with just a few clicks. Content comes from a variety of web sources including including Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube, and RSS feeds. Here's a Montage that took no time to create. We simply entered the word [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:05:23 +0100 892792 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/astronomia/evidencias-de-que-existen-otros-universos/ Roger Penrose, de la Universidad de Oxford, y Vahe Gurzadyan, de la Universidad Yerevan de Armenia, realizaron el mes pasado un sorprendente anuncio. Afirman haber descubierto patrones de círculos concéntricos en la radiación de fondo del Universo, el eco del Bing Bang.Según dicen, esto sería exactamente lo que se podría esperar encontrar si el Universo fuera eternamente cíclico. Cada ciclo terminaría con un big bang que iniciaría el siguiente ciclo. En este modelo, el Universo se asemejaría a una especie de muñeca rusa cósmica, con todos los universos previos contenidos en el actual.El caso es que ahora otro grupo de investigadores aseguran haber descubierto algo más en el eco del Big Bang. Se basan en otro modelo distinto, al que llaman inflación eterna, según el cual nuestro Universo no sería más que una burbuja dentro de un Universo mucho mayor. En este megacosmos habría otras burbujas, cada una de las cuales sería un Universo donde las leyes de la física pueden ser completamente diferentes de las nuestras.Estas burbujas probablemente tengan un pasado violento, fruto de su choque, lo que habría dejado secuelas visibles en la radiación de fondo.Stephen Feeney, de la University College de Londres, y otros científicos afirman haber encontrado esas secuelas, evidencias de contacto entre universos en forma de patrones circulares en la radiación de fondo. De hecho, han hallado cuatro evidencias, que implicarían que nuestro Universo se ha dividido en otras burbujas al menos cuatro veces en el pasado.No obstante, tienen claro que esto podría no ser más que un efecto óptico. Para confirmarlo habrá que esperar a los datos de la Planck Surveyor, el telescopio lanzado el 14 de mayo de 2009 y que tiene como misión detectar las anisotropías en la radiación de fondo del Universo.En un par de años esperan que estos datos confirmen su teoría, o que la hagan desaparecer, dejándonos sin un misterio más con el que soñar. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:04:55 +0100 893889 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/arte/retratos-con-objetos-sacados-de-la-basura/ Donde unos sólo ven desechos otros encuentran material para trabajar. Zac Freeman es un artista que hace cuadros, con especial predilección por el retrato, sin necesidad de pintar ni fotografiar. Simplemente recurre a la basura, de donde saca todo tipo de objetos desechados que él reutiliza pegándolos sobre un fondo de madera para conseguir collages bidimensionales como el de la foto. Aunque sus obras están pensadas para verse a una cierta distancia, si uno se acerca puede encontrar botones, tornillos, piezas de juguetes, tuercas, mandos de TV, teléfonos móviles, bolígrafos, clips, tapones dados, cables, chapas y mil cosas más genialmente engarzadas formando rostros.Freeman lleva realizando esta peculiar forma de arte -él lo llama artworks, algo así como “trabajos artísticos”- desde 1999 y ya ha protagonizado media docena de exposiciones en EEUU y Canadá, además de recibir diversos premios.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:00:13 +0100 893890 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/eventos/luces-y-sombras-en-la-cumbre-del-clima-de-cancun/ Este fin de semana terminó la Cumbre contra el Cambio Climático que se celebraba en la ciudad mexicana de Cancún. Lo hizo con un éxito relativo, logrando acuerdos para algunas cosas pero dejando sin resolver otras, de ahí las palabras de Wendel Río, representante de Greenpeace: “Cancún tal vez haya salvado el proceso de negociaciones de la ONU, pero no ha salvado el medio ambiente”. O las de la organización Amigos de la Tierra, describiendo el evento como “una bofetada”. O las delegado de Bolivia, que se opuso a la redacción final del texto porque lo consideraba insuficiente.Y es que buena parte de los acuerdos finales se limitan a confirmar lo que ya había sido aprobado en la Cumbre de Copenhague de 2009, como el objetivo de limitar el aumento de temperatura a menos de 2 grados, que entonces firmaron 140 países escasamente. En cambio, el verdadero problema, la renovación del Protocolo de Kioto (que termina en 2012 y obliga a cuatro decenas de naciones desarrolladas a recortar emisiones de CO2 y otros gases de efecto invernadero) queda aplazada hasta la cumbre del año que viene, a celebrar en Durban (Sudáfrica).Resumiendo, éstas son las principales decisiones acordadas: posponer la posible continuación del Protocolo de Kioto hasta el fin de su vigencia actual; creación de un Fondo Verde Climático de 30.000 millones de dólares, junto con medidas de protección a los bosques y fomento de energías limpias, para ayudar a los países en vías de desarrollo en su colaboración a la lucha contra el cambio climático; confirmación del punto acordado en Copenhague sobre el establecimiento de un tope de subida de 2 grados y la posibilidad de reducirlo a 1,5; intentar reducir las emisiones contaminantes hasta un 40% tomando el año 2020 como referencia. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:00:06 +0100 893891 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/12/believe-in-apps-and-set-your-api.html The app that RPI TWRC team built for our application marketplace is featured at data.gov site.Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893430 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/BPM-makes-ethics-reporting-easier--72740.