When I read the post about this 3D desktop for computers on Newslib, a discussion list for news librarians, I thought at first it had to be a joke. It doesn’t appear to be. BumpTop really seems to be an attempt at bringing the 3D world to our flat computer desktops. It offers functionality like [...]
Garrett brought WetPaint, a new hosted WYSIWYG wiki platform, to my attention via an item on C|Net. It looks like people can edit, e-mail, and comment on wiki pages. There are keyword tag clouds. Moderators can lock pages they don’t want just anyone to edit. For example, the Lego front page is locked, but the [...]
check out The New York Times’ blogging of the soccer matches, like the US-Ghana game happening now. The US needs to win by a bit to stay in the World Cup.
Has anyone spotted my coworker in the stands? We haven’t yet, but we can certainly hear Sam’s Army.
With all the talk about personal privacy and Internet data lately, I thought some of you might find this bit about AT&T’s change to its customer privacy policy interesting.
"AT&T Inc. is changing its privacy policy for Internet and television customers to specify that account information is a business record the company owns and can be [...]
I left my ethernet cable at one of the talks I gave this past week. I hadn’t yet purchased another one. This morning, I discovered a box of slightly used cables set out for the trash. The seven or so I’ve tested so far seem to work fine. I even found one matching the brand [...]
One of the things about The Boston Globe some people find baffling is how its news team seemed to be separate from the news team working the Web site hosting the Globe, Boston.com. The two plan to merge. The Boston Herald has a bit about the change, too.
Over the weekend, The New York Times ran an article discussing who gets to edit Wikipedia in light of recent article editing restrictions and the change to prevent everyone from editing all articles all of the time.
(Caution: The image accompanying this bit may not be for the faint of heart or teddy bear fans.)
Thumb drive animals, like this one, appeal to me. Part cuddly object, part macabre. I’m pondering how to knit or sew appropriate ends for the drives I have. Maybe it wouldn’t look so bad if the ends were [...]
On Wednesday morning, June 14, I attended a Special Libraries Association Annual conference session on digital preservation led by Vicky McCargar. Here are my notes.
We need to do more to preserve our digital content. We need to be aware that files degrade and data can be lost. We need to do what we can to [...]
I only attended about 30 minutes of the microfilm digitization vendor roundtable at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference on Monday, June 12. Here’s my summary.
If you’re working with a paper that has a long history, don’t forget that papers 100 years ago had different contents than papers today. It’s important to pick a vendor [...]