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Scott Peterson

This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook-or the Opposite! - 1 views

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    The chart in this article shows an interesting anomaly. Initially it appears that print ads only take up a small amount of a user's attention, yet the money spent on those ads is considerably more than all other media. However, another chart shows the revenue per user for newspapers is almost 10 times that of Google and 50-100 times that of several websites, so there's a convincing argument that advertisers still see print as a viable medium.
adrienne_mobius

Very Pinteresting!: The hot social network is taking educators by storm - The Digital S... - 0 views

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    "Everyone's buzzing about Pinterest, a new social media tool that connects people through the things they like-but for a growing number of users in classrooms and media centers, it's fast becoming a powerful resource where teachers and students share images, store lesson plans, read about current events, watch video clips, and collect their favorite apps."
Scott Peterson

Abandoned Walmart Transformed Into A Functioning Library - 0 views

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    An abandoned Wal-Mart store in McAllen, Texas, has been transformed into a functioning library. The interior space is the size of 2 1/2 football fields making the library the largest single story library in the U.S. Since the building opened user registration has increased by 23% While a great idea for reusing a building--incorporating everything a library needs except aesthetic appeal, I wonder about the heating and cooling costs of the building, which can be monumental.
Scott Peterson

Internet Archive offering materials as Torrents - 0 views

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    The Internet Archice is now offering over one million items as peer to peer BitTorrent downloads. While in one sense it is only a different download method for materials that are copyright and royalty free, it is Torrents have been controversial as they are often used to download pirated movies and software. However, the Internet Archive does have a point in that it improves access for users with limited bandwidth. Downloads include 1.2 million books and 9,000 videos and movies.
Scott Peterson

Top 10 Gadgets on Inventor Site Kickstarter Top 10 Gadgets on Inventor Site Kickstarter... - 0 views

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    Paul Otlet was a Belgian inventor who had several visionary ideas, such as a "World City" which would be a gathering of all the leading institutions of the world that would radiate knowledge and the Universal Decimal Classification scheme which is still used in some libraries. He also had a concept in 1934 for a radiated library that was in some ways a precursor to the Internet. It was limited by the technology he knew at the time, and consisted of a center where users would call in to ask for research and information to be displayed, which would then be displayed on a television screen. Aside from the need to call in some of his concepts are similar to early community access cable television.
adrienne_mobius

How Do Power Patrons Use Your Website and Virtual Services? | Patron Profiles - The Dig... - 0 views

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    "Libraries' most devoted e-users aren't choosing using the web over coming to the library in person. Rather, they are choosing to do both."
anonymous

Generate and keep really secure passwords for free | ITworld - 0 views

  • Of course, they could look for a username that sounds like you in the list of 8 million LinkedIn and EHarmony logins and then just use the password published there, or the ones posted following the hack of 77 million user accounts at Sony or the 130 million credit-card accounts taken from the clearinghouse that processes your credit card payments, or tens of thousands lost by a New York electric utility or the California government services agency you thought was unquestionably trustworthy or the 24 million emails and user names swiped from Zappos or almost anywhere else.
  • you should use a different highly secure password at every site you use.
  • That way, no matter what web-site login database is breached next, your loss can be limited to only the information (or money) on that one site,
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  • KeePass -- one of two apps with unquestioned leads; both come with Firefox and Internet Explorer extensions or web sites you can used independently; LastPass – the other of the two leaders. Both are stable, quick, reliable and free;
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      I've used LastPass. It's nice, but I prefer to have something local if possible. I'm not really concerned with their security, but it's nice to have your passwords offline.
  • KeePass;
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      This one doesn't have a browser integration but it can be kept on a usb key for portability
Jennifer Parsons

Book Places in the Digital Age « The Digital Digest - 0 views

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    The article offers an interesting model of a "Book Place"-- a sort of combination library/bookstore of the future that offers things like printed books on demand if they're not in the store (thanks to the awesome Espresso machine and the 7 million titles it has on EspressoNet), and rental/subscription services for users-- including DRM free options for electronic media.
Scott Peterson

