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anonymous

Videos - gource - Creating videos with Gource. - software version control visualization - Google Project Hosting - 1 views

code.google.com/...Videos

code visualization git opensource

shared by anonymous on 14 May 12 - Cached
  • anonymous on 14 May 12
     
    This is an awesome tool I saw at the Evergreen conference. I used it on the Merlin git repo which was cool to see but since everything is in a flat directory structure and it's mostly Jessica (and a little bit me) committing it's not nearly as cool as some of the videos from other projects.
adrienne_mobius

Book printed in ink that vanishes after two months - Yahoo! Small Business Advisor - 4 views

smallbusiness.yahoo.com/...vanishes-after-two-months.html

books ink

shared by adrienne_mobius on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 25 Jul 12
     
    Weird.
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  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    Not really, sounds like they're copying the idea from eBooks about allowing access for only a short time.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think Scott has it on the nose. It's depressing that not even print format can save us from temporary content!
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think this highlights the ridiculousness of the ebook issue, but I actually think it's a great idea as it's being presented. "The book that cannot wait" just seems cool to me. Probably not as cool as the book of Snoop Dogg lyrics made out of rolling papers but hey - we can't all be as cool as the D-O-Double-G.
Jennifer Parsons

Wikidata - 0 views

www.wikidata.org/...Wikidata:Main_Page

wiki data Professional Development Wikipedia authorities linked data

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 07 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects
  • Jennifer Parsons on 07 Dec 12
     
    This is a cool idea-- basically, it's a way to link the data in Wikipedia across languages to cut down on redundancy and help the information flow across language barriers.
anonymous

Netflix, Reed Hastings Survive Missteps to Join Silicon Valley's Elite - Businessweek - 1 views

www.businessweek.com/...-to-join-silicon-valleys-elite

technology

shared by anonymous on 13 May 13 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 13 May 13
     
    Cool and really in depth article.
Jennifer Parsons

NASA Presents "The Earth as Art" in a Free eBook and Free iPad App | Open Culture - 0 views

www.openculture.com/...e_ebook_and_free_ipad_app.html

free ebook Not Really Professional Development

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 20 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 20 Dec 12
     
    Okay, this is pretty darn cool. Thanks, NASA!
Sharla Lair

Five Handy Things You Can Do with Google's New Knowledge Graph Search - 1 views

lifehacker.com/...les-new-knowledge-graph-search

Professional Development google search

shared by Sharla Lair on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 25 May 12
     
    Review of Google's new Knowledge Graph search.
  • anonymous on 26 May 12
     
    I think this is a cool and worthwhile improvement, but where the article makes a comparison to Wolfram Alpha I have to disagree. Google's knowledge engine is exactly the type of thing you get to do with the semantic web - and it's awesome - but it's not a *computational* knowledge engine like WA. If you google "The moon" you get some useful information about it including it's distance. But the distance there is just some number pulled from some resource. WA /calculates/ the distance to the moon at the exact moment of your search. Not to say WA is better - it's just different. WA has an entry for Leonardo da Vinci, and has a lot of the same facts as Google does - but it doesn't really have much of a capacity to show you anything related to him. Anyway, cool new feature that I'd noticed and used already but hadn't actually heard mention of. One of those things that Google just kinda slipped in that works.
anonymous

Passfault Demo: Password Evaluation - 0 views

passfault.appspot.com/password_strength.html

security password

shared by anonymous on 25 May 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 25 May 12
     
    What's really cool about this thing is the level of analysis that it does of the password. Most "password strength meters" are just looking at length and inclusion of things like lowercase/uppercase special characters. This thing does so much more and rather than just saying "weak", "very strong" it tells you how long it'd take to crack it. Even cooler is that you can choose 'Show Options' and change the hardware of the imaginary attacker and the type of encryption your password is stored as. This is via: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/05/25/how-long-would-it-take-to-crack-your-password/ Worth reading as it also calls into question the idea of regularly changing your passwords. Obviously it's much better to just use separate passwords for everything and only change them if you have a reason to think your password was compromised.
anonymous

MemSQL - 80,000 queries per second - 0 views

www.i-programmer.info/...-80000-queries-per-second.html

database

shared by anonymous on 25 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 25 Jun 12
     
    Even though it's not going to be free and open source, it's cool to see that new blazingly fast databases are being developed. 
Jennifer Parsons

Where does the internet live? Interactive | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...infrastructure-map-interactive

internet interactive technology maps

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 09 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 09 Jul 12
     
    Not necessarily related to anything library-ish, but still pretty cool.  It's easy to forget that the amazing, "invisible" things we can do with technology actually do take up physical space.
Scott Peterson

Abandoned Walmart Transformed Into A Functioning Library - 0 views

www.psfk.com/...utifully-designed-library.html

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 12 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 12 Jul 12
     
