Archive for March, 2008
Beyond books
March 23rd, 2008GoErie - “You could think of it as an upgrade. You might even call it “Library 2.0.” Whatever the term, Erie County Public Library Director Margaret Stewart’s idea of how libraries have changed comes down to this: It’s “not your mother’s library.”
Library ghost eludes hunters
March 23rd, 2008The Republican - “In the end, after a night-long stay with cameras and other equipment, the team from Ghost Hunters reported to custodian Jacques J. Benoit that they had no evidence of spirits in Clapp Memorial Library.”
Harry Potter author: I considered suicide
March 23rd, 2008CNN - “Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has revealed she thought of killing herself while penniless and suffering from depression as a single mother, according to a report in Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper.”
Follow the leader
March 23rd, 2008ALSC Blog - “I now realize, I followed my own leaders…..Look around you. There’s bound to be a leader nearby, one that you can learn from, one that will gladly take you under wing and teach you to be a leader in your own right.”
PC game developer has radical message: ignore the pirates
March 23rd, 2008Kairos News - “This is a very sensible view on why not to use digital rights management”
See also: The Royalty Scam
Open-government advocate calls Ohio Supreme Court records panel unconstitutional
March 23rd, 2008Cleveland Plain Dealer - “Cleveland lawyer David Marburger, of the Ohio Coalition for Open Government, said a court- appointed commission drawing up rules on what court records the public should have access to does not have the constitutional authority to do so.” (via)
More about the org here.
Fun With Google News’ Source Syntax
March 22nd, 2008And how to find the comments. Great detective work Tara.
Guster’s Gardner puts eco-message into practice
March 22nd, 2008Reuters - “Since co-founding Reverb in 2004, Gardner, who runs the nonprofit with his wife, environmentalist Lauren Sullivan, has helped turn more than 50 concert tours green, reduce 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide, distribute approximately 250,000 gallons of biodiesel and spread the Earth-conscious message to 4.5 million music fans. And his efforts won’t stop there.”
Gardner [...]
Losing My Religion
March 22nd, 2008What an eerie version…
Reporting live from a cellphone near you…
March 22nd, 2008Los Angeles Times - “The startup allows video from cellphones to be streamed live on the Web. In the future, will any bad behavior may go unnoticed?”
Start-up Askpedia: IAC doesn’t like our name
March 22nd, 2008CNET - “Representatives from the start-up Askpedia.com told CNET News.com that the search engine’s parent company, InterActiveCorp, sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month, citing intellectual property violations in the name “Askpedia.”
If it quacks like a librarian…
March 22nd, 2008Rachel Singer Gordon - “Well, guess what. The outside world doesn’t know — or care — that librarians have an MLS. They don’t care what LJ decides to print. They just care about the service they receive and whether someone can do the job she was hired to do.”
Yes! I’ve said it before. [...]
Are libraries keeping up with technology demands?
March 22nd, 2008video from KSTP
Bookshelf Etiquette
March 22nd, 2008Jennifer Schuessler - “My new policy, more or less, is to get rid of most books once I’ve read them, keeping only those that I’m pretty sure I’ll want to refer to later or that have really great pictures.”
Dance Those Fines Away
March 21st, 2008Unshelved is funny today.
Moving SWIFTly On…
March 21st, 2008K.G. Schneider - “If Information Today wants to spend money on an improvement, ensuring MESH wifi for their conference sites would be my vote.”
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
March 21st, 2008WorldCat Blog - “Officially, it’s called WorldCat Identities, and its built into WorldCat.org.”
Bring Your Video Game Skills…to the NY Public Library!
March 21st, 2008Gothamist - “The NYPL’s Assistant Coordinator of Young Adult Services, Jack Martin, explained, “Gaming at the library can bridge the gaps between children, teens and adults, bringing them together as families and friends under one space, or through dialog created through the users’ individual game playing.” (via)
Library Sued For Restricting Internet Time
March 21st, 2008InformationWeek - “The Tampa, Fla. library recently restricted use of public Internet terminals at its branches to two-and-a-half hours per day and began asking patrons for ID before they could log on.”
American Idol vocal coach: Chikezie, Carly almost blew it
March 21st, 2008Some good AI gossip.
Open Education Posts on Video Games
March 21st, 2008The other day, I received an e-mail from Tom Hanson, who blogs over at Open Education. He mentioned a few video game posts in his e-mail. Here they are:
1) Shoot-em Up Video Games - The Cause of Greater Anti-social Behaviors in Teens?
2) Author Reveals “The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games”
3) Experts State: [...]
Teacher: Military recruiters should be allowed in Maryland public libraries
March 21st, 2008Examiner.com - “To Ralph Jaffe’s disgust, military recruiters are prohibited from approaching patrons inside public libraries, a widespread policy he says violates the First Amendment.”
Does the Washington Post check its RSS feeds?
March 21st, 2008Hot Air - “They are arguably the most influential newspaper in the US, and certainly one of the most successful. However, they do a very poor job of maintaining their RSS feeds.”
Librarian Child Porn Story Taking Off
March 21st, 2008No better place to keep up with the story than here. Again, it’s one side of the story.
Go Twitter
March 20th, 2008Chad Heafele - “In addition to just being plain old fun, twitter has been more useful than I expected.”
I’m trying to get on Twitter at least once a day for an hour or so. It’s been a riot in there lately.
Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay
March 20th, 2008Publisher Posts Mac Books on The Pirate Bay - “Publishing music, movies and books on BitTorrent seems to be becoming a trend, and there’s nothing wrong with that.” (via)
Sports Illustrated Releases Huge Free Online Archive
March 20th, 2008WRAL.com - “Sports Illustrated’s new offering is called SI Vault, and it’s available at http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ . This new archive of Sports Illustrated materials includes 150,000 stories, 2,800 covers, and 500,000 photographs.” (via)
Bill keeps offenders from voting in schools, libraries
March 20th, 2008Times Argus Online - “The state’s worst sex offenders would be banned from voting in schools or libraries and instead be made to cast absentee ballots under a bill supporters say would help protect children.”
Please, no more social networks
March 19th, 2008Stefanie Olsen - “The consensus here at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week seems to be that the world doesn’t need another social network.”
Clinton’s White House Schedules Are Released
March 19th, 2008New York Times - “The National Archives and the William J. Clinton Presidential Library on Wednesday released more than 11,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s public schedule for her eights years as first lady.”