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 Video interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:56:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2008/02/students-parents-teachers.html Share the experience of reading 30 minutes a day for 30 days, and you could be chosen to win one of two top prizes: a starring role in a Maryland reading video or an Amazon Kindle.For more information, click here or stop by the HHS Library Media Center to pick up your reading calendar today. (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 823658 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/celebrate-black-history-month.html February is Black History Month. Test your knowledge of Civil Rights heroes by taking this interactive quiz.To learn more about the contributions of African Americans in history, try these great websites:African VoicesThis Smithsonian online exhibit celebrates Africa's diversity and long history.African American WorldSponsored by PBS, this website features a large collection of classroom resources for teachers and students.Black HistoryHere you can find an interactive timeline, biographies, and a collection of video clips. (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 819509 http://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2010/02/celebrate-black-history-month.html February is Black History Month. Test your knowledge of Civil Rights heroes by taking this interactive quiz.To learn more about the contributions of African Americans in history, try these great websites:African VoicesThis Smithsonian online exhibit celebrates Africa's diversity and long history.African American WorldSponsored by PBS, this website features a large collection of classroom resources for teachers and students.Black HistoryHere you can find an interactive timeline, biographies, and a collection of video clips. (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 815254 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60308 + Baidu, Most Used Site in China Begins Selling e-Books (via Bloomberg News) Baidu also provides a popular search engine. Baidu info page in English. + China: The E-Reader Boom (by Yu Shujyun, Beijing Review) + OPDS [Open Publishing Distribution System Catalog] Primer on Feedbooks (by Paul Biba, TeleRead) + Video Notre Dame ereader study (by Paul Biba, [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:18:23 +0100 868683 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=7667 Here’s a class that looks interesting:  “Using Technology in Library Training” taught by Paul Signorelli and offered through the American Library Association. It’s online, hands-on and will help you incorporate YouTube, GoogleDocs, LinkedIn and other tools in your instructional design. The class is divided into two sessions. There’s a discount, if you take both. The  sessions are on Thursdays 12:30 MT, 1:30 CT.  The first session is on  September 16 and the second is on September 23. Check out the web site to see what is covered when, how to register, and how to pay. http://link.ixs1.net/s/ve?eli=s904734&si=i191468986&cfc=3html /ch (Source: Midcontinental Region News) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:04:04 +0100 868538 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/02/blair-job-done-1997-numb-labour In Downing Street, Blair never fulfilled his early promise and let Brown in. Now he can only emit a long wail of impotenceWho said books are dead? Did he blog or tweet, video or iPad? No, Tony Blair wanted to get a message across, so he wrote a book. He smeared the black stuff on trees, stitched it together and made people go out to buy it. Good for him.Blair's mildly engaging stream of auto-eroticism shows him memoirising much as he ruled. He uses the first person singular a million times. He stages everything. He fixes on a theme and controls the narrative. The intention is to smother an Iraq apologia in endless quotables on Gordon Brown and his emotional idiocy and general hopelessness. It is cruel, but has worked a dream.Blair was a politician of great talent, and a miserable prime minister. The service he did his country was considerable, but it was done by the time he took office in 1997. It was to anaesthetise the Labour party while he turned it into a vehicle to make him electable and his newly espoused Thatcherism irreversible, much as Attlee had made welfarism irreversible in 1945. The British left is still in denial on the subject.When the Social Democratic party was formed in 1981, an ambitious young Blair abused them as "middle-aged, middle-class erstwhile Labour", with only "lingering social consciences [to] prevent them voting Tory". When, a year later, Anthony Blair fought Beaconsfield, he was for CND, against Trident and for withdrawal from Europe. (None of this is in his memoir.)When Blair arrived in parliament in 1983, he was eloquent in defence of clause IV renationalisation: "not a question of reinterpreting it … but a question of giving effect to it". There should be no curb on trade union rights, and privatisation should be abandoned "here, now and for ever". When Nigel Lawson cut income tax to 40%, Blair demanded Labour increase it to 60%. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:30:13 +0100 868553 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/09/02/toronto-collects-electronics-for-recycling/ Toronto, in collaboration with the Ontario Electronic Stewardship, is making it easier for their citizens to recycle old electronics. They’ve instituted curbside collection for single family residents and containerized collection for multi-family apartment buildings. They’ve also done a series of public service announcements featuring Chuck and Vince. These guys *really* want you to recycle your electronics. Watch the videos here. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:44:23 +0100 868638 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/09/02/the-famous-greener-all-purpose-cleaner-recipe/ An infomercial-style video about how to make an inexpensive all-purpose cleaner that’s better for you, better for your household and better for the environment. Brought to you by the Washington Department of Ecology. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:16:31 +0100 868641 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/b3YdXJuo5AU/new-marc-records-available-from.html Alexander Street Press has released 4 new sets of MARC records, which are currently available for download You can also find MARC records for Alexander Street collections on OCLC WorldCat. New record sets include: * Latin American Women Writers, supplement 2 - This set contains 133 records with links to 133 sources, in MARC8 format * Latino Literature, supplement 1 - This set contains 82 records with links to 82 sources, in MARC8 format * Dance in Video, supplement 1 - This set contains 147 records with links to 161 works, in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats * Alexander Street Literature, supplement 1 - Please note, this supplement is intended for customer who have the full Alexander Street Literature package including drama. The set contains 215 records with links to 215 volumes, in MARC 8 format (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:12:44 +0100 868620 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/fcWIgee6SIU/ Two years ago, I asked for suggestions for the most memorable movie lines of recent years, to help with the next edition of The Yale Book of Quotations. Let me repeat my "bleg" from that time, and ask again for suggestions (Source: Freakonomics Blog) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:02 +0100 868632 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/zINsZfq6ghY/ From Boing Boing. I hate serials so I won’t jump in, but I’ll probably buy the thing when it’s finished. The Mongoliad is live! This is the collaborative, participatory shared-world project from Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and pals. It’s an epic fantasy novel about the Mongol conquest, told in installment form, with lots of supplementary material (video, stills, short fiction, etc), and a strong audience participation component in the form of a Wikipedia-style concordance, fanfic, etc. You can read the free samples without registration, but you need an account to edit the “Pedia.” For $5.99 you get a six-month subscription to the main body of fiction; $9.99 gets you a year (you retain access to the fiction after your subscription expires, but don’t get any new material until you renew, which is a major plus in my view — much fairer than most online “subscriptions” that lock you out once you let your sub lapse). Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:30:24 +0100 868672 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60280 From a Summary: The Data Conservancy is one of two initial awards through the National Science Foundatiom's DataNet Program. The Data Conservancy embraces a shared vision: data curation is not an end, but rather a means to collect, organize, validate and preserve data to address grand research challenges. Sayeed Choudhury provides an overview of the Data [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:51:05 +0100 868696 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/oj7s4wRW9js/ As I mentioned below, we will be at the US release of the Tab, and now here is some great news for Kobo. From the Samsung press release: As a new category of device, the Samsung GALAXY Tab brings a wealth of mobile experiences. Its striking 7” TFT-LCD display delivers exciting mobile experience for watching films, viewing pictures, e-reading or sharing documents. In design, its light (380g) build provides perfect portability, with its svelte dimensions making it easy to grip and use. Supporting the latest Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the Samsung GALAXY Tab fully supports swift, seamless viewing of every single page of the web. The ‘Readers Hub,’ Samsung’s unique e-reading application, provides easy access to a vast digital library – from classical literature to the latest bestsellers and reference materials. At the same time, Samsung unveils ‘Media Hub,’ a gateway to a world of films and videos, and ‘Music Hub,’ an application giving access to a wide range of music tunes. The Samsung GALAXY Tab has made rich communication truly mobile; it presents a level of converged technology that moves beyond mobile or PC to an entirely new category. Users have new powers to consume, create and communicate from wherever they are. Powerful, always-on communication With 3G HSPA connectivity, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth® 3.0, the Samsung GALAXY Tab enhances users’ mobile communication on a whole new level. Video conferencing and push email on the large 7-inch display make communication more smooth and efficient. For voice telephony, the Samsung GALAXY Tab turns out to be a perfect speakerphone on the desk, or a mobile phone on the move via Bluetooth® headset. Powered by a Cortex A8 1.0GHz application processor, the Samsung GALAXY Tab is designed to deliver high performance whenever and wherever you are. At the same time, HD video contents are supported by a wide range of multimedia formats (DivX, XviD, MPEG4, H.263, H. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:38:05 +0100 868678 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Professor_Sprout_from_the_Harry_Potter_series__Flickr_-_Photo_--- Dress up as your favorite book/movie/comic book character, and and get your photo taken for the Library's celebration of National Library Card Sign (Source: pligg - all) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:27 +0100 868500 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/09/spacetime-3d-for-visual-search.html There are a few visual search engines around at the moment, and SpaceTime 3D is a new one that I've just discovered. A visual search engine is one that displays results for you visually - usually as a series of thumbnail shots, although of course it there are other alternatives. SpaceTime 3D displays pages in an arc, and you can flick through them, clicking on any that interest you. Spacetime has search options for Google, Images, Wikipedia and YouTube. I have to guess at the selling point, since there's nothing on the page to tell me anything about these people, but it's the size of the thumbnail - it's very clear indeed. Perhaps too clear I'm afraid, since the thumbnail dominates the webpage, pushing out the other pages in the arc, and I found it rather too claustrophobic for my tastes. However, demonstrating or training could be another matter, and I can see how it would work there. My preference is still for RedZ in this area - it was the first of them and I still prefer it. Yes, the previews are smaller, but I like being able to see more of them, and that's surely what visual search is all about. RedZ doesn't have the Wikipedia option, but as well as Web and Images, it's got News and Video, which I'm happier with anyway. Your mileage may vary however, so I've included a screenshot of both engines for you to take a look at. (Source: Phil Bradley) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868455 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60268 1. A New NASA App for iPad (officially named NASA App HD for iPad) is Now Available (Free). The new app features: + Thousands of images from NASA IOTD, APOD and NASAImages.org + On demand NASA Videos from around the agency + Live Streaming of NASA TV [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:26:19 +0100 868477 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SellersLibraryTeens/~3/N3XTsMTc7oQ/august-anime-club-meeting.html Today was the August meeting of the Anime Club, right on the eve of everyone returning to school. Tim showed us some clips from the Sonic the Hedgehog anime movie, clips from the Japanese video game it was based on, and some bonus Japanese Sonic commercials! Our manga drawing theme for the meeting was back-to-school, so we also watched some school-themed anime clips. I had super-cute school supplies--piggy pencil sharpeners and panda/frog erasers--for the four winners. (I got them at the dollar store by H-Mart, if you want to track down some for yourself.) Here are all of the drawings: Actual school supplies! Kelliann had the most beautiful shading in her picture of a schoolgirl. It was my first choice for a winner.A schoolgirlAnother schoolgirlYet another schoolgirlFor a change of pace...a schoolboy! OK, he's looking at a schoolgirl, but it's a start. Max won a prize for being the only person to draw a schoolboy. A schoolgirl with talking school supplies Kathy drew a really cute comic about a school of fish! I gave it a prize for originality. Still another schoolgirl Out of all the schoolgirls, I deemed this one the cutest, so Lynn won a prize. The last schoolgirl (Source: Sellers Library Teens) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:12:05 +0100 868457 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60247 With the news today that Apple is going to release a revamped version of Apple TV for $99 in about a month we thought it would be a good time to post a video demo of Google TV that is scheduled to launch this Fall. Video Demo of Google TV (StuffWeLike.com via YouTube The six minute [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:26:04 +0100 868313 http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/sep/01/billy-liar-tom-courtenay-julie-christie Billy Liar, a story of smalltown frustration, captivated a generation, pre-empted the 60s – and even inspired Oasis. As the stage play returns, Laura Barton asks Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie why it endures'I don't think about Billy Liar very often." Tom Courtenay's voice hovers on the line. We have been discussing his upcoming holiday to the north-east coast, splashing about in the warm shallows of the present-day; at this detour into the past, he pauses, and retreats a little. "If I read it now, it would make me laugh," he concludes lightly, distantly. "But I honestly don't know why it's lasted. Who can say why some things are successful?"It is now 50 years since Keith Waterhouse's novel transferred to the stage, casting in its title role first Albert Finney and later, Courtenay. Published in 1959, Billy Liar has, over those five decades, enjoyed a rich and varied existence, remembered not only as a novel and a play, but also as a film (again starring Courtenay), a musical and a TV series. This Saturday will see it revived once more, in a lavish stage adaptation at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.Crucially, Billy Liar's longevity is not an example of a tale that is told and told again with a dulling faithfulness; rather, the long life of Billy Liar is a story of reincarnation, of each new generation seizing upon the tale afresh and making the story its own. Its influence may be felt in half a century of creative endeavour, in drama and literature and film, and, perhaps most keenly, in popular music: referenced, for instance, in the video for the Oasis single The Importance of Being Idle, and in a song by the Decemberists, and popping up, too, in many of Morrissey's lyrics, including the Smiths' 1984 hit William, It Was Really Nothing.Set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Stradhoughton, Billy Liar tells of a young undertaker's clerk named William "Billy" Fisher. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:30:12 +0100 868434 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/jobs-reveals-new-ipod-line-apple-tv-ios-4-1-itunes-10/ Steve Jobs had some interesting things to reveal today. In the iPod line, the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch get refreshes. No mention at all of the Classic line; I suppose they’ve had their day. The Shuffle moves forward by taking a step back—the new one resembles a smaller version of the second in form factor, bringing back the buttons everybody missed from the third, but with the Voiceover and other nifty features that people did like from the third. The Nano loses the physical controls and goes multitouch, looking like a smaller version of the iPod Touch (but without apps). Now we know what that mysterious small square touchscreen we mentioned in an Apple rumor post I don’t have time to dig up right now was for. And the Touch is about as expected. Slimmer than ever, Retina Display, A4 chip, Facetime camera, and rear-facing HD video camera. No mention of photographic capability, so presumably it’s a video-only camera like the one from last year’s Nano. If it can’t take photos, that’s a bit disappointing (especially with the new HDR photo capacity in OS 4.1), but on the whole it’s still a considerable improvement over the previous generation. Price points remain the same $229/$299/$399; it is available for pre-order today and ships later this month. Even Steve Jobs pointed out one of the big benefits it has over the iPhone: "A lot of people call it the ‘iPhone without the phone’. It’s also an iPhone without a contract." Of course, it doesn’t include everything that the iPhone does; there was no mention of 3G wireless or GPS, two of the features I know at least some people had been anticipating. (I must admit to being so impressed by the presentation, I forgot to snap screenshots of it, and don’t have time to hunt for any now. Oops.) OS 4.1 includes a number of bug fixes, HD video upload to the Internet over wifi, TV show rentals, and the premiere of Game Center. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:52:01 +0100 868280 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/_wIe35ze4P0/ Steve Jobs had some interesting things to reveal today. In the iPod line, the Shuffle, Nano, and Touch get refreshes. No mention at all of the Classic line; I suppose they’ve had their day. The Shuffle moves forward by taking a step back—the new one resembles a smaller version of the second in form factor, bringing back the buttons everybody missed from the third, but with the Voiceover and other nifty features that people did like from the third. The Nano loses the physical controls and goes multitouch, looking like a smaller version of the iPod Touch (but without apps). Now we know what that mysterious small square touchscreen we mentioned in an Apple rumor post I don’t have time to dig up right now was for. And the Touch is about as expected. Slimmer than ever, Retina Display, A4 chip, Facetime camera, and rear-facing HD video camera. No mention of photographic capability, so presumably it’s a video-only camera like the one from last year’s Nano. If it can’t take photos, that’s a bit disappointing (especially with the new HDR photo capacity in OS 4.1), but on the whole it’s still a considerable improvement over the previous generation. Price points remain the same $229/$299/$399; it is available for pre-order today and ships later this month. Even Steve Jobs pointed out one of the big benefits it has over the iPhone: "A lot of people call it the ‘iPhone without the phone’. It’s also an iPhone without a contract." Of course, it doesn’t include everything that the iPhone does; there was no mention of 3G wireless or GPS, two of the features I know at least some people had been anticipating. (I must admit to being so impressed by the presentation, I forgot to snap screenshots of it, and don’t have time to hunt for any now. Oops.) OS 4.1 includes a number of bug fixes, HD video upload to the Internet over wifi, TV show rentals, and the premiere of Game Center. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:52:01 +0100 868277 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/M_t9w4dEaTQ/ A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in case you may not have seen it, it is that good! Worth while your time, for sure!, specially, if you are into some amazing graphicware like this one. But, there is something missing from that article, don’t you think? Something that, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental pillars from Enterprise 2.0. Have you spotted it yourself already? Indeed, social bookmarking / tagging! Not sure what you would think, but I strongly believe that social bookmarking and social tagging are still an important and rather critical part of a successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption strategy. I would even go one step further and state that social bookmarking / tagging are probably essential key elements behind the social computing philosophy altogether. Yet, it’s interesting to see how they both keep getting neglected time and time again, when they are just so critical. I mean, can you imagine … having your business put together and create a massive index of must-have links with annotations and tags across the board that would help you re-find content much much easier than through just the traditional taxonomies? No, neither could I. My good friend, Harold Jarche, talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at Personal Knowledge Management by Harold Jarche (BlueIQ Ambassadors). ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0100 868507 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/bzFnaOXy9Ho/ Nach 10 Jahren mit dem bisherigen Gestell auf der Nase ist es wieder Mal Zeit für eine neue Brille. Die letzte hab ich noch in einem heute nicht mehr bestehenden Brillen-Laden im Nauwieser Viertel in Saarbrücken erstanden. Die heute ausgesuchte Brille wurde nach erstklasiger Beratung bei Optiker Kelb in Wandsbek in Auftrag gegeben. Schwarz sollte sie wieder sein, modern, aber schlicht, und teilweise rahmenlos. Auf dieses Exemplar ist nach eindringlicher Prüfung meine Wahl gefallen: Eine Sehstärkenbestimmung beim Augenarzt samt Vorsorgeuntersuchung ging dem Brillenkauf voraus. Dort erhielt ich neben dem positiven Befund, dass sich meine Sehstärke in all den Jahren seit dem letzten Check nur minimal geändert hat und dass ich über ein 100-prozentiges Sichtfeld beim Sehen verfüge, die etwas besorgniserregende Auskunft, dass mein Sehnerv stark geweitet sei und evtl. ein Grüner Star (Glaukom) vorliegen könnte. Ich mach mich jetzt nicht verrückt deswegen, behalte das aber im Auge. Im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes. Wie ich inzwischen gehört habe, kann so eine Vorabdiagnose auch durch spätere Tests widerrufen werden. Und wenn dem nicht so ist, dann ist es gut, dass die Sehnerverkrankung so früh erkannt wurde und rechtzeitig unter besonderer Beobachtung und Behandlung stehen kann. Erstmal freu ich mich nun auf die neue Brille. Spätestens nächste Woche Mittwoch wird sie fertig sein. Natürlich habe ich mich – denn ich brauche die rasche Tönung bei Sonnenschein – für Transitions-Gläser entschieden. Denn auf die schwört auch Tyler Farrar. Ihr kennt Tyler Farrar nicht? Das ist der Held von Herrn Sparschäler. Tyler ist tragischer Tour-de-France-Ausscheider (dessen Werbespot während der Tour aber Kultstatus erreichte) und Gewinner der Hamburg Cyclassics. Hier der Kultspot mit dem Helden der sich tönenden Transitions-Gläser: Direktlink YouTube © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:32:59 +0100 868483 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/BLAb6lspLVM/ A couple of further notes about Apple’s event, due to start in just over an hour. Leander Kahney at Cult of Mac has an exclusive tip from an insider who explains that the streaming process is going to serve as a stress test for Apple’s new server farm, which will later be used to stream a version of iTunes for iOS devices. Kahney notes: Some have speculated that Apple is streaming the show to thwart livebloggers, who may have sabotaged Jobs’ iPhone 4 keynote at Apple’s WWDC event in June. Problems with the venue’s WiFi network ruined Jobs’ FaceTime demo and forced him to ask bloggers in the audience to shut their laptops to reduce the strain on the wireless network. He dismisses the suggestion of some that Jobs wants greater control over the delivery of the news, but notes that if Apple livestreams future events it could mean an end to the considerable traffic that the events bring sites that liveblog them. Meanwhile, MacRumors explains the limitation of Apple’s livestream to iOS devices only, and suggests a possible workaround for viewing it without Apple products. Apple is using its new HTTP Live Streaming technology, which has been proposed as a standard but largely implemented only by Apple so far. Among its advantages include that it avoids router/firewall issues since the stream goes out over standard http. Non-Apple-owning viewers might be able to watch the event anyway, to some extent, as long as they keep manually refreshing the stream’s playlist file. And that should be the last I’ll say on the subject until after the event! I may livetweet it under the #teleread hashtag, however. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:59:23 +0100 868285 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/the-music-event-why-apple-is-streaming-it-and-how-to-watch-without-apple/ A couple of further notes about Apple’s event, due to start in just over an hour. Leander Kahney at Cult of Mac has an exclusive tip from an insider who explains that the streaming process is going to serve as a stress test for Apple’s new server farm, which will later be used to stream a version of iTunes for iOS devices. Kahney notes: Some have speculated that Apple is streaming the show to thwart livebloggers, who may have sabotaged Jobs’ iPhone 4 keynote at Apple’s WWDC event in June. Problems with the venue’s WiFi network ruined Jobs’ FaceTime demo and forced him to ask bloggers in the audience to shut their laptops to reduce the strain on the wireless network. He dismisses the suggestion of some that Jobs wants greater control over the delivery of the news, but notes that if Apple livestreams future events it could mean an end to the considerable traffic that the events bring sites that liveblog them. Meanwhile, MacRumors explains the limitation of Apple’s livestream to iOS devices only, and suggests a possible workaround for viewing it without Apple products. Apple is using its new HTTP Live Streaming technology, which has been proposed as a standard but largely implemented only by Apple so far. Among its advantages include that it avoids router/firewall issues since the stream goes out over standard http. Non-Apple-owning viewers might be able to watch the event anyway, to some extent, as long as they keep manually refreshing the stream’s playlist file. And that should be the last I’ll say on the subject until after the event! I may livetweet it under the #teleread hashtag, however. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:59:23 +0100 868284 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6331 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE ================================================================================== Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap) Free and Open to the Public Tell us if you're coming on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140755442627336) or Twitter (http://tweetvite.com/event/berkmanopenhouse) Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our dynamic, exciting environment. As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations, research, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming academic year! Paid part-time research positions will be available in the fall, and you can visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships to see currently available positions. People from all disciplines, universities, and backgrounds are encouraged to attend the Open House to familiarize yourself with the Berkman Center and explore opportunities to join us in our research. We look forward to seeing you there! Refreshments will be served. For more information visit: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:14 +0100 868263 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/september-2010/ Welcome to the Link. Each month the ipl2 brings you some of the best information sites on the Internet. If you have an Internet connection, you can connect with us! The September edition of the Link is filled with birthdays and celebrations throughout the world. So join the party and explore the world through these colorful and informative websites! Suggest a site for the ipl2. Know of a great site, but you cannot find it in the ipl2? Use the form located at http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/ to let us know about good resources to add to our collections. September 1 – Independence Day Uzbekistan Uzbekistan: A Country Study “An historical overview and information on the geography, economy, government, transportation and telecommunications, foreign relations, national security, languages, religions, and people and society of Uzbekistan. Includes a glossary, a bibliography, and statistical tables. Searchable. “Completed [in] March 1996.” A part of the Web site Country Studies, from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.” Country Profile: Uzbekistan “Profile of this former Soviet country that is “positioned on the ancient Great Silk Road between Europe and Asia.” Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and information about leaders and media. Site also includes links to related news stories, and audio of the national anthem. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).” September 2 – National Day Vietnam Country Profile: Vietnam “Profile of Vietnam, which “became a unified country in 1976.” Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and brief listings of leaders and media outlets. Site also includes links to related news stories, audio of the national anthem, and video clips. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:22:29 +0100 868404 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/sep/01/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-game-review Xbox 360/PS3; £10; cert 12+; UbisoftAnyone familiar with Edgar Wright's oeuvre (and especially Spaced) can't have failed to notice the director of Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a major-league video game obsessive, and the film itself rams that point home.Happily, this is not the usual game-as-merchandising tat – indeed, it takes an approach that should be made compulsory for all games publishers looking to cash in on Hollywood's enduring mass appeal. Instead of seeking to extract more cash from you than it would take to see the film, Scott Pilgrim vs The World joins the burgeoning ranks of the retro homages found on the Xbox Live arcade and PlayStation Network, and completely nails the ethos of those download services.Its mission alone deserves applause – to introduce a young, Twitter-fed audience to the joys of the 8-bit arcade era. Thus, it looks like Paper Boy and plays like Double Dragon (even supporting co-operative play by up to four people). In keeping with that era, its gameplay is gloriously unforgiving, eschewing checkpoints in favour of three lives which must be sustained for the duration of each of the seven levels, corresponding to Scott's inamorata Ramona's ex-boyfriends. Each level is long, relentless and utterly devoid of breathing space. Which gives you a commensurate sense of satisfaction when you progress.The gameplay couldn't be simpler, consisting of classic side-scrolling beat-em-up action in which Scott takes on hordes of aggressive Toronto locals. He can pick up objects strewn around the streets, such as baseball bats, bottles and even snowballs, to use as weapons, punch, kick, jump and counter. At first, it seems laughably simple, but subtleties soon manifest themselves. As Scott levels up, he acquires special moves, such as shoulder-charges and low kicks. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:36:56 +0100 868199 http://web.docuticker.com/go/docubase/35427 Television and Video Viewing Time Among Children Aged 2 Years --- Oregon, 2006--2007 Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC) Excessive exposure of children to television and videos (viewing time) is associated with impaired childhood development (1) and childhood obesity (2). In 2001, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended that children watch no more than [...] (Source: Docuticker) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:04:39 +0100 868271 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/hannspree-to-release-tablet-in-november/ Hannspree has released some good products in the past so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with a tablet. According to Liliputing, they will release a 10 inch tablet with a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 16GB of internal storage, and Google Android 2.2 Froyo. It will also have WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI output, a USB port and microSD card slot. It comes with a 3500mAh battery and can handle 1080p HD video playback thanks to the NVIDIA chipset. It will be released in Europe and there is no word about a US release. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:24:08 +0100 868297 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/CIe1xdiHPtM/ Hannspree has released some good products in the past so I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with a tablet. According to Liliputing, they will release a 10 inch tablet with a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 16GB of internal storage, and Google Android 2.2 Froyo. It will also have WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI output, a USB port and microSD card slot. It comes with a 3500mAh battery and can handle 1080p HD video playback thanks to the NVIDIA chipset. It will be released in Europe and there is no word about a US release. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:24:08 +0100 868296 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Berne_Public_Library_-_Blog_Archive_-_Family_Movie-_Friday_--- The PG-rated comedy, Furry Vengeance will be shown at the library on Friday, September 10 at 7:00 p.m. If the weather cooperates, plan to be outside. (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:00:23 +0100 868131 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/booksquare/~3/hTOxRIC86D0/ I’ve been thinking about the topic of the value of books a lot. Not for days. Not for months. Years. However, recently I’ve been angered by the implication that readers are cheap, that they won’t pay a proper price for books, that they don’t get it. Whatever it is. These assertions are not untrue. They are also not entirely accurate. Perspective is everything, nuance matters, and I have thoughts. Of course. What is a book worth? Well, there’s list price created by the publisher. That seems to be the value referenced by publishers. Then there’s the price consumers actually pay. That gets more complicated, of course. You have to break it down to various levels including the price for the first sale and the price for the second sale. Library patrons pay a different price; we call that “property tax”. Oh, and then there are the books acquired for free. This is what I think about when I hear publishers talking about this, that, or the other devaluing the price of content. And by devaluing content, they really mean consumers paying far less than publishers would like. This is absolutely a valid concern. Once consumers get lower price points in their minds, they might expect to pay less all the time. As noted above, the way consumers acquire books means they pay varying amounts for the same product; I’d wager the number of full retail list price sales is greatly outnumbered by all other types of sales. Resolution: the price I pay for a book has absolutely nothing to do with how I value the book. This leads me to an inescapable contention. When publishers talk about the value of books, what they really mean is the value they have assigned. Conclusion: publishers are as responsible for devaluing the content of books as anyone else in the food chain. Recently, some friends and I discussed an author we love. Or loved. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:10:00 +0100 868021 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/zvZ1X9i_rlI/ Well, this is a first. Rather than waiting to post the video until several hours after the event, Apple will be livestreaming its presentation this morning…at least, to those with Macs, iPod Touches, iPhones, or iPads. Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards. Viewing requires either a Mac® running Safari® on Mac OS® X version 10.6 Snow Leopard®, an iPhone® or iPod touch® running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad™. The live broadcast will begin at 10:00 a.m. PDT on September 1, 2010 at www.apple.com. I really like how in one sentence they say it’s “based on open standards” and then in the next say that viewing requires one of their devices. That’s Apple for you. Non-Apple-device-owning Windows users are apparently going to have to make do with the liveblogs. I don’t usually get up until about 1:00 these days, but I’m going to be setting my alarm an hour early so as not to miss this. (Found via Engadget.) Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:01:00 +0100 868111 http://hunterlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-books-cds-dvds-from-august-2010.html Here's a sampling of some of the new books, films, and CDs that have arrived at Hunter Library in June 2010. Please browse the full list.Simone M. Caron,Who chooses? : American reproductive history since 1830Gainesville: University Press of Florida, c2008WCU New Books HQ 766.5.U5 C37 2008Joan Novelli,Using Caldecotts across the curriculum: reading and writing mini-lessons,math and science spin-offs, unique art activities, and more New York: Scholastic Professional Books, c1998WCU CMC PRO LB1575.5.U5 N69 1998Ed Viesturs,No shortcuts to the top: climbing the world's 14 highest peaks New York: Broadway Books, c2006 WCU General GV199.92.V54 A3 2006Christopher F. Chabris,The invisible gorilla: and other ways our intuitions deceive us New York: Crown, c2010WCU Leisure BF321.C43 2010Gone in sixty seconds [videorecording] Touchstone Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer filmsProduced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Mike Stenson Burbank, CA: Touchstone Home Video, 2000 WCU Video DVD PVH.G656Ida B. Wells: A passion for justice [videorecording]Presented by WGBH/Boston, WNET/New York, and KCET/Los Angeles Producers, William Greaves, Louise ArchambaultAlexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1990WCU VIDEO DVD E.133Bob Dylan,Bob Dylan's greatest hits [sound recording]New York: CBS, [1983], c1967 WCU AUDIO P DylB 007 (Source: Hunter Library News) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868707 http://blogaboutmurphy.blogspot.com/2010/09/qr-codes-at-clc.html Have you tried QR Codes yet?Already have a smart phone with a QR code scanner? Scan this code to watch this clip on YouTube (Source: BlogAbout Murphy Library) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868517 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/1ZDSCf2RGSs/ping_facebook_and_twitter_meet_itunes_except.php ...as far as I can tell, they in fact don't ever meet. You can't leverage your networks on Facebook and Twitter in Ping. It's another closed Apple system, another Apple universe in a gilded gift box. It's not that Apple hates the web, it's just that Apple is better than the web. Apple doesn't need it. It seems Apple has it all figured out. I am sure Ping will get traction because it'll be fun, and if it truly helps folks discover more music, so much the better for all (especially iTunes sales). But I've a sneaking suspicion that Ping will soon be about more than discovering music - it will also be about discovering Apps and other media like movies and TV. And while paid media is a sanitized and bounded universe, it's my fervent hope that Apps, over time, will not be - that they will be far more promiscuous. Breathless predictions aside, I simply can't imagine you will want your Apps to be recommended to you only by your Ping "friends." Likewise, when you find something cool, you'll want to share it on Twitter, and post it to Facebook (and maybe even other places too, places that are outside AppleLand.) You've invested in your Facebook and Twitter relationships, why can't you use those to find and share good stuff inside AppleLand? I hope Apple agrees, and will open Ping to the rest of the world. But I'm not going to predict it. I can predict this: If Apple doesn't open it up, Ping will never crack more than 10% of social networking share. But my, will that share be profitable! And for Apple, that's certainly seems to be enough. UPDATE: Peter in the comments notes that Ping does have a "very limited" Facebook Connect integration. So good on them, but if it's just to find friends to feed your Ping network, I'll stand by my comments above. (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868442 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-bizarre.html I hope they catch the woman who did this, and that the young woman who was attacked heals well. Thank God she had sunglasses on; it may have saved her sight. Acid attacker: 'Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?': Wash. woman in serious condition after unprovoked attack in Vancouver A 28-year-old woman severely burned when a stranger threw an acid-like liquid in her face was listed in serious condition in a Oregon hospital. Bethany Storro, of Vancouver, Wash., was getting something out of her car in downtown Vancouver when the attack happened Monday evening, her mother Nancy Neuwelt told The Oregonian. Neuwelt said a young woman walked up to her daughter, said: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?" and tossed a cup of liquid in Storro's face.Police are looking for the attacker, but the description's awfully vague: 'a black woman between 25 and 35, who wore a green shirt and khaki shorts, The Columbian reported. She had medium-length black hair that was pulled back.' It's a shame it didn't get caught on some sort of video. I think it's weird how camera-wired Britain is, but they can catch someone who puts a cat in a garbage bin, but this is a whole other form of senseless act, and the assailant may never be caught. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868362 http://cmrlslibrarynews.blogspot.com/2010/09/libraries-to-close-sept-6.html ALL Central Mississippi Regional Library System Libraries will be CLOSED Monday, September 6, in recognition of Labor Day. Your Library has resources to help you plan a great family Labor Day weekend. Look for a new potato salad or barbeque recipe, check out music, DVDs, videos, and video games to keep the kids (young and old) entertained, and look for outdoor games to play with the family or the whole neighborhood!CMRLS wishes you a happy and safe Labor Day. Branches will open with normal hours Tuesday, September 7. (Source: CMRLS News) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868257 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/09/social-news-curation-packages.html Actually a lot more interesting than they sound. There have been many 'Create your own newspaper' sites over the years - Crayon being the one that most people probably know. You provide the resource with subjects that you're interested in, and it will go out and gather useful and appropriate information from various different sites and present it back to you. I've never really got on well with them because I've always found them rather too clunky and difficult to fine tune. Besides, I make huge use of RSS feeds and alerts so I just don't find them that useful. However, there's a new(ish) bred of resources that are coming to the fore, and I've looked at three in particular - Paper.li, Flipboard, and Twitter Times. What they all have in common is that they will take content such as a Twitter user name, or a Twitter list or subject and will automatically create a newspaper for you - in the main based on a Twitter feed. They all try and create a newspaper look and feel, so that you can read through your newspaper. Why is this different from a Twitter feed? Well, the resources will pull in the content from a link, so if someone refers to an article in the Guardian for example, that article will be pulled into your newspaper so that you can read it there and then. You'll also find that the resource tries to position content on the page in the order that it thinks you want to read it, and/or by grouping content together. Here's a screenshot of my Paper.li which was created for me today.   Now, it's a huge page, with lots of scrolling required. You can't move stuff around, mainly because the paper only lasts for the day, so that's three things that irritate me right off the bat - it's inflexible, it thinks it knows what's best and it's updated once a day. This isn't how social media is supposed to work. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868256 http://baileylibrary.blogspot.com/2010/09/did-you-know-bailey-library-has-cameras.html Did you know Bailey Library has cameras and audio equipment for loan if you have a valid SRU I.D? Some of the items available include: hard drive video cameras, digital still cameras, tripods, microphones, and headphones. These items can be found in the laptop room in the basement of the library. Laptop room hours are: Sunday 1PM-10:45PM, Mon-Thur 9AM-10:45PM, Friday 9AM-4:15PM, and closed on Saturdays. Items may also be returned to the first floor Circulation desk when the laptop room is closed. See the library website for more information: http://www.sru.edu/academics/library/directory/Pages/cameras.aspx (Source: Cites & Bytes @ Bailey) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868173 http://blog.njla.org/archives/2010/09/#000948 http://www.nj.com Sept. 1, 2010 Newark residents held a 24-hour reading vigil on Tuesday in an attempt to restore the Newark Public Library. The library has lost $2.45 million in funding from the city, closed the First Avenue and Madison branches last month, and will only be open 3 days a week through December. (Video by Adya Beasley. Video at: http://videos.nj.com/star-ledger/2010/08/newark_residents_hold_reading.html (Source: NJLA Blog -- The Official Weblog of the New Jersey Library Association) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868151 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16791 I have been looking at developing a video based show on Libraries based on the extremely successful format of Leo LaPorte's TwitTv : http://twit.tv/ I have reviewed - YouTube for archives and trailers: http://www.youtube.com/user/OceanStateLibrarian LiveStream as an economical social media delivery model: http://www.livestream.com/publibtv However, two new formats that represent very wide distribution are available or are becoming available soon: Netflix - http://developer.netflix.com - a huge branded, easy to use interface that fits dynamically with Amazon GoogleTV - http://www.google.com/tv/ - currently partnering with Logitech, Sony and others to create a search interface that melds traditional TV along with the Google interface. Multiple studios around the country / world can be utilized using the Livestream model creating a remote Library news, interview, and product review potential. I think this could become a very strong marketing tool for libraries along with a method of sharing inform (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868143 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1332690.html "A collection of dance clips from almost 40 movies from dance movies to comedies, from Fred Astaire to Michael Jackson."via Metafilter. (Source: BentleyBlog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:42:31 +0100 868664 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/V9_B6NFW1fk/ Direktlink YouTube © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:14:13 +0100 868484 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/hvkPIqK4cNM/googles-sociaal-zoeken-herontdekt.html Keer op keer vergeet ik dat de ene Google de andere niet is. Wat je te zien krijgt in zoekresultaten hangt bijvoorbeeld ook af van je locatie, je voorkeursinstellingen en van de vraag of je bent ingelogd met een google-account of niet. Zojuist was een tweet aanleiding om in Google te zoeken op 'pfd kraken'. Ik vergat echter dat ik vanmiddag had gezocht in de de Engelstalige versie van Google. Dat is een versie die niet alleen andere zoekresultaten toont, het is ook een versie die meer features heeft dan Google.nl. Tot mijn verbazing zag ik onderaan de pagina 'Results from people in your social circle for pdf kraken' staan, met een foto van mezelf ernaast. Dat had ik nog niet eerder gezien. Mijn sociale cirkel? Toen herinnerde ik me een posting van oktober 2009: De trend bevestigd: Google Labs lanceert Sociaal Zoeken (Astrid schreef er later ook over). Sociaal Zoeken werd bijna een jaar geleden gelanceerd, maar omdat het tot nu toe nog niet opdook in de zoekresultaten van Google.nl was ik het alweer vergeten. Tot vandaag dus. Niet veel later ontdekte ik dat je zoekacties er zelfs op kunt beperken, zoals je dat ook kunt doen voor nieuws, blogs of kaarten. Toen ik keek uit welke mensen mijn sociale cirkel bij Google bestaat zag ik dat er ook secundaire contacten tussen staan. De kennissen en vrienden van kennissen en vrienden, als het ware. Google licht een en ander toe in het helpmenu en in een video. Die secundaire contacten kun je alleen verwijderen door de tussenliggende directe ook te elimineren. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:36:00 +0100 867907 http://www.lisnews.org/franzen039s_new_novel_freedom Did you enjoy the last Ron Charles video book review? Here's the new one...on Jonathan Franzen's new and highly anticipated title, Freedom. Washington Post review. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:23:33 +0100 868602 http://lisnews.org/franzen039s_new_novel_freedom Did you enjoy the last Ron Charles video book review? Here's the new one...on Jonathan Franzen's new and highly anticipated title, Freedom. Washington Post review. (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:23:33 +0100 867821 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/08/31/johan-rockstrom-let-the-environment-guide-our-development/ Watch the TEDTalk. Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:26:46 +0100 868085 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/3h7ac1o4YL8/ This week’s list of things to watch out for… 1) IFLA world library report – An interactive map showing all sorts of facts and figures about libraries in different countries. 2) ALIA Access blogging – coming soon to an Australian Library Blog near  you…. the ALIA Access 2010 library conference that is happening in Brisbane right now. You can check out the official conference blog, follow the conference on its own Twitter account @ALIAAccess , or search for the hashtag #aliaaccess . 3) ALIA Access #leftbehind Western Australian tweetup – a bunch of us who are enjoying the Perth rain instead of the Brisbane sunshine are getting together tomorrow night to discuss how we aren’t at ALIA Access and don’t need to be when we have each other’s wonderful company.  All librarianly types are welcome. It’s at 7pm tomorrow (Wednesday)  night at Chocolateria San Churro, Leederville. (This is red so people notice it before the tweetup. I may change it to something more seemly after the event). 4) HTML5 This new standard for HTML will allow web browsers to be told how to do backflips and jump thorough hoops that previously third party browser plug-ins handled. Check out what can be done with HTML5 in “The Wilderness Downtown “, an interactive film starring the streetscape where you grew up (if you put in that address at the start). It does lots of neat video tricks and you can check out the HTML5 canvas element when you get an opportunity to write a postcard to … well, you’ll have to watch the film to find that out… 5)  Positive Tweeting in September .  Kat Clancy, Library Web Developer at Deakin University, who gave a great presentation at last week’s VALA meeting about m-libraries had a bright idea last night. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:07:51 +0100 868473 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/G-jKJin15WE/ “Well, after much thought I decided it was best to not do our biweekly podcast any more. Just too much work and not a lot of return – SO, I developed this. I’ll be doing more of these and posting them to the SC State Library’s YouTube channel. Enjoy!” [via Libraries & Life] South Carolina State Library, realisiert mit Screencast-o-Matic, engl., 1:54. (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:19:44 +0100 867864 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/G-jKJin15WE/ “Well, after much thought I decided it was best to not do our biweekly podcast any more. Just too much work and not a lot of return – SO, I developed this. I’ll be doing more of these and posting them to the SC State Library’s YouTube channel. Enjoy!” [via Libraries & Life] South Carolina State Library, realisiert mit Screencast-o-Matic, engl., 1:54. (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:19:44 +0100 867804 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2010/aug/31/scott-pilgrim-control-gaming-world Edgar Wright's intriguing attempt to align film-making with more fidgety media suggests that the task is hopelessCinema is very much a "sit-back" medium. It insists on entrapping you in a darkened space, force-feeding you a pre-assembled product and monopolising your attention for up to a couple of hours. Once, that would have been no problem. People were happy to sit through hour-long sermons or even stand through three-hour speeches when nothing more amusing was on offer. Then things changed.Empowered by new opportunities, the vulgar herd sought to seize control of their entertainment experience. Comic books, which could be read at the bus stop or under the schoolroom desk, zapped the three-volume novel. Now, people select their own Twitter feeds and compose their own tweets. They organise their own viewing on YouTube, and create much of it, too. Videogaming, perhaps the archetypal sit-up, take-control medium, enables the consumer to become the hero of his or her own narrative.Cinema still has its attractions. At least it offers a refuge from your partner's prattle if you have to go out on a date. Increasingly, however, conversation can be combined with texting or Facebooking, so a beloved's blather is no longer quite so irksome. Understandably, film-makers have begun to fear for the big screen's future. For a while now, they've been looking to more fidgety media to see what they can purloin.Thus, plot and character have increasingly made way for incessant action and frantic cutting; but direct pilfering from competitive territory has also become routine. Comic-book and videogame protagonists have been pressed into the big screen's service. Yet up till now, the essence of the plundered media has not been successfully translated. Conscripted heroes have been teleported into traditional movie formats; the singular environments on which their appeal depended have had to be left behind. Because of this, the benefits of these transfers have been limited. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:02:09 +0100 867842 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/sad.html San Jose lesbians and feminists mourn loss of Sisterspirit In its heyday, Sisterspirit Books was the place for lesbians and feminists to go in San Jose. It was the place to meet like minds, a place to buy books and videos they couldn't get anywhere else, or simply revel in the comfort of being together in a world that went out of its way to make them feel there was no place for such things -- or no place for such people. "There were no places like this when we started," said Margie Struble of San Jose, who has been a volunteer and guiding force at Sisterspirit for 24 of the 26 years it's been open. "Many people met their partners here." But now after a quarter of a century, Sisterspirit will be closing its doors for good, another victim of online sales and mainstream bookstores.Another small, independent bookstore down the tubes, and one that found its niche among a community where it thrived. I feel like going over to Sqecial Media. Its eclectic collection is probably the closest thing that we have in Lexington to this type of store; it has carried books on topics such as paganism and homosexuality long before the mainstream stores did, and they've been going since 1972, mixing books with interesting gifts. Unfortunately their hours don't line up with my work hours and bus riding very well. But I hope they survive the current crisis in bookselling. Thanks to RTeeter of LISNews for the link. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868368 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/ILX3I0XBlmE/blekko_explains_itself_exclusive_video_update_exclusive_invite.php blekko: how to slash the web from blekko on Vimeo. Blekko is a new search engine that fundamentally changes a few key assumptions about how search works. It's not for lazywebbers - you have to pretty much be a motivated search geek to really leverage blekko's power. But then again, there are literally hundreds of thousands of such folks - the entire SEO/SEM industry, for example. I've been watching blekko, and the team behind it, since before launch. They are search veterans, not to be trifled with, and they are exposing data that Google would never dream of doing (yes, they do pretty much a full crawl of the web that matters). In a way, blekko has opened up the kimono of search data, and I expect the service, once it leaves private beta, will become a favorite of power searchers (and developers) everywhere. The cool thing is, using blekko's data and (I hope) robust APIs, one can imagine all sorts of new services popping up. I for one wish blekko well. It's about time. And in case you are wondering what the big deal is, besides all the data you can mine, to my mind, it's the ability to cull the web - to "slash" the stuff you don't care about out of your search results. Now, not many of us actually will do that. But will services take that and run? I certainly hope so. For a quick overview of blekko's core feature - "slashtags" - check out the new video, above. And to bone up on the various merits of the service, here are a few key links: Blekko: A Search Engine Which Is Also A Killer SEO Tool (SEL) TechCrunch Review: The Blekko Search Engine Prepares To Launch (TC) A new search engine Blekko search: first impressions (Economist) Blekko's Tools Give Search Marketers Google Alternative (MediaPost) Update: First 500 readers get a beta invite! Email battelle@blekko.com to get in on it! (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868071 http://baileylibrary.blogspot.com/2010/08/did-you-know-bailey-library-has-cameras.html Did you know Bailey Library has cameras and audio equipment for loan to patrons with a valid SRU I.D? Some of the items available include: hard drive video cameras, digital still cameras, tripods, microphones, and headphones. These items can be found in the laptop room in the basement of the library. Laptop room hours are: Sunday 1PM-10:45PM, Mon-Thur 9AM-10:45PM, Friday 9AM-4:15PM, and closed on Saturdays. Items may also be returned to the first floor Circulation desk during hours when laptops are closed. See the library website for more information: http://www.sru.edu/academics/library/directory/Pages/cameras.aspx (Source: Cites & Bytes @ Bailey) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867992 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/krBD9MdGOF4/online-publishers-growing-display.html This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue - Ed.For millions of online publishers—from the smallest blogger to the largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. When publishers can maximize their returns, everyone benefits from more vibrant online content and websites. But the pace of change in the industry can be intimidating—how can a publisher keep up with what’s new, let alone grow their business?We believe that the new technology we’re developing to make display advertising work better will help to grow the display advertising pie for all publishers, by orders of magnitude. We shouldn’t be asking how publishers can eke another 5 or 10 percent out of display advertising in the next few years. We should be looking at how the industry can double or triple in size.We’ve previously described our three core display ad products for publishers:AdSense, which places the most valuable, relevant ads on our partners’ websites, without the publishers having to sell the ad space themselves;DoubleClick for Publishers, our ad serving platform, which maximizes the value of ad space that publishers have directly sold themselves; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a real-time auction marketplace, which maximizes large publishers’ overall returns, by "dynamically allocating" the highest value ad, whether directly sold, or indirectly sold through an ad network.I wanted to highlight the key principles guiding our future product innovations in this area, as we work to help all publishers maximize their online ad revenues.1. Making life more efficientFor most large publishers, directly sold ads (ads sold by their own sales force) comprise the vast majority of their ad revenues. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867982 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/google-roundup-google-voice-a-mess-google-readers-new-full-screen-google-and-more/ + Google Voice Is A Hot Mess Right Now (by Michael Arrington, Techcrunch) ++ See Also: Google Voice: 5 Truths Behind the Hype (by Kristin Burnham, CIO) + RSS: Google Reader Now Offers a Full Screen Mode; New Trends Page (via Google Reader Blog) + Google & AP Extend Long-Term Content Deal (by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land) + Google Scoops up Fifth Company This Month (Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service) Today they acquired Canada ’s SocialDeck. Other Acquisitions in August: Angstro; Slide, Jambool, Like. + Report: Google’s YouTube To Offer Streaming Pay-Per-View Hollywood Rentals (by Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service) + Google Translate gets better definition with new interface (Chad Catacchio, NextWeb) + A Video Show From Google Highlights Hot Topics (Nick Bilton, Bits via NY Times) + Google-ITA Deal Gets Closer DOJ Scrutiny (via IDG News Service) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:55:10 +0100 867693 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/new-imagery-added-to-the-commons-nasa-internet-archive-and-flickr-launch-historic-image-collection/ From the Announcement: Three compilations of images from more than half a century of NASA history are available for comment on a section of the photo-sharing site Flickr known as The Commons. Visitors to NASA on The Commons can help tell the photos’ story by adding tags, or keywords, to the images to identify objects and people. In addition, viewers can communicate with other visitors by sharing comments. These contributions will help make the images easier to find online and add insight about NASA’s history. The capability to interact with these already-public photos is the result of a partnership between NASA, Flickr from Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco. Three sets of photos share a common theme of NASA beginnings. The “Launch and Takeoff” set captures iconic spacecraft and aircraft taking flight. “Building NASA” spotlights ground-breaking events and the construction of some of NASA’s one-of-a-kind facilities. The “Center Namesakes” set features photos of the founders and figureheads of NASA’s 10 field centers. Access the NASA Collection via The Commons [Clip] Through a competitive process, NASA selected the Internet Archive in 2007 to organize a comprehensive online compilation of the agency’s vast collection of photographs, historic film and video on the NASA Images website. Launched in 2008, NASAimages.org provides hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of hours of video, HD video and audio content available free to the public for download. “Sharing important assets like NASA photography is the core mission of the Internet Archive. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:52:55 +0100 867695 http://kairosnews.org/generation-quotborn-into-web-20quot-char I'd thought I'd throw out some characteristics of my son's generation rather than wait for ten years or so to see how they represent themselves in a Pew and American Life study. He's almost eleven years old. His is the generation that was born into Web 2.0 and other advanced digital technology. I know this isn't true for all kids his age (and it may be more true for boys--I don't know), but it's fun to imagine: Many of them would rather take videos than still pictures. They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has put up a video on YouTube. They either have themselves, or have a friend close in age, who has been in a YouTube video. They have their own computer, or at least one that is shared with siblings and not the adults in the family. They share websites and videos they find on the Internet. They have email accounts and send and receive email on occassion. They have played an MMORPG designed for kids along with other kids in their school. My son and friends at school, boys and girls alike, play Wizard 101. They have mobile phones and have sent and/or received text messages. Some are used to watching television and/or movies without commerical interruptions, and they will prefer the use of a DVD, Blueray, DVR, Tivo, or Netflix on demand to avoid commercials. They have more than one game system, at least a DS and a console unit. Cable television is not their sole, primary form of digital entertainment. Video games and the Internet have a strong, competing role for their attrention. Mp3 players are the primary music listening device that they own. Radio is something they listen to in the car when there are no CDs, the DS is not with them, and they forgot the mp3 player. It's the electronic media of last resort. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:15:31 +0100 867774 http://ppld.org/blogs/ppld/?p=1683 Purchase an All Pikes Peak Reads 2010 title, or other books, music, and movies you’ve been looking for during the Barnes & Noble Bookfair, Sept. 4 – 6. A percentage of sales will support PPLD. You can also purchase online during the bookfair at BN.COM/bookfairs (use Bookfair ID 10259836 at checkout). When: Sept. 4 – 6, 2010, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m. Where: Barnes & Noble, 1565 Briargate Blvd. Please present this printable voucher prior to making your purchase. A percentage of the net sale will be contributed to the Pikes Peak Library District Foundation.* *The purchase of gift cards, Barnes & Noble memberships, textbooks, video games, digital devices including nook, purchases made at Cafés owned and operated by Starbucks and other items Barnes & Noble may exclude from time to time in its sole discretion are not included in bookfair totals. Institutional discounts may be applied. See BN.COM/bookfairs for more details and to shop online. (Source: The Blog @ ppld.org) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:32:00 +0100 867999 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/yoV2LAmymQc/ Late last week you would remember how I put together a blog post where I started collecting a number of the Daily #iPad Apps that I keep sharing across over in Twitter, for those folks who may be potentially interested. Also as a good reference for myself, i.e. as part of my own personal knowledge sharing experience, so that I can keep going back and forth over time and see what I may have shared and what not, just in case I may need it for a future reference. Then, my good friend Barry Leiba mentioned, in the comments, how he would be “interested in reading more about specifically HOW the iPad fundamentally changes your online interactions and experience“. Thus I thought I would go ahead today and put together a blog entry where I could share with folks my top 10 reasons why the iPad has changed my computing habits and overall Internet experience for good with no looking back! It’s going to be a rather interesting experiment, where I am sure I’m going to fall short on words on what it actually means for me, specially when not paying much attention to the tools and applications themselves, but more how I interact with the device. I know that some of those reasons will also surprise a bunch of folks out there who may have a perceived different persona of me than who I actually am, but I think that overall, it will help set the stage as to why I have finally fallen for the iPad as perhaps one of my last mobile devices I will own for a good while. A long one, actually. Thus without much ado, here are My Top 10 Reasons Why I Bought a 3G 64GB iPad, back while I was in Boston, in June, attending the Enterprise 2.0 conference event (Yes, I couldn’t buy one over here in Spain after having visited 18 shops!). ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:29:36 +0100 867964 http://gnomicutterance.livejournal.com/50138.html A friend to whom I will refer as Jules Léotard recently pointed me towards this lengthy video which is the product of Focus on the Family's "True Tolerance" program.Direct URL / Video in accessible playerThe video points parents towards the stealthy methods those "sneaky" homosexual activists are using to get into the schools, such as devious, wicked anti-bullying campaigns. (The fact that 23.2% of students who have been bullied at school because someone perceived them to be queer attempt suicide is apparently irrelevant to these people, who provide a [PDF] "model anti-bullying policy" which is not intended to prohibit expression of religious, philosophical, or political views. Presumably including "you're going to hell for being gay.")Anyway, their list of [PDF] devious homosexual agenda books you might find in your school makes me sad, because the only thing in there that counts as fantasy or science fiction is Uncle Bobby's Wedding. Is that really the state of homosexual agenda children's and YA books in F&SF? Hero, Cycler, and some albeit adorable queer guinea pigs? (I'm exaggerating. Somewhat.)It doesn't work that way in my mind, where I forget that Tally Youngblood never hooked up with Shay; that it was just subtext in King of Shadows; that none of those gay best friends in paranormal romances are the main characters. This is a good time of year to remind myself that for all I am used to seeing the intense social conservativism in fantasy, I mustn't discount the strong strain of it in science fiction.Also a good time of year to make the time to read Ash. *goes to request from interlibrary loan*(This is mirrored from an original post at Dreamwidth where there are comments. You can leave a comment here or over there. (Source: Ramblings on Librarianship, Technology, and Academia) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:03:19 +0100 867710 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/08/30/energy-101-videos-learn-more-about-the-basics/ Via EERE’s Energy Savers blog. Okay, so we already pointed out the Energy Basics Web site last week. Because I’m going to talk about something on the site, I wanted to remind you all of what it is: a brand new Web site on EERE that talks about the basics of how energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies work. A little place to find out the “What is it, and how does it work?” nuggets of information, basically. But I wanted to point out something in particular: the Energy 101 series of videos! There are two so far, although more will be posted in the future. The two that are there now,Wind Turbines Basicsand Concentrating Solar Power Basics, provide extremely easy-to-understand, entry-level introductions to the two technologies they cover. So if you need to learn the gist of how something works in just a couple of minutes, be sure to give them a look! The site in general has a ton of information that introduces you to everything from renewable energy to buildings to industry to vehicles, but since we told you about that last week, you hopefully already gave it a glance! (Source: Environmental News Bits) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:01:50 +0100 867775 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/UmL752V5Kqw/ (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:49:36 +0100 867761 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/89SaXZr7V4Y/ Open Culture (a wonderful blog that deserves your full attention if you’ve never visited) and led by Dan Colman at Stanford U., has started compiling a collection of free textbooks available on the web. The post mentions to check back often to find new titles. Hopefully, as new titles are added they can be easily found by including an “added on” date or perhaps placed in the collection and on a separate list, with the date added also included. From the Open Culture Text Book Post: Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions. Access the Collection of Free Textbooks You’ll find links to a MANY other free resource on the site and while IT IS included in one several past ResourceShelf posts, we will once again mention the Online Books Page from John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania is a wonderful place to find FREE full text books from many different sources and collections. The homepage currently says it contains 40,000 titles but our guess is that it is much larger as the 40K number hasn’t changed in several months as new titles pour in. We would also suggest that the “New Listings” page is not only a tribute to Ockerbloom’s hard work but a resource that should be looked at often. New titles are added several times a week (most weeks). Amazing! Look at how much was added from a huge number of sources and collections in just last week. “New Listings” even has its own RSS feed. Two More Favorites That We’ve Mentioned Many Times: OpenLibrary and WatchKnow First, the great work that George Oates and the team at the Open Library are doing. They’re building a database of free books and other material (bibliographic data) very powerful but easy to use. One click and you can quickly limit your search to only e-books. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:23:30 +0100 867541 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/30/raymond-hawkey-obituary Top graphic designer who revolutionised the look of newspapers and book coversRaymond Hawkey, who has died aged 80, was one of the most innovative, influential and imitated graphic designers of the second half of the 20th century. As design director at the Daily Express in its prime in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later at the Observer until the mid-70s, with his introduction of banner headlines, using a simple photographic line technique and sans serif fonts, he not only revolutionised the look of newspapers but also changed the course of the visual culture in Britain.In 1962, while at the Daily Express, Hawkey was asked by the writer Len Deighton, an old friend from Royal College of Art days, to design the cover for The Ipcress File, his first thriller about Harry Palmer, working-class antihero – who was still unnamed. The book's publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, were appalled when they saw Hawkey's Ipcress design – a photograph of a Smith & Wesson revolver, bullets, a cracked War Office canteen teacup and a stubbed-out cigarette. They refused to pay him more than 15 of his 50-guinea fee for his "disgusting" illustration. Deighton made up the rest. Shot with a technique known as "high-key", the cover would later be regarded as one of the key moments in design history.The book became a huge success, and Hawkey went on to create some of Deighton's most memorable covers, including Horse Under Water (1963), Funeral in Berlin (1964) and Close-Up (1972, about a fading Hollywood star). Hawkey spotted Deighton's scribbled recipes in his kitchen, "tidied them up, advised me about the graphics and took them to the Observer," Deighton recalled. They became a popular "cookstrip" feature for many years; and for Hawkey's cover of Deighton's The Action Cookbook (1964), the Ipcress revolver reappeared with a sprig of parsley in the barrel. He later designed covers for Kingsley Amis, Frederick Forsyth and others. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:25:11 +0100 867642 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/u-s-congress-information-another-new-set-of-enhancementsresources-now-available-on-thomas-third-revamp-in-2010/ From a Blog Post by Andrew Weber via In Custodia Legis (Law Librarians of Congress) Blog: Here are Some of the New Features Available on THOMAS that Mr. Weber Mentions: + Directory of State Legislature Websites For U.S. States and Territories Kudos to Christine Sellers from LLOC + Versions of the Site Optimized for Various Mobile Devices + At the bottom of the left hand column, links to social media from Law Library of Congress (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and iTunesU.) + Speech Enabled Links at Very Bottom (the Footer) of Most Pages: Info Here + Also at Very Bottom of Most Pages: All Ways to Connect Link (Listing of all LC’s Social Media Resources, Mobile App, etc.) + Note: Legal Research Issues? Assistance Harnessing the Power of THOMAS? Legal/Legislative Research Problems? Don’t Forget the “Ask A Librarian Service” from the Law Library of Congress. Complete Details Here. Direct to THOMAS Sources: Law Library of Congress, Library of Congress See Also: Many New Enhancements are Now Live on THOMAS (June 2, 2010) See Also: Happy 15th Anniversary to THOMAS (January 8, 2010) See Also: Several New Features from THOMAS Available for the Second Session of Congress of the 111th Congress (January 6, 2010) See Also: A Holiday Letter from the Law Librarian of Congress, Roberta Shaffer (January 6, 2010) In Addition to the Blog Post, Here’s the Full Text of the News Release More After a Click THOMAS Releases Third Major Update in 2010 Just in time for the return of Congress from August recess, THOMAS has undergone its third major enhancement of 2010. Building upon the enhancements made in January (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/whatsnew.html) and June (http://thomas.loc.gov/home/whatsnew062010.html) the latest enhancements add a mobile friendly homepage, integrate features from the Library of Congress and Law Library of Congress websites into THOMAS, and add a new portal to state legislature websites. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:12:55 +0100 867561 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/meta-collection-free-textbooks-online-and-a-few-other-favorite-freebies/ Open Culture (a wonderful blog that deserves your full attention if you’ve never visited) and led by Dan Colman at Stanford U., has started compiling a collection of free textbooks available on the web. The post mentions to check back often to find new titles. Hopefully, as new titles are added they can be easily found by including an “added on” date or perhaps placed in the collection and on a separate list, with the date added also included. From the Open Culture Text Book Post: Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions. Access the Collection of Free Textbooks You’ll find links to a MANY other free resource on the site and while IT IS included in one several past ResourceShelf posts, we will once again mention the Online Books Page from John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania is a wonderful place to find FREE full text books from many different sources and collections. The homepage currently says it contains 40,000 titles but our guess is that it is much larger as the 40K number hasn’t changed in several months as new titles pour in. We would also suggest that the “New Listings” page is not only a tribute to Ockerbloom’s hard work but a resource that should be looked at often. New titles are added several times a week (most weeks). Amazing! Look at how much was added from a huge number of sources and collections in just last week. “New Listings” even has its own RSS feed. Two More Favorites That We’ve Mentioned Many Times: OpenLibrary and WatchKnow First, the great work that George Oates and the team at the Open Library are doing. They’re building a database of free books and other material (bibliographic data) very powerful but easy to use. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:41:38 +0100 867562 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/V5glbwdfiLs/ This Saturday, I drove about 30 miles west of Springfield to visit the Gay Parita Sinclair, a restored period filling station in Paris Springs, just west of Halltown, Missouri on old Route 66. Several huge photo blow-ups of the place hang on the wall in the breakroom at TeleTech where I work, in keeping with the building’s “Route 66” decor theme. It was only last week when I googled it that I realized I had actually driven right past it without even noticing it twice while on my way to Carthage. I guess I’d mentally filed it as “just another gas station” without realizing. So as penance, this time I drove out there specifically to see the place. While I was there I happened to notice, amid the shelves of period and Route 66 memorabilia, a couple of old Brownie cameras. “I used to have that camera,” I said, pointing to the one on the right. “You don’t look that old!” the lady who was showing me around (the daughter of the Sinclair’s owner) said. And it’s true, I wasn’t that old. But the camera was. My first childhood camera, when I was very young, was a Kodak that shot on 127 film. I wish I remembered the exact name of the camera so I could google it; I’ve tried to find images of 127 film cameras online but none of them looked familiar. I think it must have been twenty years or so old even then, or ten at the least—it had that kind of late fifties, early sixties design sensibility to it. I didn’t have a flash so I could only take pictures outdoors, and my parents only bought me black and white film because color was more expensive. But I took a number of pictures, and had a number of pictures taken of me. (Yes, that’s a very little me at right. That’s how old I was when I first had that camera.) My second was that Brownie Hawkeye, the same model as in the photo above. I no longer remember where it came from, whether it had belonged to my Dad when he was a kid or if he just found it in a second-hand store. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:15:00 +0100 867543 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1332218.html I just watched the Emmy's "Born to Run" piece on YouTube. For those of us who haven't watched much TV in the past year: who was the girl who jumped out of the dressing room and who was the guy riding the clothes rack? I think I can place everyone else (except maybe the other guy twirling the clothes rack, who was later hidden by Tim Gunn waving). (Source: BentleyBlog) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:44:29 +0100 868665 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/lOKzxRd12Qg/    1. Smashwords Smashwords continues to kick goals in self-publishing. In an increasingly crowded market, I just don’t think you can beat Smashwords for ease of use, price (you can’t do better than free), and distribution. Fling your words to Smashwords, and you’ll quickly end up with an ebook in multiple formats, playable on all devices, and distributed to iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and the Diesel eBook Store. Soon they’ll be adding Amazon to the already impressive list. The website could use prettying up, but this offering is the best one-stop-shop free solution out there. Other services include Lulu, Scribd, iUniverse and Amazon Digital Text Platform, but none of these has the reach, ease of use, low price, and cross-platform openness of Smashwords. NB: As an experiment, soon I’ll be self-publishing something I have up my sleeve, and monitoring both what distribution channel sells how much, and whether ebook beats pbook. More on that soon. 2. Pages ePub export via iWork Last week, Apple updated its popular iWork suite of applications,  allowing self-publishers to export their words in ePUB format from its Pages word processor. It was a small update – iWork 9.0.4 to be precise – but potentially an important one for publishing. There’s even a Pages template for use in creating an ePub document that you can get here. Given that Pages can now give you ePUB and PDF, this means you can spread your work everywhere, including Amazon’s Kindle Store (via their Digital Text Platform, above). Liza Daly, of digital publishing consulting firm Threepress Consulting, has a very thorough review on her blog. In it she delves all the way down into the CSS it creates and the OPF file. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:07:53 +0100 867550 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7733 State: Illinois The Librarian, Career Resource Centers (CRC) responds to thousands of requests for information from students and alumni. This position is responsible for research, development, and delivery of career research materials and instruction for 3,200 students enrolled in the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth) full-time and part-time MBA programs in Chicago, London, and Singapore and more than 40,000 alumni worldwide. The Librarian plays a key role in the transfer of knowledge and ideas by providing students and alumni with access to a wide range of information to facilitate their career advancement efforts including frequent instructional programs on the relevant research tools. This individual manages all aspects of both the Harper and Fisher CRC’s, supervises CRC staff, and works with departmental colleagues to develop complementary and collaborative programming to enhance the overall success of Career Services. The Librarian determines the overall vision and strategy for the CRC’s, including physical space, staff, new resources, and new programs. This person develops and continually monitors best practices. In addition, the Librarian is expected to acquire, maintain, and apply expert knowledge of resources and disseminate that knowledge to relevent constituencies via one-on-one consultations, presentations, and the web (or other forms of media). Lastly, this individual coordinates resources and relationships amongst the Harper CRC, Fisher CRC, Regenstein Library, Computing Services, Faculty, other Booth departments/centers, and Career Services team. PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. As the librarian, determine overall vision and strategy for the CRC’s including physical space, staff, new resources and new programs. Develop and continually monitor best practices. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:20:04 +0100 867339 http://lisnews.org/audio/download/37501/LISTen-118.mp3 This week's episode is a quick look at last week's zeitgeist, highlights of the "slushpile", and an editorial from Mike Kellat, the owner of Erie Looking Productions. A related commentary released online by Ontario public broadcaster TVO from commentator Jesse Brown connected to the editorial can be found here directly as an M4V video file. Due to communications complications the audio payload was originally uploaded over GPRS via a Nokia E71x. Cable broadband is having issues locally apparently relative to throughput. Related links: Matt Welch on FTC regulating online reviews The Ohio News Network on teen texting Nielsen on mobile phone usage stats Keith Cowing at NASA Watch about the reach of nasa.gov The results of the tool Cowing referenced concerning nasa.gov turned to oclc.org instead Gnash Release Leo Laporte versus Social Media Leo Laporte on the Google Buzz bug (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:45:04 +0100 867284 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/okay-i-had-to-subscribe-to-their.html Joe.My.God. posted a video from Current's 'That's Gay Salutes' on his blog and I watched several of them. They're great. On the subject of coming out: On 'conversion therapy': There's others, like Texas fighting to keep two married gays together and the woman who wanted her money back when her church started doing gay marriages. Joe put up the one on Focus on the Family. Each segment takes clips from shows and provide humourous commentary. Okay, anti-gay types probably wouldn't find them humourous. But I don't care. I find them hilarious. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/prp5gTR_ie0/arcade-fire-meets-html5.html What would a music experience designed specifically for the modern web look like? This is a question we've been playing around with for the last few months. Browsers and web technologies have advanced so rapidly in the last few years that powerful experiences tailored to each unique person in real-time are now a reality.Today we’re excited to launch a musical experience made specifically for the browser. Called “The Wilderness Downtown”, the project was created by writer/director Chris Milk with the band Arcade Fire and Google. Building this project on the web and for the browser allowed us to craft an experience that is not only personalized, but also deeply personal for each viewer. “The Wilderness Downtown” takes you down memory lane through the streets you grew up in. It’s set to Arcade Fire’s new song “We Used to Wait” off their newly released album The Suburbs (which you may be familiar with, especially if you were one of 3.7 million viewers who live-streamed Arcade Fire's concert on YouTube earlier this month). The project was built with the latest web technologies and includes HTML5, Google Maps, an integrated drawing tool, as well as multiple browser windows that move around the screen.“The Wilderness Downtown” was inspired by recent developments in modern browsers and was built with Google Chrome in mind. As such, it’s best experienced in Chrome or an up-to-date HTML5-compliant browser. You can launch the project and learn more about it on our Chrome Experiments site at www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire.We hope you enjoy it.Posted by Aaron Koblin, Google Creative Lab (Source: Official Google Blog) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867986 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/XkQQqIJQB7k/23-walls-of-googley.html A couple months ago while visiting our London office, I noticed a really cool Google logo on the wall. It was a mosaic of photos of London that had been created by a product manager named Clay Bavor and a team of Googlers (in fact, Clay wrote about it). As a few of us admired the wall, we thought there must be other Googlers who could create something equally cool and fun. So we cooked up a little contest for the product management team: create your own version of a “Googley Art Wall” and the team with the best entry wins a nice dinner out and a donation to the charity of its choice.When we announced the contest, we weren’t sure if we’d get enough entries to make it interesting. Within minutes of seeing the announcement, however, Lorraine Twohill (head of marketing) and Claire Hughes Johnson (head of online sales) both asked if it was OK for their teams to enter too. Soon Googlers from offices and teams around the world were doing their best to create beautiful, creative and Googley “art walls,” on small budgets and their own time.Seven weeks later, 23 teams from 12 offices across eight countries submitted videos and photographs of their work. The entries were so universally good that the judges couldn’t limit themselves to picking just one winner. The grand prize went to “Rubik’s Cubes Galore!”, a giant Google doodle meticulously composed of 850 Rubik’s Cubes, created by practically the entire Taipei office. We also named four runners-up: from Mountain View, a “Periodic Table of Google Elements,” a colorful collection of facts and stats about Google and the Internet arranged as a giant periodic table; the “Google Paris Metro Station,” a Metro stop built right inside the Paris office; the “Shanghai Interactive Wall,” a magnetic wall with 63 moveable tiles; and in Dublin, the “Google FoosWall,” a super-sized foosball table with handmade players that spell Google. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867985 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogs/distlib/~3/l5MvZEP9wyY/a-couple-of-screencasting-links.html Michael Steeleworthy posts his opinions on Camtasia vs. Captivate vs. the Organization.  I'm not sure where the Organization part comes in, but he makes some interesting points about why he gives Captivate a nod over Camtasia.  Personally, I don't care about the file size, which seems to be his biggest concern with Camtasia, 'cause I recommend hosting the output on YouTube, which offloads that issue to their servers. Over on Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Olivia Bautista Sparks has an article called Five Minute Screencasts -- The Super Tool for Science and Engineering Librarians, which of course is useful to all librarians.  In addition to providing links and tips, she has several short examples of screencasts she's built for orientations, reference consultations, class instruction, and full instruction loads.  Also check out her LibGuide on screencasting at http://libguides.asu.edu/screencast. All of the tools she examines are freebies. I believe I owe thanks to Stephen Francoeur's shared Google News items for both of these links. (Source: The Distant Librarian) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867711 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16751 Hi Christa, I'll try to help. I use Final Cut Studio (Apple) and Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows) for editing, and both are expensive compared to say, iMovie. However, the Flip camera uses a weird, proprietary codec (3ivx) instead of an industry-standard one. The Flip camera should have included conversion software to be installed on a computer that will allow you to convert the Flip's raw footage into footage you can view and edit. You can download the free software to convert the footage here: http://www.3ivx.com/download/windows.html You didn't say what operating system your library uses to edit these videos. Is it Windows XP, Vista, or 7? Or is it Mac OS X? Please let us know to continue to the next step. Thank you, Chuck On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Christa E. Van Herreweghe <Christa-wAVnqEDwZumE0PJsjfrGDg< at >public.gmane.org> wrote: (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867384 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002132.html Even if some heat has gone out of the library blogosphere, there is still a fair amount of reading and writing going on. I was asked recently what I tended to look at, going beyond the well-known bigger names. Here are some of the blogs that came to mind - some others also come to mind, but they don't sustain the reasonable amount of output that these do. Go to Hellman Personanondata eFoundations The Book of Trogool Overdue ideas Synthesize, specialize, mobilize Martin Hamilton's Blog HangingTogether Bibliographic wilderness The Arcadia Project blog Many of these are written from within a library perspective. Some dip into libraries from other perspectives. Personanondata, by Michael Cairns, covers the book industry more generally. Martin Hamilton, who is responsible for Internet Services in the IT services division at Loughborough University, is a recent blogger with a nicely reflective style. My former colleague Eric Hellman pulls together his science, business and technical experiences to provide some of the most interesting commentary on our changing environment. And Andy Powell and Pete Johnston at eFoundations combine technical pieces about metadata with more general discussion of education/information in a networked environment. And then there's ...... (Source: Lorcan Dempsey) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:56:00 +0100 867605 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/29/teenagers-language-music-world Writing 11 novels for teenagers gives you a special insight on their world, from their use of language to their taste in fashion1Teen rebellions involving clothes dyed black with Dylon, sausages rejected as "meat is murder" or hair backcombed into a landmass don't shock parents now. The most shocking act of rebellion a little caucasian agnostic girl from Penrith could pull is a flash conversion to Islam, before swishing down to Londis wearing full niqab. Inshallah, you are so grounded.2Scores of inner-city kids live their lives on what must feel like a giant Pac-Man grid, being chased by enemies whenever they leave home. As adults we underestimate how stressful this is. I began writing comedy for teens as there's no bigger demographic who need a laugh. A joke about how many Rimmel nail colours one can fit in a thong and still run from Superdrug security guards goes a long way.3The idea that teens today have a looser sense of morals is rubbish. For every 15-year-old smashing up the swings in the park, there's another sat piously at home writing complaints to the BBC about bad language and posting my novel back to the publishers, incensed over the word "fartface" on page 34.4Teens don't want adults speaking their language, but a basic working knowledge goes a million miles when writing for them. Many adults are pompous, lazy sorts who write teen fiction in which the kids speak like mini-Michael Goves and never MSN or BBM as this would involve the author researching it. Words you should know but never use include: Wa'gwan? Tonk. Choong. Brap. Brare. Slippin. Wack. Bruv. Blad. Emosh. Par. Wasteman. Allow it. Buff. Peng. Owned. Merked. Shottin'. Beef. Giving me jokes. Airing. Bedrin. Blates. Totes. Bless. Diss. Boi. Ufff. KMT. Bustin. Chirps. Va-jay-jay. Cotch. Fam. Crunk. Cuzz. Dark. Deep. Endz and, of course, the delightful Clunge. (Need a translation? See below. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:29:54 +0100 867264 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/29/history-canada-online-archives-canadian-national-exhibition-films-photos/ From The Star Article: Almost unknown are countless reels of 16mm film housed at the archives of the Canadian National Exhibition, and a treasure trove of colour images made when black and white was how we stored most of our memories. Thanks to Youtube, and digitization that is now being funded by EMC Heritage Trust, much of the footage and photos are seeing the light of day. The CNE’s film collection, dating as far back as the 1920s, shows a moving “evolution of a city and its people,” says film archivist Christina Stewart, heading the digitization project. The films, including home movies which have been donated, show entertainers like Bob Hope and Duke Ellington on the grand-stand; the various midway attractions; dog swimming races and the Mayor’s Bathtub Races; and the then-latest products unveiled by jowly captains of industry. [Clip] Until Stewart’s arrival three years ago, the films had long been neglected. Many of the reels were spliced together using inferior tape, and the adhesive spread over the film. Before the digitization process could begin, Stewart cleaned the reels, ridding them of the gooey residue. Other damage was simply caused by the effects of time. One of the earliest surviving films, CNE 1929, processed on the odour-emitting diacetate film, shrunk over the years, making it nearly impossible to transfer. Looking at the frames through a magnifying glass, we see a majestic fireworks display showing giant images of King George V and other royalty. “It’s a far cry from what you see today at Harbourfront on Canada Day,” says Stewart. Access the Complete Article Access Archived Material on the Web at: CNEarchives.com and www.youtube.com/CNEArchives Source: The Star (Toronto) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:13:51 +0100 867566 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/29/sacramento-public-library-another-new-mobile-app-from-boopsie/ Yes, another California public library has gone mobile with the help of Boopsie. This it’s the Sacramento Public Library. Visiting Saclib.Boopsie.com (in a non-mobile browser) will take you to an info page. Entering the same URL into your mobile browser will direct you to the proper site or page to access the native app or web app. iPhone users can also go to this page in the iTunes Store where the app is available for download. Free. Note: We tried accessing the iPhone app by using the boopsie.com URL listed above but instead of redirecting us to the iTunes store to download the app, we were redirected to a “mobile app” version. We will look into this ASAP. Some of the Features the Sacramento Public Library App includes: + A Library Locator (Uses GPS if Available) + New Books, New DVD’s, New Audiobooks, New Downloadables (e-Books) and Other Categories + Contact Info (Including Text a Librarian) + Access to the Library Catalog (Note the “Smart Prefix” Feature, Results Change as You Type) You can also use Smart Prefix to type with fewer letters. For example, Lib o cong will return Library of Congress material. + Access to Social Media from the SPL Including: YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook This has sure been a busy time for Boopsie. In the past week or so along with the Sacramento launch, we’ve also see new services for the: + San Jose Public Library (iPhone App) + Los Angeles Public Library + Central Rappahannock Regional Library (Virginia) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:49:24 +0100 867198 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1331826.html What teachers make. Taylor Mali on what teachers make http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxsOVK4syxU&NR=1. "Taylor Mali, slam poet, gives his mind on what teachers make." (Post a new comment). About. Contact · Advertise · Jobs · Site News ... (Source: Google Blog Search: Bentleyblog blogurl:http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:54:49 +0100 867236 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/6Cwnf4MK1zs/3095-google-adds-regular-phone-calls-to-gmail.html Google has not let its recent setbacks (the closing of Google Wave comes to mind) stop it from launching new services. Google wants to be more than your search central. It wants to be your communication hub, becoming your one-stop place for interaction with friends and colleagues. This is why it launched Google Buzz, a kind of Facebook/Twitter social web tool based on your Google email account, and this is why it now attacks VoIP phone service Skype by turning Gmail into a regular phone. All you have to do is to install a voice and video chat plug-in, and you can use your computer’s microphone, loudspeaker and — if needed — video camera to communicate. And yes, a dedicated head set with mike is useful. Now, Google’s voice and video chat has been around for a while, but its usefulness has been limited. You could only connect with others having a Gmail account. Now US users of Gmail can call anyone with a phone anywhere in the world. The Google Blog says: “Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed at our very low rates. We worked hard to make these rates really cheap (see comparison table) with calls to the U.K., France, Germany, China, Japan—and many more countries—for as little as $0.02 per minute.” So far Google Buzz hasn’t made much of an impact on the Facebook crowd. May the Gmail phone make Skype users switch to Google? We doubt it, but Gmail users who have not been using Voice over Internet services before, may start using Gmail Phone, and that will tie them even closer to Gmail as their default communication tool. That would in itself be a success for Google. Google reported that they had clocked 1 million calls made through Gmail during the first 24 hours. SMX West: March 2-4Go to California! (Source: Pandia Search Engine News) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:25:48 +0100 867569 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/mKrrvGq9AK0/3110-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-august-29-2.html And then they were two… This week the world lost another search engine giant. Yahoo! in the US and Canada has switched over to using the Bing database, and the rest of the world will soon follow. This means that the North American market is now totally dominated by Google and Bing. This does not mean that Google and Microsoft have achieved global domination, though. Yandex is, for instance, the big player in Russia and Baidu is dominating the Chinese market. Still, this does not bode well for search engine innovation in what we used to call the Western Hemisphere. There are no alternative big search engine players left in Europe any more. Here are some other search engine headlines we have found interesting this week: Google Adds A Filter For Finding Blogs SE Land New Awesome Ways to Search within Current Site (Using Google’s site operator) SE Journal Has Google Purged Places Of Yelp? All Signs Point To Yes TechCrunch Google Realtime Search Gets Home Page, Conversation View, Alerts & Geosearch SE Land Google News Changes Again, Adds Collapsible Right Side SE Roundtable Bing’s Market Share Up 51% In Past 12 Months SE Land Google’s Latest Buy – Like.com Confirmed! PageTraffic Yahoo! Transitions Organic Search Back-End to Microsoft Platform Yahoo! switches over to Bing search results in the US and Canada. Twitter hashtags: quick guide Phil Bradley 4 Cool New Gmail Features You Should Know Search mail and docs, sign into multiple accounts, and more; Google Tutor Facebook, Twitter and Youtube Marketing. Hourly rates $15 to $25. (Source: Pandia Search Engine News) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:23:24 +0100 867570 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/wOwYfiyZeuU/de-pornoindustrie-en-het-web.html Als je erover nadenkt is het best vreemd, dat mensen die zich bezighouden met de invloed van internet op de economie, cultuur en kunst, maar zelden parallellen trekken met de pornoindustrie. Die grote industrie is van meet af aan een van de pijlers waar het (commerciële) web op rust, maar is tegelijkertijd een van de grootste slachtoffers van het enorme gratis aanbod van content op het web. Als je wilt weten welke kant het opgaat met de uitgeefwereld en alle andere tussenpersonen in de handel en cultuur (van reisbureaus tot bibliotheken, van makelaars tot de detailhandel), doe je er goed aan ook te kijken naar de ontwikkelingen in de pornoindustrie. Tot diep begin jaren '80 was porno voorbehouden aan de seksshops, de uitgevers van pornoblaadjes en de gelukkige particulieren die beschikten over een filmprojector. Met de opkomst van de videorecorder rukte porno ook op in de woonkamer. Bijna 15 jaar lang was het in veel videotheken het bestverhuurde genre. Toen ik eind jaren '90 in een videotheek werkte was het dat in ieder geval nog steeds. Toen breedband internet gemeengoed werd stortte de industrie in. Kennislink heeft een aardig artikel over dat onderwerp. Door het aanbod van 'gratis' wordt er veel minder verdiend aan porno. Het gekke is dat de statistieken over de pornoindustrie tegelijkertijd indrukwekkend en teleurstellend zijn. Er wordt ontzettend veel porno gekeken (vooral op zondag blijkbaar) maar in de lijst van meest bekeken websites wereldwijd komt lijstaanvoerder Pornhub niet verder dan een 53e plaats, en nr. 2, YouPorn, niet verder dan de 61e plaats. Denk je vervolgens eens in: YouPorn heeft meer dan 1,2 miljoen unieke bezoekers per dag, die gezamenlijk dan zo'n 16,5 miljoen pagina's bekijken (bezoekers van pornosites schijnen gemiddeld zes minuten 'te blijven hangen'). Toch lukt het de eigenaar maar niet om de website te verkopen, omdat het verdienmodel niet in orde is. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:48:00 +0100 867197 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16750 We have acquired 2 Flip video cameras and I'm looking for an easy to use, FREE (if possible), software to edit our movies. They are MP4 format and we used both cameras to record an event and I would like to use the best of each movie. This is not my area at all so as idiot proof as possible. If you have something you really like that isn't as easy to use, I'm willing to learn. Thanks for any advice/suggestions. Christa Van Herreweghe IT/Reference Librarian University City Public Library 6701 Delmar Blvd. University City, MO 63130 314.727.3150 www.ucpl.lib.mo.us (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867235 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/5KG_-_16IwI/4050 OpenScholar A full-featured web site-creation package solely for the academic community. Scholars create web sites in seconds and can easily manage everything themselves (for free) tags: academic drupal opensource CMS CoLab | Open Source Science Designed for open and massively collaborative science. tags: science open opensource Lightspark Lightspark is a modern, free, open-source flash player implementation. tags: media opensource Boxee Movies, TV Shows and Video from the Internet on your TV. tags: media mediacenter tv opensource Contacts for Firefox With Contacts, we’ve enhanced your browser by making it aware of your online contacts and friend lists. You can then search and browse your contacts in the browser, and a website can ask for permission to access them through an API. tags: mozilla contacts opensource firefox KompoZer KompoZer is a complete Web Authoring System that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing capabilities found in Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe DreamWeaver and other high end programs. tags: opensource web-development web-design webdesign webdev Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:37:27 +0100 867927 http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/29/deborah-feldman-hasidic-once-upon-a-life Brought up in a strict Hasidic community in New York, Deborah Feldman could only dream of lipstick and jeans, cigarettes and playing the piano. So what happened when, in her twenties, she renounced her religion?I grew up in the black-and-white section of Brooklyn, New York. The men in my family wore black hats, black coats and white shirts, they studied black-and-white books and said bright colours were the work of the devil.I read books, too, but they were in English, not Hebrew, and they came from the forbidden public library, and in their black-and-white pages I was introduced to a foreign, exciting world. The spicy redhead in Anne of Green Gables charmed me; the genders in Little Women kept getting mixed up, but I fell in love with the androgynous Jo regardless; and although Dickensian English did not read easy, I muddled through its glorious convolutions nonetheless.Because I read books in English I knew I was a bad girl. In a black-and-white world you can either be bad or good. A Jew or not a Jew. There is no in-between. Maybe I didn't wear red nail polish like a shiksa gentile, but I was peeking into an evil world, living vicariously in it through fictional characters. Break a rule and you're automatically on God's blacklist. My grandfather used to say English was an impure language and to employ it in any way would mean employing Satan himself as commander of my heart. There was no doubt that my heart was already thoroughly blackened by the time I was 10 years old.I doubt it came as a surprise to anyone that I left the Hasidic community. Like my zeidy predicted, I became seduced by the devil. It started with the small things: clear nail polish, subtle eyeliner, a ride on the subway. But then I wanted to see the world, wear jeans, drive a car, learn how to play the piano – all of which were impossible dreams for a woman of my circumstances. Obviously the books worked. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:09:48 +0100 866786 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/aug/29/the-girl-who-played-with-fire-film-review As gritty as its predecessor, this second Stieg Larsson adaptation takes us deeper into the dark heart of SwedenThe mammoth popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, an epic exposé of Scandinavian corruption, is not the sudden, unexpected event it appears to be. The fuse was lit long ago. In 1961, Kathleen Nott, the British novelist, public intellectual and frequent contributor to the Observer, wrote an influential book on Sweden called A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, representing the country as a colourless, complacent, over-organised state run on rational lines that had robbed people of personal identity. Her view was as widely shared as it was wide of the mark. Because beneath the orderly surface that had been created since the Social Democrats came to power in the early 30s, there had always been a seething sense of injustice, of discontent and paranoia, ready to erupt at some time in the future.One sees it in the controversy over the life and death of the millionaire Swedish industrialist Ivar Kreuger, financial genius and fraudster, and the model for Graham Greene's sinister business tycoon Krogh in his 1935 novel England Made Me. Kreuger committed suicide in 1932 in mysterious circumstances; many suspect he was murdered by powerful conspirators. Similar controversy surrounds the disappearance and death of Raoul Wallenberg, scion of a leading Swedish family, abducted by the Russians in 1945 while helping Jewish refugees in Budapest and never seen again. It is widely believed that for political reasons the Social Democrats failed to put pressure on the Soviet authorities to discover his whereabouts.Things came to a head publicly and an age of innocence was seen to have ended when the prime minister, Olof Palme, was murdered in 1986 and the investigation bungled by the Stockholm police. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:05:59 +0100 866787 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Video_Book_Review Too much reading to do? Get your book review fix by video. Here's Ron Charles of the Washington Post reviewing "My Hollywood" by Mona Simpson: (Source: pligg - all) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:00:20 +0100 866693 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/025069.html Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this related news {inclusive of video link]: "Using a cutting... (Source: beSpacific) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866907 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/7XD_qc2rPIg/ A couple of days ago, in another blog post, I mentioned how, just recently, I, finally, managed to get my hands on an iPad. This time around the 3G 64GB model, which I have been hunting down for a while now. Right from the moment I saw it, I knew that device would change completely the way I would interact not only with the Web and various social networking sites I use on a regular basis, but also with a good bunch of different applications. So, with that spirit, I thought, why not share those favourite applications across, as perhaps other folks may be able to benefit from them just as much as I am doing myself. After all, there are just so many out there that it wouldn’t hurt the odd recommendation, don’t you think? Well, this is the purpose of this blog post: i.e. to share those recommentations. My favourite #elsuapps! Actually, this is not something new! Back when I first got my 3G iPhone I used to share across in Twitter, on a daily basis, my favourite iPhone app under #elsuapps! Now, since we all know how wonderful (NOT!!) the Twitter Search engine is, since you can no longer track those recommendations, I thought this time around I would do a bit more of curation on such job and keep track of things slightly better. So now, I am, indeed, still sharing the Daily #iPad App, but instead of relying on the Twitter search, I actually subscribe to its own feed and have got those suggestions available in my feed reader. So I thought what a better way of sharing those recommended iPad apps than using my own blog over here to store them on a weekly basis and open up, from today, a weekly series of blog posts where I will be talking, very briefly, about those various applications I have been enjoying on my iPad for a while now. No, I am not going to share them all in one single post. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:02:34 +0100 867965 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/FBYjPTh_zJ0/ I ran across this map of the Social Networking World while looking for something else and I thought I would share it with you.  I am not sure what I would use it for other than for fun, conversation, and a possible PowerPoint slide. In other words perfect for a Friday post. 2010 Social Network Map by Flowtown  The map was created by Flowtown as an updated tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities.’  The size of the countries/continents reflect the millions of users, for each service (as shown by the scale at the bottom of the image). It is kind of fun to look through and laugh over a few things like the YouTube Triangle of Viral Videos or the Death Valley of John Mayer Tweets.  One thing I find a little interesting is Google Wave is missing, wouldn’t that be in the Land of Defunct Social Networks, or perhaps should it be the Dried Lake Bed of Google Wave within the Empire of Google?  Just thinking aloud.    Tweet This Post (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:19:29 +0100 866495 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/27/six-week-trial-to-sage-journals-online-coming-very-soon-as-company-completes-migration-to-next-generation-platform/ The migration of 560 journals to the next generation of SAGE Journals Online using the H20 platform from HighWire is complete. From the Next Generation Info Page What’s New? + Journal and society branding – home page designs will include greater prominence of journal titles and association logos, names and links to society sites. + Browse, advanced search and alerting features – expanded discipline functionality across 40+ categories. + Abstract preview – mouse-over entries available from tables of contents and search results provide instant pop-up previews of abstracts, without leaving the page. + Tag-along navigation – content feature options follow alongside as you scroll down the article page. + Feature hideaway – author affiliations, related links, and other optional functions can be expanded or hidden from view; these preferences are retained throughout a session. + Popular-articles list – Most Viewed and Most Cited articles lists are readily available from all pages within a journal site. + Content architecture, hosted in industry-standard, NLM metadata format. + Redesigned SJO portal– provides targeted options and improved navigation for all types of users. Free Trial to Sage Journals Online Begins September 1, 2010 To mark the successful migration, SAGE is offering a six week free trial to the next generation of SAGE Journals Online starting September 1st. Visit http://online.sagepub.com September 1st for further information. See Also: Information Page (with screen caps); User Guide; FAQ; Training PPT; Instuctional Video (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:42:41 +0100 866416 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/rpYgfMQEuAQ/its-book.html In the interest of full disclosure on a Friday afternoon I will preface the remainder of this post with; I love Lane Smith's books. Some of my favorite titles are John, Paul, George, and Ben, Madam President, and Big Plans. That list does not include his work with Jon Scieszka such as The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Math Curse, and best of all, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. So it is not all that unusual It's a Book was recently added to the library's juvenile collection.MacMillan Children's Books has a YouTube channel. Here's It's a Book:It's a Book is a comical and accurate view of the books verses media debate narrated by a mouse, a jackass, and a monkey. A technology focused jackass consistently questions the monkey reading a book about its various "functions." The patient response to every question asked is, "No, it's a book." Illustrations are crisp, clean, and colorful; a double page spread detailing hours passing as jackass becomes fully involved reading monkey's book is classic. Mouse has the final word in this argument, and therein lie the questions this book seems to be gathering.Reviews have been mixed for It's a Book; while School Library Journal listed it as a starred review (Gr. 3-5) in their August 2010 issue, others have disagreed. I've added it to the collection of titles to be used during a Mock Caldecott session after Labor Day. I am deeply curious how a group of pre-service teachers will view the book, illustrations, use of the word jackass (as opposed to donkey), and how or if it would fit into a classroom.Other issues aside, wouldn't the video make a great ice-breaker for a library instruction session? (Source: Library Cloud) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:31:00 +0100 866419 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/hsGjLQB03bU/ Gizmodo’s Kat Hannaford has a piece indicating that LG is planning begin “mass producing” flexible e-paper screens in both 9.7” color and 19” monochrome sizes. While the prospect of color e-ink continues to be enticing (especially if they can solve the refresh rate problem to let it show video), Hannaford admits to being fascinated by the larger-sized monochrome screen. Weighing in at 130g and measuring 0.3mm thick, it could provide a basis for the newspaper-sized e-newspaper reader that Plastic Logic’s Que turned out not to be. Of course, price and battery life are going to be important factors in how widely-adopted readers using these screens will be. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:15:00 +0100 866396 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/27/a-useful-and-fast-moving-resource-for-those-who-stream-movies-tv-from-netflix/ You’ve likely heard by now that you can now stream thousands (if not more) movies and tv shows instantly to your iPhone and iTouch if you have a NetFlix subscription (even the least expensive one). These two new outlets joint the iPad and other tools allowing you to stream direct to a TV or computer. Today, we simply wanted to share a resource (it’s free) that might be of interest to you, those you work with, and or users. Basically anyone who watches movies streamed by Netflix. What is it? An RSS feed. This RSS feed will show each title that’s available to stream as SOON as it BECOMES AVAILABLE. In the past two days, we’ve seen at least 250 titles added. To access the RSS feed, go to: http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS Here’s a Look at of Some of the Most Recent Additions to the “Watch Instantly” Collection {"pipe_id":"196f4870f85aee9d54eff3593afb296c","_btype":"list"} If you prefer, we’ve also set up a web page with the RSS feed that you will can use and will update as new titles are added (that’s RSS). However, it does not show the complete list of new titles. The best way to see that full list is to subscribe to the feed and get an entry for each title. Perhaps a combo will work best. The web page is at: http://www.resourceshelf.com/45086/ Finally, this is just one of many RSS feeds Netflix offers. The complete list is available here. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:51:11 +0100 866417 http://lisnews.org/video_book_review Too much reading to do? Get your book review fix by video. Here's Ron Charles of the Washington Post reviewing "My Hollywood" by Mona Simpson: (Source: LISNews.org) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:31:59 +0100 866379