Library Stuff

Collections 2.0 – “I’ve been Twittering a lot lately; it has kind of taken the wind out of my sails for blogging more in-depth here.”

Interesting.  I deleted my Twitter and FriendFeed account and now I’m blogging more.  And, of course, more time with the family. 

Telegraph – “Dozens of social networking companies could fail next year as digital advertising slows and a new type of dotcom bubble threatens to burst, according to research from consultants Deloitte”

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before. Cool!

Knoxville News Sentinel – “The Tennessee Supreme Court will close its public law libraries Jan. 1 across the state to reduce the costs of storage and updating books. Justice Sharon Lee said the judiciary and lawyers are turning to online versions of the reference books, slowing libraries “walk-in business.”

Bay Ridge Eagle Brooklyn – “Once upon a time, the customer was always right,” Hikind said. “Today, the customer is apparently just plain irrelevant.” Hikind continued, “No one disagrees that difficult choices have to be made in light of the current economic situation, but significant agency operating decisions need to be made in concert with the needs of the patrons.”

ArtsBeat Blog – “Several Holocaust scholars attacked the story in the blogosphere and in a recent article in The New Republic, noting among other things that it would have been impossible for the pair to meet at a fence because of the camp’s layout.”

Peter Suber – “Gideon Burton has started a blog which he hopes will become a book on new media in academic publishing.”

TechCrunch – “Rival, it never did. The launch of the search engine was nothing but a classic PR trainwreck, with much hype and little to show for. Cuil failed to deliver good enough results to drive anyone to change their search behavior, and quickly became the subject of backlash and criticism because of their poor performance and indexing methods that actually took websites down in the process.

Duh.  Cuil was a failure from the beginning.  It never had a chance.

News 8 – “The arrival of an unidentified package at the downtown Public Law Library prompted the closure of the road fronting the facility Friday until a bomb squad determined that the box contained phone books.”

Profy – “The issue of companies blocking access of their employees to certain websites has already been discussed a lot and normally I myself am of opinion that the company can determine what activities it is actually willing to pay its employees for – and browsing social networks or watching porn in the office may not really meet the employer’s expectations for what an employee is supposed to do in the office on the company’s time.”