August 2012

An extract from this episode’s speaking script:

“This program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. We made this shift going forward when the Arab Spring kicked off. Under this license, you are fully free to go ahead and redistribute this program. Reformatting this program to being on a burnt audio compact disc or lining it out to conventional cassette tape is not just possible but encouraged. In a time when people are shunning conventional media for Internet-based streams, little thought is given to what happens when the streaming infrastructure goes away.”

Yeah, we’re thinking about Hurricane Isaac with that initial discussion in the episode. A news miscellany is also presented as promised in LISTen #208.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program — Episode #209 by The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

Good News from the center of the hipster universe. Ringing the changes: phone box becomes mini-library: A UK Village that was set to lose its traditional red phone box and library service comes up with plan to save both
“Are they Portland-influenced? We know the ones in Wisconsin and Vancouver, Canada are.”

IT World has a nice write up on a new service called Priveazy [ https://www.priveazy.com/ ] that helps Netizens wade through the maze of privacy settings we are presented with on a daily basis.

A newish service from Amazon that might be useful to more than a few folks around here: Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

A newish service from Amazon that might be useful to more than a few folks around here: Amazon Glacier

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

Companies typically over-pay for data archiving. First, they’re forced to make an expensive upfront payment for their archiving solution (which does not include the ongoing cost for operational expenses such as power, facilities, staffing, and maintenance). Second, since companies have to guess what their capacity requirements will be, they understandably over-provision to make sure they have enough capacity for data redundancy and unexpected growth. This set of circumstances results in under-utilized capacity and wasted money. With Amazon Glacier, you pay only for what you use. Amazon Glacier changes the game for data archiving and backup as you pay nothing upfront, pay a very low price for storage, and can scale your usage up or down as needed, while AWS handles all of the operational heavy lifting required to do data retention well. It only takes a few clicks in the AWS Management Console to set up Amazon Glacier and then you can upload any amount of data you choose.

Interesting comment over on Reddit on who is making how much on different versions of books. “Bottom line, when in hardcover the author makes slightly better money if you buy the print book ($2.60 verses $2.27). When in mass-market paperback the author makes MUCH more if you buy an ebook.”

Interesting… Google Scholar reveals, however, one factor that exerts a massive impact on whether a paper is cited or not: whether it appears in a journal or an edited book.

“My own solution would be for editors of such collections to take matters into their own hands, bypass publishers altogether, and produce freely downloadable, web-based copy. But until that happens, my advice to any academic who is tempted to write a chapter for an edited collection is don’t. “

[Thanks Mita]

Former President George W. Bush and the Bush Foundation have worked closely with SMU to make this center – comprised of the library, museum and independent institute – a reality. Bush and former First Lady and alumna Laura Bush, both Dallas residents, have been very active and visual in their support of the center’s presence at SMU.

Both have attended ceremonies, participated in symposia and, in Bush’s case, “dropped by” political science and journalism class lectures.

However, not all reactions to the center have been positive.

This Sunday morning has some great news in store for fans of the bestselling “Fifty Shades of Grey” trilogy by author EL James.

While the recent update is still unconfirmed at this point, according to “Books and Review” this Saturday, author EL James has plans to write and publish a fourth book to her initial “50 Shades” trilogy. Not much has been revealed on novel number four just yet, but the gifted writer’s publisher did have some telling words to say.

[Sometimes I just post things to hear how much you hate them…]

A longtime practice of checking out cake pans at libraries in Kansas, particularly in rural areas, has increased as people look for a way to save money while still providing treats for special occasions.
More cake pans are being loaned at the Great Bend Public Library after employees recently moved nearly 100 of the pans from a back room to bookshelves, The Hutchinson News reported.

This week’s regular episode presents an essay. A news miscellany will be posted as a separate episode Wednesday.

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