Interactive books for iPad, iPhone, and the web - 0 views

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    An interesting web vendor that is offering interactive textbooks, which is in some ways the repackaging of the original "multimedia" CD-ROM's of the early 1990's, but now offered as a "book." They claim to be partnered with McGraw-Hill and Pearson, and it looks like a user needs to have a perpetual account to use their material although offline access is allowed. Some features such as streaming video and music are separate from the book so they are not true stand alone files, and purchasing a book as an app is currently only for a handful of titles. The list price of several of the books is very steep, and my main concern is how well the multimedia is integrated with the text and if there is any ability to share or transfer a license, which I can't find listed in their website FAQ.
Scott Peterson

HP MagCloud - 0 views

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    HP is offering a service to create magazines and other serial publications in the "cloud." What is interesting is both print and digital publishing is offered. Some of the publications listed do use an ISSN number, but it looks like it's up to the author to obtain it. Print options include worldwide shipping and direct mail, while it looks like the digital version requires a MagCloud account to read the material, although it is available as a downloadable PDF. What I find most interesting is how this service effectively replaces a traditional publisher altogether, although some of the features a publisher can offer--such as marketing and industry contacts, are missing. Digital prices to the consumer are substantially less than print, but I can't find anything about pricing to the user without signing up for an account.
Scott Peterson

Evolution of the myCloud Program: From Idea to Practice - 0 views

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    This was a concept that I wasn't too sure if it wasn't ready for prime time or was simply a bad idea. Library patrons could sign up for a "Cloud" account and be given a thin client laptop that would access a Windows 7 image via Citrix which is "their" computer to install programs on or use as needed. However the initial outlay was $300,000 with $5,000 a year ongoing maintenance costs and considerable bandwidth requirements to stream an HD Windows desktop. Further it was limited to only laptops used in the library with a maximum base of 160 users. I honestly couldn't see this as a good idea because of the cost and limited use. It would be cheaper to rent out laptops and re-image when they are returned.
Scott Peterson

The Reskilling Muddle: Wasted Time, Money, and Opportunity | Peer to Peer Review - 0 views

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    A brief article that raises some questions about the utility of training and "reskilling" as many people take classes and courses to demonstrate value to an employer rather than to learn or use the skills from the training. The result is wasted time and training that poorly fits the user or their job.
anonymous

How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features - Datamation - 0 views

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      This. I hate that headers and footers in Word are all or nothing.
  • these advantages not only suggest a very different design philosophy from Word, but also demonstrate that, from the perspective of an expert user, Writer is the superior tool.
  • when you examine LibreOffice and MS Office without assumptions, the comparison changes dramatically. That's especially true when looking at the word processors, LibreOffice's Writer and MS Office's Word.
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  • Since headers and footers are also attached to page style, you can also use different header and footer styles automatically.
anonymous

How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features: Page 3 - Datamation - 0 views

  • In the same way, LibreOffice's extension PDF Import gives it an ability utterly lacking in Word. However, since many users are unaware of these extras, I have left them out for simplicity’s sake.
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      I need to try this. PDF import?
Jennifer Parsons

Free Webinars Introducing FOSS4LIB | Library Open-Source Software Registry - 2 views

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    Say, Sharla, would this be something our customers might be interested in?  I'm curious about it myself.
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    Yeah, this looks very promising. Interestingly enough it is through Lyrassis, the company from which I am considering purchasing online courses. Go figure! How do we promote? Are all of the members on the training listserv? Can we just forward this email out on it?
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    Not all, just some, but this might be the kind of thing we'd cross-post on (i.e., to the Mobius-users-l list as well as the Training-l list). Christopher is usually the one who posts to the lists about training, and he does it across several lists; you may want to check with him. As far as promoting, I don't know-- first of all, will Lyrassis let us promote their stuff? I don't see why they wouldn't, but you never can be sure with some providers. But the lists are usually where a lot of the action is. We might also want to do a blog post to the MOBIUS website, too.
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    Ok. I'll talk to Christopher this afternoon about promoting training.
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    FYI, the training list is largely defunct. It was populated by people who were interested in discussing training with the MOBIUS office, but I was the only one who ever posted anything.
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    Yeah, that's often how lists go. People are always afraid to speak up.
anonymous

