Okay, these both look waaaaaayy more useful than the ipad (which is very pretty, and if someone would like to send one, or for that matter, all of these, I will be glad to give a very honest review. ) So far, the Asus is very netbook-y (less than 9 inches for the small version) but Acer is a little
Interesting how my interests have progressed over the years. (and these are just the ones I can remember and just to note this is an alphabetic title list). Heh, the word web sure does appear alot 😉 Many of these are available via http://www.slideshare.net/robinfay/ You can always email me for more info. 😉 ..and guess what? I’m guest lecturing on
Lots of resources related to the recent lawsuit against OCLC including recent articles, blog postings, procedural court docs. (from my twitter stream) “The suit alleges that OCLC, a purported non-profit with a membership of 72,000 libraries worldwide, is unlawfully monopolizing the markets for cataloging services, interlibrary lending, and bibliographic data, and attempting to monopolize the market for integrated library systems,
Google in talks with Verizon re: net neutrality (or not) depending on which story you read.read about it here or here or just google it. What is net neutrality? Love this video. ..and then news today that Google buys Slide, “a social application company”. read more about it here
Heh, not that I really used it for anything (I guess that’s the problem), but interesting to read the news. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/08/wave-cancellation-google-gives-up-on-next-gen-messaging.ars
Internet archive has both moving images and stills including publicdomain; others are licensed under creative commons (CC).http://www.internetarchive.org and here are the various searches by CC license type:http://is.gd/dMHCl Also searching flickr by CC licensehttp://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/?flickr does have some very short film clips. I’m sure there are other tools, even the creativecommons website hassearching functionality. Youtube allows searching by license, too. Also, fair
So, here are the kinds of things were are talking about and exploring in the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries. We now have a newly formed Social Media Group in addition to the Home Page Redesign Group and the Mobile Development Group, so the EMT Group is more of a thinktank group. We assist the other groups and try
Sounds interesting…————————-Summarizing from an email:Karen Snow is a Ph.D. Candidate in Information Science in the College of Information at the University of North Texas who is collecting data for her dissertation “A Study of the Perception of Cataloging Quality Among Catalogers in Academic Libraries.” This study addresses the ambiguous nature of “quality” in cataloging and the difficulties in assessing what
My friend & colleague Beth did this, super job!
I’ve begin to see alot of my friend’s comments on THEIR friends walls and posts in my news feed. I’m not sure if that is what they want (perhaps, it is, and I don’t really mind) but I do wonder if they realize the extent to which they are sharing (and sometimes, oversharing). One of the best ways to find