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 892666 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Magnolia-releases-CMS-4.4-72741.aspx Speeds professional site creation (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 892665 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Hyland-introduces-OnBase-10.0-72742.aspx Focus on case management (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 892664 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/A-database-for-the-cloud-72743.aspx Salesforce.com unveils Database.com (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Intelligence) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 892660 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/arte/arte-hecho-con-basura-de-las-playas-para-concienciar/ Las fotos de animales agonizando por haber ingerido bolsas de plástico han servido para concienciar a mucha gente de este tipo de contaminación pero no a todos. Por eso siguen surgiendo proyectos sobre el tema. Uno de ellos es el Washed Ashore que se desarrolla en Bandon, Oregón, que se basa en la recogida de todo tipo de basura de las playas de la bahía de California por parte de ciudadanos corrientes, sean profesionales, amas de casa o escolares, para reutilizar el material encontrado en la confección de obras de arte: ballenas, peces, aves, tortugas y, en general, todo tipo de animales susceptibles de tragar plásticos, son los modelos.Este pájaro creado por Angela Haseltine Pozzi, artista, profesora y directora ejecutiva del Instituto Artula, es un buen ejemplo. Mide unos tres metros de altura, está hecho con restos de todo tipo recolectados en las arenas junto al mar (ropa, bolsas, botellas, juguetes y otros objetos) y hasta tiene nombre: Avery. El objetivo era exponerlo durante la conferencia de Bionners pero su fama parece haber trascendido y han empezado a surgir iniciativas similares en otros sitios.Foto: Jaymi Heimbuch¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:00:48 +0100 893892 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/12/thats-collaboration.html Government+private sector+academia+researchers, that's how we'll improve scientific productivity.Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893431 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/tecnologia/como-funciona-el-mecanismo-antikythera-con-legos/ Hace tiempo hablamos aquí del Mecanismo Antikythera, una impresionante muestra de ingeniería antigua que hoy sabemos servía para predecir eclipses, y que fue construído hacia el siglo I a.C.Pues bien, en este video podemos ver una reconstrucción del mecanismo con piezas de Lego, y cómo debió ser su funcionamiento original.Si ya es impresionante que hayan podido reconstruirlo usando solo Legos, lo es más todavía que en el siglo I a.C. puedieran construir algo como esto.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:21:24 +0100 892284 http://lisnews.org/eighteen_popular_library_stories_2010 via WestchesterLibAssoc (@wlany) 18 Popular Library Stories of 2010 Here’s a list of the library-related articles which have most interested iLibrarian readers over the past year. 2010 State of America’s Libraries Report ACRL 2010 Top Ten Trends in Academic Libraries IFLA World Report 2010 Top 30 Library iPhone Apps – Part 1 Top 30 Library iPhone Apps – Part 2 Top 30 Library iPhone Apps – Part 3 5 Things the Library of Congress is Archiving Online British Library to Offer Free eBook Downloads Top Ten Social Media Competencies for Librarians 12 User Points of Need – Where to Place Your Services Online Libraries and Cloud Computing 10 Librarian Blogs To Read in 2010 October 1st is Follow a Library Day on Twitter Online Tools Your Library Needs Now & Why 11 Ways to Promote a Great Top 10 Book List 13 Ways (and 147 Tools) to Help Your Library Save Money on Technology Congrats Movers and Shakers 31 Cataloging and Metadata Blogs in 2010 This entry was posted on Friday, December 10th, 2010 at 12:52 pm and is filed under Libraries, Library 2.0, Library Services, Lists. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. (Source: LISNews.org) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:21:50 +0100 892042 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/RPGHM4pWQdQ/signal_curation_discovery.php This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space. I love talking with these folks, because while we might have business to discuss, we usually spend most of our time riffing about themes and ideas in our shared industry. By the time I reached Tumblr, a notion around "discovery" was crystallizing. It's been rattling around my head for some time, so indulge me an effort to Think It Out Loud, if you would. Since its inception, the web has presented us with a discovery problem. How do we find something we wish to pay attention to (or connect with)? In the beginning this problem applied to just web sites - "How do I find a site worth my time?" But as the web has evolved, the problem keeps emerging again - first with discrete pieces of content - "How do I find the answer to a question about...." - and then with people: "How do I find a particular person on the web?" And now we've started to combine all of these categories of discovery: "How do I find someone to follow who has smart things to say about my industry?" In short, over time, the problem has not gotten better, it's gotten far more complicated. If all search had to do was categorize web content, I'd wager it'd be close to solved by now. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our first solution to the web's initial discovery problem was to curate websites into directories, with Yahoo being the most successful of the bunch. Yahoo became a crucial driver of the web's first economic model: banner ads. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892140 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w49/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:• by E-mail• by RSS Delivered by FeedBurnerIt has been another busy week, and unfortunately Thursday has slipped into Friday. There have been a few updates to earlier Thursday Threads items, so I’m turning this into “Friday Followups” instead. We’ll attempt to get back new items next Thursday, but in the meantime take a look at these updates.“RDA Revolt” ContinuesA month ago I mentioned that there was a revolt of sorts against RDA in general and the U.S. national test of RDA in particular. Although “RDA Revolt” hasn’t taken off in the vernacular as I’d hoped when I coined the phrase, “cataloging coup” has. The primary venues are the OCLC-CAT and RDA-L mailing lists. The former requires one to register and subscribe to the mailing list, but the latter has an open web archive. As near as I can tell, the primary concerns relate to how authority records are added to OCLC: should new RDA-based authority records be created when an existing AACR2 record exists (causing duplication in the authority file) and should RDA-based authority records be added to the authority file at all (because they cause problems for the vast majority of AACR2-based library systems). The official answer from the RDA test office is “no (duplicate records should not be created)” and “yes (that’s the point of the test)”. Candi Schwartz and Melissa Cookson have more details about the controversy.Netflix Battling with Comcast Over Payments to Stream ContentThere was an Thursday Threads entry two weeks ago that mentioned the story about how fewer Americans are paying for cable TV service and the correlation to how users can get content from the web. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:21:11 +0100 892818 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/musica/stornoway-beachcombers-windowsill/ Uno de los discos que me entiene encandilado este año es el debut de Stornoway, titulado Beachcomber’s Windowsill y publicado en el mes de mayo. Pero la banda ya tiene unos cuatro añitos, procedente de la zona de Oxford en Reino Unido. Su música suele encajarse dentro del folk indie o folk alternativo, aunque con una gran carga pop.A mi me recuerdan mucho, salvando las distancias, a Bombadil, el grupo del que les hablé el año pasado, y que ya tienen dos discos magníficos editados. Tienen cosas en común, aunque su sonido es diferente. Pero se nota la influencia del folk inglés de los 60 y 70 de fondo.El video que les dejo es el tema que abre el álbum, un single editado en 2009 y que marca ya por donde van a ir los tiros.Ya les digo, el resto del disco es absolutamente delicioso. En YouTube pueden encontrar los otros dos videos oficiales de los singles siguientes, así como numerosas interpretaciones en vivo y acústicas. Que lo disfruten.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:48:00 +0100 892285 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/software/the-panic-file-museum-software-para-mac/ Curioso el movimiento de Panic, uno de los mejores desarrolladores de software para mac, autores de Transmit o Coda, por ejemplo, dos aplicaciones imprescindibles para mi trabajo diario.Y es que han creado el Panic File Museum, una página en la que podemos descargarnos versiones antiguas de todas sus aplicaciones, incluyendo Candy Bar, Transmit, Coda, Unison o Desktastic, que son compatibles con versiones más antiguas del sistema operativo OS X.Pocos desarrolladores mantienen un inventario como este. Incluso algunas de las aplicaciones son gratuitas, como Transmit 1.7 o Audion 3.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:05:44 +0100 892286 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/actualidad/ralentizado-el-ritmo-de-desforestacion-de-la-amazonia/ La noticia no es tan buena como parece si se tiene en cuenta que la palabra ideal sería detener en vez de ralentizar pero, viendo el vaso medio lleno, es todo un logro que este año que termina haya sido el de más bajo ritmo de desforestación de la Amazonía desde 1988. El período concreto es entre agosto de 2009 y julio de 2010, según datos facilitados por el INPE (Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Especiales) brasileño, y supuso la pérdida de 6.450 kilómetros cuadrados (aproximadamente la misma del País Vasco) de vegetación en lo que es el mayor bosque tropical del mundo.Y ahora toca observar el vaso medio vacío: las autoridades brasileñas esperaban que esa desforestación fuera aún menor, en torno a 5.000 kilómetros cuadrados. Habrá que ver cómo evoluciona esta tendencia para los próximos años. No vale eso de pensar que la Amazonía todavía tiene margen gracias a los 6 millones de kilómetros cuadrados que le quedan repartidos en 8 países (Brasil, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana y Guayana Francesa).¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:00:17 +0100 892287 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/12/10/rockmelt/   I started using RockMelt very skeptically.  It is a brand new social browser, which of course made me think of Flock.  I had liked Flock at first and then found it to be intensely frustrating to use as an actual browser.  RockMelt is happily not Flock. Instead RockMelt takes what I really like about Google Chrome (makes sense because it was built on Chromium) and then weaves in social networking in a very enticing way.  You get the same Chrome feel to the top part of your browser.  The bookmarks, the URL bar where you can still enter any search right there, the very flexible tabs.  Where RockMelt adds functionality is in the two new “Edges” they offer.  There is one Edge that is just for Facebook.  Your active Friends on Facebook are there, messages pop up to announce new posts, and you can easily communicate with any of them right from that bar.  My favorite Edge is the one that uses RSS feeds.  There, I can access my Facebook account, Twitter account, and I can also add any of the feeds I enjoy following.  As the feeds are updated, a number for the number of waiting updates appears.  Click on the button for that feed, and you can read a quick peek right there, or it will open in the browser so you can read the full post.  This is by far the most friendly, intuitive way to read feeds I have ever used.  It doesn’t mean I am giving up my Google Reader just yet, but it is very exciting to see and some of my top blogs are moving off of my Google Reader on onto this Edge. There is also a very handy Share button at the top of the browser.   It interfaces with Facebook and Twitter.  My only quibble is that I wish it was more like Shareaholic and offered connections to other services, even just the option of emailing an item to someone or putting it onto Delcious. