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, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:25 +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://hhsmedia.blogspot.com/2009/04/virtual-college-campus-tours.html schoolWe will miss our seniors, many of whom will be going off to college next year. For those of you who are starting to think about college, YouTube has launched a new page for you! According to the most recent MICCA (MD Instructional Computer Coordinators Association), the page "...aggregates all the videos from more than 100 institutions of higher education around the United States. The site serves up campus tours, free lectures, research and other college news all in one place. Search queries can be limited to the EDU part of the site as well. The videos could genuinely help young people make informed decisions about what schools to apply to. There’s also a lot of great content on the site for anyone to learn from." Click Here to Visit Web Site (Of course, you'll have to do this from home... sorry!)Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com (Source: Huntingtown High School Library Media Center) Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 727072 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/fAryTOoZko4/dave-eggers-zeitoun-hurricane-katrina Abdulrahman Zeitoun is the real-life hero of Dave Eggers's new book. In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina he paddled from house to house in a canoe, offering help to his neighbours. For his trouble, he was arrested as a suspected terroristSaturday afternoon and the Zeitoun household is bustling with activity, as you quickly get the impression it always is. Kathy Zeitoun, dressed in a blue silk shirt and matching hijab, is fluttering around making spiced pumpkin-flavoured coffee and answering the constantly ringing phone. Noises emanating from four of her five children bubble up like broth from the back room where they are watching Kung Fu Panda on a giant flat-screen TV. Kathy seats me in the neat and orderly living room, which is dominated by cream leather sofas and a watercolour of a street scene from her husband's native Syria. Beside it is a framed 3D model of the Qur'an.Gradually, out of this domestic pleasure dome, telltale signs emerge of the calamity that struck the Zeitouns almost five years ago. An outside wall of the house is stained with a faint but still clearly discernible line at about shoulder height, a record etched in paint of where the flood waters settled."Most of the time I don't think about what happened at all," Kathy says, as she pours the coffee. "Until I step out on to the street – then it all comes back to me."In recent days Kathy has been forced to think back a lot on the events leading up to and following 29 August 2005, when hurricane Katrina ripped through her city of New Orleans, breaching its levees and immersing much of it, including her home, in several feet of water. The reason for her current preoccupation is the publication of the new book by that one-man literary factory Dave Eggers, whose best-known previous work is the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.The book, entitled Zeitoun, is, as its name suggests, a very personal telling of a national tragedy. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:00:03 +0100 825528 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/SLtC66g4-_8/ Comparto algunas notas y la grabación de la charla sobre religión y la psicología de Carl Jung: Contrario a Freud, quien consideraba la religión como una ilusión, Jung mantuvo que la religión es esencial para la salud mental. Sobre este aspecto expresó lo siguiente: “Entre todos los pacientes que están en la segunda mitad de vida, no hay ninguno cuyo principal problema no sea religioso”. Por un problema religioso se refiere a un problema de significado que implica el buscar una razón por la cual vivir. Jung entendía que el rechazo del impulso religioso es la base de la neurosis de nuestro tiempo. Por esta razón, se dedicó durante varios años de su vida a escribir acerca del rol de la religión en el desarrollo humano. Para Jung la actitud religiosa debe estar basada en el conocimiento y no en creencias, en la experiencia y no en la especulación abstracta. Es por eso que considera que aquella religión que se basa en dogmas y artículos de fe es una que estanca y no le facilita a sus seguidores el verdadero desarrollo espiritual. Cada persona tiene que relacionarse a lo sagrado de manera auténtica y única ya que no existen fórmulas preconcebidas que dicten el camino que nos lleva a conectar con lo numinoso. Es por esto que expresa: “Yo no puedo creer en lo que no conozco y no necesito creer en lo que conozco”. Jung concibe la psique como esencialmente “religiosa”. Para Jung la religión es una observación cuidadosa de ciertos factores dinámicos que son concebidos como “poderes”: espíritus, demonios, leyes, ideas, entre otros. La actitud religiosa nos ayuda a experimentar la dimensión de lo “numinoso”; aquello que es independiente de la voluntad del individuo y tiene una fuerza de atracción significativa. Se utiliza para describir a las personas, cosas y situaciones que tienen una resonancia emotiva profunda. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:16:34 +0100 825640 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/72ZxM43bLnk/ Nick Hampshire, Senior Analyst, mediaIDEAS Expect prices to drop to $50 by 2020. Color display technology development will be especially important and will replace black and white displays by 2015 and by 2020 95% of all displays will be color. Flexible displays will replace rigid displays and will allow the reader to be rolled or folded. Will fall into 3 categories: rigid displays; bendable displays, which will be seen this year; rollable and foldable displays, and will take 7% of the market by 2020. 30% ereaders will use multiple wireless communication technologies. Ereaders will begin to communicate among themselves as well as to content systems. Input technology will move to multi-touch display and expect it to be standard interface by 2020. Content formats will change. Currently have 38 different content formats. Main battle will be between PDF, xml based and Flash. By 2020 all the formats will be xml based. Current epaper displays will be phased out. Expect reader sales to reach 25 billion in 2020. By 2012 will diverge into a family of ereader prices with different designs and displays depending on content requirements. Will be 4 categories: rollable and foldable, under 9″ size; conventional ebook ereader with display under 9″; newspaper ereaders with large monochrome displays and will be used for paper replacement of all types and have monochrome displays; magazine reader with an over 9″ color display. These won’t appear until 2013 with bendable displays and after this introduction by 2015 they will overtake other displays and will dominate the market by 2020. So by 2015 the multiple classes of ereaders will start to converge again. Current iPad not designed for ereading and it is an afterthought: poor battery life, poor display in sunlight, heavy and fragile displays. The dedicated ereader will probably disappear and will be replaced by a tablet based portable computer that is also suitable for ereading. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:58:18 +0100 825600 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/11/the-coalition-for-networked-information-cni-now-has-a-twitter-feed/ The CNI Twitter feed went live the other day and can be found at: http://twitter.com/cni_org. From an Email Announcement: CNI’s Twitter stream will complement the CNI-ANNOUNCE listserv and CNI News feed services, and is not intended as a replacement for them. For the most complete information about CNI’s activities and programs, please continue to monitor either CNI-ANNOUNCE or CNI News. We will be posting updates regarding the upcoming spring membership meeting using the hashtag #cni10s and we encourage others to do the same. See Also: CNI’s YouTube Channel Source: Coalition for Networked Information (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:15:25 +0100 825629 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/34gl-KqY1dg/ Tech review maven Walter Mossberg has posted a review of the Irex DR800SG e-book reader. This reader costs $140 more than the Kindle e-reader and is compatible with the Barnes & Noble store among others. Mossberg was not terribly impressed, pointing out a number of areas where its design and user interface could use improvement. In observation of Read An E-Book Week, DriveThruRPG and White Wolf are offering a free watermarked-PDF download of the 224-page World of Darkness rulebook (list price $24.99) for as long as the week lasts. Enjoy! A recent survey shows that 90% of academic publishers have seen a growth in e-book sales over the last two years. E-book sales now make up almost 10% of total e-book sales in those markets—twice the level of e-book sales in general. Academic publishers have apparently been much quicker to adapt to the e-book market than trade presses. The survey found that academic publishers were also relatively unconcerned about the various challenges presented by the shift towards digital books. Although piracy was one of the biggest concerns, [report co-author Laura] Cox said very few publishers thought of it as a serious problem. It appears the next smartphone platform to receive a Kindle reader will be Android. jkOnTheRun reports on an Engadget posting of leaked documents from Dell stating that the Dell Streak (aka Mini 5), an Android device, will include a Kindle reader application (as well as several other Amazon services). Sony is bringing more newspaper and magazine content to its e-book store. Probably in a bid to strengthen its position before the iPad arrives, ReadWriteWeb reports, it is adding 20 new papers and magazines, including the New York Times and Boston Globe. (Sony press release here.) Google is slowly conquering Europe. Or at least Europe’s great libraries. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:15:00 +0100 825603 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/DggRFapYFww/the-kreutzer-sonata-review Danny Huston stars in another intelligent film transposing Tolstoy to LA. By Peter BradshawBritish-born director Bernard Rose, known as a horror specialist for his 1992 shocker Candyman, is showing some stunning form with his modern adaptations of Tolstoy. After a conventional account of Anna Karenina, Rose brought off a brilliant version of The Death Of Ivan Ilych in 2000; set in modern Hollywood, and entitled Ivansxtc, it starred Danny Huston as Ivan, the agent and Tinseltown power-player, confronting the awful truth about his approaching death. Now Rose has adapted Tolstoy's novella The Kreutzer Sonata, again starring Huston, again set in contemporary Los Angeles. The result is bold, brilliant and exhilarating: an intimately horrible, sexually explicit and black-comic portrait of a toxic marriage that is closer to the spirit of the original than any number of costume dramas. It is not merely a study of jealousy and obsession, but a profoundly pessimistic and nihilistic rejection of romantic love and sex itself – which, in a world without God, is the ultimate blasphemy.Huston plays Edgar, a very rich man in early middle age, whose worldly charm and sensuality attract a woman he meets at a party: this is Abby (Elizabeth Röhm), a beautiful and talented classical pianist, who is already in a relationship. Their passionate, clandestine affair leads years later to marriage, but Abby is discontented, having now given up music for children. To appease her, Edgar induces his private charitable foundation to host a benefit concert, so his wife will play Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata to a moneyed private audience, but she must therefore practise long hours with a handsome violinist: Aiden (Matthew Yang King). ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:50:00 +0100 825531 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/Ol23VfCTFYI/ Here is a video of HP’s new tablet. No release date has been announced yet. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:27 +0100 825608 http://lisnews.org/onion_nation_shudders_large_block_uninterrupted_text Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text "Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text...Dumbfounded citizens from Maine to California gazed helplessly at the frightening chunk of print, unsure of what to do next. Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words." (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:23:32 +0100 825570 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/11/2010-forbes-worlds-billionaires-rankings-released-bill-gates-moves-to-second-place/ The 2010 World’s Billionaires List has just been released and a new person (aka richest person in the world) tops the list. Carlos Slim Helú of Mexico is the new number one. His net worth is estimated at $53.5 billion. What about Bill? Bill Gates is now at number two with an estimated net worth of $53.0 billion. Access the Entire Package of Rankings and Related Material (including Articles and Video) Background/Introductory Article The Complete Rankings You can sort by name, citizenship, age, net worth, and country of residence. Slideshow of All List Members. Includes Picture and a Very Brief Bio. Top Ten Billionaires List 1. Carlos Slim Helú 2. William Gates III 3. Warren Buffett 3. Mukesh Ambani 4. Lakshmi Mittal 5. Lawrence Ellison 6. Bernard Arnault 7. Eike Batista 8. Amancio Ortega 10. Karl Albrecht Specialty Lists/Slideshows Note: The following are abridged versions of the various lists. Access the complete list by clicking on its title. + Asia’s Richest + Europe’s Richest + Latin America’s Richest + America’s Richest + Youngest Billionaires Marck Zuckerberg from Facebook is on this list. + Comebacks Mark Zuckerberg; Facebook is one of the members of this list. + Celebrities + Eligible Billionaires + Newcomers + Biggest Gainers Helú, Gates, and Warren Buffett are on this list. + Top Billionaire Cities + Homes Of The Billionaires The homes of Michael Dell and Steve Jobs are included. + Notable Drop-offs Omid Kordestani from Google did not make the list this year. He was very close. + World’s Richest Women Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Investments); Jacqueline Mars (Mars Candy), Anne Cox Chambers (Cox Enterprises (Newspapers, TV, Cable). ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:19:53 +0100 825453 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=TV_Video_and_Newspaper_Coverage_of_Boston_Public_Library_Public_--- TV (Video) and Newspaper Coverage of Boston Public Library Public Meeting. Yesterday, we posted about potential closing of several Boston Public Libr (Source: pligg - all) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:21 +0100 825477 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/03/thursday-thirteen-13-things-to-be-happy.html Have you ever seen the book "14,000 things to be happy about" by Barbara Ann Kipfer? I picked up a copy years ago at a used book sale for $1. She says for 20 years she made notes in her journals, beginning in 6th grade, and then compiled the "little things" for this book. So, for awhile I'm going to recall 13 things that made me happy beginning on the previous Friday, March 5.1) I found a new apple this week, Lady Alice, from Washington state. No one knows where she came from---she just "growed," and since I eat an apple every day I was thrilled to find one to fill in for my favorite, Honey Crisp.2) We had dinner with our friends Rod and Judi at the Worthington Inn. We enjoy their company, and hadn't been to that restaurant in probably 25 years. It was featured also in this month's Capital Style.3) It was sunny for days, 53 degrees on Monday, 58 Tuesday, 61 on Wednesday--warm enough to walk the neighborhood. We're so sunlight deprived in central Ohio, that people are almost giddy when the sun is out. 4) On my walks I picked up trash and replaced pieces of sod--both the result of deep snow being removed by the plows. Found a wheel cover and propped it against a wall so it could be seen--then 10 ft. further I found the emblem from the center of the cover and took it back to the cover and attached it.5) We're in the season of Lent. We're communion servers at our church UALC, which is a wonderful opportunity, and because of mid-week services, we serve more often than usual.6) Not exactly happy--but I did get a good laugh. My husband had scheduled a "paint out" for an art group which fell on our 50th wedding anniversary. He's president of the group. Yes, we've changed it (the paint out, not the anniversary)!7) The mallards are in love, mating and chasing each other around our street. Sort of cute, but you do have to be careful--the chase is slow and they aren't afraid of automobiles. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825414 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/tv-video-and-newspaper-coverage-of-boston-public-library-public-meeting/ Yesterday, we posted about potential closing of several Boston Public Library branch libraries. Today, a three reports about the meeting: 1) via Boston Globe “It’s outrageous that it has come to this,’’ said Yann Poisson of Dorchester. “Only a fifth-term mayor could dismiss libraries as a 21st-century anachronism, something that can be replaced by Yahoo or Google.’’ The library’s president, Amy E. Ryan, outlined a broad range of criteria that will be used to target branches for potential closing, including computer usage, handicapped accessibility, proximity to other branches, and the story behind each location. No decisions have been made. [Snip] Library administrators and [Mayor Thomas M.] Menino have talked about transforming the library for the digital age and moving services out of buildings by increasing offerings on the Internet and sending librarians to day-care centers and nursing homes. Yesterday Ryan referred to librarians as “information navigators’’ and compared the system’s current technology to an abridged encyclopedia, not a multivolume set. [Snip] But many in the audience bristled at the frequent references to technology. They spoke about their branches as refuges, gathering places, and focal points for their communities. 2) Video Report via WHDH 3) Video Report via WBZ Includes text transcript. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:29:17 +0100 825321 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/03/10/interview-court-ruling-will-not-affect-italy-ops-google/ Reuters – “A senior Google Inc. executive dismissed any impact on the company’s Italian business from a court ruling on a cyber-bullying case, as the company unveiled a deal with the Italian government to digitise books. A Milan court last month gave six-month suspended jail terms to three Google executives, convicting them of violating the privacy of an autistic Italian boy by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.” (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:57 +0100 825303 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/03/10/the-internet-in-america-a-youtube-interview-with-the-fcc/ White House – “If you’re reading this, then you’re probably on the Internet — via your laptop, your mobile phone or other handheld device, or maybe even through your television. But even in 2010, millions of Americans do not have access to the wealth of information made available on the Web. Even though the Internet was invented in the U.S. over 20 years ago, many Americans lag behind in both access to the Internet and speed of connections, which is why the Federal Communications Commission (or the FCC, the federal agency that regulates the U.S. communications industry) is launching its much-antipated National Broadband Plan next Tuesday, to lay out its strategy for connecting all Americans to fast, affordable high-speed Internet.” More here (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:57 +0100 825302 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/CIrgeWmXNSw/ My last post was a review of a paper by Patrick Lambe, and in this post I review yet another paper on the same topic. The point of this paper, called “Knowledge and Tragedy: or why we shouldn’t share knowledge”, is that sharing, even Just-in-Time sharing is not enough or a complete KM infrastructure, it’s the gap between knowing and acting that is often missing. We often read about the same thing related to Lesson Learned…which need to be transferred into Lessons Applied. The phrases below represent just a part of the KM program: “If only we knew what we know” “Right information, right time, right place” These quotes are good but they are a plea, or ideal situation…they seem to highlight more of the distribution and management aspect, ie. describing ideal information management, rather than knowledge management…see my post on informal IM vs KM for more on this. They are a starting point to get us thinking…but they don’t explicitly speak of real KM or the heart of KM ie. conversation/communication where queries and clarifications can be made, where information can be re-framed into usable contexts, and then applied becoming internalised as knowledge. From which the output is again information, only waiting to be re-mixed into knowledge for someone else. For more on this thinking see my post It’s not about knowledge sharing, it’s about engagement and context! Just-in-Time is only half of the story Patrick uses story as a way to explain and remember this concept. Artemidorus the philosopher passed on a note to Caesar “Just-in-Time” to avoid death…he gave him the note before Caesar entered the meeting hall where the senate were waiting to kill him (and indeed did). ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:39:07 +0100 825384 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/mbwnPzeteNU/sneak-peek-access-to-ethnographic-video.html "Just launched, it's Alexander Street's newest streaming video collection - Ethnographic Video Online. Quickly growing to include more than 1,000 of the most frequently used films in anthropology courses, Ethnographic Video Online includes classic works from the pioneers of ethnographic film, including Robert Flaherty, Timothy Asch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Jean Rouch, and many more—together with contemporary works by innovative filmmakers from around the world. Access it now, registration-free, through Friday, March 12" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:56:40 +0100 825261 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/google-announces-digitization-project-in-italy-updates-maps-with-biking-info-u-s/ First, Mountain View has announced that they’ve made an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and will work with the Rome and Florence National Libraries to digitize up to a million out-of-copyright works. The librarians at each library will decide what will be digitized. The Google news release also contains a comment about Europeana, a European Commission project to digitize cultural materials from around Europe. For those interested, this page lists the organizations participating in the Europeana program. According to their web site, they have six million items (images, texts, books, sounds, videos) digitized so far. In addition to Europeana there is also the European Library Material in this database comes from National Libraries throughout Europe. On the topic of other digitization in Europe, the Google Blog notes: Digitization of books is a tremendous undertaking, requiring the joint effort of a great number of public and private stakeholders. For this reason, we’re supportive of many other efforts at digitization, such as the European Commission’s Europeana. We want to see these books have the broadest reach possible — the books we scan are available for inclusion in Europeana, of which the Florence Library is a contributing member, and other digital libraries. The more of the world’s historical, cultural treasures we can bring online, the more we can unlock our shared heritage. Stay tuned. It will also be interesting to see what other digital library projects ask for access to the scanned content. See Also: Medieval Tomes Slated for Digitization (via AP) This article reports that works by Galileo will be included in the digitization. 2) The other news from Google is about Google Maps. Beginning today, biking directions are available. The company says this has been a very frequent request of users. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:37:52 +0100 825331 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/TthdAA_wS5s/google-italian-book-scan-deal Google and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage have reached an agreement to digitise up to a million out-of-copyright works at the national libraries in Florence and Rome, including some by Galileo.And it's just two weeks after an Italian court gave three Google executives suspended prison sentences over a video of bullying on YouTube that had been removed once the company was told about it. Google is not only to work closely together with the Italian libraries, but also with the Italian ministry of culture – the first time that the search engine has had a government department a such a close partner on such a project. Google called it a "groundbreaking deal". "The libraries will select the works to be digitised from their collections, which include a wealth of rare historical books, including scientific works, literature from the period of the founding of Italy and the works of Italy's most famous poets and writers," says Google's strategic partner development manager, Gino Mattiuzzo, in a blogpost announcing the deal.While the costs will be covered fully by Google, the company will pass the scans on. The books will be available to groups including the EU's Europeana project, which already has scanned 6 million digital items of cultural value. "We believe today's announcement is an important step, and we look forward to working with more libraries and other partners," says Mattiuzzo. Google has similar arrangements with Oxford University, Madrid's Complutense University, the Bavarian state museum and others. However, it's not clear whether Google is creating the world's biggest library or the world's biggest bookshop. Some fear the search engine is exploiting cultural heritage as a cheap context for advertising. Recently, a New York judge postponed a decision on whether the company should be allowed to display parts of books still in-copyright. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:48:42 +0100 825227 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/the-internet-is-nominated-for-nobel-peace-prize/ From the Article: The internet is among a record 237 individuals and organisations nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The number of nominations surpasses last year’s record of 205 nominations. The internet’s nomination has been championed by the Italian version of Wired magazine for helping advance “dialogue, debate and consensus”. [Snip] The nomination for the internet is supported by 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and the founder of the $100 laptop project Nicholas Negroponte. [Snip] It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win. Internet for Peace, set up to help support the nomination of the internet, says the prize would be “a Nobel for each and every one of us”. Access the Complete Article Source: BBC See Also: Internet for Peace Web Site See Also: Internet For Peace YouTube Channel (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:22:42 +0100 825334 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/n_n.html NASA has started archiving items from social networking sites. Currently it is backing-up all NASA Twitter content. Plans are to archive Facebook, YouTube and other sites in the future.NASA Images has teamed up with Archive-It (also a service of The Internet Archive) to ensure that all of NASA’s online activity will be preserved for future research, curiosity, and enjoyment. We have started by archiving 54 of NASA’s Twitter streams. These 54 streams will be updated once a month, archiving every tweet from every stream. The next step is to archive nasa.gov, including all subdomains, and all of NASA’s social networking activity (YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Ustream, MySpace). Take a look at the beginning of our conservation efforts in the NASA Images Social Networking collection on Archive-it. (Source: New) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:05:54 +0100 825518 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/03/10/the-story-of-stuff-is-now-a-book/ Annie Leonard, creator of The Story of Stuff, a wonderful 20 minute animated film about the life-cycle of everyday products, has turned it into a book. Read all about it at http://www.storyofstuff.com/book.php. See also her other film, The Story of Cap and Trade. (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:31:07 +0100 825400 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5981 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITYMarch 10, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media [1] [TODAY 3/10/10] Institute of Politics Forum Event Co-Sponsored by the Berkman Center: "Digital Governance -- From the State House to the White House" with Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO; Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Teri Takai: CIO, State of California Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/03/digitalgovernanceforum) [2] [TUESDAY 3/16/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Cyber-pluralism: Can We Get Along with Each Other in a “Splitting” Internet?" with Donnie, Hao Dong, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/03/dong) [3] [REGISTER NOW! 4/9/10] Conference: Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities, organized by the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic (http://www.omln.org/conference) [TODAY] IOP FORUM on DIGITAL GOVERNANCE==================================================================================3/10/10, 6:00PM, JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School Topic: Digital Governance -- From the State House to the White HouseGuests: Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO; Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Teri Takai: CIO, State of California Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS The Berkman Center will co-sponsor a panel discussion with chief technology officers and information officers from the White House, State of CA, and State of MA. Panelists include: * Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO;* Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts;* Teri Takai: CIO, State of California* Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:12 +0100 825360 http://dbl.lishost.org/blog/2010/03/10/will-what-worked-for-groucho-work-for-libraries/ Reading this Seth Godin post I had to contemplate the situation librarians have found themselves in as the type of experience the users want has shifted to low fidelity, high convenience. As it exists today the library experience is best described as mostly high fidelity. Our profession is urged again and again to change its practices to meet the current market expectations for information search and retrieval. We’ve heard that convenience trumps quality every time, and that we need to follow suit and go low fidelity. Godin almost perfectly describes this exact predicament in which we librarians find ourselves: Perhaps the most plaintive complaint I hear from organizations goes something like this, “We worked really hard to get very good at xyz. We’re well regarded, we’re talented and now, all the market cares about is price. How can we get large groups of people to value our craft and buy from us again?” Apparently, the bulk of your market no longer wants to buy your top of the line furniture, lawn care services, accounting services, tailoring services, consulting… all they want is the cheapest. The masses don’t want a better PC laptop. They just want the one with the right specs at the right price. It’s not because people are selfish (though they are) or shortsighted (though they are). It’s because in this market, right now, they’re not listening. They’ve been seduced into believing that all options are the same, and they’re only seeing price. In terms of educating the masses to differentiate yourself, the market is broken. At one time we certainly were the kings of information delivery. When our user communities needed anything beyond a basic encyclopedia, a phone call or visit to the library was standard practice. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:41:44 +0100 825185 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/03/10/studies-reveal-why-drinking-water-wells-are-vulnerable-to-contamination/ New USGS groundwater studies explain what, when, and how contaminants may reach public-supply wells. All wells are not equally vulnerable to contamination because of differences in three factors: the general chemistry of the aquifer, groundwater age, and direct paths within aquifer systems that allow water and contaminants to reach a well. More than 100 million people in the United States receive their drinking water from public groundwater systems, which can be vulnerable to naturally occurring contaminants such as radon, uranium, arsenic, and man-made compounds, including fertilizers, septic-tank leachate, solvents and gasoline hydrocarbons. The USGS tracked the movement of contaminants in groundwater and in public-supply wells in four aquifers in California, Connecticut, Nebraska and Florida. The importance of each factor differs among the various aquifer settings, depending upon natural geology and local aquifer conditions, as well as human activities related to land use and well construction and operation. Findings in the four different aquifer systems can be applied to similar aquifer settings and wells throughout the nation. Complete findings, fact sheets, maps and decision support tools are available. “Our findings can help public-supply well managers protect drinking water sources by prioritizing their monitoring programs and improving decisions related to land use planning, well modifications or changes in pumping scenarios that might help to reduce movement of contaminants to wells,” said Sandra Eberts, USGS groundwater study team leader. Research on the vulnerability of public-supply wells began in 2001. The USGS has also been working since 1991 to study the occurrence of more than 600 naturally occurring and man-made chemicals from more than 1,100 wells used for public supply across the nation. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:17:22 +0100 825150 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/03/10/nix-it-or-fix-it-a-how-to-guide-for-e-waste/ Read the full post at Practically Green. I have a cast-iron tub in the garage that contains one old computer monitor dumped on our lawn by some jerk last spring, a broken clock radio, and a broken VCR.  Inside, I have three plastic bins filled with functioning, but technically obsolete cameras, old cell phones, video recorders, old blackberries, at least five remotes, and lots and lots of cords.  We even have the “ornamental” computer—it still looks good sitting in the kitchen, but hasn’t worked very well for months.  We are a mountain of e-waste waiting to happen, especially with spring cleaning fever beginning to set in. The temptation is to dump it all at the town recycling center–and declare victory for managing to find it during the 4 hours it’s open on a weekend. But that doesn’t seem very green—so what to do? (Source: Environmental News Bits) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:09:04 +0100 825151 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/DVx4J_G44zc/ It’s March, which around here means March Madness, which means people discussing basketball everywhere you go and much surreptitious watching of television and listening to the radio (though nowadays it’s more checking a certain tab on your browser and checking your iPhone.) If you like the NCAA Baskeball Tourney, don’t mind limiting your interest to Sweet 16 games, and don’t want to delve into too much history, you’ll like the video in the NCAA Vault, available at http://vault.ncaa.com/. That’s a lot of qualifiers, isn’t it? The Vault’s cool, but it is limited to the men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament, Sweet 16 and up, years 2000-2010 only. I’m a bit disappointed in this because personally I like the first-round drama, but on the other hand the video that’s available on this site is sliced and diced in any number of ways. From the front page you can look at a variety of highlights (dunks, blocks, shots, great plays, etc.) or you can browse for different schools, alphabetically or by year. You can also search by player, which narrows down the list of available schools and years. What’s available is pretty impressive: you can watch entire games, or get the game highlights available in a series of clips. I didn’t even see a commercial on the video player (wow!) The NCAA vault has gone to a lot of effort to be social; you can link to individual highlights and post them to Facebook or Twitter. Games are “transcribed” into brief overviews or ridiculously-detailed play-by-play listings. The only problem I had with this site was that occasionally the videos would load a little choppily. It wasn’t a big deal when you’re looking at game, but sometimes a highlight wouldn’t load quickly enough to show properly. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:19:38 +0100 825409 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/qfjmfRiMcTE/ On the A List Apart website, Joe Clark has written an extremely good, extremely long essay on why HTML-based formats are becoming the new standard for e-books, and what needs to be done to clean that standard up. Clark points out that HTML “is great for expressing words”—and not just words in websites, but the form of words used for most fiction and some non-fiction books—what Craig Mod called “Formless Content”. Every e-book reader on the market can display some HTML-based formats—everything but the Kindle can do ePub, and the Kindle’s AZW format is just HTML-based in a different way. Of course, every format decision blocks off other avenues, possible roads not taken. Clark is not equivocal that in advocating adoption of HTML, he may be blocking off new forms of “book” that have yet to be invented. But on the other hand: I am happy to contribute to the death of “vooks” and other multimedia websites masquerading as books. (I do not want a rectangle of video yammering at me while I’m trying to read.) They’re like animated popunder ads in that no actual “user” wants them, but somebody with an agenda does. Exterminating that species is something to which I am proud to contribute. For other forms of books, advocating strict HTML markup will cause as-yet-unknowable harm. He then goes into details about problems that need to be solved in order for HTML to be successful as an e-book format of choice. The semantics have to be cleaned up and standardized, so that e-books can be created with valid HTML code. Also, production methods have a lot of room for improvement—especially the early generations of e-book created largely out of unproofed scans of paper books. Clark goes so far as to suggest that manuscripts should be written in HTML, then converted to Word for editing and change tracking, then passed to InDesign. (Though he does admit this point of view is “so optimistic as to be ridiculous. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:15:00 +0100 825317 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/XD6WXsjPxEs/frederic-raphael-talkative-novels From Petronius to John Steinbeck and Evelyn Waugh, the novelist considers books that have mastered the art of dialogue, ensuring that 'they always speak to us, not least between the lines'Born in Chicago but educated in England, Frederic Raphael is probably best known as the author of Glittering Prizes, and its sequel Fame and Fortune, both of which he adapted into acclaimed TV and radio series starring Tom Conti as writer Adam Morris. This month, he publishes a third volume in this series, Final Demands, which finds Morris contending with middle age and its discontents and which he has also adapted for BBC Radio 4.Raphael is also a prolific author of some 20 other novels, as well as history books, biographies and film screenplays. Last year he completed a strikingly contemporary translation of Petronius's Satyrica, (published by Carcanet, priced £12.99). Buy Frederic Raphael books at the Guardian bookshop"Dialogue brings a novel to life. It is possible to compose fiction without it, just as Georges Perec was able to write an entire book without using the vowel "e", but one had better be a genius to affect such forms of composition. And once is quite enough. It may also be possible to contrive great blocks of prose, in which landscapes are described and psychological states analysed as never before. But a writer who cannot make characters talk, and have their conversations require us to listen to them, is locked into airless formality. "Dialogue tells us what people say and it hints at what they do not. It encourages readers to bring a book to life by enticing their participation in it. They then supply their own reading of how loudly or softly, truly or falsely, words are exchanged. When a writer allows his characters to talk among themselves, he grants them their freedom. If only because the subconscious can then chime in, his premeditated scheme never wholly dictates what someone will say. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:19:28 +0100 825231 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/AfQadDMMWKQ/now-playing-apps-script-for-google-docs.html The Google Apps team here in New York City is a hotbed of movie fanatics. But while planning a recent movie night, we realized we spend too much time organizing our events and not enough time discussing, debating and watching movies.To take the hard work out of planning, we turned to Google Apps Script, which lets you write short programs that automatically perform simple actions within a spreadsheet. For example, our Movie Night script figures out which movies are playing close by and invites everyone to vote on what they’d most like to see.Google Apps Script has been available to Google Apps customers since January, and today we’re excited to bring it to everyone who uses Google spreadsheets. Apps Script can be helpful for all kinds of things, from customized party invites to sending out holiday letters — in fact Apps Script can be especially helpful for those repetitive, time consuming tasks.To help you find useful scripts, we’ve also launched a public gallery where you can check out our Movie Night script and browse other available scripts. If you’re feeling adventurous, try your hand at writing your own script and submit it to the gallery for others to use. To see the gallery or install a script in your spreadsheet, click on “Insert” and select “Script.”Check out the Google Docs blog for more information about Apps Script, and to learn about writing your own scripts, visit the Google Apps Developer Blog.Posted by Evin Levey, Product Manager, Google Apps (Source: Official Google Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825368 http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/2010/03/from-bling-to-bizarre.html I haven't blogged about a book in a long time, but this one called out to me big time. I've been happy to see Insect Museum, by Sonia Dourlot bopping off the new book shelf with great frequency. It is beautiful, stunning - but you can't let its subject matter put you off. Dourlot has created a spectacular field guide to 114 species of insects and other arthropods. Her photographs reveal every hair, every antennae, every one of those eye facets. Many of these creatures sport bling that would do well at the Oscars (though my scanned versions don't really do justice to their shininess). Metallic Wood-boring Beetle, Anthaxia hungaricaRuby-tailed Wasp, Chrysis ignitaGorgeous, dahling!On the other hand, many could star in a horror movie that might be shown at the Insect Fear Film Festival. Hazelnut Weevil, Curculio nucumI think I once had a boss who looked like thisBlack Leaf Beetle, Hispa atraDon't worry, this guy is only 2.5-3.7 millimeters long (Source: Gargoyles loose in the library) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825312 http://blogaboutmurphy.blogspot.com/2010/03/natioanl-consumer-protection-week-march.html This week is National Consumer Protection Week (March 7-13, 2010). To highlight the week the the Federal Trade Commission established a blog to educate consumers on such themes as Identity Theft, marketing, privacy and scams. There is even a short video on how to file a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission. (http://consumer.gov/ncpw/tag/federal-trade-commission)The blog is title "Your Ticket to National Consumer Protection Week 2010" and can be found at:http://consumer.gov/ncpw/ (Source: BlogAbout Murphy Library) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825284 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/03/whos-banning-laptops-from-the-classroom-and-why.html A generation ago, academia embraced the laptop as the most welcome classroom innovation since the ballpoint pen. But during the past decade, it has evolved into a powerful distraction. Wireless Internet connections tempt students away from note-typing to e-mail, blogs, YouTube videos, sports scores, even online gaming -- all the diversions of a home computer beamed into the classroom to compete with the professor for the student's attention. "This is like putting on every student's desk, when you walk into class, five different magazines, several television shows, some shopping opportunities and a phone, and saying, 'Look, if your mind wanders, feel free to pick any of these up and go with it,' " Cole said Professors (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825278 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/pIqo3lU26FU/youtube-calling-now-serving-ads-on.html (Cross-posted with the YouTube Biz Blog)Mobile phones are rapidly becoming essential tools for surfing the web, connecting with friends, and sharing and watching video online, and we're seeing these effects at YouTube. The YouTube mobile site is more popular than ever: site traffic grew by over 160% in 2009, and now millions of people all over the world are streaming tens of millions of videos every day on their mobile phones. The mobile space moves fast, so we've been working hard to roll out new features and functionality quickly, especially as more and more people adopt YouTube-capable phones.The increased usage of high-end devices like the iPhone and Android is also making mobile advertising easier and more effective for advertisers. So today, we're launching ads on the home, search and browse pages of the American and Japanese YouTube mobile websites (m.youtube.com from your mobile browser). This is a great way for advertisers to reach YouTube viewers across multiple platforms. In fact, at launch YouTube will immediately provide one of the largest audiences for a mobile ad campaign anywhere on the mobile web. And because YouTube mobile attracts early adopters, the site can deliver to advertisers a coveted demographic of tech savvy trendsetters. We've already seen some early campaigns run on YouTube's mobile site by advertisers like Sony (for the DVD release of "District 9") and Kia, both of whom were able to easily reach their target audience, no matter where they were looking for video.Our first tests of YouTube mobile ads — with brands ranging from L'Oreal to Land Rover — showed strong results related to click-throughs, user experience and brand awareness, and we've learned a lot in the months since then. As a result, ads on the YouTube mobile website will be banner ads sold on a full-day basis (like with the YouTube homepage on the web), making a mobile buy an easy and valuable addition to any YouTube campaign. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825236 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/t8h3MIjTXuE/internet-in-america-youtube-interview.html (Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)If you're reading this, then you're probably on the Internet — via your laptop, your mobile phone or other handheld device, or maybe even through your television. But in 2010, millions of Americans still do not have access to the wealth of information made available on the Web. Even though the Internet was invented in the U.S. over 20 years ago, many Americans lag behind in both access to the Internet and speed of connections, which is why the Federal Communications Commission (or the FCC, the federal agency that oversees the U.S. communications industry) is launching its much-anticipated National Broadband Plan next Tuesday, to lay out its strategy for connecting all Americans to fast, affordable high-speed Internet.After this plan is announced, you have the opportunity to interview FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, in the second of a series of in-person YouTube interviews with government leaders. (Our first, with U.S. President Barack Obama, took place last month.) Go to CitizenTube today to submit your video or text question via Google Moderator, and vote on your favorites; we'll bring a selection of the top-voted questions to Chairman Genachowski in our interview next Tuesday, March 16. The deadline for submission is Sunday night, March 14, at 11:59 p.m. PT.To help structure our conversation with the Chairman, we've broken the interview down into seven topics. To learn more about what the FCC is doing in each area, click on the links for each topic below. Then submit your question on CitizenTube under one of the topic headings.Access and AffordabilityMobile and WirelessSecurity and PrivacyDigital EconomyInternet in SchoolsOpen Internet/Network NeutralityOthers (learn more at Broadband.gov)Access to the Internet has transformed almost every aspect of our economy and society. This is your chance to press the FCC on how the National Broadband Plan will work, and ask your questions about improving the Internet in America. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825235 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/R8j84v0zYd0/finding-awesome-stuff-online-with.html I use Google Reader a lot — not only to stay on top of the news, but also to find interesting blog posts and articles. I’m always telling my friends about Google Reader, and while some of them love it, others don’t want to take the time to set it up. For those of you who fall into this second category, we’re announcing Google Reader Play, a new product that makes the best stuff in Reader more accessible for everyone. Reader Play is a new way to browse interesting stuff on the web, customized to the topics you’re interested in, with no setup required.Items in Reader Play are presented one at a time, and images and videos are automatically enlarged to maximize the viewing experience. We use the technology behind Recommended Items in Reader to populate Reader Play with the most interesting content on the web. While you don’t need a Google account to use Reader Play, your experience will be personalized if you sign in. As you browse, you can let us know which items you enjoy by clicking the "like" button, and we'll use that info to show you other content we think you’ll enjoy.We think Reader Play is a fun way to browse interesting items online that you wouldn’t find otherwise. We designed it especially for people who don’t want to spend time curating their own set of feeds — but folks who already use Reader can easily use it to read their feeds as well. Just click the feed settings menu on any feed in Reader and select “View in Reader Play.” We’re launching Reader Play as an experiment in Google Labs so that we can test it out, get feedback from you and then improve it as quickly as possible. Visit google.com/reader/play to give it a try, and let us know what you think!Posted by Garrett Wu, Software Engineer (Source: Official Google Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825234 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/03/surf-canyon-search.html The winner of About Websearch's 2010 Reader's Choice award for best search engine goes to Surf Canyon Search.  Don't worry if you've not heard of it, because hardly anyone else has either. This is what they say about themselves:"Surf Canyon develops "real-time search personalization," a technology that disambiguates the user's intent post-query, and, in real time, brings forward to page one the relevant results that might otherwise remain buried. By transforming static lists of links into dynamic search pages that automatically re-rank results on the fly, users are able to more quickly and easily find pertinent information buried among the irrelevant results, significantly accelerating the search process."Basically that means you run a search, see some results, click on a link that interests you and the engine will then go off and find more results based on what you want. You can then do it again, to drill deeper down. The results page is clean and clear, although there are no help options, no RSS feeds, no advanced search functionality, no cache option available, no thumbnails - well, you get the idea. There are 'Surf Canyon Refinements' though - I got 4 options for a 'web 2.0 librarians' search - Library 2.0 (good), Tools (uh?), Ellyssa Kroski (fair enough), Facebook (uh?).Clicking on the bullseye opens up more options 'based on my activity' (interesting, since my activity there has been zero), and the results were fairly hit and miss. I found results more confusing when I scrolled further down. I went to page 2 and got results with (from page 3) or (from page 6) next to them. I've got no clue as to why - there's little by the way of explanation. The engine does provide links to Images, Video, Maps and News. These simply take your query and pass it onto Bing Images, Bing Video, Google Maps and Yahoo News. Hardly rivetting stuff. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825101 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/7UEMhHAJhpU/blameless-het-ontwerp-van-een.html Steampunk kom je steeds vaker tegen. Wikipedia omschrijft: Steampunk is een subgenre van fantasie of speculatieve fictie. De term slaat op verhalen die zich afspelen in een tijd dat stoomkracht nog de primaire krachtbron was (meestal de 19e eeuw), maar die ook elementen van sciencefiction of fantasie bevatten zoals futuristische uitvindingen en machines, of echt bestaande machines (zoals computers) die in deze verhalen veel eerder worden uitgevonden dan in werkelijkheid.Ik vind het concept van Steampunk wel aardig. Het levert mooie plaatjes op. Dat het genre ook boeken heeft voortgebracht wist ik echter nog niet. Dat leerde ik pas nadat ik las over het ontwerp van de boekomslag van Blameless, geschreven door Gail Carriger. Zij biedt op haar website zelfs een heuse leeslijst voor het genre aan. Ik durf geen uitspraken te doen over de kwaliteit van dit soort boeken maar de korte video over het ontwerp van de cover van Blameless is de 1 minuut 55 zeker waard. Je leest er meer over op Design:Related. Wel typisch dat dan juist deze omslag nog niet is terug te vinden op veel boekensites. Niet op Library Thing, niet op Amazon en niet in Worldcat. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:05:00 +0100 825107 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/madreads/index.php/2010/03/09/book-group-reports/ As a new feature, MADreads is going to post reports of Madison Public Library book group discussions.  If you’re like us, you’re always on the lookout for that next great, discussable book.  Our inaugural report comes from the Sequoya branch. The Sequoya book group just read Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann which won the National Book Award.  While it was a good discussion, because of all the different characters and because it was so beautifully written, some people felt it was a bit hard to verbalize their thoughts.  The book opens with the tightrope walk across the Twin Towers so we started out the discussion showing just that portion of the video Man on Wire.  It was a great way to set the tone for the discussion as it was such an integral part of the story! There was much discussion about the symbolism of the towers and all the hints of 9/11 that were layered in the story.  A really good read!  Next up for us is Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. (Source: MADreads) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:45:57 +0100 824979 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/03/09/how-to-save-and-share-ridiculously-large-files/ CNET – “A few years ago it was a big deal to find a place that would let you share 1 gigabyte of files. Things change, though. Bandwidth keeps growing, and the cost of Web storage keeps shrinking. That’s good news for people looking to share increasingly large files, be it an HD video recording or an archive of several files that tops out at over a gig. There are now a handful of free and paid services that make it easy to host these gigantic files and send them to a friend, family member, or business associate.” (Source: Library Stuff) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:16 +0100 824950 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/1kiXWh5RuNI/ Ein Thema, welches das Netz in den kommenden Jahren ganz zweifelsohne beherrschen wird, ist Linked Data. Vernetzte Daten. Wer im Besitz großer Datenmengen von allgemeinem Interesse ist, möge sie online frei geben, damit auch die Gemeinschaft etwas davon hat. Wer sich unter Linked Data nichts vorstellen kann, widme der Betrachtung obigen Videos fünf Minuten seiner kostbaren Zeit und höre sich den TED-Kurzvortrag von HTML-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee an, der ganz praktische Beispiele dafür zeigt, warum in Linked Data die Zukunft des Webs liegt. Wer das Ganze dann noch in einer Textzusammenfassung auf deutsch haben möchte, schaue in den informativen Wikipedia-Artikel zum Thema: Linked Open Data. © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:25 +0100 825210 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=33149 The Proposed Comcast-NBC Universal Combination: How It Might Affect the Video Market (PDF; 325 KB) Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS) The proposed combination of Comcast, the largest distributor of video services in the United States, and NBC Universal (NBCU), a major producer and aggregator of video content, would create a huge, vertically integrated entity with potentially enormous negotiating power at a time when market forces already are altering traditional content provider/distributor relationships. Comcast would own or control media and entertainment properties of significant scope and scale. Despite the size and reach that Comcast would be afforded, there is so much uncertainty in the video market that the proposed combination has elicited a wide range of predictions about (1) how it would affect that market; (2) how it would affect the long-standing public policy goals of competition, diversity of voices, and localism; and (3) whether the merger would prove beneficial to Comcast’s shareholders. From one perspective, the scope of the combination would be so broad that, in addition to requiring careful scrutiny of its competitive effects, it potentially could affect market structure and relationships in ways that have implications for a wide range of media rules, regulations, and policies, including program carriage rules, program access requirements, retransmission consent rules, long-standing policy supporting free over-the-air broadcast television, and even network neutrality and open access policies. From another perspective, the recent history of failed mega-mergers in the communications sector suggests that the vertically integrated post-merger entity may have so many parts with conflicting market incentives that it proves impossible to craft an internally consistent profit-maximizing business strategy, no less exploit market power to undermine competition. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:54:06 +0100 824943 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/4fiC_qmT8w8/human-library-borrow-person To mark World Book Day last week, Crisis and other charities held a day-long 'human library' project, part of a growing movement in the US and Europe. Instead of borrowing a book, you borrow a personJohn Domokos (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:33:12 +0100 824850 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/deakialli/com/~3/tuKULC4SXXg/ Esta mañana nos desayunamos con la noticia de El Pais en donde se afirma que las bibliotecas públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid restringen el acceso a diversas páginas y servicios de Internet a sus usuarios: “Las bibliotecas públicas limitan el uso de cientos de páginas de Internet“: Tanto la Comunidad como el Ayuntamiento -que gestionan 27 y 28 bibliotecas, respectivamente- han considerado que hay webs donde el usuario no tiene por qué entrar y las han bloqueado. La restricción no sólo afecta a los equipos, instalados en cada centro, sino que las páginas prohibidas tampoco pueden verse desde un ordenador particular. Las páginas y servicios vetados son entre otros el acceso a Youtube, a Spotify y a páginas con contenidos que consideran pornográficos como el caso de la revista Interviú. Entre las argumentaciones de los servicios informáticos figura nada más y nada menos que: “Todos los usos recreativos o particulares de la web no tienen cabida en la biblioteca pública”. Y eso es lo que me ha aterrado, no es que se veten contenidos, es que se está vendiendo al público en general la idea de que en la biblioteca pública no tiene cabida el ocio… terrorífico y más aún cuando uno lee los comentarios de los lectores de El País a la noticia y  se encuentra cosas como estas apreciaciones de usuarios de las bibliotecas de la Comunidad de Madrid: - Las bibliotecas son sitios donde se promueve los estudios y no son pasatiempos, como muchos piensan. - Soy usuario habitual de la Biblioteca de la Comunidad y me parece bien la medida, ese acceso a internet debe ser con los fines propios de las bibliotecas, fomentar el conocimiento. Resulta curioso ver gente que se conecta a INTERNET para leer el períodico, que además esta en versión papel en esa misma biblioteca. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:26 +0100 825023 http://www.youtube.com/v/7_zzPBbXjWs&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Esta mañana nos desayunamos con la noticia de El Pais en donde se afirma que las bibliotecas públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid restringen el acceso a diversas páginas y servicios de Internet a sus usuarios: “Las bibliotecas públicas limitan el uso de cientos de páginas de Internet“: Tanto la Comunidad como el Ayuntamiento -que gestionan 27 y 28 bibliotecas, respectivamente- han considerado que hay webs donde el usuario no tiene por qué entrar y las han bloqueado. La restricción no sólo afecta a los equipos, instalados en cada centro, sino que las páginas prohibidas tampoco pueden verse desde un ordenador particular. Las páginas y servicios vetados son entre otros el acceso a Youtube, a Spotify y a páginas con contenidos que consideran pornográficos como el caso de la revista Interviú. Entre las argumentaciones de los servicios informáticos figura nada más y nada menos que: “Todos los usos recreativos o particulares de la web no tienen cabida en la biblioteca pública”. Y eso es lo que me ha aterrado, no es que se veten contenidos, es que se está vendiendo al público en general la idea de que en la biblioteca pública no tiene cabida el ocio… terrorífico y más aún cuando uno lee los comentarios de los lectores de El País a la noticia y  se encuentra cosas como estas apreciaciones de usuarios de las bibliotecas de la Comunidad de Madrid: - Las bibliotecas son sitios donde se promueve los estudios y no son pasatiempos, como muchos piensan. - Soy usuario habitual de la Biblioteca de la Comunidad y me parece bien la medida, ese acceso a internet debe ser con los fines propios de las bibliotecas, fomentar el conocimiento. Resulta curioso ver gente que se conecta a INTERNET para leer el períodico, que además esta en versión papel en esa misma biblioteca. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:26 +0100 824826 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/iNr50AOpMuM/punk-islam-tacwacores-cinema The Taqwacores is really a film about individualism – but attention is likely to focus on the music and its sexual contentThe Taqwacores, a film directed by Eyad Zahra based on the novel of the same name by Michael Muhammad Knight, is playing at the media and music extravaganza South by South West (SXSW) in Austin this March. It's exciting to imagine who will be watching at a festival that features guests such as Spike Lee, Chuck D and Devo.I had the pleasure of seeing the film at a sold-out screening at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah last month.Author and screenplay writer Michael Muhammad Knight and I first began communicating in 2005, when he originally reached out to me to play the character of Jehanghir in an adaptation he was scripting with a Brooklyn-based film-maker named Cihan Kaan. Budgeting issues proved fatal for that iteration, and Mike went through a few other directors before I left our fledging Taqwacore scene in America for Lahore.It's been surreal to come back to the US three years later to a complete film and cast. In an interview, the celebrated director of Night of the Living Dead George Romero mentioned how Hollywood vetoed his first script for Diary of the Dead because it had a non-white lead.I was reminded of Romero's words when I saw the vibrant, all-minority cast of Eyad's film. In many ways the book The Taqwacores should have been an impossible adaption to produce, with no major white characters, and its heavy ruminations on Islamic theology. In America and the UK, white audiences are not only unresponsive to minority leads, but overexposed to Muslims in particular.The odds are stacked against the film. Eyad has taken Knight's book and trimmed it into a clearer narrative – one that begins and ends with the main character Yusef, played faithfully by Bobby Naderi. The movie follows Yusef on his safari through punk rock in America, which will likely surprise audiences. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:00 +0100 824851 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/09/18-interesting-firsts-on-the-internet/ Check out this post and see how recent some of these innovations are. 18 Interesting Firsts on the Internet 1. The First Email 2. The First Ever Domain Name 3. The First SPAM Email Ever 4. The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility 5. The First Ever Website 6. The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction 7. The First Ever Online Bank 8. The First Ever Search Engine 9. The First Ever Blog 10. The First Ever Podcast 11. The First Item Ever Sold on eBay 12. The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon 13. The first edit on Wikipedia 14. The First Ever Video on YouTube 15. The First Ever Message on Twitter 16. The First Ever Voice Chat Service 17. The First Ever Website Hacked 18. The First Ever Social Network Site I was surprised by some. Stephen (Source: Stephen) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:13:21 +0100 824975 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/8qfzD23a2xc/universities-protest-against-government.html "Libraries and universities are protesting about plans to make them police users of wireless networks. The government's Digital Economy Bill includes plans to make them responsible for what is done over free wi-fi. The plans imply that libraries, universities and cafes offering free wireless will be responsible if people use it to pirate movies and music. Bodies representing universities want the law clarified so they are not hit with big bills for policing every user" - BBC (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:50 +0100 824883 http://lisnews.org/are_public_libraries_glorified_babysitting_services "My town officials think all we're running here is a babysitting service" a librarian recently shared in a moment of frustration. She went on to mention studies about the proven impact on cognitive abilities when toddlers are actively engaged in library programs like Lapsit versus passively engaged with toys & videos. This was news to me; my how the educational product companies and toy manufacturers had shaped my understanding! I also hadn't thought of toddler programs as educational initiatives. When I've seen adults and toddlers together at the library, I've usually thought "oh, aren't those kids adorable" and "I'm glad people are getting together to have fun". Though it now seems obvious, the educational and literacy component of Lapsit was lost on me. This last point was intriguing, so I did some quick research. I googled "Lapsit" and got plenty of results from library websites around the country. I clicked through to the top 20 (all different libraries, by chance) and searched for the terms literacy and education in the page content, in images or as part of the navigation. 80% made no mention of literacy or education in conjunction with Lapsit 20% contained the term literacy 10% contained the terms literacy and education Clearly these stats don't tell the whole story, but they tell a good one about the help libraries need presenting information to the public. ********* Last month, library consultant Larry T. Nix (a.k.a. The Library History Buff) wrote about libraries' success with early education programs in Little Kids and Public Libraries. The science behind the importance of learning in children ages birth to three is overwhelming. Public libraries have proven they can implement excellent programs to serve this age group. The public education community is struggling to implement four year old kindergarten much less provide programs for this age group. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:10:38 +0100 824917 http://bioingegneria.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/video-tutorial-lla-tua-biblioteca/ Una nuovissima sezione sul sito del sistema bibliotecario del Politecnico di Milano: i videotutorial per aiutarti a usare gli strumenti per le ricerche bibliografiche. I bibliotecari ci mettono la faccia! Curioso? http://www.biblio.polimi.it/formazione/videotutorial/index.html (Source: Blog @lla tua biblioteca) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:15:27 +0100 824844 http://lisnews.org/world_without_public_libraries On the whole, I'm not much of a book reader. Most of my reading is done online; I read a handful of books every year, mostly non-fiction, based on various whims. Right now, I'm reading The World Without Us, a captivating exploration about how the world would revert (or not revert) back to a pre-human emergence. Some of these things have been dramatized into a series on the History Channel by a different name, providing the added element of CGI to show how buildings would collapse, infrastructure would fail, nature reclaims the suburbs, and how all that would remain for future archeologists is our stainless steel cookware. For the scientist in me, it's fascinating to see everything humans have made becoming undone by the natural forces of this world. So, in touching upon the premise of the book, I thought, "What would the world be like without libraries?" How would our demise come? Unlike the book, which asks the reader to suspend disbelief and accept the total sudden disappearance of humankind, I cannot propose nor fathom asking the same for libraries. In attempting to avoid hyperbole, I think the mechanisms of the library’s demise have already proven themselves present. It will not come through lack of innovation or adoption of technology or practices; our relevance and willingness to change in this digital information age has certainly been established. No, the end will come as it has for some libraries over the past two years: through budget cuts. Funding for all library types (public, academic, school, and special) has hung in the balance for the last couple of years after budgets tighten and communities and companies look to trim their expenditures. You need go no further than typing in the words “library budget” in a Google News search to see the current toll that is being exacted.  One problem, as I see it, is that the library as a community service does not fit nicely into any government spending niche. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:47:19 +0100 824748 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/TyNLyJ_e0rE/het-rolex-learning-center-een.html Wie het Rolex Learning Center, dat onlangs in het Zwitserse Lausanne werd geopend, voor het eerst ziet, vermoedt niet meteen dat hij of zij naar een bibliotheek kijkt. Toch is dat wel degelijk zo. Een citaat uit de perskit: The main library, containing 500,000 printed works, is one of the largest scientific collections in Europe; four large study areas can accommodate 860 students with office space for over 100 EPFL and other employees; a state-of-the-art multimedia library will give access to 10,000 online journals and 17,000 e-books, with advanced lending machines and systems for bibliographic search; a study centre for use by postgraduate researchers will provide access to the universityʼs major archive and research collection, and there are teaching areas including 10 ʻbubblesʼ for seminars, group work and other meetings and a Language and Multimedia Centre and associated administration offices. Het gebouw ziet er wonderbaarlijk uit en is zonder twijfel een knap staaltje architectuur, maar toch heb ik het gevoel dat er iets ontbreekt. Warmte? Uitstraling? Ik ben er nog niet helemaal uit. Als ik de video en foto's bekijk voel ik weinig enthousiasme in ieder geval. Van enthousiasme is ook niet meteen sprake als ik het artikel The battle of Britain's libraries lees, in The Guardian. Dat artikel gaat over een paar 'superbibliotheken' en dan vooral over de door Nederlanders ontworpen nieuwe bibliotheek van Birmingham. Het lijkt wel alsof groot en protserig de nieuwe norm zijn geworden. Het artikel bracht me wel op het spoor van een interessant onderzoek naar de toekomst van bibliotheken, uitgevoerd in opdracht van Margaret Hodge, de Engelse Minister van cultuur. Volgende week zal zij de resultaten van dat onderzoek publiceren. De verslaglegging van de interviews met experts is nu al te downloaden. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:28:00 +0100 824763 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/jkbaumga/2010/03/09/gotta-keep-reading-cause-this-books-gonna-be-a-good-book/ I was thrilled when Oprah shared this video Ocoee middle schoolers made to encourage reading. It’s based on a somewhat-planned dance flash mob that happened during Oprah’s fall season opener in Chicago when folks began dancing to the Black Eyed Peas’ song I Gotta Feeling. Hearing my computer start playing it as a browser loaded cracked me up because I picked up a copy of a colleague’s book tonight for some literal proofreading that has our local circle of geeks (well, using these words has different meaning these days) all atwitter. I had left a tab on the video to remind myself to blog about it. Blogged. Tab closed. But that doesn’t mean I’m looking forward to reading the book any less. (Source: J's Scratchpad) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:54:36 +0100 824739 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/RaYt_ld0k10/weds_signal_get_me_a_mobile_strategy_or_youre_fired_.php (Cross Posted to the FM Blog, where Signal will have a permanent home soon) Mobile. It's on everyone's lips, but no one knows what the hell to do about it. At least, that's what I hear from every single marketer I talk to, and I've made it a point to talk to a lot of you in the past few months. It's a source of significant frustration: Everyone's saying mobile is the next thing, but no one has a solution for how to market in the space in a way that delivers the four pillars of brand marketing: Scale, Safety, Quality, and Engagement. Sure, you can now buy banners across ad networks in mobile, and lord knows that ability has paid off handsomely for AdMob and Quattro (acquired by Google and Apple, respectively, for very large multiples of very small revenues), but honestly, we all know that's not an endgame. More like an opening gambit in a chess match where nearly everyone feels like they're playing checkers. (Except Steve Jobs, natch. He's got it ALL figured out). OK, forgive me the snark, but if Apple has this figured out and the rest of us are consigned to tithe at the church of iPad/iPhone, we're well and truly screwed. Ditto for the strategy of "I'll get me a cool app", which feels about as innovative as "Get me a viral video" did back in 2007. I'm not saying having a good app isn't part of a great mobile strategy (I love what Oakley has done for surfers, for example), but one good app don't a solution make. Earlier in the Signal, I wrote about MOLRS, my entirely non-viral and made-up acronym for Mobile Local Realtime Social. My point was this: Mobile is not a singular use case. Mobile is related to an ecosystem of local (where I am), realtime (what I'm doing right now), and social (who I'm with, who I want to tell about what I'm doing, etc.). I sense the answer to a truly quality, scaled marketing solution in the "mobile" environment has to do with understanding this broader framework. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825095 http://biblioweb.blogspot.com/2010/03/la-identidad-digital-para-grandes-y.html Esta mañana tuve la suerte de ver el vídeo de la estupenda charla que Lorena Fernández dio en la III Cita GetxoBlog:Identidad Digital. Os animo a aprender y disfrutar con sus magníficas explicaciones.Por la tarde leo a Celestino Arteta que nos trae una iniciativa de la Agencia Vasca de Protección de Datos, se trata de la creación de un portal cargado de recursos para la comunidad educativa:«Este sitio web presenta proyectos y recursos a la comunidad educativa, y en particular, a los niños, niñas y jóvenes, al profesorado y a las familias, para reflexionar sobre cómo proteger la vida privada, la propia y la de otras personas, al utilizar medios de comunicación electrónicos.»Contiene tres proyectos orientados a distintos grupos de edad:Aventuras de Reda y Neto: Cuidando los datos personales (9-11 años)  Manuales Prácticos de uso de las TIC (9-11 años; 12-14; 15-17)Kontuzdatos... Decides Tú (15 – 17 años)Estos dos últimos aportan manuales y actividades prácticas, pero también unos vídeos bastante interesantes que posteriormente encontré en Youtube, y con los que monté esta playlist:   Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.comQue los disfrutéis !! (Source: A Nosa Biblioteca 3.0) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825001 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/03/mits-media-lab-now-has-a-building-that-suits-its-style.html It took more than 10 years, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s famed Media Lab has finally moved into its new digs. “It delivers on the vision of a unique way of doing research,’’ Moss said. “No boundaries, no walls, a flow of interdisciplinary ideas, and plenty of space to build and invent.’’ Sixty corporate sponsors fund Media Lab research, which the companies can apply to their products and services. The lab’s research is incorporated into a number of popular products, including music-based video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band and electronic book readers like  (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824909 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/WgyFr1FuX_s/blue-ribbon-task-force-report.html Below is a press release that I received via email. The idea of preserving our digital knowledge is something we all know and something that many of us ignore. The fact is that our reliance on digital information means that our knowledge could be lost very quickly, if saving it is not made a priority.Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority Dollars Won't Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age - ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future - requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force.The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information", is the result of a two-year effort focusing on  the critical economic challenges of  preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. The full report is available online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf ."The Data Deluge is here.  Ensuring that our most valuable information is available both today and tomorrow is not just a matter of finding sufficient funds," said Fran Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-chair of the Task Force. "It's about creating a "data economy" in which those who care, those who will pay, and those who preserve are working in coordination."The challenge in preserving valuable digital information - consisting of text, video, images, music, sensor data, etc. generated throughout all areas of our society - is real and growing at an exponential pace. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824895 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/03/blue-ribbon-task-force-report.html Below is a press release that I received via email. The idea of preserving our digital knowledge is something we all know and something that many of us ignore. The fact is that our reliance on digital information means that our knowledge could be lost very quickly, if saving it is not made a priority.Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority Dollars Won't Do It Alone: Deluge of Digital Data Needs Economically Sustainable Plans Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age - ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future - requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force.The Final Report from the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, called "Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-term Access to Digital Information", is the result of a two-year effort focusing on  the critical economic challenges of  preserving an ever-increasing amount of information in a world gone digital. The full report is available online at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF_Final_Report.pdf ."The Data Deluge is here.  Ensuring that our most valuable information is available both today and tomorrow is not just a matter of finding sufficient funds," said Fran Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and co-chair of the Task Force. "It's about creating a "data economy" in which those who care, those who will pay, and those who preserve are working in coordination."The challenge in preserving valuable digital information - consisting of text, video, images, music, sensor data, etc. generated throughout all areas of our society - is real and growing at an exponential pace. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824845 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/xaXwI4fLQp4/ Direktlink YouTube This is a Pantless Knights tribute to our favorite entrepreneurs (who are all “new dorks”). It’s a spoof of Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind,” from the guys behind Grasshopper.com (thank you!). We made it because there’s a new type of dork that is cooler than ever. Look at tech entrepreneurs, hipsters, Computer Science Barbie – they’re all super popular new dorks! Oben das lustige Social Media-Remix-Video (das stilvoll auf dem schmalen Grat wandert, sich gleichzeitig über den Social-Media-Hype lustig zu machen und doch auch eine virale Kampagne für einen Telefonie-Anbieter darstellt) und unten das Original «Empire State of Mind» von Alicia Keys: Direktlink YouTube [via Alt1040] © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:13:00 +0100 825211 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/bYZQ_vl2Qro/music-theatre-online.html "Music Theatre Online, based at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, is a digital archive of texts, images, video, and audio files relating to musical theater. The best printed editions of musical theater texts cannot fully provide the experience of simultaneous expression of verbal, musical, and terpsichorean languages so necessary to fully understand the art form. Using the multimedia capabilities of the modern web browser, we hope to create a better framework for studying these important works of drama"A Guide to Music Theatre Online from MITH in MD on Vimeo (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:59:54 +0100 824744 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-ipl2-institute-march-15-and-march-16/ Join the ipl2 (Internet Public Library) in Celebration of 15 Years of Innovation, Service, and Research In 1995, it took 35 students 70 days to develop what would become the world’s largest and most recognized free, online collection and reference service in the world: the Internet Public Library. This month, 91,982 reference questions and 40,000 vetted, searchable electronic resource items later, the Internet Public Library celebrates its 15th anniversary. In conjunction with this event, The iSchool at Drexel will be hosting the Institute on the Future of Reference and its Impact on Library and Information Science Education March 15 -16, 2010. The institute is part of the IMLS grant Transforming the IPL into a Virtual Learning Laboratory. Faculty, students and staff from Drexel University , Florida State University, The University of Washington, The University of Illinois, The University of North Carolina, Syracuse University, and the Free Library of Philadelphia are among those participating in the institute. Additionally, two special open presentations have been planned in honor of this moment in the ipl2’s history. You can join the celebration as we reflect on the future of reference and its impact on the future of library and information science education. These presentations will be streamed live on video, with information also reported live on the ipl2 blog, Second Life, and Twitter. [Instructions below the agenda for accessing the conversation on our social networks.] ipl2 – Celebrating 15 years! Monday, March 15, 2010 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. EST Speakers: Mick Khoo: ipl2 Merger Surprises Joyce Valenza: Web 2.0 Reference on the Ground K-12 Special Guest Speaker and IPL Founder Joe Janes: IPL to ipl2: The Past, Present and Future Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:42:54 +0100 824644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/6PvL0nwt9h8/ Direktlink YouTube Von Schauspielern und Übersetzern… war hier schon einmal die Rede. Und der Vergleich soll heute noch mal zur Sprache gebracht werden. Christoph Waltz ist ohne Zweifel ein großer Schauspieler. Er hat heute Nacht vollkommen zurecht für seine Darstellung eines “kultivierten” Nazis in Tarantinos «Inglorious Basterds» den Oscar bekommen. Und ganz nebenbei zeigt er in obigem Interview, dass das Spiel eines Schauspielers auch in Interviews weitergehen muss und kann. Dass auch Übersetzer eine künstlerische Leistung vollbringen, die mit der eines Schauspielers zu vergleichen ist, mag nur auf den ersten Blick erstaunen. Beide interpretieren einen Text. Beide bringen ihre ganze Erfahrung in diesen Prozess ein – wenn sie gut sind. Die Analogie von Schausetzern und Überspielern erklärt meine Übersetzer-Kollegin Isabel Bogdan in ihrem Auftaktartikel zum Beginn einer – welch geniale Idee! – Übersetzungskolumne im Titel Magazin: Der Text, den ein Schauspieler spricht, steht fest, er ist vorgegeben, er kann ihn nicht verändern. Er muss in eine Rolle schlüpfen, sich mit Haut und Haar in jemanden hinein versetzen, denken wie er, fühlen wie er, sprechen wie er – dabei aber dennoch aufrichtig bleiben, er selbst bleiben. Er kann kein anderer werden, weil er kein anderer ist. Er muss vielmehr seine Persönlichkeit in die Rolle einbringen, und dabei ebenso sehr sich selbst wie der Rolle treu bleiben. Dazu muss er das Stück natürlich verstanden haben, es richtig und vollständig durchdrungen haben, er muss den Gesamttext begreifen, die Geschichte, den Hintergrund, die Figur und jedes Detail. Wenn er etwas nicht verstanden hat, funktioniert es nicht, dann wird er seine Rolle unbeholfen spielen. Weiter im Titel Magazin: «Übersetzen ist eine darstellende Kunst». © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | One comment | Add to del.icio. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:25:18 +0100 825212 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/yY8Zusp95fc/ 70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L'Ogre on Vimeo. Musikalisch hat man sicher schon besseres gehört als den Song «70 Million» von Hold Your Horses!. Aber als bildgewaltiger Ritt durch die Kunstgeschichte ist das Video äußerst interessant. Und amüsant. Welche Werke trashig grell im Film nachgestellt wurden, gibt es dank Mason – via Update auf Spreeblick – in einem übersichtlichen Flickr-Set zu bestaunen. [via Kaliban] © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:25:32 +0100 825213 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/prelingers-save-the-orphaned-films-and-books-that-libraries-abandon/ From the Post: How to explain what [ResourceShelf Reader] Rick and Megan Prelinger are up to? The California couple searches out all that stuff you probably saw and read in your childhood — films about corn production, home movies of Detroit, propaganda manuals about good manners — and collects it. When a library has to get rid of a roomful of old books because of budget cuts or to expand its computer center, it’s the Prelingers to the rescue. [Snip] “Public libraries are under enormous pressure for how to use space,” says co-founder Megan Prelinger. “They very often have to get rid of something old every time something new comes in.” Often, they dump publications that have to do with business, industry, landscape, land use — all things that can still be useful to us as we figure out how to plan for tomorrow. “Libraries have to throw things away for many reasons, and it’s almost never because the material isn’t valuable,” she says. [Snip] Too often, the Prelingers learned, what we throw away as worthless today may turn out to have value tomorrow. Somewhere thirty or forty years back, we may uncover a crossroads we took in our thinking or in the development of an idea, and discover it may be worth exploring that alternate route again. In fact, of the 1,000 people who come visit the library each year in San Francisco’s SoMa district, many are people seeking raw materials to inspire new ideas. Source: WalletPop See Also: Prelinger Archives (via Internet Archive) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:24:37 +0100 824598 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SellersLibraryTeens/~3/lezdTgGhSo4/which-movie-nerd-are-you.html I was thinking about the Nerd Night program idea dreamed up by some TAB members, and I came across this internet quiz!Here's my result:You're Hermione, the slightly bossy nerd with a hard-to-pronounce name. You're so nerdy that if someone gave you a time-travel device, you'd use it to take two classes at once. A double workload would drive some nerds crazy, but you obsess over packing your brain with knowledge. The only thing more important to you than studying? Using your excellent memory and analytical skills to keep your friends out of trouble. (Source: Sellers Library Teens) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:19:50 +0100 824732 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/new-topic-focused-news-aggregator-from-techmemes-founder-and-developer-gabe-rivera-hello-mediagazer/ It’s likely that many of you use Techmeme, a service that aggreates tech news from many sources on the Internet. Techmeme was originally compiled 100% algorithmically. However, since December, 2008 Megan McCarthy, has served as the ditor. Making the decisions about some of what goes on Techmeme. Today, Techmeme Founder and Developer, Gabe Rivera, McCarthy, and the other members of the Techmeme team launched another aggregated news site (aka vertical). This one brings together content about the media industry and is named, MediaGazer. Finally, often overlooked are the other topic-aggregation services that Techmeme provides: 1) Memeorandum: Political News 2) BallBuzz: Baseball News 2) WeSmirch: Celeb Gossip Btw, mobile versions are available for all of these sites. You can find the links on the lower right side of the page. The two mobile versions of MediaGazer 1) For SmartPhones and for more basic types of phones Finally, both a cool and useful way to “see” the headlines (in reverse chronological order) as they make there way into one of the services is to take a look at the “river” version also located, lower right side of the page. Here’s the MediaGazer River. If you’ve never visited Techmeme or any of these resources, they are well worth your time. They are also excellent tools to share with users who have interest in any of the topics covered. From paidContent: She [Megan McCarthy] said she doesn’t know how many sources are included in the media algorithm but the list builds out automatically as new sources are discovered. Why media? It fits their requirements: “lots of new coverage every day, lots of stories revolving around the same issues, and a variety of subtopics (video, media industry consolidation, blogs, future of journalism, newspapers, etc.) that people discuss.” As for staying standalone, “We’ve never raised any money—everything is bootstrapped. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:17:04 +0100 824602 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/D1SkRC8daao/ Using the prediction markets to become an insta-expert in just about anything. (Source: Freakonomics Blog) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:00:47 +0100 824543 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lansinglibraryyouth/podcast/~3/p0KmY9p10GE/diary-of-wimpy-kid.html Sixth grader Greg records his middle school experiences in this funny, often realistic journal. And as Greg points out, this is definitely a journal, not a diary! Tag along as he deals with an older, wanna-be-rock-star brother, a younger can-do-no-wrong brother and a best friend who surprisingly passes him up on the popularity ladder. Greg is like many 6th grade boys who think about girls, ALOT, find clever ways to avoid all forms of work, and day dream about life after the dreaded middle school. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney is a quick read with amusing illustrations that every middle-schooler will enjoy. FYI--Look for this movie in theaters March 19th and the Borders in Schaumburg will host a meet & greet with the author and cast on March 10th at 7pm but you first must get a wristband at the store starting at 9am. (Source: Lansing Library Youth Dept. Podcast) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:42 +0100 824638 http://lisnews.org/library_site_hot_new_social_media_hangout_teens Library site a hot new social media hangout for teens "Our goal is to draw students in so that they're comfortable hanging out in the library, and then get them to engage with the workshops and technology in the space," Neal said. "We're seeing more and more students who were hanging out, participating in workshops and on the social network. It's been great to see their interests develop." Students enrolled in workshops may check out digital still cameras or Flip high-definition video cameras for a week at a time to work on special projects. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:57:41 +0100 824551 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/ZmxpxWkfZKU/ Good news for folks with hearing impairments and folks who don’t have hearing impairments but sometimes just can’t figure out what other people are saying (that would be me.) YouTube announced last week that YouTube videos (at least those in English which have voices clearly speaking and aren’t drowned out or muffled by background noises, music, etc.) Apparently there are twenty hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute (which personally I find mindbending) so as you might imagine it’ll take a while for everything to be autocaptioned. I did some random searches (for things like lecture, speech, items that seemed like they would be better suited for autocaption) and didn’t come across much. I did find a lecture on the Theory of Relativity that had been captioned, so you can see what it looks like. Captions are at the bottom and a CC icon shows up in the tool bar at the bottom of the video. You can click that icon to turn the captions on and off, but you can also change settings as well — you can change the size of the captions and also use an auto-translate feature to have the captions appear in another language. It’s machine translation, of course, so it won’t be perfect. Speaking of that, the transcriptions are machine transcriptions as well — so you know they won’t be perfect either. Owners of posted videos can download auto-generated captions, correct them, and upload new versions. If your videos have not been captioned yet, you can also request that they get the captioning treatment — a “Request Processing (English Only)” button lets you put your video in the queue, while YouTube assures you “We will try our best to get some results in a few days. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:50:06 +0100 825412 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/OdpnTCJ2HIQ/ I certainly looks as if it might be, as the videos on Engadget show. Engadget has an article full of pictures and videos about the new product, As fjtorres, who give me the heads up, points out there are rumors about Amazon and MS getting together to respond to the iPad and hints at CES about an MS/Blio collaboration. Here’s one of the videos from the article: Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:17:57 +0100 824588 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/ihiHWOoB0f8/ Steve Jobs was seen attending the Academy Awards last night (his second company Pixar’s movie Up won Best Animated Feature and Best Score), and the first TV commercial for the iPad was screened twice over the course of the show. iBooks was a fairly large part of the commercial’s focus. A decent commercial, though I couldn’t help but notice the clip from Star Trek during part of a montage of screenshots and images was in full-frame and looked rather cramped. Speaking of the iPad, CNet has an iPad FAQ that sums up what is generally known about the device. A good summary, though not much in the way of new information. And speaking of FAQs, here’s a story I found on Nate’s Ebook News: Educause, a thinktank dedicated to “the intelligent use of information technology” in education, has come out with the latest in a series of articles called “7 Things You Should Know About…” The subject of this article is e-book readers (PDF download). It’s a good basic summary of e-books in education, focusing largely on their utility for holding college textbooks, and their advantages and disadvantages compared to paper books. The Google Books settlement gets another examination in the pages of the Mercury News. The article is a good summation of the key issues of orphan works, privacy, and competition surrounding the settlement, just in case anyone here doesn’t already know what they are by now. And in a follow-up to Saturday’s story about Ubisoft’s consumer-unfriendly DRM, BoingBoing and Slashdot are reporting that Ubisoft’s DRM authentication servers went down yesterday—and had been down for ten hours as of the time the article on The Escapist was posted. That’s a ten hour outage on a weekend, during which time no one who purchased the game legitimately and did not crack the DRM could play even a single-player game of Assassin’s Creed II. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:15:00 +0100 824589 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/zI5x6FgvrUc/ It is Monday March 8, 2010 and is time for the monthly Medlib Blog Carnival hosted at the Krafty Librarian.  Next month will be hosted at EagleDawg so if you missed this month’s deadline please consider submitting your post to next month’s carnival. So without further ado, let’s get this party started. Laika’s MedLibLog starts us off with the book review Searching Skills Toolkit. Finding the Evidence [Book Review]. “Most books on Evidence Based Medicine give little attention to the first two steps of EBM: asking focused answerable questions and searching the evidence. Being able to appraise an article, but not being able to find the best evidence may be challenging and frustrating to the busy clinicians.” Vivo project blogger and Bioinformatic Specialist at Becker Medical Library Kristi Holmes blogs about Libraries: perfect partners for research. “There’s no doubt about it – we’re in the age of interdisciplinary science and it seems like everyone is looking to build innovative research teams. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to discover collaborators and make meaningful connections within one’s own building – let alone across campus or beyond.” Medical and health librarians who like to pair some of their outreach and marketing efforts around various health observance days, months, etc. might be interested to read the post  The National Health Observances Toolkit by Walter Jessen. In Dr. Shock’s post Read It Later, he discusses using the product Read It Later as a better alternative to Evernote and Google Notebook (of which Google dropped the development). Nikki Detmar author of the EagleDawg blog (and next month’s Carnival Hosts) sets the bar for next month by submitting two of her interesting posts and recommending another post from Dean Giustini. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:30:30 +0100 824487 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/transcripts-academy-awards-speeches-backstage-interviews/ One more Academy Awards item today. The following resources might be useful at the reference desk not only today but throughout the year. Particularly, the final item, a searchable database. On this page you can find complete transcripts of the speeches award winners gave onstage as they received their Oscar AND also access the transcripts of the press conferences that take place backstage with each winner or winners, minutes after an award is presented. These transcripts are for the awards presented last night. Transcripts of hundreds of onstage speeches from many years of award shows can be found in this searchable database (free) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Some entries also include video clips. Source: AMPAS (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:05:52 +0100 824611 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/L_0JgopGIdk/radiohead-jonny-greenwood The rock boffin is to return to movie soundtracks, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian WoodRadiohead's Jonny Greenwood will reportedly return to film scoring, writing music for an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. The score will be based on a composition Greenwood wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra.Greenwood's last foray into feature films was his Grammy-nominated soundtrack for Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood. Just as that score was derived from an earlier work, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, Greenwood's composition expands upon an orchestral piece called Dogwood, which debuted last month.The maverick musician announced the project at BBC's Maida Vale studios, following Dogwood's premiere. "I wrote [the] piece mostly in hotels and dressing rooms while touring with Radiohead," he told TwentyFourBit. "This was more practical than glamorous – lots of time sitting indoors, lots of instruments about – and aside from picking up a few geographical working titles, I [don't] think that it had any effect where, on tour, it was written." Greenwood is also listed on the film's Imdb page.Murakami's 1987 novel, translated into English in 2000, follows Toru Watanabe's nostalgic recollections of the late 60s. These memories are spurred by the sitar-strung sound of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood. The film version is directed by Anh Hung Tran, and will be released in Japan in December.In the meantime, the Maida Vale performance of Dogwood will be re-broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on 19 March. Greenwood's first movie score, for the 2003 documentary Bodysong, will also soon see an encore: it will be released on DVD on 22 March.RadioheadPop and rockHaruki MurakamiSean Michaelsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:01:31 +0100 824507 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/librarians-daughter-wins-academy-award/ If you didn’t see the Academy Awards last night or read about the winners this morning, Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director for “The Hurt Locker.” History was also made. It’s the first time ever that a female has won the Best Director award. Here’s something else we learned and verified in several sources. Bigelow’s mother is/was a librarian in California. Awesome! Precisely where and what type of librarian is tbd. Bigelow was raised in San Carlos, California. We came across several articles describing San Carlos as rural when Kathryn was being raised there. Today, it’s a suburb of San Francisco, not far from the San Francisco International Airport. Her directorial win is well deserved. She made a great movie that also happens to be important film. One day (if not already) “The Hurt Locker” will be considered a classic motion picture. The Hurt Locker also won Best Picture and several other awards. (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:19:41 +0100 824612 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Hollywood_job_is_a_treasure Story about Howard Prouty, acquisitions archivist for the Margaret Herrick LibraryThe academy's Margaret Herrick Library contains 35,000 movie (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:00:07 +0100 824444 http://www.homerlibrary.org/2010/03/library-events-mar-8th-mar-20th.asp Quick links to:Adults & Seniors | Teens | Kids | More InfoADULTS & SENIORSSenior Tax Assistance -- Wednesday, March 10th & 17th from 9am-noonThe AARP and the Senior Services Center of Will County will be providing free tax services at the Homer Library. Please bring the following items: photo ID, proof of social security number & dependent, all income statements, all deductions to be claimed, last years federal and state returns, and your property pin number. First come, first served, on a walk-in basis only. Can't make it? Tax Assistance days will also be held on March 24th, 31st, April 7th, and 14th.Prairiesmoke Writers Group -- Wednesday, March 10th at 7pmStop by the monthly meeting of the library's writers group! You're invited to discuss your work with other writers and have fun with some group writing assignments. New members are welcome! Writers of all levels are encouraged to attend. Registration is not required.Armchair Travelers: Olympic Cities -- Friday, March 12th at 1:30pmJoin Bill Helmuth as he takes you on a tour of many of the cities where the Olympic Games have been held. You'll also journey through Rio de Janeiro, the site of the 2016 Olympic Games. Light refreshments will be served.How Smart Consumers Select a Remodeling Contractor -- Monday, March 15th at 7pmYear after year, remodeling places in the top five among complaints to the Better Business Bureau. Learn the method for selecting the right company and enjoying a postive remodeling experience.Adult Book Discussion -- Wednesday, March 17th at 7:30pmJoin us as we discuss Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris. New members are welcome! Books are available at the library for check out.TEENSTech Feeding Frenzy -- Monday, March 8th at 4pmThe first program for our weeklong celebration of Teen Tech Week! Make brownie iPods and Wii remotes! For teens in 6th grade & up. Registration required. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825566 http://blog.njla.org/archives/2010/03/#000691 SCI-TECH SCENE | Harold Washington's Digital Space goes beyond books to appeal to youth Comments March 6, 2010 BY SANDRA GUY Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Yves Capitaine, a 16-year-old resident of South Chicago, can be found daily on YOUMedia's online community, posting his photography and freestyle poetry and delving into haiku battles with his sister. "My sister [14-year-old Rachelle] and I have more than 100 comments on my poetry blog," Yves said. "It's fun." For adults and children new to technology, the public library offers tutors known as CyberNavigators to show people how to connect the Web and the greater world. CyberNavigators are available at 42 public library locations. Check with your local branch for details. "I get to know people who come from serious sides of the city whom I've never met," said Yves, a junior at Jones College Prep High School. Yves even got into a heated virtual battle with his online peers to claim bragging rights at the top of the "leader board" listing the top YOUMedia content producers. Think YOUMedia is the latest social media teen hangout? It is, and it's housed on the main floor of the Harold Washington Public Library, 400 S. State St., in the Digital Space for Teens. The Digital Space offers eight desktop computers, 96 laptops, two PlayStation 3's with a library of games, and musical keyboards and a recording studio so teenagers can create music, art and poetry, or jump online and talk with peers in the secure, password-protected YOUMedia forum. Select book reviews by teens are also posted publicly at chipublib.org/forteens/teensbookre views/index.php. The teens work with mentors like Erica Neal, who has watched the young people bloom creatively as they come to the Digital Space regularly. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825498 http://collectionsnews.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-product-films-on-demand.html (Only available on campus) Streaming video on a wide range of educational topics in the social sciences, humanities.science, mathematics, health, and career counselling. As well, it indexes the contents of the films so that you can put together a series of excerpts from several films. Right now the films can only be delivered on campus, but we are working on remote access options.As well, our (Source: University of Calgary Library Collections News) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825344 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/c2sl8KsZbMw/and-searches-go-to.html The Oscars®: glitz, glamor, gossip, gold statuettes, much fanfare — and for many fans, Google search is increasingly a part of watching this live TV experience. Before and during the Academy Awards® broadcast in the U.S., we saw related queries on Google dominating the hot searches list on Google Trends. People searched for the TV schedule, printable ballots for voting on favorites, streaming video sites, nominee and film information, celebrity chatter and whatever else caught your attention. Here's a snapshot:FashionEveryone knows the red carpet is all about the gowns. So which actresses made the best (or worst!) dressed list in search? Zoe Saldana's purple Givenchy haute couture gown won the day in searches, with just a few more queries than runner up Miley Cyrus, who walked down the carpet in one of Jenny Packham's finest. Both beat searches for Sandra Bullock's dress (Marchesa) by large margins. Sarah Jessica Parker, always the fashionista, ranked a distant fourth in Chanel. Certain designers were also popular in search, thanks to the stars who wore (and name-dropped) them. Elie Saab (worn by Anna Kendrick), Armani Prive (Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer Lopez) and Marchesa (Sandra Bullock, Vera Farmiga) were all rising trends.WinnersThroughout the night Oscar®-related searches rose and fell as nominations were introduced and winners announced. Avatar had the most searches before the ceremony, but as The Hurt Locker received more awards, searches for that film exceeded all others and peaked when it won Best Picture. Precious also had a good run throughout the night. Its peak matched that of "Avatar" during the ceremony:The awards for best actor, best actress and best director are some of the most-anticipated in the program. There was a considerable amount of buzz about Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock and Kathryn Bigelow before last night, and considerable spikes in search volume when they each won. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825241 http://ratodebiblioteca.blogspot.com/2010/03/o-10-bad-bom-ritmo.html Estamos a um mês do 10º Congresso de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas e já temos programa provisório, com muitas comunicações e posteres que aguardo com grande interesse e ainda pertinentes painéis temáticos.Desde meados de Janeiro que o evento conta com uma dinâmica na web que me agrada particularmente - o 10BAD 2.0: alguns recursos e ferramentas 2.0 para uma maior e melhor comunicação, divulgação e interacção do congresso. O blog 10BAD, a página no facebook, a conta no twitter, os vídeos no youtube, a partilha de fotos no flickr, o canal tv no livestream, a presença no second life, e um pouco do #10bad na web social de muitos dos profissionais usando a tag 10BAD para propagar e cruzar informação sobre o 10º Congresso, com muitos comentários nas redes sociais e alguns posts na blogosfera. Esta dinâmica vai trazer ao congresso uma maior e mais significativa presença dos conteúdos do congresso na web.Ao rato de biblioteca, que se envolveu neste processo, deu particular prazer a recolha de testemunhos em vídeo, de alguns dos profissionais que estiveram e/ou estão envolvidos na organização dos congressos, onde se pode ver e ouvir as experiências, os momentos marcantes e a importância atribuída por todos ao evento.Mas muito mais temos que "fazer acontecer" para tornar verdadeiramente vivo e participado este congresso! (Source: :: rato de biblioteca ::) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825222 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html#1085288879080056375 So often these incidents start with the convenient anonymous "neighbor's complaint" As seven New Orleans police cars converged on the corner of Second and Dryades streets on Mardi Gras night, Big Chief James Harris of the Seminole Warriors grabbed for the five youngest members of his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, all of them younger than 6. Holding up his feathered purple, green and yellow wing, Harris tried to slow the cars, but they kept moving through the thick crowd of parading Indians and spectators, sirens blaring and tires squealing Harris said he barely was able to pull the children to the sidewalk. “They were scared,” he said. “One ran this way and the other ran that way.”Starting about 6 p.m., the police cars raced for at least 15 minutes, according to cell-phone video accounts, and officers insulted bystanders, spectators said.The episode, which a police commander characterized as a routine effort to clear streets sparked by a neighbor’s complaint of Indians with guns, has stirred memories of the events of St. Joseph’s Night 2005, when officers sped through crowds and told Indian chiefs to remove their extravagant suits or go to jailI know a lot of cops really hate Mardi Gras. They work long hours. People are assholes to them. I get it. But it's part of the job and when they start taking their frustrations out on people like this, “It was manic,” said Patrick Keen, a barber from nearby Brimmer’s Barbershop. When he asked an officer why they were circling the block, Keen said, the officer called him a crude name and complained that the Indians “are messing up my night.”Two other men said they were treated unpleasantly by the same officer, said Keen, who said he walked up to Sgt. David Liang and asked to file a complaint. He said Liang ran a criminal check on Keen, finding nothing, before getting on his radio and describing the complaint, which Bardy said is being investigated. well... you don't get to do that. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825119 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15923 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION: A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape MAY 25-26, 2010 The Ray and Maria Stata Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA PRESENTED BY the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) HOSTED BY the MIT Libraries THE TECTONICS OF DIGITAL CURATION explores the sustainability of cultural collections created for and maintained on the Web. At this two-day symposium, a diverse faculty of national experts will examine the forces at play in our increasingly networked society. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: divergence and complexity in information networking; digital preservation repositories; electronic copyright and intellectual property; collaborative and commercial preservation models; digital archiving strategies; open access to scholarly communication; the networked self; preservation of CAD models; and preservation of community-built digital creations (video games). WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Librarians, archivis (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824662 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002064.html I heard Anders Söderbäck of the Royal Library in Sweden speak in Lund last week on the perennial topic 'what is a library'. He reminded us of Daniel Dennett's remark: A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. This in turn reminded me of a post I did here a while ago about Dan Chudnov's definition of the mission of the library: Dan Chudnov has an interesting post on the mission of the library. What is the all-consuming mission of the library? His answer is an interesting one, which on reflection works surprisingly well. He argues that his professional mission as a librarian is this:Help people build their own libraries. [Because this is the business we've chosen | One Big Library.]What I like about this is that it - if I understand it correctly - covers emerging as well as current scenarios. Examples: to help with the creation, organization and curation of locally created materials, or to help with shared bookmarking/citation management/reading list services. As I suggest elsewhere we are developing a new vocabulary of collections: playlists, reading lists, repository, ... [Hedgehogs] Here is Daniel Dennett in Worldcat Identities. Related entry:What is the library (Source: Lorcan Dempsey) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:03:58 +0100 824364 http://lisnews.org/hollywood_job_treasure Story about Howard Prouty, acquisitions archivist for the Margaret Herrick Library The academy's Margaret Herrick Library contains 35,000 movie posters, 10 million photos, uncounted original screenplays used as the films were being shot, scrapbooks, costume and scenic-design drawings, music scores and sound recordings, plus books and periodicals. All of them document more than a century of moviemaking. Full article here (Source: LISNews.org) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:34:56 +0100 824374 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/nYyxiXM1Tx0/ Direktlink YouTube Einer der besten Filme, die ich letztes Jahr gesehen habe1, kommt endlich diese Woche in Deutschland in die Kinos: «Ein Prophet» von Jacques Audiard. Der mit wichtigen Filmpreisen überhäufte Gangsterfilm bekam nicht nur letztes Jahr den Großen Preis der Jury beim Filmfest in Cannes sondern ist in Frankreich mit sage und schreibe neun Césars bedacht worden. Großartig sind die beiden Darsteller des Filmes: Tahar Rahim in der Rolle des Malik und Niels Arestrup als dessen korsischer Ziehvater César Luciani. In der heutigen FASZ2 lobt Bert Rebhandel vollkommen zu recht: Mafiageschichten sind immer Königsdramen, es geht darum, den alten Paten abzulösen, abzusägen, abzumurksen, sich an seine Stelle zu setzen und die Loyalitäten neu zu ordnen. In Jacques Audiards Film sind es vor allem zwei Besonderheiten, die diesen “Propheten” zu dem bisher wohl außergewöhnlichsten Epos dieser Art machen: Die eine Besonderheit ist das Gefängnis selbst, das hier keineswegs als Ort des Übergangs vor der Wiederzulassung zum gesellschaftlichen Verkehr erscheint, sondern als privilegierte Zone der Illegalität, mit korrupten Beamten und rücksichtslosen Territorialkämpfen. Die zweite Besonderheit ist die ethnische Konnotierung, die den französischen Gangsterfilm (denn das ist “Ein Prophet” in einer pointierten Zuspitzung) auf den gesellschaftlichen Stand bringt. Ich habe den Film auf dem Festival in San Sebastián gesehen.Der FASZ-Artikel «Der Handlanger als Pate» leider nur für Abonnenten online zugänglich. © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:24:50 +0100 825214 http://bsf.org.br/2010/03/07/biblioteca-video-palestra-moreno-barros/ Eis o vídeo da palestra que dei em novembro passado no Rio, falando sobre web 2.0, web 3.0, a biblioteca como plataforma, boas práticas da biblioteconomia e tudo mais. Eu tenho vergonha alheia de mim mesmo por falar tanto, então eu editei o vídeo e aí estão as partes concisas. Mas vou incluir as outras partes e depois atualizo os links. O vídeo na íntegra vai para o Vimeo e as sequências menores vão para o youtube e o videolog. Acho que fui bem coerente nas falas, mas já tenho posições diferentes sobre a maioria das coisas que falei. Muitas coisas que eu propagandeio deram errado, e agora acho que eu devo me concentrar exclusivamente nas que deram certo. E é sobre isso que eu vou falar nas próximas palestras. Semana que vem é dia do bibliotecário, eu darei uma palestra para os alunos da UFF na terça feira e para os bibliotecários da rede de bibliotecas da UERJ na sexta. Não sei se as palestras serão filmadas e nem se serão abertas ao público, mas se quiserem ir lá ver, acho que tem jeito. em posts relacionados. Visite o blog e faça sua busca manual. (Source: Bibliotecários Sem Fronteiras 2.0) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:07:49 +0100 824476 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=33087 16 Finalists Announced in Phase 1 of Race to the Top Competition Finalists to Present in Mid-March; Winners Announced in Early April Source: U.S. Department of Education Today the Department of Education announced that 15 states and the District of Columbia will advance as finalists for phase 1 of the Race to the Top competition. Race to the Top is the Department’s $4.35 billion effort to dramatically re-shape America’s educational system to better engage and prepare our students for success in a competitive 21st century economy and workplace. States competing for Race to the Top funds were asked to document past education reform successes, as well as outline plans to: extend reforms using college and career-ready standards and assessments; build a workforce of highly effective educators; create educational data systems to support student achievement; and turn around their lowest-performing schools. The phase 1 finalists are: * Colorado * Delaware * District of Columbia * Florida * Georgia * Illinois * Kentucky * Louisiana * Massachusetts * New York * North Carolina * Ohio * Pennsylvania * Rhode Island * South Carolina * Tennessee + Video announcement + Letter to governors + Secretary’s statement (Source: Docuticker) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:53:55 +0100 824401 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2925 Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States, spoke at the University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs in Seattle last week and outlined some of the current problems of government Information Technology and some of the approaches he is taking to address those problems. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra speaks about Government 2.0. [streaming video] ustream.tv [about 30 minutes, plus 30+ minutes of questions and answers] See also: Federal CIO Describes Problems, Changes in IT, by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service (Mar 4, 2010). It takes the Veteran's Administration 160 days to process benefits for veterans, he said. "That's because the Veteran's Administration is processing paperwork by passing manila folders from one desk to another" Another example of an outdated and inefficient agency is the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which takes three years to process a patent, he said. "One reason is because the U.S. PTO receives these applications online, prints them out, and then someone manually rekeys the information into an antiquated system," he said. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra - Making Government Work: Closing the IT Gap to Deliver for the American People [Event Announcement] University of Washington's Evans School of Public Affairs in Seattle, March 4, 2010. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:41:29 +0100 824372 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/AUodvs4o_eU/ Direktlink: CollegeHumor. Ganz großes Kino! Schöner ist der ganze Webzirkus noch nicht durch den Kakao gezogen worden. Ich mag keine Musicals. Um so mehr musste ich durchgehend brüllen vor Lachen bei der Betrachtung der Web Side Story. Ich danke Isa für diesen wunderbaren Webfund. © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | 6 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:20:41 +0100 825215 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/07/the-cmos-guide-to-the-social-landscape/ The CMO’s Guide to the Social Landscape (PDF; 455 KB) 2010 is the year CMOs will heavily invest in social media. Here’s a guide to help you understand how to best leverage major social media sites. Informative chart includes Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, digg, StumbleUpon, reddit, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Buzz. Source: Drew’s Marketing Minute (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:54:59 +0100 824291 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/VbFVnOL5bgE/2604-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-march-7.html Here is our weekly wrap-up of Internet search and search engine industry oriented headlines. Google Buys Online Collaboration Operator DocVerse Something good is about to happen with Google’s cloud computing service – that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files (SE Journal March 3 2010) The five-minute guide to Google Squared Arrange data from the web in a neat spreadsheet (techradar March 6 2010) Google Launches Gesture Search for Android To use the search, you write a letter across the screen. (SE Watch March 5 2010) Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results The ability to re-order, remove, and comment on search results has been replaced by a scaled-down version (SE Land March 3 1010) SMX West 2010 Live Blogging Recap Keri Morgret of Strike Models and Brian Ussery of Beu Blog spent a tremendous amount of time and energy live blogging the event. (March 5 2010) Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag At SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right now. (SE Land March 5 2010) YouTube adds automatic subtitles for the deaf Latest speech recognition breakthrough for the hard of hearing (techradar march 5 2010) Peter Norvig offers an insider’s look at Google Research during SMX West A list of new products from Google (SE Watch March 3 2010) Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped Speaking at SMX WestGoogle’s Director of Research said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs a new name (SE Land March 3 2010) Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live The documentation is live on Google Code (SE Land March 3 2010) Yahoo CEO Bartz Says Would Have Sold Yahoo, Mocks Facebook Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz stated she would have sold Yahoo at $36 when Microsoft was offering (SE Watch March 2 2010) Google Italy ruling might very well turn out to be a blessing Its time to finally get the law straightened out. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:55:22 +0100 824920 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/GhPqBlokFkY/pats-layar-terug-op-de-iphone.html Iedere week koester ik de iPhone een beetje meer. Ik geniet dagelijks van de superieure interface en de soepele bediening, van het goede geluid en van het ontdekken van alweer een geinige app. Naarmate ik er meer van geniet word ik er echter zwijgzamer over. Aanvankelijk lukte het me gewoon niet om mijn bewondering voor de technologie onder stoelen of banken te steken maar ik begin het af te leren. Op een gegeven moment voel je je net zo'n patser die op een zonnige zondag dringend de behoefte heeft met zijn blinkende, gepimpte auto over de Boulevard van Vlissingen te rijden, alleen om het wandelpubliek de ogen uit te steken. Zo wil ik niet zijn. Maar het valt niet mee, dat kan ik je wel vertellen. Sommige apps zijn zo indrukwekkend dat je het liefst zou willen dat iedereen er plezier van zou kunnen hebben. Wij van wc-eend adviseren wc-eend, zoiets. Een van de eerste apps waar ik een maandje geleden naar op zoek ging was het Nederlandse Layar. Tot mijn verbazing kon ik die toepassing echter niet vinden in de App Store.Via Twitter liet iemand van het bedrijf me weten dat de app tijdelijk uit de store was verwijderd omdat de software nog wat instabiel bleek te zijn. Vandaag las ik op iPhoneClub dat Layar weer beschikbaar is. Ik nam niet eens de tijd om dat bericht helemaal te lezen; in plaats daarvan installeerde ik de software onmiddelijk, zo nieuwsgierig was ik. De vele 'lagen' van de 'Augmented Reality Browser' lenen zich niet goed voor de woonkamer maar zien er desondanks veelbelovend uit. Het willen verkennen van die lagen is wel een goede reden om lekker naar buiten te gaan. Het moet eigenlijk niet gekker worden. Ik ga de zonnige realiteit opzoeken om er ter plekke een andere realiteit aan toe te voegen. Als dat geen patsen is... Ben ik er toch nog ingetuind. Zie ook de video. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:59:00 +0100 824284 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/LiytLVfxysI/video-farewell-to-manchester-central.html "Manchester Central Library (UK) in St Peter's Square will shortly be closing for 3 years of restoration, refurbishment and modernisation. This iconic circular building, opened in 1934, was inspired in part by the Pantheon in Rome, and the New York City Library. It is one of the finest and largest libraries in the country and some of the furniture and fittings date back to the 1930s. The aim of this unofficial amateur video (shot in Feb 2010) is to take a last nostalgic look at the old traditional style of the library before the modernisation work begins. And to preserve on video, views of the library which will be familiar to generations of students who have studied in this wonderful building over the years. The building is being closed down in stages over the coming weeks, from 25 February to 4 July 2010. But most library departments will close on 1 April. Central Library is due to re-open in 2013. So time is running out for those who want to view the library in its traditional pre-modernisation style" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:50:55 +0100 824256 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/ZaVM65Pozz8/ First web copyright crackdown coming http://icio.us/ntafpv # Smoke got in my eyes http://icio.us/ctr1zq # Federal Intellectual Property Enforcement Gears Up http://icio.us/10roe2 # People and Ideas on the Future of Repositories-in-the-Cloud http://icio.us/3pp4is # DigitalKoans Break http://bit.ly/9hqtHe # HighWire Press 2009 Librarian eBook Survey http://bit.ly/beJZTz # Librarian for Digital Technologies and Learning at NCSU http://bit.ly/blD1Cw # "GBS March Madness: Paths Forward for the Google Books Settlement" http://bit.ly/bIXDTe # Systems and Electronic Services Librarian at Lebanon Valley College http://bit.ly/bW2B4q # SPARC: Campus-Based Open-Access Publishing Funds http://bit.ly/d5zdDU # Northeastern University Libraries sign SCOAP3 Expression of Interest http://icio.us/j4zxdm # The Ethics of Open Access and Copyright Infringement http://icio.us/ue4fvp # EFF demands FCC close copyright "loophole" in net neutrality http://icio.us/0rysff # Digital Video: Peter Suber on the Future of Open Access http://bit.ly/dvJ2uR # Applications Programmer/Analyst Associate at University of Michigan http://bit.ly/961HjL # Unintended Consequences: 12 Years Under the DMCA http://bit.ly/cUgwo9 # Programmer/Analyst, Digital Library Tools at Indiana University http://bit.ly/c0T97y # DSpace 1.6 Released http://bit.ly/9WlK0l # Supreme Court Sends Tasini Case Back to Appeals Court http://icio.us/kas5b5 # Library Groups Join in Filing Motion on Copyright Appeal http://icio.us/vproo3 # BURO crashes through 9000 items barrier http://icio.us/2sw1jw # Open Access to Research Outputs Institutional Policies and Researchers' Views: Results From Two Surveys http://icio.us/eddeo1 # Aptara Survey Reveals Publishers’ Evolving Response to eBooks http://icio.us/khh3lz # Digital initiative starts http://icio.us/sflmuz # Fighting a Copyright Charge http://icio.us/th1tii # Top 10 Best Security Plugins for Wordpress http://icio. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:00:00 +0100 824224 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/8_vjwJWbnJk/chatroulette-een-game-voor-voyeurs.html Ik had me nog zo voorgenomen om het fenomeen te negeren maar zojuist ben ik toch overstag gegaan: ik heb de website Chatroulette bekeken. Aanvankelijk kwam ik de site alleen tegen in tweets en op blogs maar inmiddels lees ik er ook over in kranten en tijdschriften. Dan moet je het toch op z'n minst even bekijken, vind ik. Ik keek zonder een webcam aan te sluiten; ik klikte alleen dertig keer op de 'next-knop'. Toen ik geconfronteerd werd met een gast die fluit zat te spelen haakte ik weer af. Het is niet mijn kopje thee. Als je geen idee hebt wat Chatroulette is: Sander Duivestein legt het uit op Marketingfacts. Wat me wel fascineert is het concept. Duizenden bedrijven investeren bakken met geld in het bedenken van dit soort toepassingen maar op de een of andere manier lijken het altijd pubers te zijn die virale concepten als dit tevoorschijn toveren. De bedenker van Chatroulette is zeventien. Het verkeer naar de site is explosief gegroeid. Dat is inderdaad....gigantisch. Ondertussen zijn er ook vele verzamelvideo's te vinden op YouTube c.s. Daar kon je op wachten. Sommige daarvan zijn best grappig maar na deze korte verkenning is mijn oordeel desondanks: dit is niet mijn kopje thee. Jouw kopje thee wel? Gerelateerd: Gelezen: Viral Loop All Your Base Are Belong To Us en andere hilarische internetfenomenen. Internet People Internethumor Ken je internetsektes @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:43:00 +0100 824285