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 Social Networking interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:53:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/04/social-networks-and-archival-context.html The Social Networks and Archival Context Project (SNAC) sounds interesting.Leveraging the new standard Encoded Archival Context-Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF), the SNAC Project will use digital technology to “unlock” descriptions of people from finding aids and link them together in exciting new ways. We will:Create efficient open-source tools that allow archivists to separate the process of describing people from that of records.Create a prototype integrated historical resource and access system that will link descriptions of people to one another and to descriptions of resources in archives, libraries and museums; online biographical and historical databases; and other diverse resources.Related articlesSNAC :: Social Networks and Archival Context Project (socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu) (Source: Catalogablog) Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895896 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://feeds.lexblog.com/~r/ediscoverylaw/klgates/~3/90tDDPExFNo/ By: Martha Dawson, Michael Goodfried, K&L Gates This article appeared in DRI’s E-Discovery Connection, Volume 5 Issue 3, on December 23, 2010 Consider how you, or someone you know, uses social networking sites; and consider how valuable this could be in litigation. • “Check out the photos from my climb of Mt. Rainier. It rocked! I guess my back injury wasn’t that bad after all.” • I can’t believe what my boss just did.” • “My kids are driving me crazy. Anyone want to borrow them for the night?” Are Social Networking Sites Discoverable? Social networking sites are internet sites on which individuals or companies can create profiles about themselves and share information with others.  Users can update their status, type blog entries, post pictures or videos, send email or instant messages, or post comments on the profiles of their contacts, among many other offerings.  One of the most important aspects of social networking sites is the ability to link up with other users as “friends” or “contacts,” and decide with whom to share information.  Users can control their privacy settings and choose which information to make publically available, share with their contacts, share with their contacts’ contacts (friends of friends), or show only to certain individuals.  Some of the most popular social networking sites are Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. To read the full article, click here. (Source: Electronic Discovery Law) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:02:17 +0100 895757 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/qigst_w9oOc/ I guess that with 47 million iPhones sold throughout 2010 and with 20 million plus already expected for Q1 in 2011 there is very little I would probably need to add about the tremendous impact of the iPhone within the smartphone market, whether for business or for personal use. Or both. So earlier on this year, around mid-summer, and after having waited for a couple of years, I, finally, took the chance to upgrade my good old 3G iPhone and get back on track with things with the iPhone 4. Thus, I got my hands on one. Yes, the very same one that dealt with the antennagate, which I never saw, nor experienced, by the way, in the nearly six months I have been using it extensively all over the place, including abroad. And counting … Certainly, one of the major gadget highlights for me for 2010, specially, since it allowed me to reacquaint myself with that good old concept of smart mobility without continuing to have that feeling I have been missing something for a while… And so far the experience has been phenomenal, to say the least! It’s helped me get reacquainted with a good bunch of the iPhone Apps I fell in love in the first place when the iPhone 3G was still usable, plus a whole bunch of new ones that have come along rather nicely in the last few months. So when I resumed my blogging activities after a rather long hiatus not long ago I mentioned over here how, very soon, I would also be opening up a new series of blog posts, pretty similar to the My Top 5 iPad Apps of the Week, but instead of just sharing my favourite iPad Apps, I would also start sharing my iPhone Apps, with pretty much the very same flow, including the iPhone Game of the Week. That way folks, who may be interested in learning what interesting and rather helpful Apps there may be out there that I have been using lately, would have an opportunity to check them out themselves as well. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:21:15 +0100 895620 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-online-future-of-australian-journalism-as-seen-by-the-industry-itself/ I’m a journalist, and a member of the journalists union, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (of which the Australian Journalists Association, the AJA, forms part). All members receive a monthly magazine with news and in-depth articles about the industry, but this year is special – it’s 100 years since a wily bunch of Aussie scribblers formed the AJA. So, a century into Australian journalism proper, the union has published a report of the state of the industry, and where it expects the future to lay. (SPOILER: online). The report is called Life in the Clickstream II (a similar report came out two years ago), and I thought I’d share some of it (less than 10% of course, to keep my copyright nose clean!) with you. Keep in mind that this is the industry talking (through the report) about where they are and where they are going, not me. The state of play It’s ugly out there right now. In the federal secretary’s foreword, he talks about the “carnage” that had been forecast for the industry, and how it has been mitigated slightly by the appearance of news apps for phones and tablet computers like the iPad. But the operative word is “slightly”. All the graphs are sliding downwards. In Australia, the industry is on better shape than in the US or UK, but that’s no great prize. Hundreds of journalists no longer have full-time jobs, but here they are finding themselves in part-time or casual positions. I guess it’s better than being laid off. In the US the drop in print newspaper circulations are roughly 30%, in the UK about 20% overall. In AU, the decline is about 3% – the second-best result behind Austria in the Western world. New Zealand fared worse, dropping 13%. So it could be worse. But all but two major metro newspapers lost circulation here, and corresponding sales falls mean that the industry knows it needs to phase in a Plan B. It’s already doing so. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:21:15 +0100 895516 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/national-library-of-australia-social.html The National Library of Australia (NLA) has released Social Media Policy and Guidelines that are intended to "provide clarity to employees on how to conduct themselves in the emerging world of social media."The NLA encourages employees to participate in online life but outlines their responsibilities when using social networking media. For example, in their online activities in an official capacity, employees are subject to the same standards required by the Public Service Act 1999 as they are in a physical workplace. The same attitude exists, as far as I can tell, in Canadian public sector departments and agencies that encourage their workforce to engage in social media.This includes, according to the NLA document: behaving honestly and with integrity not providing false or misleading information in response to a request for information that is made for official purposes in connection with APS employment dealing appropriately with information, recognising that some information needs to remain confidential being apolitical, impartial and professional delivering services fairly, effectively, impartially and courteously to the Australian public behaving with respect and courtesy, and without harassment being sensitive to the diversity of the Australian public taking reasonable steps to avoid conficts of interest making proper use of Commonwealth resources (Source: Library Boy) Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895633 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/juror-misbehavior-in-information-age.html LLRX.com published an article last Sunday on Juror Behavior in the Information Age: "While the lure of tweeting or doing a Google search or updating a Facebook profile seems all but irresistible, these upheavals are reshaping the social dimensions of the trial and breaking down the barriers that channel the flow of information within the courtroom. Online misbehavior by jurors can be reduced to four principle areas: (1) publishing or distributing information about a trial, e.g., tweeting or posting updates on a social media site; (2) uncovering information about the case by searching the Internet, entering social networking sites or visiting virtual crime scenes; (3) contacting parties, witnesses, lawyers or judges via social networking for example; and (4) discussing or deliberating the merits of the litigation prematurely or inviting outside opinions." "Judges and court administrators are being tasked with responding to this technological revolution in jury behavior. They have been assigned expanded roles in jury selection and policing misconduct before, during and after trial (...)" "This article collects recent and notable examples of juror online misbehavior and highlights scholarship and practice resources concerning its implications for voir dire, trial management and the administration of justice" Earlier Library Boy posts on the topic include:Impartiality of Juries Threatened by Web? (October 22, 2009): "Donald Findlay QC, one of Scotland's top criminal lawyers, has warned that the impartiality of the jury system is at risk due to jurors using internet search engines and has warned that the Government cannot continue with its 'ostrich-like' attitude to the problem (...) "Should Twitter in the Courtroom Be Illegal? (November 11, 2009): "A U.S. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895632 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/quora-the-future-of-blogging-or-something-else/ Robert Scoble has a post on his blog talking about answer-finding service Quora, and why he feels it is significant. He points to a tweet from venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar who believes that it is “the future of blogging.” Blogs may not be e-books, but they are on-line content and certainly that’s a form of TeleReading. I had never heard of Quora before today and was curious, so I went over to check it out. What I found was an answer-finding service, where you post your question and other users will answer it. I wasn’t sure how this was different from Mahalo and Vark, answer-finding services I had used already, So I searched Quora and found some answers people had already given. The problem with Mahalo is that its answers tend to be low quality, and it tends to attract random people who are interested in making money rather than experts. Vark (acquired by Google) uses social networks but isn’t actually social: each person answers individually, without being able to see answers from any of the other people (and possibly be reminded of or catch something that they missed). And though you can share answers or discussion threads, you can’t browse answers others have already given. But I still couldn’t see what this has to do with blogging. After all, a blog is when you periodically write about a topic of interest to you or others, whereas question services are more about getting or giving answers. Blogging—at least the sort of blogging I do—tends to be more structured. What was Scoble on about? So I went back to his post and read it through again, considering. Scoble’s point seems to be that Quora combines the best features of answer services with the best features of social networking, blogging, and wikis—and that it’s a lot of fun. Anyway, I find that there’s something addictive about participating over there instead of here on my blog. ... Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:15:00 +0100 895410 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/wUD9ApnvecM/4468 This Christmas I got a Nook Color from my hubby and mother. I’ve been using it for a few days and I think it’s time to share my opinions. First things first, if you have an ebook reader you must download Calibre. Calibre is an open source ebook management application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux (a flavor for everyone). It’s a great way to convert files from one format to another, to manage all of your books and to download news from the web to your reader. I have started with a bunch of free and public domain materials (nothing purchased yet). I chose the Nook over other alternatives because it could open so many formats of ebook and it runs on the Android operating system so that gives me some options for openness should I decide to root the device (a practice that has recently been declared legal). However I have found some downsides to the supposed openness of the Nook. While I can read materials purchased or downloaded from other sites, these materials are treated like second class citizens on the Nook. What do I mean? Well my EPubs and PDFs can’t be mounted on the home screen. I can only access these materials by browsing my shelves or files. I also can’t use the built in social networking functionality on materials that are not from Barnes & Noble. Basically I can read these materials, but they’re harder to get to and not as functional. I’m reading The Art of Community right now and have just figured out how to highlight passages (a big plus). I can also access all of my highlights and notes in one menu. Now for the minus – I can’t find a way to download or share these quotes. If this were a Barnes and Noble publication I could share the quotes one by one with the ‘share’ function, but because this is a PDF (converted to Epub in Calibre) I can just highlight and that’s the end of it. ... Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:21:38 +0100 895489 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/new-ereader-app-hits-the-ipad-iflow/ eBook Magazine is reporting on this ereader app. It’s been out for the iPhone for a while, but the iPad version is new: A new ebook app combining a bookstore for new purchases with the ability to import titles purchased from any retailer which supports epub files protected Adobe DRM launched earlier this month for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. By mimicking the ‘buy anywhere, hear here’ approach of standalone ebook readers such as those from Sony, the free iFlow Reader app follows txtr and Bluefire in ending the segregation of books within vendor-specific apps. iFlow also offers readers to look up words and phrases on Google, Wikipedia, or dictionary.com as well as integration with Facebook allowing the sharing of excerpts and comments via the social networking site The iFlow website is here. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:04:15 +0100 895265 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/how-digital-technologies-affected-magazines-in-2010/ On PBS’s MediaShift, Susan Currie Sivek has a great article summing up the effect that the iPad and other digital technologies had on magazines in 2010. She starts by looking at magazine apps for the iPad: Zinio, Wired (which sold 105,000 copies in June, but was down to 32,000 by the month of September), and more. A number of these magazines are only showing 1 to 2 percent of newsstand sales for their apps. Users have been by and large unimpressed by iPad selections, calling the reading experience only “somewhat better or about the same” than print or computer editions, and balking at higher prices. Users of iPad magazines have also criticized what they see as a lack of creativity and technological savvy in designing usable, intriguing magazine apps for the iPad. Today’s magazine apps tend to be dull, clunky replicas of print magazine pages that don’t let readers share content via social media or even email. Despite being designed only for the iPad, even Project, the much-anticipated iPad-only magazine from Richard Branson’s Virgin Digital Publishing, was disliked by some readers for its awkward interface and its insistence on re-creating the print page experience. Civek also brings up the lack of subscriptions as a major drawback, and mention the efforts of major publishers to develop their own digital newsstands in competition to Apple. But the iPad is not the only digital issue affecting magazines. The article also brings up the Cooks Source incident, which we covered in several pieces here, and a similar, less-reported incident in which another small magazine used blogger content without permission. Another issue affecting magazine credibility is the use of paid sponsor blogs along with regular magazine content, potentially confusing advertising and content. And finally, the piece covers the rise of “magazine-like” digital content, such as social network reading app Flipboard. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 20:57:23 +0100 895101 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/26/20-things-we-learned-in-2010 Observer writers and experts chart the concepts, trends and buzz words that defined the past year and are likely to shape the next one1 The new politics is, in fact, the old politicsNick Clegg will regret many things about 2010. One will be his decision to produce a Lib Dem election poster warning that the Tories would raise VAT. A few weeks later Clegg, installed as deputy prime minister, was backing coalition plans to – yes – raise VAT.Then there was the pre-election pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. Six months later Clegg was pushing a policy to triple them.These shifts were damaging not just because they were old-fashioned U-turns but because they fatally undermined the party's raison d'etre – its commitment to deliver a new, honest politics. A vote for the Lib Dems, Clegg had said, would be "a vote that counts".It was all part of his broader attempt to promote the merits of voting reform – the Lib Dems' core policy. Fair votes through proportional representation would mean that everyone's vote would matter and everyone's voice would be heard.Floating the idea of "new politics" and calling for an end to the duopoly of the "old parties" made Clegg more popular than Churchill for a while. But it is dangerous to take the moral high ground in politics.A mid-December poll for the News of the World found 61% of respondents saying that they didn't trust Clegg, compared to 24% in April. In a few months, he had gone from being one of the most trusted politicians to one of the least trusted.To many, the "new politics" had begun to feel very much like old politics – if not rather worse, as angry protests hit the streets and chants rang out about promises broken. Toby Helm2 Kanye West is pop's top innovatorIn 2009, Kanye West had the distinction of being called a "jackass" by the US president, after rudely interrupting an acceptance speech by his fellow performer Taylor Swift at an awards show. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:07:13 +0100 894991 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/26/20-things-we-learned-2010 It was a year in which game-changing developments in social media competed with a new political turf wars over the 'squeezed middle'. Here a team of Observer writers and experts chart the concepts, trends and buzzwords that defined the last year and are likely to shape the next one1 The new politics is, in fact, the old politicsNick Clegg will regret many things about 2010. One will be his decision to produce a Lib Dem election poster warning that the Tories would raise VAT. A few weeks later Clegg, installed as deputy prime minister, was backing coalition plans to – yes – raise VAT.Then there was the pre-election pledge to vote against any rise in tuition fees. Six months later Clegg was pushing a policy to triple them.These shifts were damaging not just because they were old-fashioned U-turns but because they fatally undermined the party's raison d'etre – its commitment to deliver a new, honest politics. A vote for the Lib Dems, Clegg had said, would be "a vote that counts".It was all part of his broader attempt to promote the merits of voting reform – the Lib Dems' core policy. Fair votes through proportional representation would mean that everyone's vote would matter and everyone's voice would be heard.Floating the idea of "new politics" and calling for an end to the duopoly of the "old parties" made Clegg more popular than Churchill for a while. But it is dangerous to take the moral high ground in politics.A mid-December poll for the News of the World found 61% of respondents saying that they didn't trust Clegg, compared to 24% in April. In a few months, he had gone from being one of the most trusted politicians to one of the least trusted.To many, the "new politics" had begun to feel very much like old politics – if not rather worse, as angry protests hit the streets and chants rang out about promises broken. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:05:53 +0100 894994 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/VkrK6hXs2-M/ Once again, it’s that time of the year where the whole world goes on a standstill for a couple of days as we keep treasuring those precious little moments, you know, the little things that matter in our lives, with our family and loved ones and start celebrating Christmas as it deserves. From here, from this blog, I would want to take this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful time and a Merry Christmas to everyone out there who maybe celebrating. All along with the best wishes for the New Year, with lots of Happiness, plenty of good Health and Prosperity! It surely has been a fantastic year and I would want to share with you all my eternal gratitude for being there all along, for keeping coming back to the blog time and time again and for engaging in the conversations and make it a unique experience for yours truly! My sincere thanks to each and everyone of you! Hope we can continue the dialogue in 2011 and beyond! Whether face to face or virtually; whether over here or on various other social networking sites. Take good care everyone, have a wonderful time with those who matter the most to you in these special times and I am sure I will be seeing you all soon in one place or another as 2011 comes along! For now, I would just want to wrap up this blog post with you one of those YouTube video clips that will make you giggle big time, specially, if you are a social networker yourself! Can you imagine a Christmas 2.0 and what it could have been back then? Well, this is probably as close as it gets… I am sure you may have seen it already, but if you haven’t, hope you enjoy it! Merry Christmas, everyone!! – ¡¡Feliz Navidad!! (Source: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:56:38 +0100 895531 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/ruUdX9zbU5U/ Christmas 2010 is likely to be heavy on the gadgets with smart phones, tablets and e-readers being heavily promoted. Is your library ready to take advantage to promote reading, and your ebook collections? There are about 25 library services in Australia offering ebooks via the Overdrive digital media service according to a quick look at the Overdrive Find a Library. But there are also heaps of other sources of e-books (free and commercial, audio and text) that our communities could use. A couple of days ago on Twitter one library user’s frustrations with getting library ebooks onto her ipad were aired. After initial delight that her public library has downloadable audio and e-books turned to horror at how difficult it was to get them on her ipad she was considering “going to illegally download content”. “I tried to be good” she said. Fortunately she was successful on a second attempt the next day. I had some problems with my first attempt at getting an overdrive ebook onto my iphone, but the second attempt did work. I’ve no idea why one worked and the other didn’t. There are so many different operating systems, devices and sources to consider it’s no wonder that this might be challenging. So, while a gadgety Christmas presents an opportunity to promote ebook collections and reading ebooks generally, it really cannot be capitalised unless libraries and their suppliers can make the download experience as easy as possible and to make sure there is plenty of support. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:10:50 +0100 895494 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/nice.html Cherokee, Apple partner to put language on iPhones According to Wikipedia, 'since 2002, all Apple computers come with a Cherokee font installed.' Also, 'Cherokee Nation members Joseph L. Erb and Roy Boney, Jr. developed an iPhone application for Cherokee language text messaging and are in the process of developing Cherokee language social network and video games.' The Cherokee language, Tsalagi, has a written syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the early 19th century--which was particularly interesting as Sequoyah did not read any other script prior to his work on the syllabary. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895452 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryGarden/~3/rQzg46EG0fI/   I love libraries (John LeMasney)   I just wanted to thank all of the libraries and the people and resources connected to those libraries I visited this year. Thanks for all they did to help me get the important stuff taken care of. Happy holidays! - John LeMasney. Note: this image originally appeared at http://365sketches.org/2010/10/05/328-of-365-is-a-love-letter-to-libraries-design-inkscape/ (Source: Library Garden) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:39:06 +0100 895534 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://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/elpub-2011.html 15th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies will be held in June 2011, in Istanbul. The main themes of the conference include: Digital Publishing and Mobile Applications, Digital Publishing and Libraries, Archives and Museums, Scholarly Communication and Mobile Information Services, Social Networks and Mobile Technologies, Mobile Learning and Digital Cultural Heritage, and Mobile Information Organization and Retrieval. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895022 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/Ple33mRbfz4/dashing-through-snow-with-norad-and.html (Cross-posted from the Lat Long Blog)Every Christmas Eve, children all over the world ask themselves—and their parents—questions about Santa’s magical journey. How does Santa visit so many children in one night? Will he eat the cookies I left out? How does he fit all those presents into his sleigh? These childhood mysteries are part of what makes the Santa tradition so special.There’s one timeless question that we’re proud to say we can help answer: Where in the world is Santa at this very moment? Thanks in part to recent advances in warp-speed GPS technology and some very clever elves (elveneering?) NORAD Tracks Santa is once again prepped and ready to go.Starting tomorrow, December 24 at 2:00am EST, visit www.noradsanta.org to follow Santa as he journeys around the world delivering presents to children in more than 200 countries and territories. There are a few different ways to find the jolly old man in his unmistakable red suit over the course of the day, so feel free to track him using any of the following methods:See Santa on a Google Map: On your home computer or laptop, visit www.noradsanta.org and choose your preferred language. You’ll see a large Google Map on the page displaying Santa’s current location and his next stop. Click the video icons to watch “Santa Cam” videos, and click the gift icons to learn more about each city.Watch Santa fly with the Google Earth Plug-in: From www.noradsanta.org, click on the link Track Santa in Google Earth. You'll see Santa steering his sleigh right on the webpage. If you don't have the Google Earth plug-in, you can get ready by downloading it ahead of time.Follow Santa on your phone: Track Santa from your mobile phone by opening Google Maps for mobile and searching for [santa]. Or, visit m.noradsanta.org on your phone’s browser.Subscribe to his YouTube channel: Santa’s home on YouTube is at http://www.youtube.com/noradtrackssanta. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894702 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/GvyFentfG0c/what-i-love-about-librarians-and-social.html I have been thinking quite a bit recently about things that tend to drive me nuts at times.  I was going to write a list of pet peeves about librarians and libraries and other things but decided to be positive about it.  My favorite librarians and people understand that:·         Change or adversity creates new opportunities.·         Their projects or problems may not be more important than what I am currently working on.·         Trying new technologies is fun and a great opportunity.·         There are other ways to do  something than the way it is now being done.·         Not all work results in physical stuff.·         Time to play is important.·         Failure creates success.·         Format is no longer important, content is.What I like about social networking (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.):·         Connecting with others.·         Companies and institutions that respond to tweets.·         Discovering new ideas and technologies. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:13:00 +0100 894500 http://www.hsdl.org/hslog/?q=node/5899 The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) Weblog captures new reports on emerging topics dominating the homeland security headlines. This particular collection of blogs does not necessarily reflect the top homeland security stories of 2010. Rather, these blogs were selected based on the highest number of blog visits (hits), most frequently recurring blog themes, rising trends in homeland security, and critical Department of Homeland Security reports. The HSDL would like to highlight some of the issues that have shaped Homeland Security over the last year. Top Ten Blogs that have garnered the most attention from our readers: 1. Executive Order: Medical Countermeasures Following a Biological Attack 2. Pentagon releases Fort Hood Report 3. Global Warming is Now Officially Considered a Threat to U.S. National Security 4. Federal Grants and Loans Catalog is Now Available! 5. Counterterrorism Calendar 2010 6. New Defense Strategy: Pentagon Releases the Quadrennial Defense Review Report 7. New Reports Accuse White House of Underestimating Extent of Deepwater Horizon Spill 8. Racists and Terrorists Increasingly Using Social Networking Sites 9. Is Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Declining in the U.S.? 10. Local Military and Civilian Planning Critical to Disaster Preparedness read more (Source: HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:18:07 +0100 894465 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/OtNmEbiaJYI/ As we come to wrap up another another one of those unforgettable years (2010, that is…), specially, for the Enterprise 2.0 movement and, as we come to prepare things already for 2011 and beyond, one cannot keep but continue reflecting about the real impact of Social Computing within the enterprise and how it is changing the way we think (and behave!) towards the traditional concept of work. Today, in this blog post I would want to reflect a little bit further more on what the future of the workplace is, and, more specifically, how the use of all of these social software tools is changing the way knowledge workers get their jobs done. Much smarter, but not necessarily harder. The challenge though for all of us to answer is whether that really is the future of the workplace. Or not… Welcome to Social Business! Back in November, Imran Ali put together a rather insightful blog post over at GigaOm under the heading “The Future of Work: How Jobs Change in the Next Decade“, where he referenced a recent piece by Gartner on the changing nature of the workplace itself, specially within the next 10 years over at “Gartner Says the World of Work Will Witness 10 Changes During the Next 10 Years“. Both articles are really worth while to set the right context on how the workplace of today will definitely transform itself into the workplace of tomorrow thanks to the enormous influence of social computing within the enterprise and beyond. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 15:56:17 +0100 894537 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/CsLaTMVW30I/ Lots of deleted stuff I might have regretted posting… (I also apologise in advance for what some might take to be the self-aggrandising nature of this post…) Anyway, that’s all as maybe… One of the ideas I started trying to develop in preparing the promotion case was the notion of “influence”, and how online, network based activities might result in payoff for someone else, through being influenced, that could in part trickle back through some sort of recognised acknowledgement, or feed forward into a payoff that makes the academic or host institution more productive. So here are a handful of examples from the last week or so that provide anecdotal evidence about the influence and reach of posts appearing on OUseful.info: I flashed up on screen a post from Tony Hirst’s OUseful blog where he confessed to ‘hassling’ Simon Rogers over the formats of some of the information in the Guardian Datastore. Tony’s contributions are fantastically useful, and the team have now changed some of their workflows to try and include more universal identifiers. On datasets with country lists, for example, they now aim to provide the two letter ISO country code in order to get around confusion when comparing datasets that might feature Burma or Myanmar for example. - news:rewired – “Reader-centred journalism” [C]hanged some of their workflows… right… so that might make it easier for others, such as academics stooping so low as to use news media published data rather than “original” sources in their own work. Or it might mean that folk who are not academics putting the data to work because it’s now easier for them to do so, and getting real value out of it. