User art [tags]
Tuesday, 2008-04-15
06:46
Mapping the election conditions in Zimbabwe | Sokwanele
helping to keep the eyes of the world on zimbabwe
Monday, 2008-04-14
10:00
Zap Your PRAM 2008: The Legend of Curly's Gold
with tag
zap_your_pram_2008
spotted on Acts of Volition, the 2003 incarnation was amazing and you can't beat the location
Friday, 2008-04-11
10:22
Internet Archive: Details: The Canadian rebellion of 1837
with tags
internet_archive
canadian_rebellion_1837
blocked by google books outside of the us, but full text available from within canada from IA, yet more evidence of why the internet archive rocks
Wednesday, 2008-04-09
17:13
Ontario Community Newspapers Association Awards
with tags
ocna
ocna_awards
winner of heritage award seems somewhat familiar :-)
Monday, 2008-04-07
15:12
What Newspapers and Journalism Need Now: Experimentation, Not Nostalgia -Britannica Blog
though the statistics and "doom and gloom" of observers of the newspaper industry are greatly misunderstood (and highly specific to north america), the experimentation idea is well worth exploring
Wednesday, 2008-04-02
19:52
Human-assisted search gets flushed: how would you do it right?
with tag
virtual_reference
also by 1 other
love the "drunk, irate customer" example
Monday, 2008-03-31
11:06
Techdirt: Red Hat And The Power Of Infinite Goods
also has link to a NYT article on Red Hat that appeared on march 27
10:46
Sesat, a federated search solution middleware, goes open source
well i never thought i would see federated search be highlighted in The ServerSide site, but this is where the announcement appeared
Tuesday, 2008-03-25
Monday, 2008-03-24
14:55
The Wearable OPAC: An Extended Improvisation on Open Source
with tags
peter_rukavina
wearable_opac
only peter rukavina would come up with such a delightful workshop description, i esp. love this line: what if we wore our OPAC like socks, rather than visiting it like church?
Tuesday, 2008-03-11
12:35
one nation under google
the pdf of the darin barney hart house lecture, which is linked at jon udell's blog, great insight into the relationships between technology and citizenship
Tuesday, 2008-02-26
16:45
More fun with Dynix OPAC, PHP and XML
one of the access conference originals returns to hacking library systems, this time with a php class to share
Thursday, 2008-02-21
07:57
Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design
from the amazing folks at the Tactical Technology Collective
Tuesday, 2008-01-08
11:21
OLPC News: OLPC and Libraries Should Support Open Systems
kudos to mita for bringing this together
11:19
Psychopaths in the software industry
with tag
psychopaths
one of the more thoughtful reflections on the recent upheaval in the rails community
Thursday, 2007-12-20
08:44
Is the Sacred Cow of Web Standards Headed for the Slaughterhouse?
with tags
w3c
web_development
especially interesting from an NGC and what-to-do-about-MARC point of view
Monday, 2007-12-10
22:11
Evergreen Home - Fort Nelson, B.C.
with tags
evergreen
northern_pines
The *2nd* BC PINES pilot site goes live - a good day for Evergreen in every way
22:08
Recipients of 2007 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration Announced
Congratulations to the Evergreen folks! -
"$50,000 to the Georgia Public Library Service of the University System of Georgia (Atlanta, GA: www.georgialibraries.org) for the development and release of the Evergreen open-source library automation system (www.open-ils.org)."
Saturday, 2007-12-08
15:10
Flesherton Advance, 13 Dec 1883, page 5
"That drunken, worthless character, known as Jack Hopps, ought to get another three months in Owen Sound Jail. On Sunday last he hired a horse and a rig and drove to Eugenia, where he soon got well-filled with fire-water. While in a beastly state of intoxication, he drove over to the residence of his father, who is a respectful and honest man. Here he conducted himself in the most disgraceful manner." - look what libel has done to today's newspaper reporting
Thursday, 2007-12-06
15:54
Neal Ford on what JRuby has that Java doesn't
"Ruby is probably the most powerful language that you can be paid money to write in"
15:53
Recent Changes (Open Library)
with tags
open_library
internet_archive
a place to start for tracking changes on bib records?
