When I saw this Pew Internet report about how people use the Internet to find science news in Garrett’s weekly e-mail, I knew I had to flag it. The majority of the time I spend on one single task is working on a Web site about research at the university. We’re always thinking about how [...]
Kim, who won’t blog this himself for some silly reason, pointed me to this article about an open source library system. Spiffy!
This Economist article examines how people are using tools traditionally thought of as consumer tools, not corporate tools, in the workforce. They include technologies such as Web-based e-mail accounts with lots of storage, instant messaging, and voice-over-IP services. The article begins by talking about arrangements Arizona State University has made with Google through Google Apps [...]
I know some of you are big fans of Wikipedia and might be considering donating money this time of year. There’s a notice on the encyclopedia that a donor is willing to match today’s donations. I looked for more information about this on the site, but I didn’t find for what I was searching, like [...]
Inmagic, a library vendor offering several different technology products, has added RSS capabilities to its latest WebPublisher PRO v10, scheduled to be released in a few days. Their press release has more details.
Many of us keep hoping library system vendors will do more with feeds. Here’s one that is.
noticed on Library Stuff
Information Week reports that Office 2007 and Zune won’t install on Windows 2000.
Windows Defender also won’t install on Windows 2000, but the article mentions a workaround.
The article mentions that Microsoft doesn’t plan to release a patch that will update Windows 2000 systems to the new time-zone definitons. The article does mention a procedure [...]
Monday’s Wall Street Journal reports that there’s new company will begin testing a system to scan the billions of pages on the Web for clients’ audio, video, images and text, potentially making it easier for owners to request that Web sites take content down or provide payment for its use.
http://tinyurl.com/yc9zm6
“Newspaper librarians are now more involved in online research and training than archiving, writes Richard Nelsson, looking how the role at the Guardian has evolved from filing cuttings to direct support
for journalists filing stories.”
http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6A…
This was mentioned on Peter Scott’s Library Blog a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had the time
to post it.
http://xrefer.blogspot.com/
Greetings
There’s a new library cartoon called Turn the page
http://librarycartoons.blogspot.com/inde…
If you liked the Unshelved strip, http://www.overduemedia.com/
then you’ll like this one!
links via LibrarianinBlack:
http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/
Monday’s Boston Globe has a front page article about the state of blogging in Iran, including some information about Internet accesss, the legality of blogging, and the increase in bloggers who write in Farsi.