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:34:25 +0100 895051 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/21/this-weeks-biotech-highlights-76/ This week in biotech was all about surveillance: Two Toronto scientists studied over two million tweets to assess the social network’s value as a public health surveillance tool and came away impressed. Even though social networks open some completely new avenues to gathering data and interacting, for the most part they are just valuable tools for use in traditional processes according to a recent Deloitte report. and many Pharma companies remain reluctant to engage. MaRS CEO Ilse Treurnicht, doing a bit of surveillance of her own on some publication surveillance data, noted that China is now second in publication of biomedical research articles globally, having recently surpassed Japan, the UK, Germany and Canada, among others. If you look at how often China’s scientists (as a whole) are cited by other scientists (a proxy for qualify or value), science in China still has a long way to go, though they have improved rapidly in “quality” as well. At The Cross-Border Biotech Blog and @crossborderbio on Twitter we are surveilling some beaches this week and will return in full force around the New Year. Happy holidays, everyone! (Source: Slaw) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 03:13:56 +0100 895195 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/lucchese Tuesday, December 21, 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. 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. However, most music application developers are locked out of the commercial music industry, unable to navigate the licensing maze, or to hire one of a few very well-connected deal makers necessary to launch a licensed service comprised of the same popular music available to larger players. In virtually every other market segment -- gaming, social networking, news, photography, etc. -- a developer just needs to build a great app. In the music space, that same developer also needs an army of lawyers and dealmakers. In this talk, The Echo Nest CEO Jim Lucchese will discuss the specific needs and vast potential of this growing music app development community, citing plenty of examples of new and innovative music applications. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:30:00 +0100 894314 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-library-world-current-issue.html New Library World journal has published the 11/12th issue of its 111 Volume. The following papers appeared in this issue.Public libraries as impartial spaces in a consumer society: possible, plausible, desirable?Social networking in academic libraries: the possibilities and the concerns,Library design, learning spaces and academic literacy,Implementation of the Finnish University Libraries National Information Literacy Recommendation into academic studies at the Kumpula Science Library, University of Helsinki,Customizing an open-source tool to enhance information literacy,Reference tools in Second Life: implications for real life libraries,Project management in the library. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895025 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/wiley-blackwell-begins-roll-out-of-mobile-apps-for-selected-health-publications/ From a Wiley-Blackwell News Release: Wiley-Blackwell is launching new mobile applications for selected health science journals, accessible via iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Symbian, PalmOS, and WAP devices. The applications, which will be freely available, will allow for the mobile delivery of title and abstract listings of articles with a feature that will enable users to create a “reading list” of desired full-text articles, available from the user’s desktop computer through Wiley Online Library. The apps will provide the full-text of a selection of articles, and mobile content will be pushed to the mobile application as it is added to Wiley Online Library. Additional features include listings of upcoming events, society news, and publication information. Easily navigable, the applications present an optimized reading experience from various mobile devices. [Clip] The first application to be launched is for the American Journal of Transplantation (AJT), delivering fast, high quality content in organ and tissue transplantation and the related sciences. In this AJT app, users have real-time access to article abstracts, The AJT Report, and the latest news and information from the field. With access to a range of topics including thoracic transplantation (heart, lung), abdominal transplantation (kidney, liver, pancreas, islets) and transplantation of tissues, users can create reading lists tailored to their own interests and customize the app through “My Feeds” with other relevant information. This content can then be shared via email or through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Download the app for any mobile device by visting http://amjtrans.mwap.at + Screenshots From the iPhone Version of the App Via Resource Shelf (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:34:32 +0100 894071 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/20/scott-pilgrim-world-satellite-awards Edgar Wright's comic book movie is best motion picture comedy or musical and Michael Cera is best comedy actorWith its video game imagery, slacker geek protagonist and sardonic 20-something humour, it is not the type of fare which generally tends to capture the imagination of Hollywood awards body members. Yet the comic book movie Scott Pilgrim Vs the World began a late run for awards-season recognition at the weekend after it picked up a gong for best film of the year at the Satellite awards.British director Edgar Wright's film took the best motion picture comedy or musical gong at the awards, which are handed out by the International Press Academy and mimic the Golden Globes by splitting awards into drama and comedy categories. Star Michael Cera also carried off the best comedy actor award for his turn as the lovelorn yet pugilistic Pilgrim.The award comes as a surprise because Wright's movie was generally seen as something of a turkey at the US box office, though it did receive strong reviews. Cera et al are unlikely to be celebrating at the Oscars come February, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences does not distinguish between comedy and drama, and rarely garlands the former. However, a Golden Globe run looks a distinct possibility.Elsewhere, The Social Network added to its haul of awards season wins by carrying off gongs for best motion picture drama, best director for David Fincher and best adapted screenplay for Aaron Sorkin, writer of The West Wing. Christopher Nolan's brainteaser thriller Inception won the awards for best score (Hans Zimmer), cinematography (Wally Pfister) and art direction and production design (Guy Hendrix Dyas, Luke Freeborn, Brad Ricker and Dean Wolcott).In the acting categories, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo's Noomi Rapace won best actress in a drama, Colin Firth was best actor in a drama for The King's Speech and Anne Hathaway was best actress in a comedy for Love and Other Drugs. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:29:02 +0100 894016 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/australian-law-reform-commission.html Just discovered this the other day: the Australian Law Reform Commission very recently started producing podcasts.The most recent one was Dec. 17 and dealt with indigenous issues and the Commission's family violence inquiry.As the Commission explained on Nov. 3, 2010 in a conference presentation called Opening Up the Conversation | Gov 2.0 Conference, it has been modernizing the tools it uses to reach out to the wider community:"First we would consult and then produce an Issues Paper, and call for submissions from stakeholders, then we would produce a Discussion paper, consult more and call for further submissions and then finally after more consultation, we would produce final Report with recommendations for reform." "This was time intensive process for us and for our stakeholders, and it was also pretty expensive to produce and distribute all these different printed documents. While the process definitely encouraged a two way conversation, we ask a question and you give us your opinion, what it didn’t encourage was a more dynamic backward and forwards dialogue, and it was a very formal process." "The online tools that we have adopted just in this past year, have started to subvert this three stage process and have allowed us to replace some of the steps and to encourage stakeholders to interact with the ALRC in a more fluid and dynamic way....getting involved at an earlier stage in the process and being able to engage in a more flexible, informal and interactive manner." "The tools that Marie Claire [Marie-Claire Muir, the Commission Web Manager] is going to go through briefly – our e-newsletters, blogs, closed social networks and Twitter - encourage a more immediate and dynamic conversation. They have also opened up the ALRC’s own processes more to the public, so that our inquiry work and the thinking that goes into our the development of our recommendations, is more transparent (... ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894101 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/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/lnUqZxPgKA8/ There have been rumors running around for the past few days about Yahoo shutting Delicious down.  According the TechCrunch post, the rumors started with layoffs at Yahoo and a leaked internal slide showing Delicious (along with MyBlogLog, Yahoo Picks, Alta Vista, Yahoo Bookmarks, Yahoo Buzz) planned to go into the “sunset.” The same TechCrunch post has been recently updated with information from the Delicious blog stating that Delicious will not be shut down but will be available to other companies.   “No, we are not shutting down Delicious. While we have determined that there is not a strategic fit at Yahoo!, we believe there is a ideal home for Delicious outside of the company where it can be resourced to the level where it can be competitive.” So it looks like the demise of Delicious is similar to Bloglines.  Now Bloglines has been picked up by Merchant Circle, but the relaunch of that platform seems to have some problems as one librarian noted.  We will have to see how Delicious fares.  It is interesting to see how social networking has evolved and changed and some of the beginning social systems like Bloglines and Delicious are no longer as relevant as they once were, Twitter and Facebook now rule the roost.  It may sound odd but it reminds me a bit of the gas guzzling SUV days smacking head on to high gas prices.  In 1992 the Hummer was hot, before he was the Governator, Arnold drove one around in the stop and go traffic of California.  About 15 years later the once popular car line couldn’t even be sold to a Chinese automaker. Let’s hope Delicious and Bloglines do not go the way of the Hummer, however it doesn’t look good for either product.  My guess is that they will eventually die or somebody will pick them up and figure out how to morph them into some new social product that we all have to use. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:11:18 +0100 893483 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/KvSCUjWj_F4/ Over the last couple of months I have been participating on a number of different podcasting episodes, (Internet) TV interviews, news articles and a whole bunch of other kinds of rich media publications talking, most of the time, around the topics of Enterprise 2.0, internal social software adoption and 2.0 evangelism, and, lately, the new social term that seems to be en vogue nowadays: social business. I originally had planned to share a few insights about the most interesting ones and point folks to the original resource to watch or read through them, but then I realised that there are out there far too many to mention in a single blog post, more than anything else, because some of the conversations have been substantially different from one another. So I thought that perhaps I would drop by over here, every now and then, and point folks to the odd one or two, so you could have a look into some of them, if you would be interested, but always being conscious of trying to strike a balance on not sharing them all one right after the other. That’s why I have decided as well that I will be splitting them up half in half and share some other pointers over at my Posterous site, which would also give me an opportunity to keep things going over there as well, as I keep making a much heavier use of it from here onwards… Thus, what a better way of kicking things off than sharing with you folks a recent podcasting episode that I participated in with the wonderful folks from The Taking Notes podcast, Bruce Elgort and Julian Robichaux. That’s right, back in November, Bruce invited me to participate in their #126 episode and talk with them about the topic of “Social Business”. Now, you may have noticed already, how for the last few weeks, probably since right after the Enterprise 2.0 conference event in Santa Clara, there seems to be a growing trend of switching away from the Enterprise 2. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:14:21 +0100 893464 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/xTjubgsFLhE/ Today’s links of interest: Random House Hires Ruth ReichlGood move for Random House. TOC Frankfurt Preview: “Customer Experience” is What Matters MostWhile we put about missing this year’s Tools of Change Frankfurt, this article about a session focusing on customer experience tells us this year’s event will be awesome! Federal appeals court tosses out method for calculating music streaming royaltiesNearly missed this one. Appeals court sides with Yahoo (and, essentially, other music streaming services), indicating the formulae used to determine royalties was not proper. Time Warner CEO not a fan of 99-cent TV rentals, eitherStop me if you’ve heard this one before. Reversal of Royalties: A Modest ProposalAuthor Bob Mayer offers up an interesting idea, one we suspect most will dismiss. Don’t. Give it some thought, make it better. Amazon Launches Facebook e-Commerce StoreThis is bigger news than it seems. Alyson Books Will Restructure as E-book Only House; Weise LeavesSad news with a positive angle. The hard part, as noted, is finding an experience digital publisher. Booksellers Hear Details of the Much-Delayed Google EditionsMore details emerge. Like, it’s likely to be six months before launch. Google Editions will be the ebook engine for ABA sites, but will also sell through Google and possibly other vendors. All interesting. Macomber Moves to RandomAfter a long and prosperous career at Harlequin, Debbie Macomber moves to a new publisher. Wow. Publishers’ Agency Model Punishes Mid-List AuthorsIs it us, or is there a lot of confusion going on in this article? All sort of ideas being conflated, which obscures a potentially valid argument. When is E-Royalty Not a Royalty? When 9th Circuit Court Says It Isn’tFinally! We’ve been wondering when more people were going to mention this. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:39:23 +0100 893572 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/kindle-for-android-updated-kindle-non-lighted-cover-replaceable-if-a-problem/ Android Community’s Chris Davies reports that there is a large Kindle for Android update today and as a result, it’s now called Kindle for Android, v2.0 and is, as usual, a free download. The updated version now “includes newspaper and magazine support together with ‘Move to SD Card’ functionality enabled … allows access to Amazon’s 100+ periodical titles, and shifts the Amazon store into the app itself rather than kicking you into the web version when you want to buy a new ebook. Meanwhile there’s also support for sharing your reading progress with social networks. The UI has been tweaked, with the option to use your Android smartphone’s volume keys to control page turns, and the chapter title now included in the reader status bar; there’s also zoom functionality for images and graphics.” SOME AMAZON KINDLE COVERS, NON-LIGHT VERSIONS HAVE CAUSED REBOOTS There have been various threads at the Amazon Kindle Community forums about what has appeared to be a problem with some batches of the Kindle leather cover without a built-in light but with the hinges that in the Kindle lighted cover make contact with the Kindle to provide power for the built-in light (which goes ‘off’ when the Kindle is in sleep mode).  