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anonymous

Skeu It! - 2 views

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design

shared by anonymous on 02 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Oct 12
     
    Via Wikipedia: skeuomorphism is when a product imitates design elements functionally necessary in the original product design, but that becomes ornamental in the new product design This tumblr blog has lots of really amusing examples.
anonymous

(2) Productivity: How can I increase my productivity on my side projects at the end of ... - 0 views

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productivity

shared by anonymous on 22 May 12 - No Cached
  • try to minimize startup and switching costs, in other words, the time it takes to get started working on the side project. This way, even if I only have a few minutes to work on it before I turn in for the night, I can still do something useful. Also, I try to make each opportunity count. These are hard to come by and so it is good not to waste any single minute.
  • The best advice I've heard about how to do this is to do this in the mornings. Sleep early, get up early and the best part of your day will be spent working on what's most important to you.
  • Exercise. It's hard after a day of work to come home and exercise but it's truly the best way to get your brain going and recharge. Studies have proven that being active increases productivity. Run for 30 minutes, take a class at a gym, do some sit ups. Give your brain a break and your body a workout, then get back to the computer.
anonymous

Oracle thinks you can copyright a programming language, Google disagrees | The Verge - 0 views

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programming google oracle copyright

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      anonymous on 14 Apr 12
       
      Comments here are awesome too.
  • anonymous on 14 Apr 12
     
    Oracle is suing Google over the use of their Java API's in Android. This should be an interesting case. Google argues that while you can copyright a finished product, you shouldn't be able to copyright the computer language used to build the product - just like a novelist can copyright a book but nobody can copyright English. Oracle disagrees and says that if the language is unique enough, then it should be protected. They cite Klingon as an example. I read through Oracle's filing and it actually looks pretty strong. I didn't bother reading Google's because it's pretty clear that Google is missing the point that Oracle isn't upset that they used Java, but that they bundled all the extra API's. I really feel for the judge and jury having to hear this case. Oracle's brief isn't exactly light on the technical details...
anonymous

Software Engineering: How often do major software companies push code to production? - ... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 24 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 24 Apr 12
     
    I love the idea of automatically pushing to production after a new commit is made to master.
Justin Hopkins

(2) Product Launches: What are some disastrous failures on a demo day or public product... - 2 views

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  • When Microsoft introduced the dictation feature in windows vista they demoed it on stage and it went terribly wrong.
  • Who could forget bill gates and the very public blue screen of death. I believe this was demoing the USB plug and play feature of windows 98, aptly renamed to plug and pray for a period of time :)
anonymous

What Multitasking Does To Our Brains - 1 views

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productivity multitasking

shared by anonymous on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • In the image below, you can see the different brain activities for various tasks that the brain switches between. It jumps back and forth as you focus on each task for a few seconds at a time:
  • What's more is that Clifford Nass, a researcher at Stanford assumed that those who multitask heavily will nonetheless develop some other outstanding skills. He thought that they will be amazing at 1. filtering information, 2. being very fast at switching between the tasks and 3. keeping a high working memory. He found that none of these 3 points are true: We were absolutely shocked. We all lost our bets. It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. People who multitask a lot are in fact a lot worse at filtering irrelevant information and also perform significantly worse at switching between task, compared to singletaskers.
  • Quick last fact: listening to music whilst working isn't multitasking
  • anonymous on 03 Jul 12
     
    [People who multitask] are not being more productive-they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work.
Sharla Lair

Penguin eBooks Now Available to All Libraries via a Crappy Deal with 3M Cloud Library -... - 1 views

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Professional Development ebooks penguin 3M cloud library

shared by Sharla Lair on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 13 Nov 12
     
    Ok. I am seriously tired of the popular fiction/non-fiction side of ebooks. Basically Penguin is saying that they will grant libraries access to their ebooks in the way that will tick off your patrons the most, so that they will never want to use your service. Why does 3M say ok to this? Because Penguin dropped OverDrive earlier this year and this is a new way to entice people to their 3M Cloud Library product. Does MOBIUS really want to work with a company that will accept less?
Scott Peterson

Star Wars - 1 views

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Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 10 May 13
     
    A web review complaining about the current state of online reviews or products and places, that often rather than being an overall assessment or comprehensive review are often a few quick sentences based on a singular experience.
Scott Peterson

Mission creep - a 3D printer will not save your library - 0 views

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Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 31 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 31 Jan 13
     
    A blog post that examines why some currently in fashion technologies such as 3D printers may not be suitable for libraries--namely because they look at creating a physical product rather information.
anonymous

SnapEngage Live Chat - 2 views

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issue tracking technology software

shared by anonymous on 02 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 02 Jul 13
     