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892840 http://ntrls.blogspot.com/2010/12/follow-ntlp-on-twitter.html North Texas Library Partners is now on Twitter as @NTxLibPartners . Did you know you can follow Twitter via an RSS feed? Add the NTLP Twitter RSS feed to your newsreader so you can follow the blog and the Twitter stream in the same place, even if you don't care about having your own Twitter presence! (Source: North Texas Regional Library System) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892485 http://library.mcmaster.ca/php/blog.php?id=1008&display=full Need to know quickly about changes in library services or important events -- then find us on Facebook or follow HSL on Twitter. (Source: McMaster Libraries RSS Feed - Library News) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891951 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/09/welcome-to-attorney-at-work-subscribe-for-daily-ideas/ Careful readers of Slaw’s Linkblogs may have noticed Steve Matthews post on adding RSS feeds. While that’s very useful, I also want to point Slaw readers’ attention to the new website Attorney at Work on which Steve’s post is published and to an invitation to receive “One Really Good Idea Every Day”. The project is the brainchild of Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, and Joan and Mark Feldman who were responsible for many years for the excellent Law Practice magazine of the American Bar Association. So I must declare an interest. You’ll see a number of members of the Slaw community listed as advisors. “One Really Good Idea Every Day” is the tagline as well as the mission for the venture. “We make a promise to our subscribers that we will keep the noise down,” says Feldcomm’s Joan Feldman. “Our concept is simple and elegant. Each morning, a single item will appear in your inbox. It will be an easy and quick read, rich with practical and doable ways to make things better.” The brief daily items will be written by any of over 100 experts who will provide sharp, savvy and timely information on marketing, career development, technology, time management, money matters, life balance, health issues and more. More voices – welcome to the blogosphere. (Source: Slaw) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:10:03 +0100 892345 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/actualidad/un-burdel-de-berlin-ofrece-descuentos-a-los-clientes-que-acudan-en-bici-o-transporte-publico/ La Maison d’Envie (Casa del Deseo) es un burdel de Berlín que da trabajo a doce señoritas a tiempo parcial. Su tarifa habitual por sesión de 45 minutos es de 70 euros, pero la crisis ha obligado a su dueña, Regine Goetz, a echarle imaginación para atraer clientela. Y, puestos a buscar, el cuidado del medio ambiente es una causa popular y de buena imagen. Así que, ni corto ni perezoso, la Maison d’Envie oferta 5 euros de descuento a aquellos clientes que dejen el coche en casa y puedan acreditar que han llegado en bicicleta o transporte público.Sería interesante extender la iniciativa a todos los negocios, no sólo el de la prostitución, que, de todas formas, en Alemania es legal desde el año 2002, con cerca de 400.000 trabajadoras que cotizan a la Seguridad Social. Sin embargo es importante tener en cuenta un dato: la Maison d’Envie está ubicada en el distrito Prenzlauer Berg, donde precisamente los Verdes (con ese nombre no podían ser otros) obtuvieron un 46% de los votos en las elecciones.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:01:17 +0100 892288 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2010/12/one-really-good-idea-every-day.html Jordan Furlong has a post up at Stem this morning, but I wanted to add my personal support to the new website Attorney at Work, which launched earlier today.The idea behind this site is to give practicing lawyers "one really good idea every day" through their emailed daily dispatch. The content is intentionally styled in a short and factual manner, and intended to deliver each day's idea as succinctly as possible.AAW is the brought to us by the team of Merrilyn Astin Tarlton, Joan Feldman and Mark Feldman. And full disclosure, both Jordan and myself are helping out. My first submission on the use of RSS readers is also published on the site.There are more than 100 experts who have committed to contributing, and an advisory group that looks very strong. But most of all, I'm confident we can depend on Merrilyn, Joan and Mark to deliver the hard work and ongoing commitment required to make a project like this successful.I wish them every success, and would encourage VLLB readers to check out their website ... and to consider subscribing. It's free, so why not? :) (Source: Vancouver Law Librarian Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892413 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Edtechpost/~3/j68cOP8z7rM/ ‘Tis the season, eh? I’m feeling so grateful, that in addition to this year’s Nessie’s, I thought I would give thanks for the bounty that is OLDaily and Stephen Downes. Stephen pretty much does not need an introduction in our field; OLDaily is, by my reckoning, still pretty much the “paper of record” in the edu-blogosphere and I have a hard time thinking of any other individual who has had such an impact on the direction and thinking of educational technology as him over the past decade. I know I am sounding like a bit of a fanboy, and heck, I am, but don’t think it’s all been smooth sailing. I regular challenge Stephen in his comment area and elsewhere, and some of my struggles to understand what he is saying have lasted almost as long as I’ve known him. And this is one of the things I am most grateful for, because that is how I learn, by challenging, by contesting, by not getting it and pushing until I do. And so far, through it all, I have felt respected, heard and considered. I don’t think Stephen is *right* about *everything,* but I’m not looking for him to be “right about everything,” to give me THE answers. Those I need to figure out for myself. But I consider it an honour and pleasure to count him as one of the people I constantly learn from and with. Which got me reflecting today on which of his posts, articles and presentations have had the biggest impact on my learning over the past almost decade I’ve been reading him (a tall order, considering that on his article page alone he lists 1134 items!) Below, in no particular order, is my selection of “OLDaily’s Greatest Hits”: “elearning 2.0“ I would guess this is possibly one of Stephen’s best known and most cited articles. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:22:30 +0100 893026 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=8725 The Joint Commission has launched its new Web site, www.jointcommission.org, which has enhanced features and capabilities to provide its customers and the public with better accessibility to the wealth of information on the site.  