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 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:51:42 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/nE18yuKRJKE/kenniskantoor-een-informatieplatform.html Een jaartje geleden bezocht een kleine delegatie van het Belgische Bibnet Middelburg, om met mij van gedachten te wisselen over de digitale bibliotheek en communities. Dat was een plezante ontmoeting, waarin we niet alleen spraken over de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van Ning en Drupal, maar ook over valkuilen van het sociale web en over de verschillen tussen het Nederlandse en Vlaamse bibliotheekwerk. In december schreef ik al over 'de mooie nieuwe jas van Bibliotheek.be', vandaag mag ik een nieuw hoofdstuk aan dat verhaal toevoegen: Bibnet heeft onlangs Kenniskantoor gelanceerd: een kennis- en informatieplatform voor bibliotheekprofessionals.De introductietekst vermeldt onder meer: Dit is een site voor en door bibliotheekprofessionals, of andere mensen die te maken hebben met bibliotheekwerk en bibliotheekbeleid. Je vindt hier informatie relevant voor bibliotheken, samen met ervaringen, impressies of beschouwingen van collega’s. Cases, nieuwtjes, studiedagen, nieuwe technologieën, tips en tricks, ze krijgen allemaal een plaats.Kenniskantoor is een onderdeel van het domein Bibliotheek.be en ziet er net zo fris en fruitig uit als de moedersite. Ook deze site is gebouwd met Drupal. Uiteraard hebben we vorig jaar ook besproken of het geen goed idee zou zijn om een Vlaams kennisplatform onderdeel uit te laten maken van Bibliotheek 2.0. We concludeerden toen echter dat Ning te veel beperkingen heeft als het gaat om de koppeling met andere websites en informatiesystemen en als het gaat om de terugvindbaarheid van de daar geplaatste informatie. In die zin is de keuze om zelf een platform te bouwen  dus heel begrijpelijk. Postings van ZB Digitaal, die ik voorzie van het label Bibnet, zullen ook op Kenniskantoor getoond worden. Dat vind ik natuurlijk prachtig. Ik heb de RSS-feed van Kenniskantoor op mijn beurt weer toegevoegd aan de homepage van Bibliotheek 2.0. Zo is de cirkel mooi rond. Kenniskantoor bevindt zich nog in de testfase. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:26:00 +0100 825319 http://lisnews.org/bliss_ebooks Here is the first paragraph from an intriguing essay. “People who reject e-books often say they can’t live without the heft, the texture and — curiously — the scent of traditional books. This aria of hypersensual book love is not my favorite performance. I sometimes suspect that those who gush about book odor might not like to read. If they did, why would they waste so much time inhaling? Among the best features of the Kindle, Amazon’s great e-reader, is that there’s none of that. The device, which consigns all poetry and prose to the same homely fog-toned screen, leaves nothing to the experience of books but reading. This strikes me as honest, even revolutionary.” http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/magazine/07FOB-medium-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:15 +0100 825283 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5981 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITYMarch 10, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media [1] [TODAY 3/10/10] Institute of Politics Forum Event Co-Sponsored by the Berkman Center: "Digital Governance -- From the State House to the White House" with Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO; Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Teri Takai: CIO, State of California Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/03/digitalgovernanceforum) [2] [TUESDAY 3/16/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Cyber-pluralism: Can We Get Along with Each Other in a “Splitting” Internet?" with Donnie, Hao Dong, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/03/dong) [3] [REGISTER NOW! 4/9/10] Conference: Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities, organized by the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic (http://www.omln.org/conference) [TODAY] IOP FORUM on DIGITAL GOVERNANCE==================================================================================3/10/10, 6:00PM, JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School Topic: Digital Governance -- From the State House to the White HouseGuests: Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO; Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Teri Takai: CIO, State of California Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS The Berkman Center will co-sponsor a panel discussion with chief technology officers and information officers from the White House, State of CA, and State of MA. Panelists include: * Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO;* Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts;* Teri Takai: CIO, State of California* Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:12 +0100 825360 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/03/surf-canyon-search.html The winner of About Websearch's 2010 Reader's Choice award for best search engine goes to Surf Canyon Search.  Don't worry if you've not heard of it, because hardly anyone else has either. This is what they say about themselves:"Surf Canyon develops "real-time search personalization," a technology that disambiguates the user's intent post-query, and, in real time, brings forward to page one the relevant results that might otherwise remain buried. By transforming static lists of links into dynamic search pages that automatically re-rank results on the fly, users are able to more quickly and easily find pertinent information buried among the irrelevant results, significantly accelerating the search process."Basically that means you run a search, see some results, click on a link that interests you and the engine will then go off and find more results based on what you want. You can then do it again, to drill deeper down. The results page is clean and clear, although there are no help options, no RSS feeds, no advanced search functionality, no cache option available, no thumbnails - well, you get the idea. There are 'Surf Canyon Refinements' though - I got 4 options for a 'web 2.0 librarians' search - Library 2.0 (good), Tools (uh?), Ellyssa Kroski (fair enough), Facebook (uh?).Clicking on the bullseye opens up more options 'based on my activity' (interesting, since my activity there has been zero), and the results were fairly hit and miss. I found results more confusing when I scrolled further down. I went to page 2 and got results with (from page 3) or (from page 6) next to them. I've got no clue as to why - there's little by the way of explanation. The engine does provide links to Images, Video, Maps and News. These simply take your query and pass it onto Bing Images, Bing Video, Google Maps and Yahoo News. Hardly rivetting stuff. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825101 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/VRsb6NxXE24/europa-om-de-hoek-inzicht-in-subsidies.html Het kost niet veel moeite om kritisch te zijn op het gebrek aan transparantie van de Europese Commissie. Als je dan eens stuit op een initiatief dat die transparantie ten goede komt moet je ook zo eerlijk zijn om daar eens aandacht te besteden. De Commissie presenteert nu Europa om de hoek, een site waar je in een oogopslag kunt zien waar de Europese subsidies heen zijn gegaan. Het is geen site die je dagelijks zult bezoeken, zeker niet als je constateert dat er RSS wordt aangeboden. Van de projecten leer je wel het een en ander. Ik had er bijvoorbeeld geen flauw idee van dat Breskens een heus onderwaterleven kent. En dat men in Goes Blauwe Lupine verwerkt tot een vleesvervanger (met een goede 'bite') is ook nieuw voor mij: Het project beoogt een technische en commerciële implementatiestudie te laten uitvoeren in de markt en de organisatieomgeving met als doel de technische en commerciële knelpunten te kunnen bepalen die de doorbraak van het product Meatless hinderen.Het is transparantie die je niet meteen snapt, maar hee: het is wel transparantie. Geen centje pijn. Gerelateerd: De uitgaven van de Europese Commissie online Een leger van 170.000 bureaucraten @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:43:00 +0100 824983 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/lehfczUSCYI/ Are you a news junkie like me?  I find myself constantly checking my iGoogle page or Google Fast Flip (http://fastflip.googlelabs.com) to see the latest stories.  I’ve also got my RSS reader going as well. However, one of my biggest problems is figuring out a way to keep my eReader current.  Since I’m using an older model Sony (PRS-505) that has no wireless connection, it’s been challenging in trying to figure out the best way to do this. Recently I’ve found a great application that might be a way around this, helping me to keep my Sony up to date.  I’m talking about an application from HP called “Tabbloid”.  This small application seems to have flown “under the radar” so to speak, but its premise and execution so far have been flawless.  Basically, it’s a small customized newspaper that’s emailed to you each morning and consists of news and other stories created from your own RSS feeds or topics of your choosing.  The service is free and is really easy to use!  Interested? To get started, head to the main Tabbloid page located at http://www.tabbloid.com/.  From there, add your news sources.  These can be feed urls extracted from your current RSS reader, OPML file, or just single addresses that you might already know.  If you’re not much on the techy side of RSS, Tabbloid also has preformatted lists of subjects such as technology, business, sports, etc. that you can choose from. From here, it’s a simple matter of adding your email address and specifying how often you want the delivery to take place.  This can be daily or weekly and you have the option of choosing your time of delivery as well as the time zone you might be living in.  After this, save your customized delivery options and check your email to get started.  Each morning you will get a freshly made PDF as well as a summary email of the contents. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:37:20 +0100 824962 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/EurTGTHxHEI/ Jason Kincaid on TechCrunch wonders whether e-books might not be the next type of app to be purged from the App Store. (As we’ve been wondering here for quite some time.) Though Kincaid makes it clear he does not think e-book readers such as Stanza or Kindle will go, since they provide a great deal of additional functionality themselves, he points out that all of the stand-alone appbooks (especially those that are just a wrapper around a Project Gutenberg public-domain text) cause a great deal of clutter in the e-books category, and would offer an inferior experience to the iBooks interface on a big-screened iPad. It is worth pointing out that apart from the “sexual apps” purge, Apple has recently begun cracking down on “cookie-cutter” applications—apps built on templates, such as wrappers of simple RSS feeds, that provide similar functionality to a standard mobile webpage. (Ironically, this would probably apply to our own TeleRead iPhone app as well.) It would seem that a Project Gutenberg e-book in an app wrapper would be no less a “cookie-cutter” app than a RSS feed in an app wrapper. But apparently Apple is limiting itself to blocking new cookie-cutter apps rather than purging existing ones, at least for now. I almost wonder if I should keep reporting on this sort of speculation, as it does not seem like it is going to be productive to worry about it until we see more concrete actions on Apple’s part. Like Kincaid, I still maintain that Apple has no reason to eliminate alternate e-book reading apps from its store. Those stand-alone appbooks do cause an awful lot of content clutter, though. I remember when there were only a couple of dozen, but there are now more than 29,000—1,478 pages’ worth. It’s impossible to browse usefully through that much content. Something to make the app store more navigable would be a good idea. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:15:00 +0100 824967 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6983 State: Washington, D.C. Library Associates Companies (LAC) seeks for *immediate consideration* candidates for the position of Electronic Content Designer in the greater Washington DC metro area. The Electronic Content Designer will assist with migrating content to a CMS; analyze, edit, update and tag content; recommend navigation, look and feel; prepare content for migration. The position is full time for six months. Must be a US Citizen in order to be considered. Primary Responsibilities: · Perform content analysis and mapping to determine navigation and layout; · Implement content transfer to content management system; · Create new graphics and visual designs within existing guidelines; · Implement RSS feeds and similar notification features; · Assist with usability testing and translating results into design and organization updates; · Assign metadata to digital content using existing guidelines and taxonomies; · Identify, recommend, implement, and document best practices for creating online museum exhibits; · Write new and update online text. Minimum Experience Required: · Experience with HTML · Knowledge of graphics tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Visio; · Experience with web content-creation tools such as Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver CS3, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0, CGI; · Experience with information architecture, user task analysis, interface design; · Experience with metadata, taxonomies, and tagging; · Experience with digital information repositories · Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL or Perl; · Knowledge of image capture and delivery techniques. To Apply: In order to apply and be considered for this position, please follow the registration link below. http://jobs.libraryassociates. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:02 +0100 824773 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Fighting-check-fraud-65797.aspx A2iA integrates with Chesapeake (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824834 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Shopping-for-customer-data-65796.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Customer Relationship Management) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824833 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Build-your-own-robust-intranet-65799.aspx Adenin introduces IntelliEnterprise Version 10 (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824829 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Integrating-communication-in-BPM-65798.aspx Software AG christens new solution (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824827 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/03/web-30-promete-mudar-as-bibliotecas.html Research Information: February/March 2010  Web 3.0 promises change for librariesAlmost as soon as the term ‘Web 2.0’ was coined, the web community split into two factions. There were those who embraced the term and started debating future iterations and the meanings of ‘Web 3.0’, ‘Web 4.0’, and even ‘Web 5.0’. Meanwhile, the other group labelled the 2.0 moniker as hype.One of the problems with the term Web 2.0 has been the lack of an explicit definition. In his seminal paper on the topic, Tim O’Reilly instead provided a list of features and technologies, such as using the web as a platform, and harnessing the wisdom of the crowd. The wide variety of features has led to arguments that Web 2.0 is vague enough to include everything on the web and as such means nothing. However, away from the details, the term ‘Web 2.0’ reflects a major shift in the way that users view the web: from a read-only web, to a read-write web.The term ‘Web 3.0’ reflects an equally momentous change in the way we view the web. Some of the possible avenues for the future include the 3D web, the semantic web, and the real world web. All have gained a lot of interest among library and information professionals. Virtual 3D worlds such as Second Life provide new places and ways to offer information and services. An increasingly semantic web offers the opportunity for access to increasing amounts of information from disparate sources. Meanwhile the real world web offers to integrate the web with the world around us. We are yet to see which of these will capture the imagination of library stakeholders to such an extent that it will reflect a new perspective in the way they see the web.The 3D webThe potential of a 3D web and a far richer web experience have been enabled by increases in computer processing power and higher bandwidth capabilities. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825057 http://library.mcmaster.ca/php/blog.php?id=988&display=full Dr. Mary Tremblays research materials have been generously donated to the Archives of the Faculty of Health Sciences by her daughter Ms. Karen Dolynick. (Source: McMaster Libraries RSS Feed - Library News) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824505 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/03/whats-new-and-how-to-stay-current.html First, the  Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) are now publishing a joint newsletter called "What's New".  The second issue was released this month.  This replaces the DCC's monthly Curation News Round-up and the DPC's quarterly bulletin 'What's new in Digital Preservation?'  I don't see an RSS feed for the site, so I hope this is something they will add, since having content delivered is better than going out to find it.Second, each time I teach a semester-long course in digitization, I have my students interview someone who is currently involved in a digitization project/program.  These interviews are educational for the students, since they get to hear what practitioners are doing and thinking. They are also educatinal for me, because I get a quick peak into many programs.  What I always find interesting from the interviews is how people learned about digitization as well as how they keep up with what's going on. Many practitioners learned about digitization by doing it, rather than from classes, etc.  Rarely do my students find someone who took extensive formal training, even though that traning exists.Most people stay up-to-date through email discussion groups, newsletters and conference sessions. Only a few people talk about anything formal that they do in order to stay current.  In looking at where people do go for information, there is no central location that everyone visits.  We all go in different directions.  That could mean that we're all not tripping over important information that could help us in our programs. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824343 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AginfoBlogFromIaald/~3/J_O2HPPSmyA/tic-repondre-aux-besoins-du-paysan.html Pour avoir un business stable, le paysan a besoin d’informations sur toutes sortes de sujets : des prévisions météo à court et à long terme afin de choisir le meilleur moment pour les semis et la moisson ; des rapports sur la propagation des maladies et des nuisibles susceptibles de s’attaquer à leurs cultures ; les derniers conseils et astuces pour optimiser son exploitation ; des infos commerciales pour trouver les bons acheteurs au bon moment. Il ne veut pas être abreuvé d’infos, mais seulement connaître ce qui peut lui être utile. Pour répondre à cette demande, plusieurs fournisseurs d’information proposent des services « sur mesure ».Lire plus ...Aussi:Informations personnalisées : Nokia Life Tools, l’information agricole sur mesureDu web au téléphone : Un système d’info crée et envoie des RSS aux paysans chiliens par SMSVu du ciel : Les images satellite en très haute résolution du projet Seeing is Believing révèlent aux paysans d’Afrique de l’Ouest la fertilité du sol et la surface exacte de leurs parcellesInformations à la demande : Les paysans ougandais largement informés grâce aux applications mobiles (Source: AgInfo News from IAALD) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824293 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=773 Some of you may already be subscribers to Above The Fold (ATF) our weekly current awareness compilation and commentary. We just sent out the seventieth issue. Our objective in assembling the newsletter was to offer an information professional’s view of issues from outside our domain that were worth your consideration and related to library, archive and museum challenges. We selected items of interest likely to be beyond your normal reading sphere to help folks you look farther more often with less work.The selection and the commentary on the chosen articles would, we hoped, encourage some lateral thinking in our domain. The date above marked our seventieth weekly issue and ATF now has nearly 3100 subscribers. We decided that we’ll feature a chosen article each week here in hangingtogether. I’ve chosen this article to feature not because it’s outside our domain but because it shines such a light on the obstacles to change in the research library arena. E-Library Economics Inside Higher Ed   •  February 10, 2010 The hard truth about hard copy. Recent studies suggest it might take up to 50 years, or two generations, before faculty in some disciplines will accept the predominance of digital resources over hard copy. But the economics may help to persuade them: estimates peg the cost of keeping a book on a shelf at a little over $4 a year, versus about 15 cents for a digital version. This is the most disheartening saga. I feel badly for my colleague, Suzanne Thorin, the university librarian at Syracuse who is being vilified for acknowledging that the research library in the contemporary academy cannot contribute to the central academic mission without dramatic changes to its traditional processes and services. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:10:38 +0100 824264 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/EPZjE9Vk0bY/ (Click above for full-size image) (Via LifeHacker, via Joe Morgan) If the user’s experience sucks, they’ll get their media elsewhere. _______________ Feed-only Footer: Hey! You’re reading this in an aggregator of some kind! [sarcasm]Haven’t you heard that RSS is dead?[/sarcasm] (Source: davidrothman.net) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:20:06 +0100 824129 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/U5KiCZEURgg/ I got a request today along the lines of: We’re in the process of creating a master calendar of events spreadsheet relevant to [various things]. These [various things] will all then have their own Google calendar so they can be looked at individually, embedded etc and everyone could of course have access to all and view them all via their personal Google calendar, turn different calendars on or off, sync with Outlook etc. etc. X said “wouldn’t it be great if we made the master spreadsheet with Google docs and it could somehow automate and complete the calendars”. Sigh…;-) So – is it possible? I’ve only had a quick play so far with Google Apps script, but yes, it seems to be possible… Take one spreadsheet, liberally sprinkled with event name, description, start and end times, an optional location, and maybe a even a tag or too (not shown): The time related columns I specified as a date type using the “Data Validation…” form from the Tools menu: Now take one Google apps script: function caltest1() { var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); var startRow = 2; // First row of data to process var numRows = 2; // Number of rows to process var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 5); var data = dataRange.getValues(); var cal = CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar(); for (i in data) { var row = data[i]; var title = row[0]; // First column var desc = row[1]; // Second column var tstart = row[2]; var tstop = row[3]; var loc = row[4]; //cal.createEvent(title, new Date("March 3, 2010 08:00:00"), new Date("March 3, 2010 09:00:00"), {description:desc,location:loc}); cal. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:20:41 +0100 824199 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/wi1tfJJxOOE/library-ireland-week-2010.html "Library Ireland Week will run from 8-13 March 2010. There will be many events taking place throughout the week, for more details on events view our calendar. On Thursday 4 March Library Ireland Week 2010 will be launched by Irish poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney." RSS Feed (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:29:43 +0100 823434 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/0KZo-UeZDLk/ In an effort to connect to more members MLA is experimenting with meeting based social network site called CrowdVine.  Connie Schardt wrote a nice little piece about it on Medlib-l. MLA has created a customized CrowdVine site for the 2010 meeting to help participants interact “before, during and and after the meeting.”  The CrowdVine site links has links to the official meeting page, official blog, and allows members to set up RSS feeds into the site (blog posts, photo streams, social bookmarking, etc.)  As Connie mentions, “the real power of the service is its ability to identify participants that share common interests that they can seek out and meet, in person, at the conference.” Hop on CrowdVine look around and if you are interested sign up and start adding some of your information or join in a discussion.  If you are more of the lurking type, sign up and just watch what happens, who knows maybe you might go from lurker to occasional contributer. (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:04:31 +0100 823204 http://acrlog.org/2010/03/02/the-art-of-the-electronic-message-display/ Editor’s Note: At MPOW we are ramping up to use a prominently positioned video display near our entrance for promotion. I realized I had no idea how to approach it. It seems so many academic libraries are using electronic display monitors to promote the library. I was wondering if there were best practices? So I put out a call for help and advice – and the academic librarians came through – big time. One response, from Wil Hutton, the Visual Communication Specialist at Penn State University’s main campus library, was so well thought out and informative that I wanted it to have broader exposure. So I asked Wil if he’d prepare it as a guest post for ACRLog – and I’m pleased that he did – so that we can share it with you. Many thanks to Wil for his contribution to ACRLog – and the wonderful gallery of screenshots from his library’s monitors that he organized for all of us. So, you want to put up some video display screens in your library to announce coming events and advertise services. Or perhaps you’ve been tasked with making this happen. Two questions arise: how do you create an attractive, effective display system without the expense of a turnkey, proprietary electronic signage solution; and how do you manage the system once installed? At Penn State, in 2006, we found ourselves in possession of three 42-inch plasma displays—just enough, as it happened, to cover our main library’s three entrances. Unfortunately, getting them mounted and wired proved so costly that there was virtually nothing left for additional hardware and software. So we used what we already had—we connected each screen to an obsolescing PC, and connected those PCs to our local area network. PowerPoint, for which we have a site license, became our delivery system: one copy on each PC, and one on my Mac, as it fell to me to design and maintain the screens’ content. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:56:07 +0100 822880 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/03/apps-for-army.html US army gets itRafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823692 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceUcdLibrary/~3/sQO-FDwgLNQ/new-iop-web-platform.html The Institute of Physics launched a new web platform for discovering their journal content today. The new site is called IOPscience and includes personalised services such as:enhanced search filtering for finding relevant paperssaved searchessearch and journal TOC alerts (RSS and email)social bookmarking - add tags to articlesdiscover related articlesYou can register for a free account that enables a lot of these services. The homepage features a quick search box, news and most read and most cited articles.-Josh (Source: Science @ UCD Library) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823567 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/01/online-database-built-by-princeton-professor-prejudice-and-conflict-reduction-online-database/ This database was built and being maintained bt Betsy Levy Paluck, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. From Professor Levy Paluck’s Web Site A continuously updated database, containing empirical studies of interventions to reduce prejudice and conflict. The database was originally compiled for my article with Donald P. Green found below. Database users can search for types of interventions and study methodologies, comment on references, and download bibliographies. An RSS feed is available for tracking new contributions to the database. Please email me [epaluck (at) princeton (dot) edu] unpublished reports and new articles to include in the database. Source: Professor Levy Paluck Hat Tip: Racism Review (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:52:31 +0100 822475 http://lisnews.org/lisnews_librarian_joke_contest_all_month Make Us Laugh! Anyone who submits a joke will be entered to win some cool prizes. From www.funkandweber.com and www.StitchingForLiteracy.com ...a set of four Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy cross stitch bookmark patterns, including two designed from the old chicken-and-frog library joke. You know, a chicken walks into a library and says, "book, Book, BOOK!" (you gotta say it like a chicken), so the librarian gives her a book. The chicken takes the book outside and down to a pond where a frog sits on a lily pad and croaks, "read-it, read-it" (that's right, say it like a frog). Book Marks from www.InMyBook.com Web Hosting from www.LISHost.org You'll want to submit your joke(s) HERE starting today, and on through the month of March. Follow along on the tracker page (http://lisnews.org/joketracker) or RSS feed (http://lisnews.org/jokes/rss) (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:23:30 +0100 822434 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/A-npSdFPO_M/ In All Things D’s “MediaMemo” section, Peter Kafka calls attention to the effect Apple and Adobe’s dispute over Flash is having on Condé Nast’s plans for iPad versions of Wired and other magazines. (Note: one of the images with the article is a cover from GQ, which may not be work-safe.) That tablet Wired Magazine demo we covered a couple of weeks ago was built using Adobe technology, including Flash, which means it would be a no-go for the iPad as-is. In effect, unless Apple and Adobe can come to some form of agreement, Condé Nast is going to have to go with two parallel development tracks for the iPad—the new multimedia experience created for the Wired app, presumably translated into some non-Flash setting, and iPad-enhanced versions of the iPhone apps that are already available for such magazines as GQ. The iPhone apps may be less desirable to users, given that they do not incorporate all the multimedia and user-interface features of Wired’s demo, but Condé Nast does not seem to want to deal with the added uncertainty for magazines that have not already put such significant effort into developing a new framework. Until fairly recently, e-magazines and e-books seemed to be similar applications of the same technology. But this type of issue shows how clearly they have diverged. If e-books are like webpages, then magazines seem to be more akin to RSS feeds, and require a different way of handling things. It’s just Condé Nast’s bad luck that the way Wired settled on involves a technology Steve Jobs refuses to have on his devices. In a tangentially-related note, PaidContent.org notes that the Wall Street Journal reports that five leading magazine publishers, including Condé Nast, are getting together to launch an advertising campaign about how printed magazines are better than the Internet, at the very same time they are preparing those magazines for digital distribution. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +0100 822464 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/4Vr8Av1IEcg/3609 Christy Confetti Higgins a Cybrarian at Oracle started the morning with her talk entitled ‘Embracing New Measures of Value: Integration and Collaboration at Sun Microsystems.’ Christy talked to us about integrating information from outside sources into inside sources. The approach they took was to maximize dollars spent, repurpose content, and leverage social media. One example of this is that they pulled in their own Twitter feed to the Information Services Wiki. Another example she gave us was from their learning portal. On this main page they included a feed of books from Safari and Books24/7 (I wonder if the reason the library catalog is excluded is because limitations in the software …). In addition to pulling data in, they used social media to connect with employees. They have both a public and an internal blog. Using the RSS feeds from these blogs they were able to then pull in feeds based on tags into the wiki (so if the post was about financial information it could be on the financial page of the wiki). Another use of social media was to create a community for the engineers called the “Read Community” this way the engineers could share what they were reading with their colleagues – this comes back to one of the topics from yesterday brought up by Cameron – we learn a lot from the resources our colleagues are reading and sharing with us. With this tool they not only had the engineers sharing information, they were also able to take the recommendations that were shared and put them on a Safari Books Reading List and pull that out with an RSS feed and post that to the wiki. (What I’m hearing is that RSS is central to nearly everything they do! Which backs up what I keep telling librarians – you need to offer at least one RSS feed on your site so people can use and re-mix your content. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:59:44 +0100 823153 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-SDL-61290.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824026 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Open-source-ECM-platforms-bring-mobility-to-market-61180.aspx To realize the potential of remote access to ECM, developers must design effective interfaces to applications that are responsive to the needs of workers on the go... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822725 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Data-drives-decision-making-in-healthcare-61197.aspx The growing availability of electronic medical records will lead to increased evidence-based medicine and smarter healthcare... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Records Management, Regulatory Compliance) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822724 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-ASG-Software-Solutions-61240.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Records Management, Regulatory Compliance) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822723 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Reprints-Desk-61264.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822720 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-MuseGlobal-61260.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822719 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-RSD-61268.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822718 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-ABBYY-61237.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822717 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/KMWorld-2010-New-decade2c-location-61171.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822716 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Everything-is-connected-...-really-...-Putting-meaning-to-work-61174.aspx It's not that we should?or even can?shift our attention completely away from information. It's that we have failed to address meaning in the context of work... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822715 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Ektron-61257.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822714 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Exsys-61258.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822713 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Connotate-61251.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822712 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Bridgeline-Software-61249.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822711 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Accusoft-Pegasus-61238.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Image, Forms, Document Capture) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822710 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Content-Analyst-61255.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Enterprise Search) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822709 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Mindbreeze-61259.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Enterprise Search) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822708 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/News-Analysis/The-Google-enterprise-fabric-61173.aspx In the last half of 2009, Google operated like a medieval wool mill. The basic technology works, and the mill operators have been focusing on increasing production. But Google is a 21st century company. What few of its competitors and customers have realized is that Google is now in production mode... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Enterprise Search) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822707 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-AvePoint-61248.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Enterprise Search) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822706 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-ZyLAB-North-America-61292.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822704 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/DM-Roundup-61293.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822703 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-AnyDoc-Software2c-Inc.-61239.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822702 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Omtool-61263.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822701 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Concept-Searching-61250.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822700 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Adobe-goes-to-the-cloud-61436.aspx Introduces LiveCycle Managed Services (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822679 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Connecting-Notes-and-Documentum-61437.aspx Crown Partners unveils new connector (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822678 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Rivet-Logic-61267.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822677 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Two-giants-partner-in-research-project-61435.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Intelligence) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822676 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/View-from-the-Top/View-From-The-Top-Noetix-61261.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Intelligence) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822675 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/KMWorld-100-Companies-That-Matter-in-Knowledge-Management-61207.aspx When we established our list of 100 Companies That Matter 10 years ago, "knowledge management" was just beginning to be a recognized term in the boardroom. KM is not now (nor will it ever likely be) a household word. Nor is it an application. It's an attitude, a commitment to excellence and innovation shared by the companies, large and small, on this list. A decade ago, a lot of vendors were so intoxicated by their technology that they tried to woo their customers with dazzling features, capabilities they thrust upon clients without fully understanding their legitimate needs. Now, in 2010, that's no longer true. The firms on this list are true solution providers that are dedicated to understanding what their customers need and delivering elegant technology for the requirements of the knowledge economy... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Intelligence) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822674 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/03/turning-content-into-ecosystem-for.html Twitter lets access to the "firehouse"Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823693 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/lMa7Pfd_974/3603 Dr. Cameron Neylon was up next to talk to us about filtering information in the scientific world. Carmeron finished high school in 1990 and had his first email address in 1991. His professor told him that he had to spend 1/2 a day a week in the library to read new journals so he could keep up with new information. It wasn’t until 1995 that he really discovered the web. Around 1997 – “Someone showed me Google and finally the web worked.” By 2001/2 everyone is subscribed to table of contents updates via email – and no one is reading them. How do we improve the situation? Search is by far the dominant filter in a researchers lives – in the science world, Scopus, Google Scholar, PubMed … etc. Now to get table of contents you can do a text search on your database of choice and then subscribe to the RSS feeds. That said, you’re not really searching full text in many cases – you’re searching abstracts only. In the end you’re left with a very lacking set of data. How do we improve this? Cameron showed us FriendFeed and showed how he can now get information relevant to him – not just relevant but current information – instantaneous updates. Because we can’t cope with the about of information we’re talking about we have to share the load, we have to use tools like this and let our friends share the information they have found with us. This is how I use tools like Twitter and Facebook and FriendFeed – I make sure that all of the resources I find that might be interesting to my colleagues is shared on these resources so that I hopefully can help them find the information that is important to them. Carmeron brought up a great point – using these tools to gather information completely bypasses having to use the database products that many of the people in the room provide. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:05:39 +0100 823155 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/GC3d36r9mFo/3600 Roger Strouse from Outsell followed Clay Shirky with his talk titled: “What Information Users Really Value.” Throughout the talk, Roger gave us insights into what users are thinking based on studies and surveys that Outsell has performed. Roger started with what he called a ‘provocative statement’ – ‘In a challenging environment, meeting users’ value expectations is necessary for survival’ — why are we talking about this 2010 – when we’ve been thinking about this for 20 years now. The problem is that advertising budgets are shrinking, “free” is a competitor, users are sophisticated and know what’s possible, and good enough is good enough. The economy isn’t all that has changed for users though. Users are rethinking about what’s valuable. There are rising expectations for online experiences. Providing information is not enough anymore, you need to provide a well-rounded experience (tagging, commenting, interaction in general). There is also a morphing definition of authority – there is a dislike for peer-reviewed content. Users expect to be able to get academic and professional data on their mobile devices more than ever before. This all adds up to users have very different value filters than they used to have. Users now value things like usability, fun and sophistication. I can (and you know you can to) think of plenty of these research products that I’d rather stay very very far away from simply because of the usability and/or interface design. Another key value we’re used to hearing about is the desire to aggregate content – mix free and fee content together because users don’t want to be searchers – they want all their content in one place. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:20:39 +0100 823156 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/02/wordle-closed-alternatives.html Users of the Wordle resource have been dismayed by the notice that's currently posted to the website, which states that Wordle.net is down until further notice. "I am seeking pro bono legal advice, to evaluate a trademark claim against my use of the word "Wordle" for this web site. If you're an intellectual property lawyer, with expertise in trademark law, and you wish to offer professional advice on this matter, please contact me." I think it would have been helpful if some more details had been given, since there's rumours rife on Twitter at the moment regarding who the conflict is with. Some suggest IBM (for reasons that I don't quite get), and other people are pointing a finger at the producers of an app called Wordle, which has been submitted as an app to the Apps store. I've left a comment on their blog page asking them to clarify this - boycott suggestions are already appearing on Twitter, so they're going to dragged into this one way or another. [Edit to add: There is a  live trademark for the use of the word owned by an American photographer - but no idea if he's involved with this issue at all.] It's also worth saying that this doesn't mean that Wordle is 'dead'. I think it's really stupid and irresponsible of people to say that it is. 'Down until further notice' does not mean 'dead' - it means, oddly enough, that it's down until further notice. Even if it can't continue under that name there's no reason why it shouldn't come back under another name. Meanwhile, what are the alternatives to Wordle? There are a variety of choices that people may wish to consider. TagCrowd is a free alternative that can be used without any kind of registration. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822144 http://www.stcharleslibrary.org/blog/jobs/2010/02/how_do_i_subscribe_to_this_pag.html You can find out about updates to this page without having to browse to it yourself to check. What Do I Need? Just like when you want to watch a video clip or listen to music on the web, you need a "player" of some kind to subscribe to feeds. The good news is, there are number of these tools available, and many of them are either totally free or free to try out. The "player" for a feed is called a feed reader. (Or sometimes it's called a news reader or RSS reader or RSS client. All these terms mean the same thing.) This tool lets you subscribe to any feeds you want, checks automatically to see when they're updated, and then displays the updates for you as they arrive. MORE INFORMATION... (Source: Positions Available) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822609 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~5/YWbQxSVOSnI/3FC.mp3 Es realmente impresionante lo sencillo que es hoy en día grabar un mensaje de audio y publicarlo en línea. Hace unos días hablamos de Vocaroo y hoy le presentamos otras dos herramientas para grabar audio: Audioboo y Chir.ps. Entre las ventajas de estas aplicaciones es que no necesitas instalar ningún programa, no tienes que preocuparte por publicar el archivo y son gratuitas. Nuestros estudiantes pueden utilizarlas sin mayores problemas para completar tareas relacionados a un curso. Chir.ps esta dirigida a añadir audio a las publicaciones en Twitter pero puede ser usado de forma independiente. Después de crear una cuenta en el sistema puedes comenzar a grabar un mensaje usando esta interfaz: Después de grabar el mensaje, añades lo que deseas que aparezca en Twitter y oprimes el botón de “Tweet Your Audio Now”. Si lo hacen más sencillo, lo dañan. El mensaje es procesado en pocos minutos y se publicará tanto en Twitter como en el portal del Chir.ps. Existe también la opción de subir un archivo en formato mp3 He creado un sitio en Chir.ps para añadir  algunos cuentos cortos. Los mensajes pueden ser descargados en formato mp3 pero no ofrecen un código para insertarlos en un blog o página web. Sin embargo, puedes usar un “player” para que se pueden escuchar desde el blog: [audio http://chir.ps/3FC.mp3 ] Para grabar un mensaje en Audioboo seleccionas entre el botón de grabar un mensaje en línea o subir un archivo en formato mp3: Si seleccionas la primera alternativa, se presentará una página en donde puedes comenzar a grabar el mensaje: Después de terminar de grabar el mensaje, añades un título y una etiqueta para describir el mismo: Incluso puedes incluir una imagen relacionada al mensaje: Si lo deseas pues también añadir tu localización: Finalmente, pulsas en el botón de “Publish”. Audioboo ofrece un código para insertar el mensaje en un blog o página web. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:36:59 +0100 821827 http://lisnews.org/announcing_lisnews_librarian_joke_contest As the LISNews Librarian Essay Contest winds down it seems like a good time to formally announce the LISNews Librian Joke Contest! We won't judge each joke, but anyone who submits a joke will be entered to win some cool prizes. From www.funkandweber.com and www.StitchingForLiteracy.com ...a set of four Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy cross stitch bookmark patterns, including two designed from the old chicken-and-frog library joke. You know, a chicken walks into a library and says, "book, Book, BOOK!" (you gotta say it like a chicken), so the librarian gives her a book. The chicken takes the book outside and down to a pond where a frog sits on a lily pad and croaks, "read-it, read-it" (that's right, say it like a frog). Book Marks from www.InMyBook.com Web Hosting from www.LISHost.org You'll want to submit your joke(s) HERE starting on MONDAY. Follow along on the tracker page (http://lisnews.org/joketracker) or RSS feed (http://lisnews.org/jokes/rss) (Source: LISNews.org) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:12:18 +0100 821760 http://www.lisnews.org/announcing_lisnews_librarian_joke_contest As the LISNews Librarian Essay Contest winds down it seems like a good time to formally announce the LISNews Librian Joke Contest! We won't judge each joke, but anyone who submits a joke will be entered to win some cool prizes. From www.funkandweber.com and www.StitchingForLiteracy.com ...a set of four Needle and ThREAD: Stitching for Literacy cross stitch bookmark patterns, including two designed from the old chicken-and-frog library joke. You know, a chicken walks into a library and says, "book, Book, BOOK!" (you gotta say it like a chicken), so the librarian gives her a book. The chicken takes the book outside and down to a pond where a frog sits on a lily pad and croaks, "read-it, read-it" (that's right, say it like a frog). Book Marks from www.InMyBook.com Web Hosting from www.LISHost.org You'll want to submit your joke(s) HERE starting on MONDAY. Follow along on the tracker page (http://lisnews.org/joketracker) or RSS feed (http://lisnews.org/jokes/rss) (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:12:18 +0100 821688 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/nJuZyzei9Fk/ Found via Slashdot: A patent filed by Google in 2008, made public last week, covers methods of separating printed magazine articles into individual digital articles that Google could deliver individually. This technique could make it easier for Google to add periodicals to its Google Books program. As Erik Sherman’s article on BNET notes, there are considerable technical hurdles to doing this (which is what the patent itself is trying to address), but perhaps more challenging are the legal hurdles. The Tasini case (which TeleRead mentioned here and here), in which freelance writers sued over their articles’ inclusion in a database, established that permission for article publication in print did not cover further uses such as syndication and database rights. Of course, since that time publishers have simply added those rights to their standard contracts—and many freelance writers may not necessarily have registered the copyright for their older articles giving them little legal standing to sue. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:15:00 +0100 821802 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/02/end-of-02-2010.html Gates foundation is funding ViewChange (check some nice music ) which is leveraging linked data and Freebase, Zemanta, OpenCalais, and other open APIs.Bueda turns your tags into RDFReflect gets into SecondLlifeGive to small companies a chanceFrom Abstracting & Indexing to Tweeting & Indexing?No one knows where Turkey is heading?"Potential energy" in financial markets.Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823694 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/F-Rhw89RgSU/ Rafe Needleman had an article on CNET about a new search engine, Buzzzy (note the three z’s), which searches Google Buzz. But it searches other sources, too, and divides them out in interesting ways. Buzzzy lives at http://buzzzy.com/ with a simple keyword search on its front page. I did a search for Toyota. You might notice from the first results that Buzzzy is denoting different content sources. Take a look at the left nav; you’ll see links to get results from places familiar like Friendfeed, Twitter, and Google Reader, and places less familiar (at least to me) like AutoSavant. There are also some timeline options, as well as the ability to limit your results to certain types of media or to links only. For example, I can do a search for Toyota, specify Twitter as a search, and then limit my results further to just links. And even better than that, you can get the results as an RSS feed. I’m still not deeply into Google Buzz but I like how Buzzzy lets you divide up and filter the results. Worth a look. (Source: ResearchBuzz) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:39:19 +0100 823272 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Industry-Watch/Analyze-Anywhere-from-StoredIQ--60814.aspx ECA made easy (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822175 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/02/students-like-this-fee-so-much-they-imposed-it-on-themselves.html Usually higher fees imposed by universities are protested by students, but at the University of Georgia students are imposing fees on themselves. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that starting next semester, students will be charged $3 each to help their college go green. Usually higher fees imposed by universities are protested by students, but at the University of Georgia students are imposing fees on themselves. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that starting next semester, students will be charged $3 each to help their college go green. Read more at:http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_14421545?source=rss&nclick_check=1 (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821387 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/02/24/ala-learning-and-mobility/ I have been very impressed with ALA’s new ALA Learning blog. If you do any training or educational activities it’s worth adding to your RSS feeds. Take this posting for example: 10 Smart Phone Apps to Help You Be a Better Trainer by Sarah Houghton-Jan It’s helpful, forward thinking and gives you something you can try right away. Cool! Thanks. Stephen (Source: Stephen) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:28:29 +0100 821291 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/0n1git1VTF4/ Next Weblog update on 3/24/10. Ariadne, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Abstract Modelling of Digital Identifiers"; "eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point?"; "Get Tooled Up: Xerxes at Royal Holloway, University of London"; "Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profile"; "Uncovering User Perceptions of Research Activity Data"; and other articles. College and Research Libraries 71, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty" and other articles. College and Research Libraries News 71, no. 2 (2010): Includes "Recognizing Opportunities: Conversational Openings to Promote Positive Scholarly Communication Change" and other articles. The Electronic Library 28, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Perception and Usage of E-Resources and the Internet by Indian Academics," "Use of Electronic Information Resources and Facilities by Humanities Scholars," and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 2 (2009): Includes "Sociological Implications of Scientific Publishing: Open Access, Science, Society, Democracy and the Digital Divide" and other articles. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 14, no. 4 (2009): Includes "The Situation of Open Access Institutional Repositories in Spain: 2009 Report" and other articles. Johns, Adrian. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. (Publisher's decription) The Journal of Academic Librarianship 36, no. 1 (2010): Includes "The Google Books Project: Will it Make Libraries Obsolete?" and other articles. Journal of Educational Technology Systems 38, no. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:31:08 +0100 821881 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/24/library-2-0-not-just-for-users.html The concept of “Library 2.0″ has been around long enough now that we’ve gone through all the stages and argued it to death, as noticed by Andy Woodworth in a post titled Deconstructing Library 2.0. That’s a good thing, and you should go read his thoughts on the subject. No matter which side you of the debate you come down on, you can probably prove your case. Me? I agree with Andrew Burkhardt when he notes, “The time has come for libraries to be social on the web. Social is the new normal. It has become mainstream and people expect it. Library 2.0 is not dead, it has just become boring and commonplace. And to quote Clay Shirky, ‘Tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.’ ” In his paper Participatory Networks: The Library As Conversation, Dave Lankes said that “libraries should focus on the phenomena made possible by the technology,” not the technology itself, which I think is a pretty good way of thinking about “Library 2.0.” Maybe that’s where we are now, which would be a great way to continue the discussion, hopefully without the moniker. I think several of us thought that’s what we were doing, but it didn’t come across that way. The hard part, though, is that Library 2.0 doesn’t really replace anything. Like so many library services, the opportunities these new tools afford us are in addition to everything we’re already doing, which causes problems, because we don’t get additional resources to implement them. To serve as many of your users as possible, you have to be in as many of the places where they are as possible. That principle has been the philosophy behind this site from day one, eight years ago. That means being out in your community physically and digitally, and that’s one of the pieces of L2 that I think was never adequately explained. We’re already pretty good at getting out from behind the physical reference desk. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:53:28 +0100 821152 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/5hxWbot7Gq0/london-word-festival-uk.html "London Word Festival is a pioneering, annual celebration of words, text and language; daring in its approach to cross-artform programming, commissioning new work and exploring non-traditional spaces. Established in 2007 and based in London's vibrant East End, the Festival has featured a wide range of artists from the fields of music, literature, comedy, theatre and live art. 7 March to 1 April 2010" RSS Feed (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:33:31 +0100 821087 http://jamillan.com/librosybitios/blog/2010/02/post-abierto-los-departamentos-de.htm Queridos amigos o sobre todo (a juzgar por las firmantes) queridas amigas:Desde hace cosa de un año ha aumentado exponencialmente el número de editoriales que se dirigen por correo electrónico a mí (y, por lo que sé a otros autores de blogs) con noticias promocionales: sobre aparición de libros, presentaciones, etc.Este blog, como debería ser obvio, no se dedica a informar sobre novedades, y las acciones promocionales sólo encuentran eco aquí cuando tienen algún interés tecnológico o editorial complementario. Por favor: no me llenen de espam editorial. Otros envíos entran dentro de lo que razonablemente podría tratar en el blog: agradezco mucho esas noticias.Pero a veces hay cosas que no entiendo. Este es uno que acabo de recibir, sobre un proyecto a priori interesante:Estimado amigo,Te envío información sobre el nuevo proyecto de XXX: YYY. Si decidieras publicar algo en tu blog te agradecería muchísimo si fueses tan amable de mandarme el link.Muchas gracias.Recibe un cordial saludo,ZZZWWW ComunicaciónVamos a ver si lo entiendo bien: ¿quieres que te haga un favor hablando de tu proyecto, y si te lo hago, quieres que invierta mi tiempo en contártelo? Si tanto te intereso, mira mi blog con frecuencia, a ver si te menciono. O bien: ¿has oído hablar de los RSS para suscribirte a un blog? ¿O de las alertas que, como las de Google te informan cuando sale tu nombre en la Web?Lamentablemente, muchas veces me da la impresión de que los avances que se van consiguiendo en tecnologías de comunicación, y su apropiación por parte de las personas, se convierten en una caricatura cuando caen en manos de muchas empresas. Web 2.0., participación, redes, son temas que ahora están en boca de todos, pero en la práctica se funciona muchas veces con los mecanismos mentales del pasado... ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821480 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/9A_XrME2pE8/ A lot of new stuff from them here. From the press release: OverDrive … announced today new services that will significantly expand its digital distribution network for copyrighted digital media. New digital book formats, streaming content services, and title discovery and fulfillment enhancements will be available in 2010, which will help OverDrive’s publishing partners, retailers, and libraries capitalize on accelerating market demand. During 2009, OverDrive achieved its fifth consecutive year of double digit growth and profitability by adding hundreds of retail, library, corporate, and school outlets for more than 1,000 publishers’ copyrighted eBooks, audiobooks, music, and video in more than a dozen countries. Building on this momentum, OverDrive will introduce new services for 2010, including: Content Reserve® Plus: OverDrive’s global distribution platform will integrate third party digital catalogs to add their eBooks, databases, music, video, and enhanced multimedia content to OverDrive’s network of retail and institutional accounts. In March, OverDrive will demonstrate interactive educational eBook products including “read aloud” features and DRM-free eBooks in “Open EPUB” and “Open PDF” formats at the Public Library Association National Conference in Portland, Oregon. OverDrive is now in negotiation with rights holders of databases, periodicals, newspapers, music by the track, HD and mobile streaming video, and reader apps to add their content to OverDrive’s current catalog of over 450,000 copyrighted digital titles. OverDrive Catalog Apps: OverDrive catalog apps, REST APIs, web services, RSS and other tools utilizing XML and open standards will enable mobile app developers and wireless devices to directly manage eBookselling, catalog access, discovery, and eCommerce support for customers of digital books directly from OverDrive-powered retail eBookstores, library catalogs, and other digital collections. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:25:06 +0100 820805 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/CMS-Watch-changes-name-to-The-Real-Story-Group-61313.aspx New research services and delivery models (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Digital Asset Management) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 822168 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/maSYjaEW8rc/ With Dev8D coming up, here’s a quick round-up/reminder of some tools/techniques for hacking around with code via a browser, or running interactive coding presentations in a browser… Advanced Javascript Tutorial – an interactive Javascript tutorial; double click on the code examples to edit them, then run them in the presentation window; (read more about it here: Adv. JavaScript and Processing.js); Obsessing – an interactive version of Processing that runs in the browser; Hacking with PHP – if you’re looking for ideas about how to present code demos, here’s a good example; Codepad – “an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email.” Yahoo Pipes – online tool for hacking around with RSS feeds, CSV, simple screenscraping; Google spreadsheets – 2D programming canvas (honestly!;-) Google Code Playground – an interactive playspace for tinkering with Google APIs; KML Interactive Sampler – mess around with KML code and see how Google Earth treats it. (NB The Google Earth API is also available in the Google Code Playground… so this sampler may be deprecated?) Wonderfl – edit Actionsript and run it live in a browser; And if your presentation includes visits to websites, remember to share the URL via a SplashURL bookmarklet (developed at Dev8D last year; SplashURL screencast.) PS if you know of any other apps in a similar vein, or links to videos showing really effective ways of presenting code, please add a comment below. (Source: OUseful Info) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:44:10 +0100 822067 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/22/2010-plans-to-be-a-busy-year-for-overdrive-with-new-ebook-and-distribution-services/ From the OverDrive Announcement: + OverDrive Digital Kiosk & Library eBook Devices: OverDrive will release the next version of its OverDrive Download Station software, which provides direct access to eBooks and other popular media inside hundreds of schools and libraries. OverDrive is also working with several PC, Tablet, Netbook, and eReader device manufacturers who will introduce products specifically designed for use in schools, libraries, and institutions to access OverDrive catalogs of eBooks, audiobooks, music, video and enhanced content. + Content Reserve Plus OverDrive’s global distribution platform will integrate third party digital catalogs to add their eBooks, databases, music, video, and enhanced multimedia content to OverDrive’s network of retail and institutional accounts. In March, OverDrive will demonstrate interactive educational eBook products including “read aloud” features and DRM-free eBooks in “Open EPUB” and “Open PDF” formats at the Public Library Association National Conference in Portland, Oregon. + OverDrive First Gear: Enhanced DRM-free eBook and audiobook excerpts for streaming or offline reading with direct “buy-it-now” options and coupons dynamically customized into each title. First Gear will also be able to connect readers with retailers, publisher and author websites, and fan communities. + OverDrive Catalog Apps OverDrive catalog apps, REST APIs, web services, RSS and other tools utilizing XML and open standards will enable mobile app developers and wireless devices to directly manage eBookselling, catalog access, discovery, and eCommerce support for customers of digital books directly from OverDrive-powered retail eBookstores, library catalogs, and other digital collections. + OverDrive MIDAS 2. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:02:31 +0100 820631 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/5IClnnO775w/ Following the broadcast of the final episode of The Virtual Revolution, the OU/BBC co-produced history of the web, over the weekend, and the start today of the radio edit on BBC World Service, here are a few thoughts about how we might go about building further attention traps around the programme. Firstly, additional content via Youtube playlists and a Boxee Channel – how about if we provide additional programming around the edges based on curating 3rd party content (including open educational video resources) as well as OU produced content? Here’s a quick demo channel I set up, using the DeliTV way of doing things, and a trick I learned from @liamgh (How to build a basic RSS feed application for Boxee): I opted for splitting up the content by programme: Whilst the original programme is on iPlayer, we should be able to watch it on Boxee. I also created and bookmarked a Youtube playlist for each episode: So for example, it’s easy to moderate or curate content that is posted on Youtube via a programme specific playlist. Here’s the channel definition code: <app> <id>bbcRevolution</id> <name>Virtual Revolution, Enhanced</name> <version>1.0.1</version> <description>Watch items related to the BBC/OU Virtual Revolution.</description> <thumb>http://www.bbc.co.uk/virtualrevolution/images/ou_126x71.jpg</thumb> <media>video</media> <copyright>Tony Hirst</copyright> <email>a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk</email> <type>rss</type> <platform>all</platform> <minversion>0.9.20</minversion> <url>rss://pipes.yahoo. ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:09:04 +0100 822069 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Open-Text-to-acquire-Nstein-61266.aspx Further expands ECM portfolio (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Knowledge Management) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820686 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Managing-SharePoint-61270.aspx Ensim adds to Unify Enterprise suite (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820678 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Delivering-a-custom-financial-accounting-solution-61265.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820677 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/SharePoint-collaboration-for-Apple-61269.aspx Support for iPhone, iPad (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Collaboration) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820675 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/02/parenting-and-linked-data.html Watching the kids in Sims and reminding that there is also a "real" roomResearch Funding Explorer by Talis which has one of the most forward thinking product and technology teams that you can find in STM market.GSK understands that Opening up is good in overall.Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821620 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/20/ten-million-cia-documents-require-in-person-visit/ From a Blog Post: The Central Intelligence Agency maintains more than 10 million pages of declassified, post-World War II documents, covering everything from the birth of the CIA to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The documents are publicly available – assuming one is willing to drive to the National Archives complex in College Park, Maryland, sit at one of four computer terminals in the library, and print dozens, hundreds, or thousands of pages. Steven Aftergood, who runs the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists, argues that the documents, accessible through the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), should simply be put online, given their non-sensitive nature. “It’s the richest source of agency historical records in the public domain – except that it’s not fully in the public domain,” Aftergood said. Indeed, only document titles are available on the CIA’s Web site, though specific documents can be obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. In an e-mail, CIA spokeswoman Paula Weiss wrote, “When it comes to openness, our record is, quite frankly, unsurpassed among foreign intelligence agencies. As part of our continuing commitment to share this information, we’re looking into other ways of providing CREST documents.” Source: Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group Note: If Government Secrecy is of Interest, We Strongly Suggest a Subscription to Steven Aftergood’s “Secrecy News.” It’s a Free Resource and is Available as a Blog, E-Mail Newsletter, and RSS Feed. (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:53:26 +0100 819832 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/ZB8umS0VHOo/waarheen-nu-zb-digitaal.html In functioneringsgesprekken die in de afgelopen maanden plaatsvonden evalueerde ik met mijn leidinggevenden het jaar 2009 en keken we vooruit naar 2010. We concludeerden al snel dat het niet zo eenvoudig is om alles goed in kaart te brengen. Enerzijds is er een overzichtelijk pakket van structurele taken, anderzijds ben ik ad hoc betrokken bij allerlei projecten rondom de digitale en experimentele bibliotheek. Dat dit zou gaan gebeuren werd een paar jaar geleden al duidelijk maar tot 2009 werd ik vooral ingezet bij bestaande projecten en activiteiten, daarna vooral bij nieuwe. Dat is een logische ontwikkeling als je het Beleidsplan 2009-2013 bekijkt: de digitale bibliotheek is daarin de rode draad, terwijl het aantal formatieplaatsen dat zich geheel op die ontwikkelingen richt beperkt is. Ik beschouw dat laatste als onvermijdelijke gevolg van een organisatie in transformatie. Er wordt hard aan gewerkt maar nog lang niet alle ontwikkelingen zijn echt verankerd in de organisatie. Sommige ontwikkelingen laten zich ook niet goed vangen of verankeren. Dit weblog is zo'n ontwikkeling, maar dan eentje die al meer dan vier jaar geleden in gang werd gezet. Ik denk dat ik een van de eerste medewerkers in bibliotheekland was die structureel '8 uur per week kreeg' om te bloggen. Tijdens de nieuwjaarstoespraak 2010 was de directeur bijzonder lovend over het bereik en de statistieken van ZB Digitaal. Daar spreekt veel waardering uit. Het is ook zo dat de cijfers uit de Blognotitie van de zomer van 2007 er alleen maar beter op zijn geworden, veel beter zelfs, maar ondanks dat, en ondanks de waardering, raakt het blog 'in de vaart der volkeren' toch een beetje in de verdrukking. Het bloggen is gelukkig nog steeds geïntegreerd in mijn werkzaamheden maar het is ook nog steeds zo dat ik het grootste deel ervan thuis doe. 's Avonds, 's ochtends voor het werk, gisteren op mijn vrije dag of zoals nu, in het weekend. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 10:09:00 +0100 819830 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/02/open-data-scalable-publishing.html Panton Principles for Open Data authored by Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, Cameron Neylon, STFC, Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation and John Wilbanks, Science CommonsNSF visualization challengeA different perspective on scalable publishingRafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821621 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/nkMYbGYrkXE/3580 FeedNestFeedNest allows you to publish your RSS feed on a twitter account. Twitter is fast becoming a fantastic place for your readers to keep upto date with the content on your site. Our system will take your RSS feed and twitter login, then it will automatically post each new item onto your twitter account. Don't worry unlike some other services you don't need to know anything complex, just your RSS feed location and twitter logon details! More of my links (Source: What I Learned Today...) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:02:02 +0100 819911 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15842 Hi all, A few months back, I came across a free online wireframing tool in my RSS reader - someone had posted it as something to check out. I can't recall if the blog post was highlighting a collection of tools, or what. I used this tool for one project as a test, and I liked it. Somehow I can't remember what it was and no search I'm doing will bring it up! It allows you to drag and drop objects onto a work area and then you can print it out - really simple but has a lot of options for the objects. Does this sound like anything anyone is using? Other recommendations for free online wireframing tools would be great, too, if anyone has any. Thank you! Mary Beth Faccioli, MLIS Instructional Design & Technology Consultant Colorado State Library (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819445 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15846 Hi, Mary Beth, Was it Mockflow? http://www.mockflow.com/ I haven't used it but believe that it was mentioned on this list. Good luck! Sincerely, Jason Curtis Serials Librarian Thomas Jefferson School of Law 2121 San Diego Avenue San Diego, CA 92110 Phone: 619.297.9700 ext.1103 Fax: 619.374.6394 Email: jcurtis-N9MalpFKFk0< at >public.gmane.org www.tjsl.edu -----Original Message----- From: web4lib-bounces-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Mary Beth Faccioli Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:00 PM To: web4lib-Lfqs8nn97uZKgiwHgTXaBw< at >public.gmane.org Subject: [Web4lib] free online wireframing tool? Hi all, A few months back, I came across a free online wireframing tool in my RSS reader - someone had posted it as something to check out. I can't recall if the blog post was highlighting a collection of tools, or what. I used this tool for one project as a test, and I liked it. Somehow I can't remember what it was and (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 819441 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/UBMfTRrJnE0/ A couple weeks ago I covered Google’s new feature that allows you to monitor pages even when they don’t have RSS feeds. A few days ago reader LP e-mailed me and asked about the new feature, “Did it work?” And I realized I had completely forgotten to write a follow-up post. So yeah, about Google Reader’s new page-monitoring feature…. The first great thing about this feature is that it taught me how many Web pages do in fact have RSS feeds. I went to several places meaning to monitor the page for pages, only to discover that RSS feeds were available now. Yay! I did find some places that did not have RSS feeds, though; the best example is probably the Twitter lists that use Tweets from ResearchBuzz. The URL for the list is http://twitter.com/ResearchBuzz/lists/memberships but I didn’t know of any way to track when new lists were added to this page. So that was my test case for Google Reader. Every change to the page is a new entry in Google Reader. The screenshot above shows an example of an entry. There’s no context on the page, and if I wasn’t familiar with the page content to start with, the entry wouldn’t be useful (in other words, I wouldn’t share it.) I also tried the Google Reader with http://www.ted.com/pages/view?id=348, which is a list of upcoming TEDx events all over the world. Again, I didn’t get any context, just the line that changed. One Google Reader update monitor I did failed. I was trying to monitor a particular business in Google Maps because I wanted to see what kind of reviews they got. I think this might be my fault, however. I looked up the business in Google, and then used the extremely-long-and-awkward URL supplied by Google as my monitoring URL. Google never got an update for that page, and complained that the page didn’t exist. ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:29:54 +0100 821237 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/QohuwR5C0Dw/ One of the many RSS related feature requests I put in when we were working on the JISCPress project was the ability to get a page level RSS feed out where each paragraph was represented as a separate item the page feed. WordPress already delivers a single item RSS feed for each page containing just the substantive content of the page (i.e. the content without the header, footer and sidebar fluff), which means you can do things like this, but what I wanted is for the paragraphs on each page to be atomised as separate feed elements. Eddie implemented support for this, but I didn’t do anything with it at the time, so here’s an example of just why I thought it might be handy – paragraph level search. At the moment, searching a document on WriteToReply returns page level results – that is, you get a list of search results detailing the pages on which the search term(s) appear. As you might expect with WordPress, we can get access to these results as a feed by shoving feed in the URI, like this: http://ouseful.wordpress.com/feed?s=test Paragraph level feeds, as implemented in the Digress.it WordPress theme we were developing, are keyed by URLs of the form: http://writetoreply.org/legaldeposit/feed/paragraphlevel/annex-c-online-content-to-be-published/#56 That is: http://writetoreply.org/DOCNAME/feed/paragraphlevel/PAGENAME/#PARA_NUMBER So can you guess what I’m gonna do yet…? First of all, grab the search feed for a particular query on a particular document into a Yahoo Pipe: Rewrite the URI of each page liked to in the results feed as the full fat, itemised paragraph feed for the page, and emit those items (that is, replace each original search results item with the set of paragraph items from that page). ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:04:24 +0100 820015 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/-SY06hxJo_Y/3579 FeedNestFeedNest allows you to publish your RSS feed on a twitter account. Twitter is fast becoming a fantastic place for your readers to keep upto date with the content on your site. Our system will take your RSS feed and twitter login, then it will automatically post each new item onto your twitter account. Don't worry unlike some other services you don't need to know anything complex, just your RSS feed location and twitter logon details! More of my links (Source: What I Learned Today...) Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:02:03 +0100 819912 http://blogaboutmurphy.blogspot.com/2010/02/looking-for-free-audio-books.html There are a number of different audio book services, using either ITunes, or Audible, that allow you to purchase audio books and play them on a portable player, but did you know there is also a free service for audio books? Introducing Librivox, a service whose goal is to  “To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.” Public Domain materials are creative works that are not protected by copyright and may be freely used by everyone and this includes many older works of fiction.  Librivox won't have the new bestseller by Dan Brown but it will have a number of classic works like "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" or Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".  All of these works are available as mp3 downloads that don't require any special software, and you can listen on your computer, transfer them to an mp3 player, or burn them to a cd.    Librivox has 5 fundamental principlesLibrivox is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free  Librivox donates its recordings to the public domain Librivox is powered by volunteers Librivox maintains a loose and open structureLibrivox welcomes all volunteers from across the globe, in all languagesYou can browse the entire catalog, or search for a particular author or title. Maybe you are interested in horror stories, or mysteries.  You can also browse by genre, and subsribe using one of their rss feeds, including a feed for new releases.  If you are already an ITunes user, you can subscribe to Librivox audio books in ITunes.  They have put together a page of useful instructions for new users on how to listen and subscribe to their content.If you are looking for newer materials in audio book format you can also download audiobooks from the CLC Library's website.  You can search our catalog, or browse My Media Mall website. ... Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820000 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/m_M835JkCxU/ariadne-issue-62-january-2010.html Ariadne - Issue 62, January 2010 is now available. Ariadne is targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people both in and beyond the Higher Education community. Its main geographic focus is the UK, but it is widely read in the US and worldwide. Subscribe to the RSS Feed (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:28:54 +0100 819207 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/7AWmhKi1WUc/ Last Thursday, I attended a Wookie Widgets training day at the Oxford University Computing Service; Wookie is an Apache (incubating) project that is making huge inroads as an implementation of the W3C widget specification. This post was written on the boat home, away from the net, so I’ve not fact-checked any claims I’ve made about Wookie, which means you need to be suspicious about anything I do say. If Scott or Ross want to put me right, please do so! (Then again, these impressions may prove useful in tweaking intro material in order to pre-empt similar misunderstandings in the future;-) It’s been several years since I last played with widgets (dabblings with Yahoo Konfabulator widgets, as they then there, Widgetbox and a few attempts at reclaiming the VLE, and so on), so what’s changed? As with many previous widget implementations, the Wookie platfrom essentially provides a W3C widgets compliant packaging format around bundle of zipped up HTML, Javascript and CSS files that implement an app typically designed to fit in a sidebar or fill the screen of a mobile device . The language is possibly evolving here, because of lot of what we might now call apps, when implemented using open web technologies look a lot like the sort of things that can also be packaged using widget standards. Maybe the apps vs widgets divide is along the lines of: widgets are designed as a part of some wider context (a sidebar widget in a learning environment, for example, or panel on an iGoogle personal page of Netvibes dashboard); widgets are largely passive display devices, or single function micro-applications. Whereas apps are either really interactive, or multifunction (like mini-websites). Or maybe there is no distinction? Anyway, in its current state, the Wookie server can be used to serve up the widget code into an iframe container which can then be embedded wherever. ... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:27:46 +0100 820017 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/LuraTech-unveils-DocYard-61165.aspx Facilitates document conversion processes (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820679 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Best-Practices-Case-Study-Time-Warner-CableHow-Time-Warner-Cable-Reduces-e2809cSold-to-Revenue-Cyclee2809d-61103.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Customer Relationship Management) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 +0100 820676