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 5 views

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      Watch the video!
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    That is soooo cool! I want a pair.
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    That's amazing! It reminds me of something similar that some groups have been trying to make for blind people-- using audio, instead of visual prompts (e.g., if there's a bus stop 20 feet ahead of the person, the user would hear "Bus stop at Some Number on Such-and-Such Street." 20 feet or so from them). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815102854.htm
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    Took less than 24 hours for some genius to come up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840
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    That actually made me LOL! Thanks for that. ;)
Jennifer Parsons

Who speaks for publishing policy? « PWxyz - 0 views

  • The time in which the AAP can speak authoritatively for publishing is over. Formulating policy over intellectual property issues that heretofore was considered the domain of a few specific industry and interest groups is instead the domain of all internet users, including readers and authors, as well as a wide range of new publisher entrants.
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    The insights in this article were interesting, given that they coming from a trade publication.   I do think Brantley is absolutely right, but I'm not sure what that means for libraries.  The fact still remains that a lot of bestsellers and popular works-- which are still associated with libraries-- are squarely in the hands of the Big Six (Apple, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillian, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster) and it's yet unclear how a large number of independent publishers will have any effect.
Justin Hopkins

Yahoo's password leak: What you need to know (FAQ) | Security & Privacy - CNET News - 1 views

  • All of which suggests that close to 300,000 people could have just seen their personal, non-Yahoo e-mail accounts compromised as well as their Yahoo accounts.
  • To be on the safe side, if you have a Yahoo ID, you should assume it's no longer secure and change its password. (I just did, and I've never visited Yahoo's contributor-network site until today.) Yahoo is also changing the passwords of affected users. You should, however, also change other passwords if: You've used the same password for any other major service -- particularly for sensitive accounts such as banking, investing, or e-mail. You've ever signed into Yahoo or Associated Content with a non-Yahoo e-mail address.
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    Also mentioned in this article is the leak from a few months back of LinkedIn. If you have a LinkedIn account the same advice applies. Hopefully you were using a unique password for all of these services and have nothing to fear ;)
Jennifer Parsons

TED Blog | The wide open future of the art museum: Q&A with William Noel - 0 views

  • The Walters is a museum that’s free to the public, and to be public these days is to be on the Internet. Therefore to be a public museum your digital data should be free. And the great thing about digital data, particularly of historic collections, is that they’re the greatest advert that these collections have. So: Why on Earth would you limit how people can use them? The digital data is not a threat to the real data, it’s just an advertisement that only increases the aura of the original, so there just doesn’t seem to be any point in putting restrictions on the data.
  • Institutions with special collections, particularly museums — libraries perhaps less so — want to improve their brand and raise visitorship. One way in which they can do that is through advertising. And what better way to advertise than by making instantly available, or as available as possible, images of their collections? Because that’s how they get known.
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    An interview with William Noel, curator of the Walters Art Museum, which recently featured the Archimedes palimpsest in its collection-- both physical and digital.  What's wonderful about that is that its digital collection is under Creative Commons license. I'm a bit confused as to why Noel thinks that libraries don't want to advertise their collections, unless he's referring to the fact that libraries typically contain copyrighted material in their collections.
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    Oh, and you can get to the digital exhibition of the Archimedes palimpsest at http://archimedespalimpsest.net/. It's not terribly user-friendly (to quickly look at the images, select "Google Book of the Archimedes Palimpsest"), but being able to access the raw TIFF images is pretty darn cool.
adrienne_mobius

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' | World ne... - 0 views

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    "A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden."
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