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The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have launched
INFOLIT, an electronic discussion list for information literacy. INFOLIT is a forum for school, academic and public librarians to exchange ideas on information literacy programs and experiences that demonstrate a collaborative relationship between K-12 and higher education institutions From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:43 p.m..
Mandarin M3 is the award-winning library automation system with a user-friendly interface, powerful features, and unlimited record capability. It is now available for free download From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
Thomson Scientific has announced a new service that will allow users to access ISI Web of Knowledge from wherever they are working. Over 100,000 users each day will benefit from the XML gateway that puts premium content and tools in easy reach from within library and institutional portals. Thomson From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
The Friday Brain-teaser from Xrefer - this week: Languages. One estimate suggests that there are more than 5,000 different languages throughout the world. Here are questions about some of them.
Answers here1. Afrikaans is one of the official languages of which African country?2. Basic, Fortran and Cobol are examples of what kind of languages?3. Name one of the two official languages of India4. What name is given to the alphabet used for Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian and various other languages of the former Sov From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
The Ohio Preservation Council and the Ohio Library Council are co-sponsoring
Basic Considerations for Digitization: Providing Access to Special Collections, a symposium with moderated panel will help librarians, archivists, and others better understand how digitization can assist with access, preservation, and management of special collection resources. Topics to be covered will include basic start-up needs; selection of items for digitization; preparation of original documents; and preservation of the electronic data, its migration, and future access - Se From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
Copyright Future is a public forum to discuss the future direction of copyright law worldwide. Should it be changed? How should it be changed? What makes the most sense for our digital future? etc. This group is open to all viewpoints, and to all people whether they be legal professionals or lay people concerned about the present and future of copyright From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
Connotea can now offer OpenURL links for many of the items in your collection. If you have access to an OpenURL resolver, perhaps as part of your institution's library services, Connotea can create links that let you look-up your institution's holdings for anything in your collection that Connotea has bibliographic information for From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
Knowledgespeak is the world's first online news service to report all the relevant developments within the STM publishing industry, on a daily basis. This is a free service that also offers additional resources including a blog area, calendar of events, articles, white papers and a directory of STM publishers From
Peter Scott's Library Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
Personal Memory Recorders And Other Tools Of The Emergent Participatory Panopticon
Soon -- probably within the next decade, certainly within the next two -- we'll be living in a world where what we see, what we hear, what we experience will be recorded wherever we go. There will be few statements or scenes that will go unnoticed, or unremembered. Our day-to-day lives will be archived and saved. What's more, these archives will be available over the net for recollection, analysis, even sharing. And we will be doing it to ourselves. Photo credit: Charis Tsevis This won't simply be a world of a single, governmental Big Brother watching over your shoulder, nor wil From
Robin Good's Latest News on July 30, 2005 at 8:42 p.m..
"You Have to Know Who Has Your Stuff"
One of my friends at school got a shiny, brand-new Nikon D70 as a graduation gift and was, obviously, excited about the creative possibilities that it would provide. She already enjoyed browsing my photos on Flickr, so it was no surprise to me that she soon had an account of her own and started posting a few shots from her new camera. What I wasn't prepared for was the question she asked me a few days later. From
Lessig Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:38 p.m..
A child of free culture
You could say that I grew up with free culture, or that free culture grew up along with me. Free culture as a coherent movement is young, although you could say that its roots go back to the beginning of print culture, since before we had bloggers we had independent... From
Lessig Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:38 p.m..
The spirit of public libraries in free culture
I love public libraries. As a kid, I spent most of my lazy Saturday afternoons inside one of the various branches of our library system, delighted at the idea that, wherever I looked, there would be stories, magazines, or books on virtually any subject to capture my attention. The feel... From
Lessig Blog on July 30, 2005 at 8:38 p.m..
EFF probes printer watermarks
Blog: Color laser printers print hidden data that lets law enforcement agencies tell which printer was used and when, according... From
CNET News.com on July 30, 2005 at 8:38 p.m..
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Radio stream demo on the phone. For any one new to streaming and has not yet seen the what a live stream is like in the case 3gp audio stream looks like. This podcast gives you the chances to see the end result on my cell phone, over GPRS connection as part of my Corsscasting concept. You could of instant stream your talks, lectures or events live! So phone users, laptop users etc. can lesson in thus being ubiquitous content. [
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
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iTunes 4.9 and 3gpp. After having a good old look around iTunes 4.9. It's a sham that there is no support for 3gp, the suggested formats on Apple's support site are MP3, AAC, WAV, M4B, MP4, MOV, and .MPG for more info from Apple
click here.Why would I want 3gp support in iTunes? Well the reason being is that it would support my concept of Crosscasting. For more info on Crosscasting you can get a c From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
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Videocue Pro. I've added a new tutorial up on my site, on how to use Videocue Pro to create content be it for a Podcast or 3gp flie for mobile phone streaming.
Click here to see the new tutorial, as it's fresh there could be one or two English errors.enjoy :) [
m-learning] From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
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GPRS cost. To give you a idea of how much my GPRS streaming development costs are, here is a table my costs with out Value Added Tax add so fare: Nov 04 kb 5400 Mb 5.27 £33.74 US $58.95 Dec-04 kb 5252 Mb 5.13 £33.10 US $57.83 Jan-05 kb 8122 Mb 7.93 From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 3:49 p.m..
