"You Two! We're at the end of the universe, eh. Right at the edge of knowledge itself. And you're busy... blogging!"
— The Doctor, Utopia
I've received some new information which leads me to believe that the book is on indefinite hold in the best case and dead in the worst case. I'm in contact with all involved and as soon as I have some solid information that I can talk about I'll post it here. There's no reason to demand a refund at this point and I beg your continued patience when it comes to this project. Thanks for your understanding.
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Woo hoo! Amanda has her Badku feed up and running. (Language not appropriate for younger readers and those that are easily offended.)
All the employees at a San Francisco indie coffee joint dressed as Starbucks employees today.
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I just got a call asking if the library had a skeleton the patron could check out to assist her in studying for her anatomy exam.
Take a few thousand classic SF magazinecovers, mix in some programming and you end up with an interesting mix of data and images. (Find me one with a Dean Koontz story in it and win a mention here. A screenshot of your find will be appreciated.)
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It's out and you can really purchase it now from www.csbcommodities.com. Someone, anyone, think Christmas. Please!
How about this as a solution for public access PCs? Plug a monitor, keyboard & mouse into the wall; instant public-access terminal.
Cory Doctorow explains and links to the mashup of All Your Base and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.
Yes, DalekCity is "the online home of the dalek builders' guild. Now that's a halloween costume!
Take movie monsters, mox with classical art and get the results presented at Worth1000.com.
I've got a 40GB iPod with hundreds of albums of music on it. There was no way I was ever going to get all that album cover art into iTunes also. Well, the iTunes Art Importer 0.9.2 actually does a very good job of it with minimal input. (It did come up with a completely off-the-wall for Queen's Jazz album but otherwise the results were impressive.)
If you are, or if you're offering opening open WiFi to your patrons, you need to listen to episodes #10 and #11 of Security Now!. (Transcripts are also available but it's more fun to listen to.)
For those that heard the news (announced Tuesday night at IL05) about Microsoft joining the Open Content Alliance, and other interested parties, here's a flick photoset from the reception.
O.k. Now that I'm back from conference I've decided to try using del.icio.us to store my new bookmarks. You can check out my links at del.icio.us/travelinlibrarian and also subscribe to them via RSS. For the uninitiated, del.icio.us is a place where you can post and tag (think flickr) your bookmarks. If you want to know what I'm bookmarking as "interesting and useful" try looking at the above link. (There's not much there yet but I'm working on it.)
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Here's where you can find all my photos from the IL05 trip. They're broken up into four categories: San Francisco, Monterey, the conference, and the California coast.
I made it into the InfoToday blog, sort of. You have to look closely though. One of the plugs in teh first photo has my laptop at the other end and I'm the person in front of the balding gentleman. (You can only see my back...)
This is my final post from the conference. Due to an 8pm flight home from San Francisco this evening, I'm stopping after the final morning presentation and having lunch & dinner somewhere up the coast. I'm disappointed about this as I'll be missing Stephen Abram's closing keynote but I'm sure he'll post the slides to his blog later in the week. (Funding issues are making me leave tonight instead of tomorrow morning.) Once I've had a chance to digest everything I've heard over the past 2.5 days I'll post a post-conference wrap-up and additional thoughts. Thanks to everyone who've been following me through this conference.
David Mandelbrot, Vice President of Search Content, Yahoo!
Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality, Google
A9.com
Google: Research Search Innovations
Yahoo!
· Innovation acceleration
· FUSE
o Enable people to Find, Use, Share and Expand all human knowledge
· Challenge
o Attempts to find “all human knowledge” didn’t include for-pay content sources – couldn’t find everything
o Search Subscriptions
§ Searching popular for-pay content
§ Personalization allows users to always get for-pay content
§ Feed from partner web sites ensure…
· Challenge: once you find content, how can you use it?
o Find pic, can I post it on my page?
§ Search for Creative Commons
§ Licencing system
§ Yahoo created interface to all users to search CC content
§ Then users know they can use it
§ Feature allows search based on type of use
· Challenge: enable users to share knowledge with their community to create a better search experience
o Limit to number of useful relevant results
o How can I share what I’ve learned from my searches
o My Web 2.0 (“social search”)
§ Save results
§ Tag results
§ Share results
· Challenge: expanding the amount of content made openly available online while not upsetting the ecosystem
o Open Content
§ Joint effort
§ Approval of copyright holders
§ Multimedia & text
§ Full text rather and snippets
§ Freely crawlable
§ International effort
§ Uses common formats
It seems that I'm now allowed to say that I worked on the redesign of LII since I'm listed in the credits.
A Picture Share!
Originally uploaded by The Shifted Librarian. Mike Crandal, The Information School,
Rich Wiggins,
Google: Catalyst for Digitization or Library Destruction?
Roy Tennant
Adam Smith, Product Manager for Google Print and Google Scholar
Steven M. Cohen, PubSub Concepts, Inc.
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http://librarymarketing.blogspot.com/ http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jsstover/internetlibrarian/marketingtheweblog.php http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jsstover/internetlibrarian/ilbib.html
Just a note (positive or negative depending on your gender): The restrooms outside the Steinbeck room are both for Women. You'll need to go down a level for the Men's room.
Well, the morning was fun and informative as expected. The free WiFi works in the "conference center" as expected. It is available in the Steinbeck Room (where I'm spending the day) but it's spotty. I got dropped once during the first session and once during the second one. I comfirmed this with others in the room so it is the service, not my laptop.
Also, there are not readily accessable power outlets in Steinbeck. So, on breaks it's first come first serve for us slaves to the juice.
Lastly, here's a tip for a fantastic conference: if you plan on spending lunch by yourself, try and hook up with some other attendees that are doing the same. I and two others showd up at India's Clay Oven at the same time and we all started to sit down, by our selves, at individual tables. I suggested we all share a table and had some great conversation about the conference, where we were from, and what we all do. Don't be shy, say hi.
Karen G, Schneider, Director, Librarian's Internet Index
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