Some of the highlights of the new site are: Ability to sign up for updates and alerts about events, field reviews, new and updated FAQs, newsletters, and more A Daily Update section highlights any new information that has been posted within the last 24 hours Enhanced multimedia functionality for videos, podcasts, and RSS feeds More interactive opportunities via blogs, real-time discussion forums, online speakers bureau form, maps that show the states that recognize Joint Commission accreditation and certification, and ‘share with a friend’ capability Clear identification of new FAQs and easier navigation of standards FAQs, including the ability to search within FAQs for special topics An Event Calendar highlights upcoming conferences, teleconferences and webinars, and provides for easy, online registration Enhanced and advanced search functionality   Please note that the Internet Explorer 6 browser will not support several of the new sites’ features.  The new site works best with one of the following browsers, which are available for free download via their respective Web sites:  Internet Explorer 7 and above, Firefox 2 and above, Safari 3 and above, Chrome 4 and above. Also, if you have saved Joint Commission Web pages or links to your Favorites, you will need to update those links and Web pages.  Send questions about the new Web site to The Joint Commission Webmaster at webmaster@jointcommission.org.  (bbj) (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:00:27 +0100 891300 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/OozIcj9Pm9k/ How would you answer these questions: How long ago did you look at your RSS reader? How often do you do so? Why has this changed from 2 years ago, if at all ? I was idly wondering whether there is still a point to setting an exercise in my library tech unit that gets students to subscribe and watch a few RSS feeds. I send out the message above on three of my Twitter accounts and obviously touched a nerve – around thirty people responded. (Not everyone answered each bit of the question). My prediction? Twitter had turned RSS readers into roadkill. No-one was looking at RSS any more and anyhow, no-one is blogging any more. Nope. 20 out of 33 check their RSS reader at least daily. Yes, around a third (31%) reported looking at the readers less than 2 years ago. 24% reported no change, but 27% reported an increase. I know the people who responded and I guess that about 1/3 of those who were looking more did not really use RSS a couple of years ago. Many of the comments attribute the way they use Twitter to a decrease or to a change in RSS reading patterns. Some now read more, but by skimming headlines. Others use RSS for “newspaper style” in-depth reading and Twitter for the more shallow quick links. Generally people reported RSS reading as a more social activity than two years ago – either obtaining new feeds via Twitter, pushing out a lot of links from their readers to Twitter, or just sharing via their RSS reader. Changes  - of circumstances, jobs, interests and the patterns of blogging for the feeds they had followed –  all were reported to change RSS reading habits. So – the RSS exercise stays on the course, but maybe I should consider emphasising the sharing possibilities that using an RSS reader can involve? The comment I most enjoyed, however, came from one of my followers immediately AFTER he had answered my question. His comment: I just sent the best out of context tweet ever. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:23:28 +0100 892075 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/LsHpUxQeQ-o/ On my welcome back post from a few days ago, after a long hiatus of not having blogged much over here in this blog in the last few weeks, I mentioned how I was still planning on keeping things going with that series of blog posts I started a while ago on My Top 5 iPad Apps of the Week, and which I have picked up as well back again on Twitter under the Daily #iPad App recommendations for #elsuapps. Well, I am happy to announce that series of entries is back and here we go with the edition for week #8! Read on… ! Now, there are a couple of new things I have thought about after all of that time not blogging away on this topic; the first one is another blog post (My good friend, and fellow IBM colleague, Bill Chamberlin keeps asking me about it … hehe) where I plan to detail what having, and making extensive use of, an iPad has meant for me in the last few months, to the point, where it’s replaced, altogether!, my regular mobile computing habits with my MacBook Pro and nowadays I just travel with my iPad! The recent iOS upgrade to 4.2 has meant, for me, a whole new bunch of enhanced productivity gains that TCGeeks describes thoroughly quite nicely and in that upcoming entry I am hoping to reflect why I heart my iPad more than any other mobile device I may have ever owned. Stay tuned … will be coming up shortly! As usual, and as part of this blog series of posts, I keep sharing a bunch of articles that keep demonstrating how the business keeps showing a growing interest for the iPad within the Enterprise, not just from the perspective of every CIO and top level executive to own their have their own iPads, but also from the perspective where even analysts are starting to place their bets on how the iPad will transform the way we do business as well. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:54:13 +0100 891372 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/sociedad/200-paises-200-anos-en-4-minutos/ Hans Rosling, profesor del Karolinska Institure de Suecia, es el autor de este impresionante video en el que, en cuatro minutos, traza la evolución de la esperanza de vida de 200 países durante 200 años.Aparte de la sorprendente puesta en escena, es interesante ver, tal y como explica el propio Rosling, las contradicciones internas de países como China, con zonas equiparables a Reino Unido, y otras a Pakistán.Vía Open Culture¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:39:49 +0100 892289 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6496 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 8, 2010 [TUESDAY 12/14] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "The Unstable Platforms and Uneasy Peers of Brave New World Music" with Wayne Marshall, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/marshall) Special announcement: The Berkman Center is currently accepting applications for 2011-2012 fellowships through our annual open call.  The application deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on December 15, 2010. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/fellowships/opencall20112012 [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on THE UNSTABLE PLATFORMS AND UNEASY PEERS OF BRAVE NEW WORLD MUSIC ================================================================================== 12/14/10, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) This event will be webcast live Topic: "The Unstable Platforms and Uneasy Peers of Brave New World Music" Guests: Wayne Marshall, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Driven by the proliferation of accessible music and video-production software and the connective possibilities of the social web, public culture is being remade in the wake of user-generated content, including the ever curious category of world music. So-called platforms such as YouTube or Jamglue play host to new genres, dance steps, and remixes from around the world, incubating local scenes and circulating aspiring artists' productions to peers near and far. In contrast to its creation by a consortium of British music-industry players in the 1980s, a multinational network of grassroots producers, DJs, and bloggers are renegotiating and redefining the freighted but inclusive term. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:59:45 +0100 891267 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/musica/crash-test-dummies-oooh-la-la/ Una de las sorpresas agradables, musicalmente hablando, de este año ha sido el regreso de Crash Test Dummies.En este video nos explican como se hizo el nuevo álbum, con joyas como And It’s Beautiful, uno de los mejores temas del año, sin duda. Pueden verlo, junto con otros videos en el canal YouTube de Crash Test Dummies.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:47:45 +0100 892290 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/08/so-you-want-to-be-a-law-librarian/ A SLAW hat-tip to Brenda Wong and her co-blogger Karen Sawatzky at Library Technician Dialog for making me aware of the following online slideshow called If you Want to Work in Libraries, Here are 10 Things You Need to Know by Ned Potter. I think the author nicely captures some of the opportunities for working in the information field (e.g., working with people and technology) along with some of the challenges (e.g., constant change and tough competition). Many of these topics arose in my regular guest lecture to the FIS 2133 Legal Literature and Librarianship class earlier this week at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information, taught by John Papadopoulos and Sooin Kim, especially in our discussion in response to the Debates on the Value of Law Firm Librarians summarized on SLAW. Eve Leung, a Research Librarian at the Ontario Legislative Assembly Library, was also a guest participant in the discussion. However, I am not sure I was entirely satisfied with my answers to the class on the role of law librarians and why I think there remains a need for them in the age of Google and relatively easy online access to information. What follows here, then, is an attempt to better articulate the role of law librarians and why I see a positive future for this role. And although I take responsibility for the comments that follow, I have most certainly benefited from the group discussion at the session and have likely incorporated snippets from the various speakers and students in the class. 1) Specialized knowledge/skills: What separates most law librarians from lawyers is that librarians have specialized knowledge of sources of law and the skills necessary to efficiently and effectively search those sources of law, integrating both print and online sources. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:00:21 +0100 892354 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/IUPzVkMuDnU/ Brian Kelly writes: Dave has demonstrated his impact within the wider community in two areas.  Dave has been active in supporting the Mashed Libraries series of one day events  whoch have aimed to to “bring together interested people and doing interesting stuff with libraries and technology“. The original idea was conceived by Owen Stephens in a blog post on “Mashed Libraries? Would you be interested?” on 1 July 2008. The second response was from Dave, who showed his enthusiasm together with an example of his normal self-deprecating humour: “I’ve love to see a library unconference in the UK… I’m just too lazy to try and organise one myself! Count me in and, if nothing else, I can guarentee there’ll be two of use sitting in a room with our laptops!“. Dave certainly wasn’t lazy in his support for the events as two of the six events have been held at Dave’s host institution, the University of Huddersfield: Mash Oop North on 7 July 2009 and Chips and Mash, on 30 July 2010. Before Dave got involved with Mashed Libraries he was demonstrating the value which can be gained from mashing up library data. As you might expect from someone who is committed to sharing best practices across a wide community Dave has a blog (which was launched way back in May 2005) . On the blog you can read his posts on usage data, which includes a post entitled ”2008 — The Year of Making Your Data Work Harder” in which Dave described his “code primarily designed for our new Student Portal — course specific new book list RSS feeds“. Dave was just giving talks about ways of exploiting data, he was writing code and implementing services which demonstrated the value of the approaches he was encouraging the library community to adopt. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:13:21 +0100 891324 http://www.betabib.org/2010/12/08/bevaka-kbs-expertgrupper/ För den som inte vill hänga på KB:s webbplats varje dag finns det utmärkta möjligheter att bevaka vad som händer via RSS flöden. Själv finner jag RSS flödet som samlar ihop expertgruppernas minnesanteckningar väldigt användbart och tidsbesparande. Det leder även till att jag läser mer om vad som händer i alla expergrupperna. Så det är ett enkelt sätt att hålla sig orienterad. För den som vill grotta ned sig fullständigt vad som händer på KB finns det fler flöden att följa. Att hänga med i vad som händer i expergrupperna är ett utmärkt sätt att finna information som annars verkar ha svårt att nå ut till biblioteken. (Source: betabib) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 08:32:34 +0100 892320 http://library.mcmaster.ca/php/blog.php?id=1007&display=full Our online tutorials can help you research effectively and efficiently Check our website under Research Help or Outside the Library. You can also find us on YouTube or iTunes U. (Source: McMaster Libraries RSS Feed - Library News) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891249 