It’s here at the Delicious Blog. They say it’s for explaining social bookmarking to your ‘parents’, but I’m sure there are a couple of patrons, students and others that could benefit from this adroitly assembled lesson.
Acknowledgment (from Nick Nguyen, Product Manager) goes to Lee and Sachi Lefever at Common Craft for their efforts here. So, next time you’re trying to explaining why this “Social Bookmarking” thing is all the rage, you now know what video to play.
Well, there’s a day for everything, and now there’s going to be a day for “A Poem in Your Pocket.”
Formerly celebrated only in New York City, you’re now invited to Celebrate the first NATIONAL Poem In Your Pocket Day! The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 17. More ideas from Poets.org.
Anyone care to share what poem you might keep in your pocket?
OAP (old age pensioner) and former librarian Harvey Richardson died on February 10, and among his belongs was a nine-page confession of murder. Lorraine Jacob, a 19-year-old mother of two, was killed 37 years ago and her body had been dumped in an alleyway in Liverpool city centre. The Mirror article speculates that she might not have been his only victim.
Grisly (correct spelling this time) story from This Is London and The Mirror UK.
Neat Story on some really old books. The Tujia have been known as an ethnic minority with its own spoken language but without a written language. Yet a succession of ancient books in the same written language have been found in the Youyang Tujia habitation straddling the borders of Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou Province, and Chongqing City. For the past two years none have been able to read the ancient books.
The chief of the Iraqi Journalists’ Union Shihab al-Timimi died on Wed. after being fired upon by gunmen.
Author William F. Buckley Jr, has passed away today at the age of 82. For more information on Buckley take a look at the Wikipedia article (yes Wikipedia…just beware of incorrect information or vandalism.)
The Wisdom of the Chaperones Chris Wilson Says: It’s getting harder to be a Wikipedia-hater. The user-generated and -edited online encyclopedia—which doesn’t even require contributors to register—somehow holds its own against the Encyclopedia Britannica in accuracy, a Nature study concluded, and has many times more entries. But even though people are catching up to the idea that Wikipedia is a force for good, there are still huge misconceptions about what makes the encyclopedia tick. While Wikipedia does show the creative potential of online communities, it’s a mistake to assume the site owes its success to the wisdom of the online crowd.
Article at Teleread called, “Is a famous ‘ancient Chinese curse’ really an invention from 1950? An investigation using Google Book Search”.
For many years TeleRead has been in the vanguard in advocating the creation of huge national digital libraries, ideally well-linked with each other and as comprehensive as possible. A natural and wonderful offshoot of large corpuses of digital texts would be search tools of unprecedented power.
Massive digital libraries would enable stimulating new methodologies for observing the evolution of language. Google Book Search isn’t TeleRead, but offers an enticing preview of the possibilities. Consider my recent search to examine the origin of one piquant and controversial expression—”May you live in interesting times”—described as an ancient Chinese curse.
Good News for photos of male genitals in Japan, Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that photos of male genitals contained in a Robert Mapplethorpe photo book confiscated in 1999 are not obscene, overturning a customs house decision to prevent copies of the book from being brought into the country.
Police handling of the anti-terror raids is again under fire after officers stormed the home of an Auckland businessman in search of a library card, a Hawaiian shirt, a pair of khaki shorts and a copy of the leaked terror affidavit. The man wasted no time invoking Godwin: “I’m one of probably 5000 people who have this affidavit. Are we all going to be targeted? I’m not a terrorist. This is just Nazi-ism.”
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