/user/art/feed/2008-09-02T14:12:15Z2008-09-02T14:12:15Ztag:www.facesaerch.com,2008-09-02:/blog/wp-content/browser-war-firefox-chrome1-500x267.png/

an inspired view on the cozy relationship between google and firefox

2008-09-02T12:48:14Ztag:www.google.com,2008-09-02:/googlebooks/chrome//

don't know a thing about the browser yet, but it totally rocks that Scott McCloud has done the comic intro.

2008-08-29T04:04:02Ztag:www.amazon.com,2008-08-29:/River-Palace-Many-Lives-Kingston/dp/155002793X/

congratulations walter!

2008-08-27T21:25:01Ztag:green-broadband.blogspot.com,2008-08-27:/2008/08/dirty-secret-of-renewable-energy.html/

"It is estimated that the CO2 emissions of the ICT industry alone exceeds the carbon output of the entire aviation industry. The ICT industry and research community has a collective responsibility to help address this problem." From Bill St. Arnaud, this is a great blog on a huge issue for us IT types.

2008-08-15T18:34:28Ztag:oalibrarian.blogspot.com,2008-08-15:/2008/08/ifla-award-for-oa-librarian-pioneer.html/

rima++

2008-07-18T14:28:55Ztag:www.kindredspirits.ca,2008-07-18://

the site of the 2003 Zap Your Pram conference and my home for the next week

2008-07-18T14:27:06Ztag:ruk.ca,2008-07-18:/article/4900/

from pei tech wizard and access conference alumni peter rukavina, who i am catching up with in 2 days

2008-04-15T12:46:15Ztag:www.sokwanele.com,2008-04-15:/map/all_breaches/

helping to keep the eyes of the world on zimbabwe

2008-04-14T16:00:59Ztag:www.actsofvolition.com,2008-04-14:/archives/2008/april/zapyourpram2008/

spotted on Acts of Volition, the 2003 incarnation was amazing and you can't beat the location

2008-04-11T16:22:53Ztag:www.archive.org,2008-04-11:/details/canadianrebellio00readuoft/

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

2008-04-11T16:17:42Ztag:anglo-celtic-connections.blogspot.com,2008-04-11:/2008/04/not-just-google.html/

google books is way too timid on this issue

2008-04-09T23:13:21Ztag:www.ocna.org,2008-04-09:/Awards/BNCtop3.html/

winner of heritage award seems somewhat familiar :-)

2008-04-09T23:10:46Ztag:blog.lucene.com,2008-04-09:/2008/04/09/cloud-commodity-or-proprietary//

commodity_cloud_hosting++

2008-04-07T21:12:39Ztag:www.britannica.com,2008-04-07:/blogs/2008/04/what-newspapers-and-journalism-need-now-experimentation-not-nostalgia//

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

2008-04-03T01:52:09Ztag:www.theserverside.com,2008-04-03:/news/thread.tss/

love the "drunk, irate customer" example

2008-04-03T01:46:46Ztag:slashdot.org,2008-04-03:/articles/08/04/01/2229207.shtml/

at least canada voted against it

2008-03-31T17:06:04Ztag:www.techdirt.com,2008-03-31:/articles/20080327/195124677.shtml/

also has link to a NYT article on Red Hat that appeared on march 27

2008-03-31T16:46:21Ztag:www.theserverside.com,2008-03-31:/news/thread.tss/

well i never thought i would see federated search be highlighted in The ServerSide site, but this is where the announcement appeared

2008-03-25T19:02:38Ztag:www.olpcnews.com,2008-03-25:/hardware/power_supply/olpc_power_xocto_plug_freeplay.html/

green computing lives

2008-03-24T20:55:31Ztag:ruk.ca,2008-03-24:/article/4684/

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?