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/udell Tuesday, December 7, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.The elmcity project invites everyone who publishes community calendar events to: Realize that event data published in a structured format, unlike data published as HTML or PDF, can be routed through pub/sub syndication networks. Make public calendars available in the appropriate structured format: iCalendar (RFC 5545), the venerable Internet standard supported by all major calendar applications and services. Recognize that iCalendar is the RSS of calendars. It can enable a calendar-sphere in which, as in the blogosphere, everyone can publish their own feeds and also subscribe to feeds from other people or from network services. Help build the data web by owning the parts of it for which we ourselves are the authoritative sources. The elmcity project delivers enabling technical infrastructure for this new approach to the community calendar. The project's calendar syndication service is free; it runs open source code on the Microsoft Azure platform; it provides all of its syndicated data in open formats. The real challenge isn't technical, though, it's conceptual. Most people don't know how they could (or why they should) be the authoritative publishers of their own data. Missing concepts include: The pub/sub communication pattern Indirection ("pass-by-reference" vs "pass-by-value") Structured versus unstructured data Data provenance Service composition Along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, these Fourth R principles will empower an informed and engaged 21st-century citizenry. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:30:00 +0100 891125 http://blog.sedic.es/?p=3743 Por María Jesús del Olmo, Directora del Centro de Recursos Informativos de la Embajada de EE UU, Madrid Desde el año pasado SEDIC se ha implicado en una serie de programas conjuntos con otras asociaciones e instituciones para reflexionar y debatir sobre el futuro de los profesionales de la información y la documentación. La profesión muestra interés por un futuro que se presenta inquietante, con unos usuarios supuestamente capaces de satisfacer todas sus necesidades informativas en la red. Ante tal perspectiva, el rol tradicional de bibliotecarios y documentalistas parece quedar en entredicho. ¿Qué podemos hacer los bibliotecarios para afrontar ese futuro desolador? Estos días, hojeando el número de octubre de la revista American Libraries, encontré un artículo que me pareció interesante porque daba una docena de consejos que pueden ser útiles para los profesionales españoles. Al grito de “compartir” voy a hacer una glosa del artículo “Fit Libraries Are Future-Proof” del bibliotecario Steven Bell, que traslada los conceptos de la selección natural de Darwin al mundo bibliotecario en un homenaje particular al científico. Según la teoría de la selección natural, solo los más capaces, los mejor adaptados sobrevivirán; y los mejor adaptados no necesariamente han de ser los más fuertes, los más poderosos o los más grandes. En 2009 no solo se celebró el segundo centenario del nacimiento de Darwin, también la crisis económica y financiera golpeó con saña grandes grupos industriales que parecían inamovibles. Ambos hechos condujeron a Bell a pensar que la única forma de que las bibliotecas puedan sobrevivir es manteniéndose en forma, es decir, adaptándose al cambio para seguir siendo relevantes. ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:17:29 +0100 891925 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/A-breakthrough-for-Web-self-service-72294.aspx eGain launches Multisearch (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Enterprise Search) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 890980 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/ciencia/los-gases-anestesiantes-quirurgicos-contaminan-mas-que-el-co2/ Tanto echarle la culpa a los aviones y los coches y va resultar que no eran los peores a la hora de contaminar la atmósfera con emisiones de CO2. Lo sorprendente es el nuevo malvado. O malvados, pues son tres: los gases anestesiantes que utilizan cirujanos y dentistas en sus intervenciones quirúrgicas y que se llaman isoflureno, desflureno y sevoflureno.Según un estudio de Ole John Nielsen, profesor de Química atmosférica de la Universidad de Copenague, en colaboración con la NASA y anestesistas de la University of Michigan Medical School, estos gases que se usan habitualmente en EEUU con fines médicos causan un insospechado impacto medioambiental. Los cálculos dicen que un kilogramo de gas equivale a 1.620 kilogramos de dióxido de carbono o, lo que es lo mismo, las emisiones de un millón de automóviles.El estudio se publicó en el British Journal of Anaesthesia y explica que los tres gases son peores que el CO2, pero unos dañan el entorno más que otros. En eso se lleva la palma el HFC-134a, que es 1.300 veces más nocivo que el dióxido de carbono hasta el punto de que, en Europa, quedará prohibido a partir de enero de 2011.Vía: E science news¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:00:51 +0100 892291 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/SOJ8Xxg1Jcg/what_youve_missed_in_signal_incl_rss_feed_for_all_you_rss_readers_out_there.php It's been a while since I've updated you on my Signal newsletter, which I do each day. Here's the last week or so of them. If you want to read it in RSS, here's the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/FederatedMediaSignalBlog Tues. Signal: Does Your Media Have an Address? Monday Signal: Clearly, It’s Not About The Money Friday Signal: Nazis From Space! Thurs. Signal: Go On, Opt Out. Just Don’t Come Cryin’ To Me … Weds. Signal: The Journal Gives Marketing the Finger Tuesday Signal: The iPad Is Yesterday’s News (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891033 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Edtechpost/~3/20xuwu3hBBE/ Once again, it’s that time of the year. I time for pleading, needling, pandering, giving and receiving. No, not Christmas, you silly rabbit – Awards Season! I know you’ve all been waiting on the edge of your seats for this year’s Nessie Awards (this year with a new Award Statue – the old one seemed to scare the children) so, here we go: Favourite New Subscription(s) A brand new category this year. And… it’s a tie! Between two posterous blogs. And two Brits who I got to meet for the first time last summer. David