January 2010
41 posts
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“Instead, the Sun Open Cloud infrastructure will be configured for providers that...”
– Is Oracle Really Killing the Sun Open Cloud? - ReadWriteCloud
Mobile Libraries: Free EDUCAUSE Live! Webinar >... →
UPDATE: webinar archive adobe connect.
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250,000 White House Staffers, Visitors Affected by... →
infoneer-pulse:
A data breach at the National Archives and Records Administration is more serious than previously believed. It involved sensitive personal information of 250,000 Clinton administration staff members, job applicants and White House visitors, as well as the Social Security number of at least one daughter of former Vice President Al Gore.
The data, which included more than...
Digital Repository Federation (DRF) International... →
Open Access Repositories now and in the future - from the global and Asia-Pacific points of view (conference proceedings). Tokyo Institute of Technology. 3-4 December, 2009.
Scientists and librarians: friend or foe? -... →
Has a list of suggestions for libraries.
Hitting Pause on Class Videos →
infoneernet:
In the latest clash of copyright law and instructional technology, the University of California at Los Angeles has stopping allowing faculty members to post copyrighted videos on their course Web sites after coming under fire from an educational media trade group.
The policy, enacted earlier this month, has been planned since last fall, when the Association for Information...
How Teachers & Classrooms Will Need to Change in... →
chrbutler:
From The Futurist:
How will digital technologies and hyperconnectivity affect learning and the classroom of the future? We at THE FUTURIST magazine, for our January-February issue, addressed this issue with communications scholar Janna Anderson, an associate professor in Elon University’s School of Communications and the lead author of the “Future of the Internet” book series...
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“1. You really don’t want to engage directly with customers, employees, etc.—you...”
– The 5 Reasons You’re Failing In Social Media
This could be re-titled “Why Newspapers are Failing in Social Media.”
(via jamiek) (via infoneernet)
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David J. Ernst on Outsourcing and the Cloud...
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Five Reasons Why Your Company Doesn’t Need a... →
Analyze This! Tips and tricks on getting the... →
Thursday, January 28, 2010
11:00 AM (Americas) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Director of Information Technology at University... →
Web 2.0 Directory | Web 2.0 Applications | Listio... →
Directory of “Web 2.0” sites.
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“This is not simply about aggregating or curating content to create personalized...”
– Boyd, Danah. 2009. “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media.” Web2.0 Expo. New York, NY: November 17. (via malheiro) (via notational)
Blasting Academic Silos →
infoneernet:
A prevalent organizational model designed to strengthen individual colleges on university campuses might be standing in the way of necessary, innovative research collaborations, a team of American University administrators said Friday here at the Mid-Atlantic Educause conference.
At a session titled “Bridging the Silos: Creating Sustainable Research Infrastructure with...
RIAA tells FCC: ISPs need to be copyright cops →
infoneernet:
The Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers’ flexibly to “address” illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.
ISPs should have authority to block subscribers from sharing music and other files without permission of...
“Leaders do the right things.
Managers do things right.”
– JLM in a comment to my post yesterday (linked below). Click thru and read the whole comment. JLM is a brilliant commenter. Maybe the best ever.
The Founder Factor
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Haiti, Port-au-Prince: The Palais National -...
I saw these pictures on tumblr yesterday.
And it turns out we had a picture of this same place from 1949 in Calisphere, courtesy of UCR/California Museum of Photography from the Keystone-Mast stereogram collection. Look at how much more lawn it used to have.
We now have JPEG 2000s for this collection, so you can zoom in. Click the image below to use the zoom tool.
See that person on...
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Mobile Libraries: Free EDUCAUSE Webinar > Library... →
EDUCAUSE Live! Library in Your Pocket: Strategies and Techniques for Developing Successful Mobile Services / January 20, 2010 / 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT)
UPDATE: Adobe Connect Playback of the webinar.
Crowdsourcing Work (San Francisco, CA) -... →
Next Wed night @ Samasource;
972 Mission St, Ste 500;
San Francisco, CA 94103
“CAN you name the six basic emotions? Take a straw poll of your friends and we...”
– Five emotions you never knew you had - life - 13 January 2010 - New Scientist
Shibboleth IdP OpenID Extension - ... →
There is an alpha version of open id support for shibboleth identity providers. I want to tie into UC wide single sign on (UC Trust). I think each campus is an IdP, so if I want to use UC Trust we’ll probably still have to become a shibboleth Service Provider (SP), but if this OpenID extension becomes ready for production and is installed on all the campuses, we could use it with any...
WatchStartup 2.0: A Silicon Valley Story (Jan 2010)
Interesting slides
looks like the hat from Cat in the Hat on his slides, not sure Audrey Geisel would be pleased…
Watchhiten:
Lean Analytics for Startups
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jonaha:
On the Radian6 blog, 5 Steps to a Better Social Media Monitoring Plan: http://bit.ly/80tXtw
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WatchBeyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Bernard Frischer
Director, Virtual World Heritage Laboratory
University of Virginia
Closing Plenary Session
Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Fall 2009 Membership Meeting
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SFBay Apache Lucene/Solr Meetup Jan 2010; Thu 21... →
Held at an undisclosed location in Mountain View?
The future of the library →
infoneernet:
Here’s my proposal: train people to take intellectual initiative.
» via Seth Godin’s Blog
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“More than half of CIOs have completely prohibited use of social networks during...”
– Social networking hacks: Top 10 Facebook and Twitter security stories of 2009
- Network World
“Those who say “it’s not personal, it’s just business” are all lying. All...”
– Richard Lenz (via roomthily)
“Net neutrality is turning out to be a noisy side show and a growing distraction...”
– Why the White House is backing away from Net neutrality | Wireless - CNET News
My Recommendation: Stop Making Design...
notational:
roomthily:
The Experimentation Approach
What our preliminary research has found is a typical recommendation looks something like this:“Users had trouble seeing the field labels. I recommend you put the label on the top of each field, instead of on the left.”
However, some teams are using a different approach: “We’re seeing that our users have trouble with the field labels. We’d...
ProQuest Tech Books: Beautiful Teams →
Erik Hetzner at work recommended this book: Greene, Jennifer and Andrew Stellman. Beautiful teams. O’Reilly, 2009.
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WatchWelcome, 2009 in Review, & Overview of the 2009-2010 CNI Program Plan on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
Clifford Lynch
Coalition for Networked Information
Opening Plenary Session
Welcome, 2009 in Review, & Overview of the 2009-2010 CNI Program Plan
Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Fall 2009 Membership Meeting
December 14-15, 2009
Washington, DC