I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned Top Ten Sources here before. I think I have because my friend Wendy is involved in the project. It’s a series of Web pages about the top ten places on the Internet for whatever. I was scoping it out a bit more today and found blogging journalists. Some of [...]
beSpacific mentions a searchable version of the U.S. Copyright Law as an ebook. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws are also available.
For a long time, I felt like not joining Wikipedia was the right thing to do because it meant I could possibly remain more objective in my reporting of Wikimedia Foundation activities and appear more objective. However, now, I’m beginning to feel conflicted. In my attempts to continue to learn about the Wikimedia Foundation projects, [...]
A number of big media players, like The New York Times and NBC Universal, are creating the Content Consortium–a large Web site filled with their content that’s blocked to search engines. BusinessWeek has the details.
The Boston Channel (WCVB) announces the creation of an investigative team of writers, producers, and other staff to focus on detailed local stories. I wonder if they’d add a news librarian to their staff to assist the team …
From WXRT in Chicago comes Lin’s Bin, a segment where Lin Brehmer answers a listener’s question. This episode has to do with why librarians are cool. It includes lots of famous snippets, including those fabulous words of Evelyn Carnahan, the librarian in The Mummy, that make some of us stand up and cheer in crowded [...]
RSS4Lib features Netherlands-based Feed XS, a tool which allows people to create the content for RSS feeds, to publish something directly as a feed. It’s a way of making a feed without using some software platform, like blog software, to do it. Why publish just a feed? Well, I learned about a year ago about [...]
beSpacific and the Mad Librarian have some links to information about the Department of Justice’s request of Google’s records related to pornography in an attempt to learn more about minors’ access to pornography and Google’s hesitancy to release those records to the DOJ. Addenda 1/21: The radio show Weekend America talks with Sherry Turkle, an [...]
beSpacific mentions an article about three studies dealing with how quickly people evaluate Web sites. Many do it in fractions of a second–much quicker than some Web designers think it happens. More from the BBC, Slashdot, and Nature.com (restricted to premium subscribers)
The radio show Car Talk now offers its puzzler and new columns via RSS. (Yes, the typo is intentional. I’m trying hard to be funny.)