2008-03-11T18:35:23Ztag:www.mcgill.ca,2008-03-11:/files/arts/barney_2007HartHouseLecture.pdf/

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

2008-02-26T22:45:46Ztag:ruk.ca,2008-02-26:/article/4632/

one of the access conference originals returns to hacking library systems, this time with a php class to share

2008-02-21T13:57:39Ztag:www.tacticaltech.org,2008-02-21:/infodesign/

from the amazing folks at the Tactical Technology Collective

2008-01-08T17:21:32Ztag:www.olpcnews.com,2008-01-08:/content/reference/olpc_libraries_open_systems.html/

kudos to mita for bringing this together

2008-01-08T17:19:54Ztag:www.jroller.com,2008-01-08:/rickard/date/20080106/

one of the more thoughtful reflections on the recent upheaval in the rails community

2007-12-20T14:44:49Ztag:blog.wired.com,2007-12-20:/monkeybites/2007/12/is-the-sacred-c.html/

especially interesting from an NGC and what-to-do-about-MARC point of view

2007-12-11T04:11:27Ztag:catalogue.bclibrary.ca,2007-12-11:/opac/en-US/skin/BFN/xml/index.xml/

The *2nd* BC PINES pilot site goes live - a good day for Evergreen in every way

2007-12-11T04:08:57Ztag:matc.mellon.org,2007-12-11:/winners/2007-matc-awardees-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)."

2007-12-08T21:10:58Ztag:davies.halinet.on.ca,2007-12-08:/OntarioNews/newsPage.asp/

"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

2007-12-06T21:54:52Ztag:www.javaworld.com,2007-12-06:/podcasts/jtech/2007/112007jtech006.html/

"Ruby is probably the most powerful language that you can be paid money to write in"

2007-12-06T21:53:51Ztag:demo.openlibrary.org,2007-12-06:/recentchanges/

a place to start for tracking changes on bib records?

2007-12-06T16:21:34Ztag:www.sportsml.org,2007-12-06://

a metadata solution for sharing sports data, and to think we worry about frbr

2007-12-06T16:19:39Ztag:www.youtube.com,2007-12-06:/watch/

if you grew up with canadian television, you will appreciate this, esp. the fate of casey and finnegan

2007-12-04T03:46:57Ztag:facilitation.aspirationtech.org,2007-12-04:/index.php/Facilitation:SpeedGeeking/

yet another possible lib tech conference activity

2007-11-29T05:05:43Ztag:www.wired.com,2007-11-29:/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/15-12/ff_futurama/

good news everyone!

2007-11-13T16:45:27Ztag:msevior.livejournal.com,2007-11-13:/18286.html/

"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!

2007-11-13T15:00:52Ztag:www.betaversion.org,2007-11-13:/~stefano/linotype/news/110//

another brilliant move from google

2007-11-09T14:32:42Ztag:www.aaf.edu.au,2007-11-09:/images/AAFFINALDVD_512_Stream.wmv/

From Australia, a big wmv file but well done.

2007-11-06T12:40:52Ztag:www.makezine.com,2007-11-06:/blog/archive/2007/11/happy_birthday_vms_os_tur.html/

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.

2007-11-06T12:37:35Ztag:catalogue.bclibrary.ca,2007-11-06:/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/index.xml/

The first of many migrations in British Columbia

2007-10-31T13:48:53Ztag:www.javalobby.org,2007-10-31:/java/forums/t102936.html/

and i have already ordered my new mac with leopard

2007-10-10T19:39:09Ztag:www.theserverside.com,2007-10-10:/news/thread.tss/

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

2007-10-09T01:22:10Ztag:blog.jonudell.net,2007-10-09:/2007/10/08/remixing-the-library//

jon++

2007-10-09T01:00:09Ztag:smoothspan.wordpress.com,2007-10-09:/2007/09/04/70-of-the-software-you-build-is-wasted-part-1-of-series-of-toolplatform-rants//

from someone who sold a modula-2 compiler for a while

2007-10-09T00:55:01Ztag:zzzoot.blogspot.com,2007-10-09:/2007/10/drill-clouds-for-search-refinement-id.html/

an interesting extension of tag clouds from glen newton

2007-09-18T12:47:57Ztag:www.groklaw.net,2007-09-18:/article.php/

few tears will be shed about this development

2007-09-06T00:45:21Ztag:www.nybooks.com,2007-09-06:/articles/20471/

from my office neighbour, an interesting review of "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina"

2007-09-03T02:21:56Ztag:www.youtube.com,2007-09-03:/watch/

effective combination of images with a classic patti griffin song

2007-08-31T04:38:18Ztag:www.theserverside.com,2007-08-31:/news/thread.tss/

just like cobol

2007-08-31T01:29:26Ztag:www.groklaw.net,2007-08-31:/article.php/

incredible