The 6 Indie Mistakes
If you spend much time in the game development industry, you start to see patterns. I was browsing around the David Perry designer forums, and came across quite a few interesting people bursting with designs. One particular one caught my eye, though. It sounded interesting. It sounded exciting. It sounded like an epic so grand it would put Cleopatra to shame. And it sounded utterly, utterly impossible to make. I won't single out the budding designer here for ridicule, but he had created a story so grand, a world so rich, that it would take a team of thousands several years to create. He, From
kuro5hin.org on July 30, 2005 at 3:45 p.m..
m-Learning in Australia: Stymied?
m-Learning in Australia: Stymied?
Why mobile e-learning fails to make a move. Australia's telecommunications companies are stifling the economic benefits of mobile e-learning (m-learning). Dr Marcus Bowles, director of the Institute for Working Futures, says the incumbents are defending market share by confining mobile data transmissions to high-cost cellular networks. This is being accomplished using clever marketing and i From
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
mLearning: What we thought in 2000
mLearning: What we thought in 2000.
An article by Clark Quinn in LiNE Zine laid it all out for us. "mLearning is the intersection of mobile computing and elearning: accessible resources wherever you are, strong search capabilities, rich interaction, powerful support for effective learning, and performance-based assessment. elearning independent of location in time or space. What is less clear is where we are now and how we will deliver on this vision." [
Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 2:48 p.m..
Speaking of Google ...
Speaking of Google ... . Isn't this exactly what some professors are raising hell with Google over? Might there not be some copyright pushback here? I don't care if the professors are slicing and dicing their own lecture notes, but dissecting someone else's book and republishing it on the Web (possibly combined with content from other copyrighted materials) looks to me like it violates fair use. Of course, IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer).
Living book makes learni From Bill Brandon: eLearning on July 30, 2005 at 1:48 p.m..
A Case for Formal Specification
Formal Specification helps build more robust, more maintainable software with fewer bugs and defects. It has a long history, but it is still a developing field. While it may not be suitable for all software projects, a case can be made that there are many projects not currently using formal specification that stand to benefit from it. As the methods and tools for formal specification develop it is increasingly becoming something that developers and software engineers should learn to use to their advantage. From
kuro5hin.org on July 30, 2005 at 1:45 p.m..
The University Channel
The University Channel is based at Princeton University; it provides "A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world-- for you to view, listen to, stream or download." The Channel includes both a podcast feed and an RSS feed; the resources are organized by topic headings and a search tool is included. "The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place wher From
EduResources--Higher Education Resources Online on July 30, 2005 at 12:45 p.m..
Why the President of the United States gave the press the finger: A mutliple choice quiz
First: The video. Second, the question: 1. He is cracking up as his policies fail and his supporters desert him. 2. It's his inner frat boy escaping. 3. He's led a life of assumed privilege, so when he doesn't get his way, he acts like a spoiled teenager. 4. It's his way of saying "America is Number One!" 5. We all know he's thinking it, so why not just come out with it? 6. Because he's the President, dammit!... From
Joho the Blog on July 30, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
King John
When Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Co., asked the audience on Thursday night who had not seen King John before, I didn't see a single unraised arm. Packer's notes for the show—she directed it—say "I think King John is a rarely produced play because there is no clear answer" to the big issues it raises, which sounds like a director directing us away from her inability to make sense of the play. But Packer does make sense of it. I thought it was actually one of Shakespeare & Co's most successful plays, and we've been coming to them for... From
Joho the Blog on July 30, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
Comments have vanished
The comments on this site seem to have vanished. I have no idea why. I'm on "vacation" using dial up so I haven't been monkeying with my site. But this morning, previously posted comments have disappeared. There are none listed in the list of comments I can get to through my admin control panel. I'm using Movable Type 3.11. Any ideas? TIA.... From
Joho the Blog on July 30, 2005 at 9:49 a.m..
The CoP support team
Shawn Callahan has written a blog entry looking at the role of a CoP support team. To quote: Every strategic community of practice has a support team. This small group of people makes life easier for members. Etienne Wenger calls... From
Column Two on July 30, 2005 at 5:47 a.m..
Search log analysis and the long tail
Lou Rosenfeld has written a blog entry on search log analysis. To quote: Search log analysis (SLA) is a rational attempt to make sense of these distributions by focusing on those most popular queries. Finding patterns among the popular queries... From
Column Two on July 30, 2005 at 4:47 a.m..
Connecting the dots...
It's a strange day - connecting dots, connecting people... On echochambers earlier today and in my aggregator now - Blogs shape opinions, that once formed, become entrenched. (
Shel Israel and Robert Scoble) And then two different worlds click and connect -
how boundary spanning works? Back to the talk. BlogHer dinner - connecting names and faces, blogstalkers... And behind all From
Mathemagenic on July 30, 2005 at 3:45 a.m..
Placed vs. dynamic content
Theresa Regli and Christian Donner have written an article that looks at placed vs. dynamic content, in the context of web publishing. To quote: At a high level, there are at least 2 models for where and how content from... From
Column Two on July 30, 2005 at 1:45 a.m..