10:21
SportsML: The Sports Markup Language
a metadata solution for sharing sports data, and to think we worry about frbr
10:19
YouTube - 2007 Geminis Puppets Skit
with tags
puppets
canadian_television
if you grew up with canadian television, you will appreciate this, esp. the fate of casey and finnegan
Monday, 2007-12-03
21:46
SpeedGeeking
with tag
speedgeeking
also by 1 other
yet another possible lib tech conference activity
Wednesday, 2007-11-28
Tuesday, 2007-11-13
10:45
msevior: ODF vs RTF.
"Anyway, OLPC in their wisdom, have decided to make Write (which employs libAbiword,) save to ODF by default." I haven't found a confirmation of this on the OLPC wiki but this would so rock if true!
09:00
Stefano's Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
another brilliant move from google
Friday, 2007-11-09
08:32
Animated Federated Access Management Video
with tag
identity_management
From Australia, a big wmv file but well done.
Tuesday, 2007-11-06
06:40
MAKE: Blog: Happy birthday VMS, OS turns 30 years old
with tags
vms
os_birthdays
If you were a C.S. student in the early 1980s, VMS was likely part of your life. A pretty cool OS for its time and it still seems to be in use.
06:37
Evergreen Live at Prince Rupert Public Library
The first of many migrations in British Columbia
Wednesday, 2007-10-31
Wednesday, 2007-10-10
13:39
Javalobby puts up money to port Java to OLPC
i don't know how java would fare with this hardware, but it would be cool to increase the number of development environments for these devices
Monday, 2007-10-08
19:00
70% of the Software You Build is Wasted (Part 1 of Series of Tool/Platform Rants) « SmoothSpan Blog
with tag
wasted_software
also by 2 others
from someone who sold a modula-2 compiler for a while
18:55
Drill Clouds for Search Refinement
with tags
tag_clouds
drill_clouds
an interesting extension of tag clouds from glen newton
Tuesday, 2007-09-18
Wednesday, 2007-09-05
18:45
Goodbye to Newspapers? - The New York Review of Books
with tags
newspapers
newspaper_industry
from my office neighbour, an interesting review of "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina"
Sunday, 2007-09-02
20:21
YouTube - Iraqi War in my Eyes
with tags
iraq_war
patti_griffin
effective combination of images with a classic patti griffin song
Thursday, 2007-08-30
Tuesday, 2007-08-28
13:21
The Most Beautiful Supercomputer in the World
spotted on make, the 9th largest supercomputer in the world and the largest in Europe, residing in a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center
13:19
Fantasy academia? Could be ex-citing from Guardian Unlimited: Mortarboard
with tags
fantasy_academia
fantasy_journal
dchud++
Monday, 2007-08-20
08:32
Free Throat-Singing and Related Videos
with tag
throat_singing
if speech is really a case of accidental evolution, and humans were meant to sing as a way to communicate, the results would probably sound like this.
08:29
Craftzine.com blog: Toilet Paper Origami
with tags
origami
toilet_paper_origami
spotted on the always amazing make blog, i funded my undergrad education working as a janitor and i always thought something like this would be cool to do, though i could never bring myself to make a swan in this particular context :-)
Wednesday, 2007-08-15
15:20
Weka 3 - Data Mining with Open Source Machine Learning Software in Java
weka seems to be a key ingredient for supporting LSI with lucene indexes
15:18
CWGC :: Casualty Details
with tags
vimy_memorial
ww1
a record for my great uncle Jimmy, who met his fate 90 years ago today in France and never made it home again
Sunday, 2007-08-12
20:02
Genghis Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
i don't know how i missed this film all these years! now to order the soundtrack.