The advance program for the Computers in Libraries 2008 conference is now available.
http://www.infotoday.com/cil2008/program.shtml
Some of the programs include Search Engines, Open Source and Gaming.
I will let everyone know if there are discounts available
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The proceedings of the Publishing in the New Millennium: the future of scientific publishing in the biosciences conference held at Harvard University on November 9 are available.
http://tinyurl.com/2yplok
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I would like to wish j and her family, the other Scratchpad contributors and the Scratchpad readers a safe and prosperous Happy New Year!
Cheers
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Tom Weber shares the news from the December 1 and 2 editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he found cushioning the carpet of his house. We frequently hear about people finding all sorts of neat things when they renovate. I think this use of newspapers for carpet padding is a clever way to recycle newspaper, […]
A few weeks ago, the radio show Weekend America aired an interview with PeaceBang, a woman who shares fashion tips with the clergy via a weblog. A minister herself, she blogged anonymously at first, but has gradually opened up about her online identity. Some of the discussion reminded me of some common perceptions about librarians […]
Finding this note on Wendy Seltzer’s weblog about a video about a Web 2.0 bubble getting removed from YouTube because of a copyright claim is like a one-two punch for the scratchpad. Someone showed me the video at work a while ago and I’ve been meaning to share it with you. (Google, Ask, nor I […]
I heard the piece on tonight’s All Things Considered about the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow broadcasters in the top 20 markets to own a broadcast organization and a newspaper in the same market. For some organizations, this change is positive, but many people are concerned about the same parent organization controlling too much […]
News that is rocking some parts of the blogosphere and making bloggers nervous: Six Apart sold the popular platform LiveJournal to the Russian company SUP. This sale has a number of implications for bloggers. How much might the platform change? How will new owners treat the established community? What might happen to any number of […]
In a post about a corporate Blog Council, Jeff Jarvis shares some excellent thoughts about the importance of not forcing blogging by sharing a conversation he had with a woman who has what sounds like the blog blahs.
"To her, the blog was a thing, a beast that needed to be fed, a never-ending sheet of […]
Too late for me to find the article online, I noticed a piece in Tuesday’s Boston Globe about Google launching images of Boston in the Street View portion or its mapping service. The local television news channel WCVB summarizes the article, outlining some of the privacy concerns for images that show people’s faces, license plates, […]