In other words, in the lighted-covers, there’s no problem but with some of the non-lighted Amazon Kindle ones, the hinges are similar but no electrical contact was intended. It’s speculated that if the latter’s hinges are metal (some seem to be plastic and not causing problems), there is contact made that has caused reboots for some Kindle-3 owners for whom Amazon has replaced Kindles several times to no avail (while other others haven’t had any trouble).  And some feel that the problems have shown up more with cold weather. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:06:30 +0100 893399 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/newspapers-and-magazines-coming-to-amazon%e2%80%99s-buy-once-read-everywhere-kindle-apps-%e2%80%93starting-with-kindle-for-android/ From the press release: Amazon today announced that Kindle for Android is the first Kindle app to receive an update that enables users to buy, read, and sync over 100 Kindle newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and many more. Kindle for Android users can now buy a single issue or subscribe to the most popular newspapers and magazines, have them automatically delivered to their Android-powered device, and enjoy a full color reading experience optimized for the touch interface of Android-powered devices. Additional new features include the ability to seamlessly buy and download Kindle books and periodicals within the Kindle for Android app, share reading progress via social networks, and zoom closer to images and other graphics. Kindle for Android is the first major e-book app to offer periodicals on the Android platform. The new Kindle for Android app is available from Android Market. Customers who have already downloaded Kindle for Android will receive the update automatically. Learn more about Kindle for Android at www.amazon.com/kindleforandroid. “We want to give customers the freedom and flexibility to buy their newspapers and magazines once, and read them everywhere across the devices and platforms they chose—just like they do with Kindle books today,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “Kindle for Android is our fastest-growing application, and we’re excited to launch over 100 newspapers and magazines for our Android customers.” For a full listing of newspapers and magazines available on Kindle for Android, go to www.amazon.com/kindleappnewsstand. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:04:55 +0100 893404 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/QoKEuF8wuq8/svus.pdf I should state right up front that I know next to nothing about stalking or stalkers – never had it happen to me, never really thought much about it. But I said I’d write about it, so I am. And I do know this: some librarians are really, really worried that putting themselves “out there” by listing their full names and sharing a picture of themselves on a library website, or even by including their full name on a name badge, will somehow point them out as victims-in-waiting. You told me so. Here’s an example of that worry, from Nathan, who left a comment on my post about anonymity. Nathan says: “I won’t be pushing for them to have last names, because I know it won’t be accepted and it shouldn’t be. Stalking isn’t a ‘worst-case scenario’ here; it’s an everyday concern. We have a fairly large population of homeless people & mental patients in the city, & multiple stalking or harassment events each year.” So – the issue is this: some librarians think that by giving out their last names, they’ll be set upon by stalkers. I certainly hear the concern, but before you get all up in my grill about this, let’s take a peek at some statistics, from Stalking Victimization in the United States – a national survey done in 2006. What are the facts associated with stalking? 14 in every 1000 people were victims of stalking – 3.4 million in 2006. People who are divorced or separated are at the highest risk (34 out of 1000). 3 out of 4 people already knew their stalker (i.e., it was a friend, acquaintance, ex-spouse or ex-boy/girlfriend – 30% were known intimate partners, 45% were acquaintances. Under 10% were strangers). women age 34 and younger are the most at-risk group So, perhaps a little perspective is needed on this whole stalking thing. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:41:40 +0100 893950 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/IPJJyyn4WYs/johnt Social Software, Community, and Organization: Where Practice Meets Process « Skilful Minds http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2341423499/enterprise-2-0-is-not-just-goal-oriented-collaboration Rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Strategic Organization Social Learning and Exception Handling « Skilful Minds http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2341850344/training-for-solved-solutions-vs-collaboration-for Launch of the Enterprise Social Network Strategy report: what senior executives REALLY think about social networks inside the organization - Trends in the Living Networks http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342115281/hive-around-problems-or-hierarchy-or-both Thinking about processes as “science” and “art” « John Caddell's blog http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342269147/using-narrative-to-qualify-adaptive-case-management HBR article demonstrates that leaders need to manage complexity « John Caddell's blog When Should a Process Be Art, Not Science? - Harvard Business Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342471394/best-practice-may-neglect-adapting-to-real-needs PEG · People don’t like change. (Or do they?) http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2342954608/what-gets-measured-determines-what-gets-done How Customer-Centricity Drives Profits | CustomerThink How to Find Answers Within Your Company - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2345893789/cop-success-story conversation matters: A Knowledge Management Conference that Actually Used KM Principles (Source: Library clips) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0100 893993 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/gNEts2J_tpA/ I’m really priviledged to be a part of the latest ALA TechSource Library Technology Report, Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries. When I was given the opportunity to contribute to an issue with Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Barbara M. Jones and Eli Neiburger…well, I said yes. I wrote the chapter entitled “Social Networking and the Library”, and the general thrust of the chapter can be seen in this excerpt: The central tension between libraries and social networks is simple: a social network gains usefulness when you are identifiable (people know who you are) and you share information about yourself (people know what you like). Libraries have, for years, operated under the general guideline that both of those pieces of knowledge are no ones business but yours….Taken at face value, as they relate to social networks, library ethical policies can be interpreted as directly contradictory with…privacy statements. Libraries have chosen, at times, to value privacy over access to social networks when these are in conflict. If the privacy of the patron is compromised via social networks, one possible answer is to attempt to limit access to those networks, which flies in the face of open and free access to information. If you’re interested in the topic of Freedom of Information and how difficult holding on to library’s traditional values becomes in the 21st century, this issue is a great read. Head on over to Techsource and pick it up. (Source: Pattern Recognition) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:56:00 +0100 894182 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://yourlibrarycsu.blogspot.com/2010/12/censorship-and-social-networking-how.html Is it possible to censor social networks countrywide? While China have been moderately successful, there have always been ways of getting around the firewalls or finding a proxy server. Additionally this has come at a great cost to China financially.This question of censorship is currently being grappled with by Chavez, president of Venezuela. The country currently has access to social network sites and actively uses them. In fact, the country has one of the highest number of Twitter subscribers in the world. Even if Chavez is successful in getting censorship imposed, the people have already experienced a shift in cultural and psychological values; as a result of the exposure to social media technology. This means that it will be more difficult to prevent people from using something that has become ingrained in everyday life.To read more about this click hereThe bill proposed could potentially grant Chavez with the chance to silence oppositional messages and tweets. During his 12 years in power, Chavez has been granted temporary decree powers three times by lawmakers. More information on Chavez's presidency can be found here (Source: Your Library@CSU) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893602 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62645 This new report (released December 15, 2010) comes from the Pew Global Attitudes Project and its loaded with numbers, graphs, and tables. If you have an interest or work with people with an interest in the use of the Internet around the world, this report is a must read, save, and share. Title: [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:10:30 +0100 893016 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/8z9JTUKZvTg/ Remember when people used to claim that blogs are dead and how more and more social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the like, were taking over our social activities both inside and outside of the firewall? Well, it looks like the trend may be turning around, as I have mentioned elsewhere on the blog some time ago, and it seems that corporate blogging is becoming more and more relevant by the day within the corporate world and beyond. Now, I don’t expect this blog entry to become, once again, another metablogging article on detailing why blogging is good and why it’s something worth while looking into; that’s something I’m about to get started working on with both the wonderful Megan Murray and the insightful Bertrand Duperrin. We will be sharing that piece of work shortly… Not to worry. What I wanted to do with this entry today though was to share a little bit of a celebration, since i realised, earlier on this week, how I have missed both of my bloggiversaries with my internal and external blogs, respectively. Ouchie! Yes, that’s right! Way back, in 2005, on October 10th, I started this external blog over here to talk and share some further insights on the stuff I was learning related to Social Computing within the Enterprise, along with KM, Communities, Learning and a bunch of other topics. I guess it is just too bad I missed the 5th year bloggiversary on what it could have been a rather special date: 10-10-10, marking that same 5th anniversary! Oh, well, I guess that’s what happens when you are having fun and time flies without you noticing it much really! hehe Over that period of time I have been having a couple of blogging breaks, here and there, just coming back from perhaps one of the longest I can remember. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:00:58 +0100 893027 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/EvZAU9yuIEg/ Last post I reflected on why I share and a couple of the items on the list refer to a type of altruistic nature Help Others This is unconditional for me…but it does depend on time availability I co-facilitate the vendor CoP we use at work…I spend some of my time helping others…I do this for free…I’ve experienced many things with the product so for me helping people on the forums is the right thing to do…the by-product of this behaviour is you become known as a subject matter expert whether you like it or not Messenger Noise comes across my radar…the glass half-full is that what was once noise is a new topic I now like to read… a little noise is good…but it also means that when I come across posts about iPad I send them to my friend Gerry…I unconditionally send people links cause I know it’s what they like…I guess this is gifting This sort of thing happens all the time… For example the other day I saw a YouTube interview with Stowe Boyd at the Defrag Conference. Stowe talked about "Social Cognition" which is something he is currently researching, I happened to read a blog post later that morning on this topic and tweeted it to Stowe. Why not, it felt the normal thing to do. Stowe and I don’t know each other, but I respect his thinking as a thought leader. He provides so much insight for me that the respectful thing to do is send a link his way if something comes across my radar. But it wasn’t even about respect, it’s the simple fact that I came across something that I know is helpful for someone else, so I shared it. Not all people practice this, but technology like Twitter emerges new behaviours where this type of interaction and gifting is normal…it brings out this random act of kindness, so much so that the only thing random about it might be the person, but the act becomes the norm. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:59:23 +0100 893113 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://akbani.blogspot.com/2010/12/visualizing-facebook-friendships-across.html By Ben Parr, Mashable, CNNSTORY HIGHLIGHTS * A Facebook intern created a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe * Using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, he correlated them with their current cities * The U.S. has the highest concentration of Facebook friendships while Africa has the lowestContinue reading Facebook relationships visualizedHere is what Butler had to say @ newsday.com:"After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life."Facebook staffer Paul Butler has created this beautiful map of the millions (billions?) of friendships stored in the social network, using something that looks like edge bundles to create the beautiful map. Says, Randall Hand @ | VizWorld.comOn the same shelf: Tim Berners-Lee says Facebook 'threatens' web future Facebook Q&A Update: Sorry, we're not ready for you just yet Google Alerts' mybookface! And, the true colors of Internet Explorer and Firefox Web Browsers in dealing with Web forgery Facebook penetration: a whopping 40% in Canada - with UK a close second (Source: Information Visualization) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892718 http://conniecrosby.blogspot.com/2010/12/understanding-influencers.html Following my friends in the social media PR world, I often hear the talk about identifying influencers and reaching out to them. But who exactly are influencers and how can you identify who they are? In Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point, he examines this to some extent: the people with wide networks who can help spread the word on something he calls Connectors. Stephen Abram has posted a great movie from R+I Creative about influencers (which I have re-posted below), and along with it has posed some questions for library folk:Libraries are a very misunderstood ‘brand’. In some respects we are that “book, books and nothing but books” image and positioning. How do we make the library brand broader in our users’ consciousness? Do we understand the influencers in libraryland?Who among our users are influencers?...Who are the library opinion leaders – those who infuence library folk and those who influence broader social networks?It's not very often I see people in libraries reaching out to influencers specifically, apart from perhaps well-planned marketing campaigns to raise funding for something. What about day-to-day, do we know who are influencing our library users? Who are setting the trends, who are identifying the trends? To we try to connect with them, learn from them, and perhaps even influence them?In libraryland I certainly see Stephen himself in this role, but there are plenty of others. The trick is to look beyond our immediate roles, our immediate world, look to other groups, other communities, other industries, to see what is happening. So often ideas are pollinated from one area to another, you can literally see an idea spreading, morphing, becoming adopted over time. That is how futurists are many times able to make predictions, they look to see what already exists somewhere else and thinks about how that will have an impact down the road. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892565 http://lisnews.org/audio/download/38251/LISTen-133.mp3 There is no news miscellany this week. We take a look instead in further depth at the zeitgeist on-site. The mainstream media is depressing us pretty badly as all they seem to talk about in libraries are these few topics: retirements, deaths, and budget cuts. That also cuts into things we can talk about. With an effectively non-existent budget, we don't have the capacity of an organization like Reuters or Agence France-Press to do original reporting. The Air Staff chose in this episode to make a call for materials submissions for potential airing. Audio cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, and audio CDs would be acceptable while microcassettes and DAT cassettes would not be. The episode audio has more details but for the avoidance of doubt the mailing address stipulated is: Erie Looking Productions P.O. Box 1658 Ashtabula, OH 44005 United States of America Related links: The social networking tool poll (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:37:22 +0100 892325 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/dec/12/this-much-know-elmore-leonard The author, 85, on Dizzy Gillespie, not being frightened, and being a good guyI write in longhand, then on a typewriter. I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.I can't understand social networking. There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.My 10 Rules of Writing have become kind of popular. I'm surprised, because I wrote them back in 2000 – in one afternoon, just for fun, when I was guest of honour at a writers' conference. I was reading them over and laughing at them when I thought: "Actually, they're true – I believe in them."Do I have rules for life, too? Just try to be honest and straightforward. Try to be a good guy. That's about it.I'm not a good cook. I used to cook breakfast for the kids. For the most part I would just fry spam. They loved it! We'd make sandwiches out of it.There was a time when money wasn't coming in in quite the way it does now and I'd worry – but not too much, because I was always very confident. When I married my second wife I didn't have any money but she had some from her divorce, so I said: "Well, we can use your money until I finish writing my book." And she said: "But what if you don't sell it?" I said: "What do you mean? It's what I do. I've got to sell it."I don't really get angry. I might argue with my wife about something, but it blows over in a minute or so.I'm not frightened of anything. I don't get in a position to be frightened. I don't do anything dangerous and I always pay my bills.There have been some very good adaptations of my books: Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Jackie Brown [based on Leonard's novel Rum Punch] and before that Hombre with Paul Newman. A couple have been done twice, like 3.10 to Yuma, which I wrote in 1953. ... Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:06:15 +0100 892116 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/world-map-of-social-networks.html Italian researcher Vincenzo Cosenza has published a map showing the dominant social media networks in the world. No surprise: the facebook empire is spreading:"Since June 2010 Facebook has stolen new important nations from local, previously strong, competitors (in 115 out of 132 countries analyzed it is market leader) especially in Europe (...)""If we take a look over Facebook’s shoulders we can see the rise of Twitter especially against MySpace (in Australia, Canada, Germany and Italy) and the slow but constant growth of LinkedIn (in Australia, Canada, UK)."[Source: ResourceShelf] (Source: Library Boy) Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892158 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://futura.edublogs.org/2010/12/11/librarians-are-in-the-social-network/ A common thread of discussion among wired librarians is the struggle they face in getting recognized for how technologically connected they are and how students rely on their services for assistance. In most high schools, particularly, the library itself is fairly “wired”–outfitted with computers and devices of all kinds for multimedia productions and research uses, online catalogs and databases, scanners, etc.   To librarians, these are ubiquitous tools that are just in a day’s work.  Recently I was asked on an application to explain the ways I used technology in the library.  I had a difficult time separating out how I use technology, because as a librarian, I don’t “use” technology–it’s just embedded into everything we do. Yet, often, the fact that many of a librarian’s daily activities rely on their proficiency with technology can be overlooked both at the administrative level and in the public at large.  And too often librarians find themselves struggling to get the resources they need, or being treated like second class technological users within their schools, or discounted by policy makers,  instead of recognized as the strong, tech savvy leaders for students that they are, and can be. The Speak up 2009 National survey by Project Tomorrow paints a picture of the strong role librarians play in schools regarding technology use in student learning. The survey showed that in all but two of 9 categories, librarian use of technology far exceeds that of teachers and even students(as reported in Knowledge Quest November/December 2010). Just a few of the numbers tell the tale–according to the survey, thirty-four percent  of librarians used a social network to seek help, 33% posted to a blog (compared to 18% of teachers surveyed), 25% found other experts online to assist them , and 22% started a wiki or blog (compared to 10% of teachers surveyed). ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:52:21 +0100 892161 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62535 Direct to "World Map of Social Networks" by Vincenzo Cosenza Cosenza writes: A brand new map of the world, showing the most popular social networks by country, according to Alexa & Google Trends for Websites traffic data (December 2010). I’ve decided to drop Many Eyes and redesign the map in order [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:21:35 +0100 891939 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6502 What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below.* John Palfrey hits the radio to talk about controversial site RateBU.com * Alum Derek Bambauer discusses the USICE's seizure of 82 domains. * Jonathan Zittrain evaluates the latest developments for net neutrality. * The OpenNet Initiative looks at Net censorship in Syria.Special Section: This Week on WikiLeaks * Clay Shirky envisions what a post-WikiLeaks future looks like.* Jonathan Zittrain and Molly Sauter provide an A-Z of WikiLeaks.* Dan Gillmor argues a defense of WikiLeaks.* David Weinberger explains why he stands with the Net.* The OpenNet Initiative analyzes Twitter's trending topics vis-a-vis #WikiLeaks.* Radio Berkman 171: WikiLeaks and the Information Wars.* Weekly Global Voices: "Special Coverage: WikiLeaks and the World 2010"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.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *The full buzz."The site has generated a lot of controversy, too, as well as some legal questions. WBUR’s Deborah Becker spoke with Internet law expert John Palfrey about the legal implications of this site on Thursday’s Morning Edition." From WBUR.org, "Expert: Controversial BU Site Governed More by Contract Between Entities" "Every country in the world believes that some material on the Net qualifies inherently for censorship. It’s obvious! In this respect, we’re no different from China. So, we should give up pretensions of American exceptionalism for information controls – for us, it’s IP; for Saudi Arabia, it’s porn; for France, it’s hate speech. Only the quality of the legal process differentiates censors. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:53:40 +0100 891954 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/apple-names-flipboard-ipad-app-of-the-year/ Apple has lately named social-network reading app Flipboard (iTunes page) its “iPad App of the Year” for 2010. Big news for the company, whose app proved so popular on launch that its servers melted down in a matter of minutes, but not a big surprise. As I said of it in my review, the app is one of the prettiest things I’ve seen for the iPad, and I always recommend it to iPad owners I help over the phone in my tech-support day job. As Jay Yarow said on Business Insider: From a higher level, it’s also illustrative of how Apple thinks about the iPad. Flipboard is an app that translates the web into something unique for iPad users. That’s exactly what Apple wants. And consider what it might mean that the “iPad App of the Year” is all about reading, socially. Maybe the iPad isn’t meant only for reading, but it can change and enhance the reading experience in ways that more limited single-purpose readers can’t—making reading more social, and making social networks more about reading. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:45:45 +0100 891927 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/harpercollins-shutters-bookarmy-social-network-site/ In November, Paul reported on HarperCollins closing an e-book store nobody knew about. Now it appears the company is closing a book social network nobody knew about as well. At least, this is the first I’d heard of it, and I try to follow Internet book news as closely as I can. The Bookseller reports that BookArmy launched in March, 2009, and is closing due to lack of advertising opportunities and competition from similar sites such as Library Thing, Shelfari, and GoodReads (which I had heard of). It will close on December 21, and its staff will be folded into HarperCollins’s unpublished author site authonomy.com. It’s not really too surprising, all in all. There’s only room for so many sites in a particular niche, and when more recognizable names have it filled the lesser-known ones get bumped out. I wasn’t too impressed by BookArmy’s site design, either, which seems like a bunch of random sections thrown together in a distracting way. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:26:19 +0100 891928 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/internet-research-leads-to-courtroom-complications/ Even if no e-books are involved, there is a particular kind of “tele-reading” we all do all the time, and have ever since the Internet became something you could put in a pocket: Internet research. Many of us consider the Internet to be our own personal ready reference guide, and consult it as naturally as we might glance at the watch on our wrist to check the time. I’m sure nobody who has ever worn a watch is a stranger to the aggravating sensation of repeatedly glancing at our wrist to check the time only to realize anew that we’ve forgotten our watch this morning—how much worse not being able to look up whatever random fact we’re curious about at the moment! Similarly, we treat instant-messaging and social networking as extensions of the face-to-face conversations we used only to be able to have in close proximity to one another. It can be just as aggravating to think of some zinger and not be able to turn around and share it with a few hundred of our closest friends But this Internet fact-checking and conversing has been causing problems for US courts ever since, A survey has shown that, since 1999, at least 90 verdicts have been challenged because jurors used the Internet in ways they weren’t supposed to. And with the convenience of the iPhone and 3G/4G Internet, the frequency of these results has been increasing: over half of the cases happened in the last two years. And the contested results have not always come about as a result of something obvious, like publicly expressing a preconceived opinion before hearing the whole case or reading news coverage from outside the courtroom. One manslaughter conviction was overturned simply because the jury foreman looked up the definition of the word “prudent” in an online dictionary. ... Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:15:00 +0100 891754 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/83z0kuLGmKo/privacy-and-freedom-of-information-in-21st-century-libraries.html CHICAGO—ALA TechSource announces the latest issue of Library Technology Reports, Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries. This special issue was produced in collaboration with The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom, and includes contributions from Jason Griffey, Sarah Houghton-Jan, and Eli Neiburger. In the introduction to this issue, Angela Maycok, Assistant Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom states:  “As libraries increasingly move beyond provision of print material and into their expanding roles as providers of digital resources and services, intellectual freedom concerns have been magnified as they apply to a range of complex new issues." OIF put together an all-star cast of writers to weigh in on some of the most pressing issues facing modern librarians. Topics Covered in this Issue: Libraries, Technology, and the Culture of Privacy by Barbara M. Jones User-Generated Content by Eli Neiburger Internet Filtering by Sarah Houghton-Jan Social Networking and the Library by Jason Griffey RFID in Libraries by Deborah Caldwell-Stone You can buy this important new issue in print or electronically from the ALA Store, and read the first chapter for free at our MetaPress site. Angela Maycock serves as assistant director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. She provides guidance and support to librarians, teachers, and others on the application of ALA’s intellectual freedom policies and the First Amendment in specific situations involving materials challenges and confidentiality in the library. Barbara M. Jones is the director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom at the American Library Association. She received her PhD in U.S. history from the University of Minnesota and her MLS from Columbia University. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:23:28 +0100 891662 http://www.lisnews.org/which_social_network_tool_do_you_use_most_your_online_activities (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:37:18 +0100 891832 http://lisnews.org/which_social_network_tool_do_you_use_most_your_online_activities (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:37:18 +0100 891617 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62509 From a Financial Post Article: On Thursday, the Toronto-based e-publishing startup will launch Reading Life, a new e-reading iPad application that integrates with the company's digital bookstore designed to bring social-networking capabilities to the world of electronic books, in a sort of Book Club 2.0. Through the opt-in service, Kobo users will [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 18:34:35 +0100 891651 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/hjKigGGY96I/ Things all seemed to get a bit silly on the web last night as a bunch of hacktivists apparently used the LOIC system stress testing tool to mount a distributed denial of service attack on Mastercard, Visa and Paypal. (At the time of writing, it seems that VISA has gone down again. Last night, I saw a few tweets suggesting that their payment services had also gone down, though: a) I couldn’t/didn’t confirm it, b) have no idea if the same is true now?) Users downloading LOIC could hand control of it over to a remote location; using IRC (Internet Relay Chat, from a time before Twitter, and IM, but much the same sort of thing…), a third party could then tell LOIC what to do and direct the focus of the stress test at the target sites. Which is to say – folk could download LOIC and voluntarily join a botnet…. Watching the tweets fly by felt to me a bit like the night twenty years or so ago when the opening attacks of the Gulf War began, as we watched 24 hr rolling news (a feed was pinched and routed through student TV screens) cover the event. This time of course, realtime tracking was provided via Twitter (Newsnight, though on air at the time, was otherwise engaged…). At a couple of points during the couple of hours I watched the feed, the Twitter account(s) from members of the group “sponsoring” the attack appeared to be taken down, only to return again. When accounts did go down, new ones appeared to (temporarily) take their place. The situation was therefore one where: - Twitter could easily take down a user account; - hacktivists could easily create a new account. But a question that occurred to me was: how do you know who to follow? When a user account was disabled, it would have been easy for someone else to set up another count and claim it was the replacement, using a hashtag to get the original message out and hope for RTs to broadcast the new username. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:26:41 +0100 892170 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/zieflibrary/ziefbrief/~3/mS-w-HssKes/is-social-networking-derailing-trials.html According to an investigative article by Reuters (Source: ZiefBrief) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892295 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/08/a-standards-based-open-and-privacy-aware-social-web/ The W3C Incubator Group has released A Standards-based, Open and Privacy-aware Social Web. Here's an excerpt: The Social Web is a set of relationships that link together people over the Web. The Web is an universal and open space of information where every item of interest can be identified with a URI. While the best known current social networking sites on the Web limit themselves to relationships between people with accounts on a single site, the Social Web should extend across the entire Web. Just as people can call each other no matter which telephone provider they belong to, just as email allows people to send messages to each other irrespective of their e-mail provider, and just as the Web allows links to any website, so the Social Web should allow people to create networks of relationships across the entire Web, while giving people the ability to control their own privacy and data. The standards that enable this should be open and royalty-free. We present a framework for understanding the Social Web and the relevant standards (from both within and outside the W3C) in this report, and conclude by proposing a strategy for making the Social Web a "first-class citizen" of the Web. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891497 http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/2010/12/08/case_has_2_winners_in_national_contest Case has 2 winners in the national Knovel University Challenge! Congratulations to these Case students who entered the online contest and answered 3 contest questions using Knovel Engineering & Scientific Online Reference database. Justin Pruttivarasin (senior, Chemical Engineering) uses Knovel "extensively." Photographed with his new iPod nano®, his answer to the best & most useful feature: "the interactive equations and tables are very helpful. I'm able to find values for different properties of chemicals within a few clicks. Knovel is able to convert units to the ones I want, instantly." Megan WItzke (sophomore, Chemical Engineering) poses with a KSL Knovel bear. She's a national winner of an Amazon® gift card & uses Knovel "to find reference values that were either not listed or out of range of the textbook." Megan uses "Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook most often because it's easy to navigate through the book right to the information and tables that I'm looking for." Knovel has full text of over 2,000 leading reference handbooks, conference proceedings, databases and statistical data for researchers in the applied sciences. Analysis tools and other features & 40 international publishers and professional societies give you cross disciplinary research results from a single page. Enjoy added features like webinars (Engineers' Use of Social Networks), cases, news, tools, MyKnovel for saved searches, and more. The Knovel database is licensed for Case researchers; off campus or wireless access requires an activated VPN session. Find Knovel on the Research Database list. (Source: KSL News Blog) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:16:04 +0100 891683 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.slaw.ca/2010/12/08/communique-on-the-odr-and-consumers-colloquium/ ♫ You’re the target that I’m aiming at Got to get that message home…♫ Lyrics and music by: Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion, Chris Martin, recorded by Coldplay. The final Communique resulting from the International Online Dispute Resolution Conference on cross-border, low-value consumer transactions held in Vancouver on Nov. 2-3, 2010 has now been released. This conference is the latest in a series of international conferences that have been held examining how to apply technology to resolve low-value, cross-border consumer e-commerce disputes. The communique is as follows: Communiqué on the ODR and Consumers Colloquium Vancouver, BC, Canada November 2-3, 2010 Prepared by Doug Leigh, Ph.D. (Pepperdine University) and Colin Rule (eBay/PayPal) I. Introduction eCommerce has grown rapidly, riding the expansion of information and communications technology around the world, and transforming the way goods are bought and sold. Businesses and consumers have more choices than ever before, as every seller is just a click away, no matter where either may physically reside in the world. However, regardless of whether they are transacting face-to-face or online, it is inevitable that some of those transactions will generate disagreements. It therefore stands to reason that as eCommerce expands, so too will the number of problems people experience with online transactions. Unfortunately, the systems buyers and sellers rely on in face-to-face transactions to resolve transaction problems are almost entirely unavailable in online purchases. The few systems that do exist are too tied to geography, too expensive, or too complex for the type of low-value, high-volume transactions that eCommerce enables, be they domestic or international. The solution is Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:37:25 +0100 892349 http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/6/690?rss=1 As a new-style computer-mediated communication system, the blog has been gaining popularity among various Web users. Blog communities come into being in the process of self-organized communication between bloggers and the community structures are reflected by the embedded social networks. This study research the communication patterns of scientist bloggers with the data from the largest Chinese-language scientific blog community specializing in computer and information sciences and technologies, i.e. the Csdn blog. The social network analysis of its blogroll link data suggests that the Csdn blog community is a small-world network. Many sub-communities exist in the blog community. The communication between the central and ordinary bloggers within the same sub-community is usually one-way and dense. The structure of the Csdn blog community indicates that distributed central actors are still important in the diffusion and communication of scientific knowledge. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892629 http://www.cgsc.edu/CARL/index.asp?article=16916 Geotags and Location-Based Social Networking Applications, OPSEC and Protecting Unit Safety. It is available at... <a href="http://www.nv.ngb.army.mil/Army%20Geotagging%20Safety.pdf">Click Here</a> (Source: CARL News & Information Feed) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:19:00 +0100 891126 http://www.comarmsblog.com/2010/12/brown-bag-tomorrow-social-networking.html Remember when social networking meant getting together face-to-face for a meal and some laughs? We don't, but we hear it was lovely! You can tell us all about it on Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and Flickr, though! We'll be talking about a variety of social media, how you can participate, how you can make them less annoying (learn how to block Farmville, your weird cousin, and more!), make the experience more safe, and make it more rewarding! We'll also discuss Army applications, Army best practices, how to stay in touch, and how to win friends and influence people on the Net!   When: 1230 (Bring your lunch!)   Where: CARL Room 112 (Photo via www.biojobblog.com) (Source: CARL Book Beacon) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:51:00 +0100 890996 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8826 State: West Virginia Library-Track Faculty Fairmont State University invites applications for Emerging Technologies Librarian. Position will begin September 1, 2011 and includes creation and implementation of innovative, digital course and curriculum related instructional and information delivery tools and programs to help students meet University information literacy standards. Other responsibilities will be management and oversight of the Library’s social networking and research assistance for onsite and virtual library users. For complete information and to apply, visit http://www.fairmontstatejobs.com (Position # 20110053). To learn more about the institution, visit http://www.fairmontstate.edu.  AA/EOE Submitted on 2010-12-03 (Source: SLIS Careers Feed) Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:30:02 +0100 890877 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/v28kaENws2E/ In the past, and over the last few months, I have been blogging around the topic of multitasking quite a bit and I am starting to believe, more and more by the day, and rather firmly!, by the way, in our inability to multitask effectively, specially when having to deal with rather complex and tough tasks / activities in our day to day work. Lucky enough, plenty of really fascinating research is coming up confirming what I already suspected from all along and I just couldn’t help resisting the opportunity to cite one recent piece I bumped into under the suggestive heading: “Don’t Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers’ Speed of Job Completion“. I use to believe I might be capable of multitasking effectively and everything, but after reading through that paper one gets to realise it’s just a myth. It’s always been a myth. Time to move on… I first bumped into that piece of research over at the Freakonomics blog, under the title “The Myth of Multiasking” and, as usual, I just couldn’t help but find some time to read through it in order to confirm that hunch I have been having for a few months now, after I wrote the initial article “Is Multitasking Bad for the Brain?“, which sparked a recent change in how I get work done nowadays: The Pomodoro Technique. The superb piece of research was conducted by Decio Coviello, Andrea Ichino and Nicola Persico who set themselves to analyse a sample of Italian judges investigating how they were keeping up with the various cases they were working on and how effective they could multitask eventually. Or not. And their conclusion couldn’t be more revealing: “[...] workers who juggle too many tasks are necessarily slower in completing this workload than workers who concentrate sequentially on few tasks at the same time [... ... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:16:47 +0100 891373 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/EjkJNOMLOGg/3299-bad-days-for-google-2.html Pandia continues its review of the trouble Google is facing policy and market wise. The market place A couple of years ago Google’s (GOOG) plan of indexing all content everywhere and “everywhen” suddenly seemed realistic. Not only did it do a good job of indexing the open web, it had also started to index the hidden web (information hidden behind login-protected search forms) and above all, its plan to scan all printed material ever published was off to a good start. Google’s ambitious translation project, where the goal is to translate web pages in a large number of languages into the preferred language of the user and include them in search results is becoming more and more realistic. This will allow Americans to surf Japanese web sites and visa versa. The English speaking searches can already translate such web pages using Google Translate. The idea now is to include relevant non-Enlgish language web pages in the English language search results. This will add a lot of useful data to the Google search indexes. Google will probably succeed in translating the Web. And even if conservative stone-age publishers do their best to stop Google for making the world of print searchable, they will probably change the way we research books and magazines as well. The enemy: Facebook and Apple The idea of turning Google into the universal entry point for all types of data mining has been foiled, however, and the two culprits are Facebook and Apple. The users of Facebook now generate a tremendous amount of material that is inaccessible to Google. Google may index some of the Facebook material, but those that have selected strict privacy settings are exempted. Facebook users also tend to use their circles of friends at Facebook as an alternative to Google when searching for information. They ask their trusted friends about where to find a good restaurant, not Google, which means less advertising revenue for the search giant. ... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:33:47 +0100 891005 http://libeducation.blogspot.com/2010/12/good-article-actually-3rd-of-3-part.html Good article (actually 3rd of a 3 part series) on the future of Social Networking, by Mark Suster in TechCrunch:http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/05/social-networking-future/He makes 8 predictions of how social networking will be moving. My question - which direction will our academic medical library be needing to take - or should we aim for them all? I look forward to hearing any and all of your comments. (Source: User Education Resources for Librarians) Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892134 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/12/le-web-un-point-cest-tout-.html Avertissement au lecteur : billet dans lequel il sera notablement question du web, de son avenir, d'écluses, de navigateurs, de théorie des graphes, de fractales et dans lequel les termes de "graphologue" et de "graphomane" seront délibérement employés de manière parfaitement fantaisiste. Vous êtes ici. Pourquoi le web, pourtant si bifurquant, si rhizomatique, si sensiblement épars, nous semble-t-il si aisément abordable, si facilement traversable, embarqués que nous sommes, équipage de moussaillons mal dégrossis derrière leur navigateur (browser), vaisseau amiral en haute mer des hyperliens possibles ? Est-ce là la seule grâce et le seul fait d'une formidable et trans-maritime écluse répondant au nom de Google ? Est-ce là l'inaléniable mérite de "moteurs" de recherche fixant eux-mêmes le cap, listant par défaut quelles routes seront ouvertes et traversables parce que par eux-mêmes balisées (indexées) et quelles voies resteront inaccessibles sauf à quelques rares mais essentiels navigateurs chevronnés ? Non. Si le web, malgré son immensité de contenus donc, nous est rendu appropriable, si le sentiment d'être "lost in hyperspace" s'efface souvent au profit d'une découverte hasardeuse, heureuse (sérendipité) et rassurante, c'est pour une raison simple. Le web. Aller et retour. C'est parce que le web est un graphe. Mais un graphe particulier. Un graphe à invariance d'échelle(1), c'est à dire avec de la redondance, beaucoup de redondance, c'est à dire un graphe ni vraiment aléatoire ni vraiment hiérarchique. ... Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891012 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/biblio-social-objects-copia-mendeley-librarything-and-mongoliad-by-eric-hellman/ The long awaited Copia e-reading platform finally launched, and the big surprise is that the previously announced devices have disappeared. Copia’s innovation is that it smushes together a bookstore, reading environments that live across devices, and a social network. As such, it’s interesting to look at. Another recent arrival is the App for Mongoliad, the ambitious collaboration between Neal Stephenson, Greg Baer “and friends”. It’s a serial work built on a custom platform (including both website and apps) that supports multimedia and user-generated content, and it aspires to be a community inside a fictional world containing multiple narratives rather than a novel. It’s undeniable that books belong in our social networks, but it’s far from obvious how social aspects should fit into the reading experience. Copia is designed with the point of view that the integration should be tight- it allows the sharing of annotations right within the reader application. Mongoliad does that, and more, it invites and rewards reader contributions, even to the point of letting the community influence the narrative. In thinking about how books should fit in to a social network, it’s usefl to look at two thriving social networks built around bibliographic objects, LibraryThing andMendeley. LibraryThing describes itself as a “social cataloging website”. It helps you catalog your book collection, but it derives its vitality from the way it lets members use your personal catalog to connect with other LibraryThing members. A typical “Thingish” activity going on now isSantaThing, a sort of Secret Santa for Book Lovers. (Sorry it’s too late to join for this year!) Mendeley is surprisingly similar in function to LibraryThing, but it concentrates on a different set of bibliographic objects- journal articles. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:30:55 +0100 890241 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/KJ6vJqe1muc/mapa-das-redes-sociais.html Agência faz mapa das redes sociaisPor Vinicius Aguiari, de INFO OnlineQuarta-feira, 11 de agosto de 2010 - 09h50 SÃO PAULO (Brasil) - A agência de marketing digital Flowtown apresentou uma mapa representativo das redes sociais. No mapa, cada site, como Facebook, Orkut, Twitter etc. é representado em tamanho proporcional ao seu número de usuários.O mapa é dividido em “continentes” e ilhas, que representam os diferentes nichos do setor online.O Google lidera em tamanho, com aproximadamente 1 bilhão de usuários.Em seguida, vem o Facebook (*), com 500 milhões e o Habbo, com 178 milhões de usuários.Destacam-se ainda o Twitter, YouTube e LinkedIn (networking profissional).(*) Estreia hoje no Brasil o filme "A rede social" (The Social Network), baseado no Facebook.O mapa também abusa da ironia ao nomear algumas regiões como "Antigo Reino do MySpace", “Geleiras Descongelantes da AOL e do Windows Live ", ou “Ilhas em Ascensão do Google Buzz”.O mapa pode ser visto na íntegra neste link:http://www.flowtown.com/blog/the-2010-social-networking-map?display=wide (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:55:00 +0100 890264 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/jjkcJFNS6SA/this-week-in-search-12310.html This is one of a regular series of posts on search experience updates. Look for the label This week in search and subscribe to the series. - Ed.It’s the time of year when many of us begin our holiday shopping in earnest. Whether you’re more into “Black Friday” or “Cyber Monday,” many of us increasingly turn to the Internet and search engines to find the best prices, product reviews, gift guides and recommendations. This week, we made a number of improvements that should help make it easier than ever to find gifts for friends and family (or yourself!) from reputable merchants, whether you’re out on your phone looking for a store, searching at home for an online merchant, or looking for a friend to get a recommendation.Place Search on mobileIn October, we introduced Place Search, which helps you find local information by organizing websites around real world places. As you’ve probably experienced, local information is particularly useful when you’re out and about and have only your phone to rely on. That’s why we’ve worked to quickly bring Place Search to your mobile phone. Now when you search for [museums new york city] on your phone, you’ll see the web result for Metropolitan Museum of Art along with comments and reviews about the place—all nicely organized in one cluster of information. If you want to call the museum or get directions, both are just one button click away.More protection from disreputable merchants Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that a particular online merchant had deliberately abused customers in an attempt to increase his ranking on Google and other search engines. We immediately convened a team to look carefully at the issue. Our initial analysis pointed to this being an edge case and not a widespread problem, but nonetheless we developed an algorithmic solution and have already implemented it. The change currently impacts hundreds of merchants detected to provide an extremely poor user experience. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890664 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/digital-enabled-social-networks.html The next special issue of Information Systems Journal (ISJ) will focus on “Interpreting Digital Enabled Social Networks”. According to the journal’s call for paper: “The aim of this special issue is to advance the state of social network research within the IS field by discussing and disseminating empirical results gained through interpretative studies ... topics may include, but are not limited to the following:New qualitative approaches to study digital enabled social networksAssessing the nature and quality of information exchange and knowledge creation in digital enabled social networksIS case studies that describe how digital enabled social networks can be harnessed in organisational settingsOpen innovation/co-creation through digital enabled social networksInterpretative studies investigating entrepreneurship and the rise of occupational communities through digital enabled social networksInterpretative insights of leadership and governance in digital enabled social networksQualitative approaches to examine the interplay between online and offline social networksSocial networks and IT adoptionInterpretative studies to ascertain the role of ICT in the diffusion of information, trends, behaviours, and innovations in social networksCombining social network analysis and qualitative approaches in IS researchMethodological issues in IS social network researchCritical reviews of the digital enabled social network literature." (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890386 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/oApX82e5uV8/ If you have been a regular reader of this blog, you would know how, by now, and every so often, I get to talk and share further insights around one of my favourite Web sources for learning on a wide range of topics available out there at the moment. One that surely doesn’t leave people standing still; quite the opposite… Inspiring, provocative, insightful and enlightening are adjectives that come to mind when talking, of course, about TED Talks. Well, earlier on this week, I had the opportunity to watch one of those presentations that would surely fit in with that profile and that, if you haven’t watched it yet, would probably manage to wow you big time, just as much as it did for me. Indeed, I’m talking about Jason Fried‘s recent “Why work doesn’t happen at work“. Have you watched it already? No? If you think that work is something else than what you have been told all along, or have been doing all of this time sensing it just doesn’t feel right, this would be one Talk to watch! No doubt it won’t leave you indifferent! It’s a rather short, but amazingly inspiring, presentation, that lasts for a little bit over 15 minutes, put together by Jason himself, where he comes to question, with some incredibly accurate and rather solid descriptions, the true nature of work and that one of what our traditional office environment has been all along and; how it, perhaps, needs to start thinking about changing some of the dynamics and key concepts behind the traditional physical office space. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:54:12 +0100 890566 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16159 Emerging Technologies Librarian (Fairmont State University, West Virginia) Library-Track Faculty Fairmont State University invites applications for Emerging Technologies Librarian.  Position will begin September 1, 2011 and includes creation and implementation of innovative, digital course and curriculum related instructional and information delivery tools and programs to help students meet University information literacy standards.  Other responsibilities will be management and oversight of the Library’s social networking and research assistance for onsite and virtual library users.  For complete information and to apply, visit http://www.fairmontstatejobs.com (Position # 20110053).  To learn more about the institution, visit http://www.fairmontstate.edu.  AA/EOE (Source: Latest ALA Job Listings) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:10:02 +0100 889890 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/HandheldLib/~3/t1tOEnCh328/handheld-librarian-4-online-conference.html TAP Information Services and LearningTimes invite librarians, library staff, vendors, graduate students, and developers to submit program proposals related to the topic of mobile library services for the Handheld Librarian 4 conference (HHL4). The event will be held on February 23 and 24, 2011 and feature keynote presentations by digital information pundits Peter Brantley, Jeremy Kemp and Lee Rainey. Thousands of library and education professionals have participated in previous events – it's time for you to contribute to the conversation! Submit your proposal by December 15, 2010 at: http://www.handheldlibrarian.org/proposal-submissions Prefer to participate? Registration is now open with special early bird rates for individuals and groups at:  http://www.handheldlibrarian.org The Handheld Librarian 4 online conference will feature highly interactive, live sessions, as well as recorded content and relevant resources. We are interested in a broad range of submissions that highlight current, evolving and future issues in mobile library services. HHL4 will also feature a program track with presentations by graduate library students. ... Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:58:43 +0100 890406 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62329 From an eMarketer Article: Canada boasts some of the world’s highest internet penetration and social networking usage rates. Social network users view social media as their online home—a hub for communication, entertainment and information. [Clip] By year’s end, eMarketer estimates that about 15.1 million internet users in Canada will have visited social networking sites at least monthly, up [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:40:40 +0100 889964 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6487 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // December 1, 2010 [TUESDAY 12/7] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Rethinking the community calendar: A case study in learning and teaching Fourth R principles" with Jon Udell, senior technical evangelist, Microsoft (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/12/udell) Special note: The Berkman Center has issued a call for papers for the Rethink Music conference, to be held this coming spring in Cambridge and Boston: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6456 [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on LEARNING AND TEACHING THE FOURTH R PRINCIPLES ================================================================================== 12/7/10, 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: Rethinking the community calendar: A case study in learning and teaching Fourth R principles Guests: Jon Udell, senior technical evangelist, Microsoft 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. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:40:39 +0100 889726 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Davidrothmannet/~3/5IqWKHfxF8k/ “A guide to online professionalism for medical practitioners and medical students” http://www.ama.com.au/socialmedia The Australian Medical Association Council of Doctors-in-Training (AMACDT), the New Zealand Medical Association Doctors-in-Training Council (NZMADITC), the New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA), and the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) are committed to upholding the principles of medical professionalism. As such, we have created some practical guidelines to assist doctors and medical students to continue to enjoy the online world, while maintaining professional standards. Download PDF Not a bad start. Not sufficient for the purposes of most, but not a bad start. Hope others will build on this. UPDATE: Ratcatcher’s comment below reminds me that I should also link to a similar attempt by the American Medical Association. I agree with Ratcatcher on the relative merits of these two efforts. [via Ratcatcher] _______________ Feed-only Footer: Twitter and similar tools have no innate value. The value is in the network you use the tool to connect with. (Source: davidrothman.net) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:00:31 +0100 889631 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/reading-has-always-been-social-can-we-make-it-more-so/ On Booksquare, Kassia Krozser has a really interesting (and really long) essay about the social nature of reading and how to accommodate it in the Internet age. She points out that, much as e-book companies like Copia are making a big deal out of intersecting social networking with reading, our reading has almost always been “social” in the real world—we started out discussing stories around fires, and we still discuss (and review, and write fanfic of) stories even today. The big difference is that we’ve moved it on-line. Krozser spends much of the essay talking about a proposed all-inclusive system for aggregating book-based conversation—”user-generated content” or “UGC” around books. Even Facebook and Twitter are too limiting, she explains, because they’re still “walled communities”, even if the areas enclosed by the walls are huge. Even though she admits she’s indulging in “magical thinking”, it’s an interesting thought experiment. What she is fundamentally talking about is a way to combine every single public book-related conversation on the ‘net into one place. While it is hard to imagine this happening for every conversation, perhaps if such a system were designed right it could at least be a home to many of them. Of course, there’s no guarantee that if such a thing were built anyone would actually come to it. As a friend who I was discussing the article with pointed out, if you want to find conversation around a book or e-book now, you simply type it into a search engine. And he also suggested that it sounded an awful lot like Google Sidewiki and other website-annotation services—ideas that seemed interesting at first but largely failed because almost nobody actually wanted to use them. (I know it’s very rare for me to see any Google Sidewiki posts about any but the most popular sites. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:15:00 +0100 889675 http://opaltraining.blogspot.com/2010/12/is-there-app-for-that.html What is an app?APP is an abbreviation for application. Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform singular or multiple related specific tasks. It helps to solve problems in the real world. Application software is contrasted with system software and middleware, which manage and integrate a computer's capabilities, but typically do not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the user.  What is Android?Android is a mobile operating system initially developed by Android Inc., a firm purchased by Google in 2005. Android is based upon a modified version of the Linux kernel.  Go to www.android.com/market/   to search for Android apps Go to http://www.itunes.com/ to search for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch apps The Apps Social NetworkingFacebook – iPhone, Android Twitter - Tweetdeck iPhone and android –        Twitteriffic for iPhone, iPad –        Twidroid – for Android –        Tumblr – Android OfficeDocuments Free – for iPad and iPhoneGDocs – Android. Allows users to edit, view, create, import, export and send documents as well sync documents with their Google Docs account. Listable – iPhone - Allows users to share to-do lists with partners, housemates or colleagues. Once you’ve set up a list, you can share it via an e-mail invite. The new collaborator can then view the list on his or her iPhone, or online if they are iPhone deficient.- lists are simple - you create tasks as text entries and then tick them off or delete them once complete. ... Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 889559 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/aruOzZXl-5w/ As much as the idea of enhanced ebooks brings the sexy to publishing, it doesn’t really do much for most of the books published. Enhanced, enriched, transmedia, multimedia…these are ideas best applied to those properties that lend themselves to multimedia experience (or, ahem, the associated price tag). While many focus on the bright and shiny (and mostly unfulfilled) promised of apps and enhanced ebooks, the smart kids are looking at the power of social reading. And with the reading comes the book discussion. Social reading is normal reading. It’s how we already read in an offline world, and, yes, how we read in an online world. First, some historical context, all stuff that is well known. In the beginning, humans told stories around campfires*. The storytelling happened in group situations, with some stories passed from campfire to campfire, and eventually the woolly mammoth the hunter felled was a large as the Titanic. Some stories became institutionalized — myths, biblical stories, parables. Others, well, they never really gained market share. Hmm, publishing, the early days. Time passed. We developed alphabets, we coalesced around local language standards, we wrote stuff down, but the process was laborious (think rocks) or fragile (think parchment) or valuable (think illuminated manuscripts). These printed stories (using both words broadly), fiction and non-fiction, were not possessed in great numbers by common folk. Reading, or sharing of stories, was done in groups, except for those ancient-times-us who wrote stories in their heads (go ancient-times-us!). Even after the invention of the Gutenberg press, the possession of books was outside the reach of most people. We moved from campfires to candlelight, while the act of reading remained a social activity. The tradition of people reading to each other remains alive and well. ... Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:43:53 +0100 889570 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/EdDEfsOb-5U/ Warren Cheetham ponders the demise of AskNow in Australia and offers some insights into his view of the future of reference: I wonder if this is a good opportunity for the AskNow partners and participants to consider the idea of a proactive online reference service for Australians, that takes into account the changes in online behaviour and information seeking that has led to the decline in use of AskNow. In brief, online services like Facebook and Twitter, and specific answer services like Yahoo Answers are filled with people asking their friends, families and followers all sorts of questions. Some of these questions aren’t appropriate for a response by a library, but many are. At my place of work we have been playing around with Twitter as an online information service. While we now use it to push information, our original intent (and still a core practice) was to watch, listen and search Twitter for questions about our local area, or topics that we could answer. Our hunch that some people were asking their friends and followers questions that could easily be answered by a public library was quickly confirmed, and so we replied to their tweets with information and links. I realise that this service model is entirely different to AskNow, and that different software, techniques, policies etc would be needed. But what AskNow seems to have been very successful at is the collaboration of some serious library muscle to share the task of answering questions. Perhaps that muscle could be re-engineered into a proactive online reference service for Australians who are making the most of the opportunities and connections afforded by social networking sites and mobile devices. I appreciate Warren’s thinking. It’s in line with my own thoughts about moving from sitting behind a reference desk waiting for questions to a much more active role. ... Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:24:11 +0100 889278 http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/62210 FTC Warns Consumers About Online Dating Scams Source: Federal Trade Commission The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, warns that scammers sometimes use online dating and social networking sites to try to convince people to send money in the name of love. In a typical scenario, the scam artist creates a fake profile, [...] (Source: Docuticker) Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:41:04 +0100 889159 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/11/29/knowledge-power-right/ Toronto’s first Webcom was held on November 3rd. The conference, in its ninth iteration in Montréal, brought together a diverse group from various information professions – communications and technology folk rubbed shoulders with librarians, consultants and marketing executives. We were treated to an equally diverse range of speakers. The program looked at social networking, collaboration and a wealth of case studies in the application of social media in the enterprise. Connie Crosby did us proud with a lightning presentation of social media tools in the enterprise.  Shel Holtz started the day with Tactical Transparency : the Value of Access to Information. He opened with a story from the Toronto mayoral race. It was the tale of QueensQuayKaren, the Twitter account-holder and Smitherman fan who turned out to be a Rob Ford staffer. As someone interested in the social media and who works in a political environment, this is a case study that prompted a lot of interest. Much to be learned here.  Holtz then provided an interesting definition of “transparency”. It does not mean: “make everything available to your clients and competitors”. Holtz defines transparency as: “The degree to which an organization shares the information its stakeholders need to make decisions”. This includes: Values Culture A description of the decision-making process Business strategies Business practices and their results  It does not include intellectual property, profit margins or those things that give you an advantage in the marketplace. He also proposes that organizations should stand their attitude toward information on its head. Instead of assuming that everything is important and should be kept tightly controlled, he advocates assuming that everything is open, and the organization should justify to itself what information needs to be protected. It’s a much shorter list. He also told the story of the U.S. ... Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:00:46 +0100 890723 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/PPvjy-7h4ng/om-aandacht-vragen.html De onlangs gelanceerde Etymologiebank (een mooie tip van @ingmario) schrijft over de oorsprong van het woord 'aandacht' onder meer: Aandacht zn. ‘het opzettelijk aan of over iets denken’ Mnl. aendachte ‘het denken; aandacht; godvruchtige overpeinzing’ [ca. 1430; MNHWS]. Evenals Middelnederduits andacht ‘aandacht, bedoeling, herinnering’ en Fries oandacht als woord van de mystiek overgenomen uit Middelhoogduits andaht ‘aandacht’ < Oudhoogduits anadāht, bij het werkwoord ana-denken ‘bemerken, opmerken’, zie → denken.Aandacht als betaalmiddel voor gecreëerde waarde wordt steeds schaarser. Bovenstaand filmpje sluit daar mooi op aan. Het visualiseert een dialoog uit de film The Social Network. @ Attendering: Fons van den Berg (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:07:00 +0100 888935 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/28/robert-mccrum-kindle-booksellers On screen and in print, it has been a year of mixed messages for the book trade. But one reading at least says the future is brightIt has been a watershed year for the book business. Borders went under. The iPad transformed electronic reading. The ebook took off, touching $1,000m sales in the US alone. In Britain, the best independent booksellers began to recover their mojo.Mixed signals are an inevitable phenomenon in such a changing cultural landscape. So, at the same time, it has hardly been a vintage year for prose. As the Observer reported last week, the art of biography seems to be in the doldrums, squeezed at the low end by celebrity lives such as Wayne Rooney: My Story So Far, and at the high end by classic memoir, for instance Edmund de Waal's The Hare with Amber Eyes.In fiction, if there's a new generation to follow Zadie Smith and Hari Kunzru it's taking its time. The Booker prize was disputed between two senior citizens, both in their late 60s, a two-time winner (Peter Carey) and a three-time loser (Howard Jacobson). In the end, The Finkler Question sucked up all the oxygen. None of the new names on the shortlist really got a look-in.In the real world, the fall of New Labour brought the political autobiography roaring back with a vengeance. Tony Blair's A Journey is said to be largely a work of fiction. That didn't stop it storming to the top of the charts, followed closely by Peter Mandelson's The Third Man. A runner-up in this race, George Bush's Decision Points, has scored a lot of column inches, but only the anoraks of the political class will have it on their Christmas list. Ulysses S Grant's reputation as the author of by far the best presidential memoir looks secure.The Christmas book list also looks different this year, thank God. Austerity appears to have killed off stocking fillers such as Do Ants Have Arseholes and Toujours Tingo as redundant and vexatious. ... Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:04:01 +0100 888835 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/kids-of-dreams-2010-marks-21-years/ Click to view slideshow. It’s not long since our wonderful Friday evening launch and celebration of the 21st edition of our annual Kids of Dreams publication which celebrates literary and artistic talent. Student’s  prose, poetry and artwork from Years 7-12 are included in the publication. It was an amazing night! Why?  Well it was ‘special’ for a number of reasons.  I was the main editor of the production this year, along with my wonderful Teacher Librarian colleague Kirsten Reim (who wrote a wonderful editorial for me), supported by my ever efficient library team. We came to the job a little late this year, so it was a complete scramble to the end, making sure that everything was as right as possible.  So much writing, so much art, so many decisions about layout and presentation. It was an amazing and rewarding experience to be able to work on a publication that showcases the work of our students who have the courage to speak up in artistic forms. Author Brian Caswell provided the judging of the student’s literary works. Brian was Writer in Residence at the College earlier in the year.  Brian’s comments for each item he chose for an award are worth reading – so much so, that this year I included the judge’s comments within the publication itself  as a record of achievement for the students. Kids of Dreams was  launched on Friday 19th November with the help of my talented Twitter friend Mark Pesce (inventor, writer, theorist, panelist on #newinventors, obsessed with language, communication, social networks).  I was able to tell the audience that Mark was the first VIP guest to come to the College as a result of an invitation arranged through Twitter! Mark provided an inspirational keynote/official launch presentation – and focussed on the power of creativity to drive our learning and thinking. Creativity and inspiration is inside us all, and around us every day. ... Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:46:19 +0100 889885 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/Q6lkbnmIo0E/johnt The FASTForward Blog » Organizational Design for Social Business: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1695164308/design-for-flexibility-and-emergence Your social intranet is where work gets done « Dachis Group Collaboratory http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1695650918/social-network-activity-is-the-evolution-of-the-expert http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1695633480/the-come-to-me-enterprise http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1695623362/serve-the-individual-and-the-organisation-will-be http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1695391155/a-social-intranet-fills-the-people-centric-gap (Source: Library clips) Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:00:00 +0100 889196 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/eTUZUSBlvy8/ I am more and more convinced by the day that if we would want to transform the corporate world as we know it with Enterprise 2.0, how we work, how we cooperate AND collaborate with other knowledge workers, how we innovate, how we let social networks disrupt who we are, we need to start thinking more about incorporating into the mix other disciplines and fields than just technology and social business processes. Back in October I had the opportunity to witness just that at the IBM Software 2010 Congress when I attended live one of those rather thought-provoking and amazingly engaging presentations, I know I will remember for a long while, by one of those science communicators that you just cannot but admire dearly; of course, I am talking about Eduard Punset and his “I exist, therefore I think“. There are plenty of highlights that I would want to go ahead and share with you folks over here about that IBM event I attended, and where I presented as well, although that would be something for another blog post, but I thought I would go ahead and share with you the one major highlight from that day, which was, obviously, getting wowed by Mr. Punset with such an amazing and inspiring presentation that is still lingering there, after a month and a half! As a starting point, no slides (Yes, no slides!!), just a handful of notes to check out and deliver an inspiring speech. The way it should always be, in my opinion! Now, I realise how Punset’s presentation was delivered in Spanish, so perhaps most of the readers of this blog would probably be missing out on it altogether. However, I still think it would be a pity to let this opportunity go, just like that, by not sharing it across with a wider audience. ... Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:29:49 +0100 889237 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/sjkJyamiOWk/johnt Lanyrd | the social conference directory Anecdote: Collaboration on the Moon From Focus Groups to “Friend” Groups - Elaine Wong - Media Geek - Forbes The UPDATED Decision Maker’s Guide to Jive Software vs. ThinkPassenger vs. Spigit Vs. BrightIdea | Seek Omega .@MartijnLinssen: Enterprise 2.0: The Prodigal Parent The FASTForward Blog » Robin Dunbar Ends the Stupidity of Endless “Friends”: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary Green Chameleon » Trends in Knowledge Management Twittering bacteria: on bacteria… social intelligence « Chemoton § Vitorino Ramos' research notebook http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1685640898/spatial-self-organized-patterns-via-social-foraging Humans Have Ten Times More Bacteria Than Human Cells: How Do Microbial Communities Affect Human Health? Social networking gets busy fighting superbugs When Your Company Culture Isn't Ready for Social Media - Jeanne C Meister and Karie Willyerd - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/1687999839/dont-give-up-try-small-scale-social-computing-when (Source: Library clips) Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:00:00 +0100 888774 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=16109 Reference and Emerging Technologies Librarian (Temple University, Pennsylvania) Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education is a comprehensive public research university with more than 39,000 students. It has a distinguished faculty in 17 schools and colleges, including schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatry, and Dentistry, and a renowned Health Sciences Center. Temple is one of Pennsylvania’s three public research universities, along with the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University. Temple University is the 26th-largest university in the United States, and it is the 6th-largest provider of professional education (law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and podiatric medicine) in the country. ... Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:05:02 +0100 888393 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/bis-2011.html The 14th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2011) will take place in Poznan, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. Topics include:* Business Process Management - Semantic business process management - Adaptive and dynamic processes - Supply chain processes - ERP implementations - Integration of data and processes - Collaborative BPM* Ontologies - Creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation - Ontologies for enterprise content management - Natural language processing and cognitive science - Semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured sources - Interoperability of heterogeneous information systems - Business models for Web information integration and aggregation* Contexts - Location-aware and geography-centric information systems - Wireless and mobile applications - Multi-agent distributed systems - Semantic web personalization - Ambient computing* Content Retrieval and Filtering - Hidden Web search and crawling - Data integration from Web information sources - Modeling and describing evolving data sources - Adaptive integration of evolving data sources - Information gathering for knowledge-intensive enterprises - Search over semi-structural Web sources - Business models for a content* Collaboration - Knowledge-based collaboration - Social networks and social wikis - Enterprise mashups, Enterprise 2.0 - Infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.) - Semantic grid - Security in distributed systems - Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse* Web Services - Service oriented computing (SOA) - Semantic web services - Composition, choreography and orchestration - Open, decentralized self-service - Trust and quality of service (QoS) - Service level agreements (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888842