Kernohan works as managing the UK OER initiative for JISC, but his blog at http://dkernohan.posterous.com/ is intended to, as he says, “deal(ing) with the gaps between my ‘day job’ at JISC and my general personal interest in openness and education policy.” And that it does, with incisive clarity. Since I started following in July, David has been absolutely on fire with a string of posts about the de-funding of education in the UK as well as the ins and outs of OER. Joss Winn is the owner of the other winning site, http://stuck.josswinn.org/, which is markedly different than David’s. Joss uses this posterous site to gather clippings, sometimes with notes and commentary, about his latest (and I must say – prolific) readings. His focus is often around resiliency, peak oil and Marxist theory, and I greatly credit reading his feed and some wonderful exchanges with Joss over the last 6 months for en-courage-ing me in my own pursuit of these topics, interests I’ve always had but always sublimated so as to be a polite Canadian. The “Blog which Posts Least Often and Yet whose Every Post I Anxiously Await” Award This next award is a recurring category with some fairly distinguished past. recipients. This year’s recipient is not as well known but is even closer to my heart. ... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:13:46 +0100 891368 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/06/human-rights-search-engine/ If your researches take you into the area of human rights, you might want to avail yourself of a relatively new topical search engine, HuriSearch. One of the projects of the interesting HuriDocs, HuriSearch offers you a fairly sophisticated front end, allowing you to query any of four types of source (NGOs, national human rights institutions, academic institutions, and intergovernmental organizations), search in any of sixteen languages, and use word variations if you wish. As well, search results can be filtered by facets: source type, source organization, country, and document format. Better yet, you’re offered a permalink to your search and an RSS feed, so that you can stay up-to-date. HuriDocs, the parent organization, is worth a post all by itself, something I’ll try to get to in the coming days. I’m particularly interested in their newly launched Case Law Analyser, brought to bear currently on a collection of African human rights decisions. (Source: Slaw) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:09:39 +0100 892367 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Simplified-multilingual-Web-strategies-72292.aspx Clay Tablet collaborates with Sitecore (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 890984 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Alterian-releases-Version-7-72293.aspx Professional and enterprise editions (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 890983 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/EDF-chooses-cloud-based-solution-for-managing-e-mail-72289.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: E-mail Management) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 890974 http://jamillan.com/librosybitios/2010/12/facebook-instapaper-blog-tweet-rss-etc/ Está claro que uno de los mayores desafíos actuales es la gestión de la información en el ámbito digital. La cuestión se complica cuando al lado de la Web abierta surgen zonas acotadas para ciertos tipos de personas: usuarios de iPhone, de redes sociales, de sistemas de mensajería… Por suerte, los puentes entre aplicaciones también están aumentando. Pongamos el caso más simple: el de la persona que intenta estar al tanto de las noticias que aparecen sobre un determinado tema. Sí: existen alertas, por ejemplo las de Yahoo Alerts, o las de Google, pero no funcionan muy bien. Por fortuna, mucha gente está comentando lo que descubre en sitios web o en blogs a través de Twitter. Como este servicio tiene muchos usuarios, casi 106 millones de personas en el pasado abril, y como existen formas automáticas de convertir los post de los blogs en tweets (perdón por la sarta de anglicismos, con y sin cursivas), en la práctica una gran parte del contenido de la web se convierte en titulares en Twitter. La búsqueda de Twitter funciona muy bien, y además tiene un servicio de RSS para cada búsqueda concreta, lo que quiere decir que cualquier lector de RSS puede recibir las que nos interesen (arriba, la búsqueda del tema “Google Editions” en Twitter, según llega al lector de RSS Google Reader). Si a la comunicación entre aplicaciones añadimos la de dispositivos y programas, la cosa puede ser aún más compleja. Supongamos que en un iPhone se acccede a una búsqueda de Twitter vía Newsrack. Desde NewsRack podemos enviar el post o la página web de nuestro interés, que Twitter nos localizó, a distintos servicios (ver arriba), como Instapaper. Allí podemos leerlo cómodamente y, si nos interesa, enviarnos el texto por email con el objeto de generar más tarde un post en el blog en nuestro ordenador de sobremesa. ... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 08:31:47 +0100 891910 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/ecologia/tree-cycle-un-arbol-navideno-hecho-de-bicicletas-recicladas/ Llega la Navidad y, con ella, la costumbre anglosajona (extendida a otras culturas) de colocar abetos decorados en las plazas principales de las ciudades. Pero la concienciación ecológica se generaliza y ya no está tan bien visto utilizar árboles auténticos, pues la mayoría acaban tirándose al terminar estas fechas, por eso la tendencia es sustituirlos por otros artificiales. Los diseños varían y hay para todos los gustos pero aquí vamos a destacar éste que decora The Rocks en Sidney (Australia) y que ha sido bautizado con el divertido nombre de Tree-Cycle.Como se puede apreciar, está hecho de bicicletas recicladas donadas por empresas chatarreras locales. En total son un centenar, con los cuadros pintados de verde, para aparentar la textura vegetal, y las ruedas de múltiples colores como si fueran los adornos navideños luminosos. La estrella que hay en lo alto, a 23 pies, también se fabricó con componentes de bicicletas.No es la primera vez que Sidney recurre al reciclaje para armar su árbol de Navidad. El año pasado se puso uno hecho de botellas vacías y en 2008 fueron viejas sillas los elementos utilizados.Vía: Aol News¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Mon, 06 Dec 2010 06:00:15 +0100 892292