Search Engines WEB writes “On advice of legal counsel, this article is unavailable to readers of nytimes.com in Britain.”
This is the message readers would have seen if they wanted to view the article about the UK terror investigation on the web, as Bitish law prohibits publication of prejudicial information about the defendants prior to trial.
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending August 27, 2006
(A smallish edition of TWiL, as I get back up to speed.)
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Nicole Engard (What I Learned Today) wonders why librarians/techies/programmers/etc get mean whenever open source is mentioned and John Blyberg has been thinking about Library 2.0 and looks into why Library 2.0 is scary. On the other hand, Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) reminds libraries not to start too many technology-based projects at once.
New! Librarian Fit Club. Wiki.
Jessamyn West (librarian.net) talks about welcoming and unwelcoming libraries. Christopher Harris (Infomancy) writes about how to improve library “No food or drink” signs. More from Michael Stephens (Tame the Web).
David Rothman (TeleRead) writes about libraries and problems with e-book DRM.
Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) comments re Wired’s article about peer review.
Jack Stephens (Conservator) has a couple of comments about The Nation’s online article, “Librarians at the Gates. More comments from Rory Litwin (Library Juice).
John Blyberg (blyberg.net) is trying to figure out a way to incorporate Google Books into his library catalog’s hit list.
Giles Martin (The Dewey Blog) wonders what Pluto’s demotion from planethood means for 523.4 (Planets of solar system) and 523.48 (Trans-Uranian planets). Tim (LibraryThing) has more.
JanieH (Library Garden) reports on her library’s showing of Dark Side of the Rainbow .
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
Your conference presentation proposal was rejected? StevenB (ACRLog) has a few suggestions for losing those conference rejection blues.
Five Weeks to a Social Library (Feb 12-March 17, 2007): Call for presenters. More.
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This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday before noon (Central time). [Feeds]
This Week in LibraryBlogLand
Week ending August 27, 2006
(A smallish edition of TWiL, as I get back up to speed.)
……….
Nicole Engard (What I Learned Today) wonders why librarians/techies/programmers/etc get mean whenever open source is mentioned and John Blyberg has been thinking about Library 2.0 and looks into why Library 2.0 is scary. On the other hand, Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) reminds libraries not to start too many technology-based projects at once.
New! Librarian Fit Club. Wiki.
Jessamyn West (librarian.net) talks about welcoming and unwelcoming libraries. Christopher Harris (Infomancy) writes about how to improve library “No food or drink” signs. More from Michael Stephens (Tame the Web).
David Rothman (TeleRead) writes about libraries and problems with e-book DRM.
Richard Akerman (Science Library Pad) comments re Wired’s article about peer review.
Jack Stephens (Conservator) has a couple of comments about The Nation’s online article, “Librarians at the Gates. More comments from Rory Litwin (Library Juice).
John Blyberg (blyberg.net) is trying to figure out a way to incorporate Google Books into his library catalog’s hit list.
Giles Martin (The Dewey Blog) wonders what Pluto’s demotion from planethood means for 523.4 (Planets of solar system) and 523.48 (Trans-Uranian planets). Tim (LibraryThing) has more.
JanieH (Library Garden) reports on her library’s showing of Dark Side of the Rainbow .
CONFERENCE NOTES AND PRESENTATIONS
Your conference presentation proposal was rejected? StevenB (ACRLog) has a few suggestions for losing those conference rejection blues.
Five Weeks to a Social Library (Feb 12-March 17, 2007): Call for presenters. More.
………………..
This Week in LibraryBlogLand (TWiL) appears on lisnews.org every Monday before noon (Central time). [Feeds]
sarahmae writes “Via BoingBoing: Jared Bendict wants to put over 56,000 USGS maps in the public domain but he needs your help. Donate money to recoup the purchase cost and the maps will be made available on the Internet Archive.
Read more here.”
There’s a bill on the floor of the Senate, sponsored by Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to allow providers such as ATT & Verizon to accept payment to improve customer access to internet sites. The IT Jungle analyzes the bill this way–“The egalitarian nature of the Internet, which was founded on open source software and funded largely by the U.S. government, is obviously in synch with Net Neutrality. Tiered service is consistent with business practices, but can also lead to a certain kind of censorship–either intentional or not–that many people think is a bad idea.”
If the bill is passed, many internet companies including Google, eBay, and iTunes–must either pay money to companies like AT&T or risk having their websites process slowly. Many of these high-tech pioneers, plus such disparate groups as MoveOn and Gun Owners of America , are opposing Congress’ effort to eliminate Net Neutrality. Congress will vote next week on the issue…want to find out where your representatives stand ?
While Best Titles Ever photographer Christine Gray has been busy updating the Flickr Best Titles Ever photo pool, guest blogger Peggy Garvin and the volunteers at Free Government Information (http://freegovinfo.info)(FGI) started the following discussions we hope you will join:
Peggy’s posts:
Volunteer posts:
No activity was observed at main FDSys site during the past week. As of this writing, the FDSys Blog has been silent since August 4th, with no new items for over three weeks.
If you use Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com/) or some other RSS reader, consider subscribing to the FGI Feed at http://freegovinfo.info/blog/feed to get FGI stories as they are posted.
Search Engine WEB writes “Blackboard has been awarded a patent establishing its claims to some of the basic features of the software that powers online education.
The patent, awarded to the Washington, D.C.-based company in January but announced last month, has prompted an angry backlash from the academic computing community, which is fighting back in techie fashion — through online petitions and in a sprawling Wikipedia entry that helps make its case.
Critics say the patent claims nothing less than Blackboard’s ownership of the very idea of e-learning. If allowed to stand, they say, it could quash the cooperation between academia and the private sector that has characterized e-learning for years and explains why virtual classrooms are so much better than they used to be.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2006- 08-27-blackboard-dispute_x.htm?csp=34“
Anonymous Patron writes “CBC Arts: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer’s new novel; his first work of fiction in 10 years will be released January, his publisher announced Friday.
Mailer’s last published works were two non-fiction books written in 2003: The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing and Why Are We at War?”
An Anonymous Patron writes “In an article titled ‘The Frappuccino Generation’ the authors note:
Starbucks also provides a place for teens to be together that’s not school, home, work or the library. Professor Bryant Simon, a historian who is the director of the American studies program at Temple University, has talked to dozens of teens and tweens for a book he’s writing about Starbucks. He believes that kids discovered the chain because there are so few public spaces to go in America.
http://salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/08/27/coffee/pri nt.html“
Anonymous Patron writes “ New York Times: so far publishers remain wary of the long tail theory, largely because they haven’t figured out how to make money off it. Books require storage, and it quickly becomes impractical for publishers to keep low numbers of thousands of titles in their warehouses. Paradoxically, the online sales technologies on which the long tail depends may actually be undercutting backlist sales by squeezing them between the two poles of the market: new frontlist titles and used books, which are easier to find than ever thanks to the rise of online booksellers and search engines like BookFinder.com.”
From the Bookfinder.com Journal. My wife and I spent our 4th of July weekend in Portland, Oregon. She’s a landscape architect, designing parks, school playgrounds, and other public projects; she wanted to check out Portland’s public art and green spaces. I’m a book junkie; all I wanted to see was Powell’s. Continued here.
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