What would a bunch of producers and personalities do when locked out of the CBC? Well, podcast their shows instead. A few have taken to the internet to keep connected with their audience and tell their side of the story. More at the site below. www.cbcunplugged.com
A continuation of Google Print debate. Both of these discuss whether or not Google should be considered a "digital library" in this sense and whether or not them backing down is detrimental to how people view libraries and copyright. Something I had thought about but without the legal background to understand the complexities. Google Print Is As Google Print Does: Corante Copyfight Google Print Library: Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda: Corante - Copyfight
Something I’ve been arguing for a bit. Comes up on Web4Lib quite a bit. I’ll post a longer rant when I get the chance. Until then you can read this. Says many of the things I want to. Dilettante’s Ball: Librarians are arrogant asses
Bah. Google will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books from libraries into its database, the company said late Thursday. Google pauses library project | CNET News.com Some other sources/opinions: Siva Vaidhyanathan: Google Is Right to Hit Pause on Library Plans Google Sells Out Users to Publishers: Corante
Doug Kaye of IT Conversations has a plan to leverage the podcasting army to help save some of the spoken knowledge of today. Blogarithms » The New Project
Well I went ahead and did it if only to skew the results.
Since I already had some of our new books lists being converted to RSS, I went ahead and tried it out as a screensaver on my laptop which now has OSX Tiger. Here’s a screenshot (crappy quality - looks much better on screen): An interesting idea and something that might be neat on public computers.
I have quite a few friends with mp3 players. Some have Creative, some iPods, some others. The ones that have iPods bought them mostly after trying mine. Mine is an old one (Gen 2 i think) that was the first to have the touch wheel. I personally like this more than Gen 3 as the touch buttons don’t give as much feedback as my normal ones. I wouldn’t mind a click-wheel though.
Most of my time is now spent in an online world. Hopefully I'll get enough time to post some information to this one.
Many-to-Many: folksonomies + controlled vocabularies The advantage of folksonomies isn%u2019t that they're better than controlled vocabularies, it's that they're better than nothing, because controlled vocabularies are not extensible to the majority of cases where tagging is needed. Building, maintaining, and enforcing a controlled vocabulary is, relative to folksonomies, enormously expensive, both in the development time, and in the cost to the user, especailly the amateur user, in using the system.