    Help via chat isn't a service we've ever offered, but maybe we should. This product looks awesome and it integrates with UserVoice, skype, etc. Could be a stellar new tool.
  • Sharla Lair on 09 Jul 13
     
    Help via chat would be very cool!
Scott Peterson

Wal-Mart stops selling Amazon Kindles - 1 views

www.reuters.com/...n-kindle-idUSBRE88J0WA20120920

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 04 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 04 Oct 12
     
    Coming after Target stopped selling them in May this is likely more from Wal-Mart wishing to promote their online products than from any drop in demand for the Kindle.
Scott Peterson

IUG Conference - 1 views

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Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12
     
    I couldn't find a way to link directly to presentations or their materials. Probably the most interesting sessions I attended were: Solving the Complexities of Ebook Record Management in Millennium INN-Reach: Implementing Peer to Peer Functionality Between two INN-Reach Systems The Ebooks presentation was about checking for duplication, quality control, and making sure all the records an institution paid for are present and have valid links. There were a lot of good techniques that could be relayed to our members as a group of best practices. The Peer-To-Peer INN-Reach is a new product that allows two INN-Reach systems to share materials as if they were one. It was a done in Ohio as a response after one consortium added two public libraries and began to see their single INN-Reach server overwhelmed. From what I could tell it works well, with each INN-Reach server able to retain it's own loan rules and identity, but did require all the libraries and pickup locations to be added to both servers, which quickly would present patrons with a very long list of libraries to choose from. I wasn't very clear where the super-union webpac resided; whether on it's own server or produced from both of them. The users that were present seemed happy with it.
Scott Peterson

Jay Leno demonstrates a 3D printer - 1 views

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Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 17 May 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 17 May 12
     
    Jay Leno demonstrates how a 3D printer is used to create new parts from scans of original car parts that would have been exorbitantly expensive to manufacture. Some libraries have looked at getting these, in particular MST, as while expensive they would provide a product and service not readily accessible for engineering and technical students.
adrienne_mobius

New 'Digital Divide' Seen in Wasting Time Online - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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digital divide

shared by adrienne_mobius on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 30 May 12
     
    Librarians may find this paragraph interesting: The new divide is such a cause of concern for the Federal Communications Commission that it is considering a proposal to spend $200 million to create a digital literacy corps. This group of hundreds, even thousands, of trainers would fan out to schools and libraries to teach productive uses of computers for parents, students and job seekers.
Scott Peterson

Japanese Anestheisologist faked 172 papers over 19 years - 0 views

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Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 05 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 05 Jul 12
     
    Yoshitaka Fujii is accused of faking 172 out of 249 published papers. Many of his papers were considered "low impact," noticed and published but not heavily cited, and therefore not closely looked at. However, Fujii appeared to be highly productive and and as a result was able to get new jobs, research funding, and and public speaking fees. This is a concern for libraries and the validity of research as now it's easier than ever to self publish papers to online journals, and I have some questions how the retractions are handled--would the databases the articles are in simply delete them, or note they are officially retracted to anyone who did cite them?
Scott Peterson

Your Ebook is reading you - 0 views

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Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 05 Jul 12
     
    On the one hand this is nothing new, several entertainment industries are using deep analytics to see how customers use their products. However, many Ebook readers may not be aware that how long they take to read a book or what they read is being tracked. Customers may avoid books on controversial or personal subjects out of privacy concerns, and publishing may being taking a by-the-numbers approach where they depend more on analytics than market experience and become less willing to try new ideas and authors.
anonymous

3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 10 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The publishers’ complaint takes issue with the way the upstart produces its open-education textbooks, which Boundless bills as free substitutes for expensive printed material. To gain access to the digital alternatives, students select the traditional books assigned in their classes, and Boundless pulls content from an array of open-education sources to knit together a text that the company claims is as good as the designated book. The company calls this mapping of printed book to open material “alignment”—a tactic the complaint said creates a finished product that violates the publishers’ copyrights.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

shared by Donna Bacon on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Jennifer Parsons

Digital Preservation in a Box | A product of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance - 0 views

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libraries OA open_access digital preservation preservation

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    A nice collection of information for those new to the concept of digital preservation, as well as some tools to get your institution started.
Christopher Gould

Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school-By Mark Slouka (Harper's Magazine) - 0 views

www.harpers.org/...0082640

education

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  • Christopher Gould on 01 Aug 12
     
    Discusses the state of the humanities in education (secondary and higher). Although the article is about three years old, I find a great deal of relevance here. Slouka discusses the commodifcation of education, how America's educational system is being altered to provide "product" for business, rather than critically thinking citizens.
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