    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.
Justin Hopkins

(2) Mind Hacks: Does bouncing your leg improve cognition? - Quora - 2 views

www.quora.com/...ing-your-leg-improve-cognition

cognition hacks

shared by Justin Hopkins on 15 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Bouncing your leg rhythmically improves cognition if it keeps you focused on your material instead of wishing you could be elsewhere, moving in another way, and therefore distracting you from your text. Your focus on your text and processing that text contribute to improved cognition. Whatever helps -- do it.
  • If you want to improve your cognition, start jumping rope. Aim to improve the number of times you skip rope without tripping the rope -- and improve by at least 1 count every day. Keep a chart. You will see that as your jumprope ability increases, your cognitive ability will also increase. I don't know if it is a 1:1 correlation, or even a causation. I do know there is some correlation because I have seen it in every one of my students.
  • "So why do kids with ADHD fidget and wiggle and run and jump and bounce and scream and play so much? Kids with ADHD are understimulated, which means that their thresholds are so high, that the stimuli in their environment does not cause them to release enough neurotransmitters to fit into all the necessary receptor sites. Messages don't pass from one neuron to another as easily as they do for those of us without ADHD. Their thresholds are high. Kids with ADHD fidget and squirm in order to provide extra stimulation, which translates into more keys fitting into more locks, and they can pass messages efficiently. Ever studied something intensely and then noticed that your leg was bouncing? Same thing. You were bouncing your leg to stimulate yourself and send a sufficient number of neurotransmitters into the synapse. When kids have to stimulate themselves, it can be hard on everyone around them, since this translates into bouncing off the walls."
  • Justin Hopkins on 15 Aug 12
     
    This is pretty remarkable. We've probably all noticed folks who bounce their leg when they're thinking hard about something. I've noticed that lately - having a lot to think about with Evergreen - that I've worked up quite a gum chewing habit. I often stop working to do pushups or whatnot as well. It really does help. Anyway, very cool read.
Donna Bacon

A Washable Keyboard That's Worth Keeping Clean - 2 views

gizmodo.com/...oard-thats-worth-keeping-clean

shared by Donna Bacon on 22 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Bacon on 22 Aug 12
     
    Ok, this is cool.  I want one just so I can say I have one.  What I REALLY need though is an entire laptop made like this--get rid of that pesky pet hair and maybe when the dogs jump on my lap (and my laptop is on my lap) they won't break the keys off so easily!  
Sharla Lair

Norman gets first automated library of its kind in U.S. » Previously reported » The Norman Transcript - 0 views

normantranscript.com/...ted-library-of-its-kind-in-U-S

Professional Development automated library

shared by Sharla Lair on 14 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 14 Oct 13
     
    This is very cool! I imagine some libraries in MO are watching this to see if it is successful.
Megan Durham

New Teen Place opening at Schaumburg Library - 0 views

www.chicagotribune.com/...place-20121122,0,6492476.story

Professional Development library technology teen

shared by Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 20 Nov 12
     
    This teen space was too cool not to share! They have a green screen and a recording space!
Sharla Lair

Cool! Harvard Library Lab Releases 20 Project Overview Videos Online | LJ INFOdocket - 0 views

www.infodocket.com/...tional-videos-available-online

Professional Development harvard lab library project

shared by Sharla Lair on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 04 Mar 13
     
    Really neat ideas from Harvard Libraries!
Megan Durham

Espresso Book Machines tie self-publishing to Maker culture - 0 views

www.thedigitalshift.com/...spaces-part-2-espress-yourself

ebooks technology google software library libraries

shared by Megan Durham on 02 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 02 Oct 12
     
    Really cool article that looks at : "Espresso Book Machines can offer two kinds of services: print-on-demand of any title available through the EspressNet database (which includes Google Books, the Internet Archive, all of Ingram's partnered publishers, and more) and self-­publishing services for authors and small publishers."
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 Oct 12
     
    I sincerely love the idea of these book machines and have ever since they've become available. I don't know why every library doesn't have one (aside from cost).
Megan Durham

School libraries without books - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...school-libraries-without-books

Professional Development library libraries

shared by Megan Durham on 11 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 11 Oct 12
     
    When I read the first part of the article I thought "Oh e-books and other electronic resources. That's cool." But then I read on-I just couldn't believe the books were "lost" where have all the books gone? Very interesting article and some of the comments brought up other good points too.
Megan Durham

Ten Geeky Gadgets Librarians Will Love - 2 views

oedb.org/...y-gadgets-librarians-will-love

geek technology professional Megan's Christmas List

shared by Megan Durham on 08 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 08 Nov 12
     
    This list has some really cool stuff! My favorite is the pocket projector.
anonymous

SnapEngage Live Chat - 2 views

snapengage.com

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!
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chronicle.com - Readability - 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.
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