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Lawsuit against Facebook

2009-11-09T17:19:00.000-08:00

I wonder how many more lawsuits are out there pending against facebook? And to answer my question, this is actually a followup to earlier legal action.This one accuses Facebook of "conspir[ing] with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records."According to the article the previous law suit (which resulted in a settlement on Facebook's part), "some 44

NYT project / Mapping name subject headings (semantic web)

2009-11-09T11:32:00.000-08:00

I am so excited about this NYT project -- just the kind of thing needed to start moving the semantic web forward ... By the way, DBPedia is an attempt to take Wikipedia data and semanticize it... I am kind of in love with linked in data at the moment.Article athttp://tinyurl.com/yhdayvr "Over the last several months we have manually mapped more than 5,000 person name subject headings onto

Institutional Repository News

2009-11-07T14:19:00.000-08:00

... the group will offer repository-related services, including personnel to scan physical media to digital formats, to check on rights for publishing materials, assist in content submission and offer the opportunity to store research materials in the MetaArchive Cooperative, a collaborative repository effort between Emory University, Georgia Tech and 13 other research institutions. The

Cloud computing -- where is our stuff?

2009-11-06T12:17:00.000-08:00

so, where does all of that stuff you upload go? Interesting... http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/index.html

Cloud Computing jumps 320%

2009-11-05T10:33:00.000-08:00

I can see both some advantages (pooled resources, not on your server, lower costs, etc.) and disadvantages (trusting your online resources to who? hidden costs, etc.) to cloud computing, but it does continue to rise, 320% in the previous year according to this article at Chanel Insider.

Presentation secrets from steve jobs

2009-11-04T10:24:00.000-08:00

In short a good presentation should have:1. A headline2. A villain3. A simple slide4. A demo5. A holy smokes moment...http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2009/sb2009106_706829.htm

Using RSS to find new sites (Google news)

2009-11-03T10:29:00.000-08:00

So, Google announced that:Google uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. We aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results soon after they go live. We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of new webpages.Oh you people with crappy design, content and metadata,

Question of the day: Move facebook profile photo to album

2009-11-02T05:53:00.000-08:00

So, this should be super easy if ALL of the photo albums in Facebook work the same way but they do not (What?!?! ... )In the Profile Photos album, there is no way to move a photo to a different album.... but there is a workaround of sorts.Click on profile photo to go to the Profile Photos album.Find the photo you want to move and click on it.Click on the link under the photo "Edit this

blog topics

2009-11-01T06:01:00.000-08:00

I so hope trying to post everyday is not going to be a big pain in the .... ;-)If you have any questions you'd like me to answer, please throw 'em out.

In case you think I don't have a life (a real life video)...

2009-10-28T09:22:00.000-07:00

Hanging some artwork at a gallery in the ATL. Yes, I do re-hang the same painting about 50 times. It weighs about 50lbs (embedded shells & mixed media) and the nails would not hold it up.

Question of the day: download video from facebook

2009-10-27T09:17:00.000-07:00

There are a few different ways to download a video from facebook, none of which are built in to facebook. You can dig around in the internet cache for (IE) or Firefox or if you use Firefox you can add this wonderful little GreaseMonkey script that creates a download link right at the video in facebook. Whoa, now that is cool.

For you bloggers -- National Blog Posting Month

2009-10-26T12:53:00.000-07:00

Nablopomo runs several blog events to encourage bloggers, too.... well, blog. October's theme was haunted. November is blog every day. I'm going to give it a try this year. As you know, November is just around the corner and with it comes the big blogging free-for-all of the "official" National Blog Posting Month. There's no theme for November, so you're free to make it into whatever you want it

Fix facebook feed -- facebook "enhancements"

2009-10-25T08:02:00.001-07:00

So, if you logged in to facebook over the weekend you saw that FB has wreaked havoc on your feed, greatly impacting the information you send out to your friends and what you see from your friends. Friend spam! I love it (not really.....) Of course, along with the bad is some good options. Potentially LOTS more control over what you share (or do not share).Unless you update your FB settings, when

Fun & interesting (interactive stairs)

2009-10-23T13:06:00.000-07:00

A little something for friday...

Facebook, privacy & digital identity (presentation)

2009-10-22T11:57:00.000-07:00

10/26/2009 Update: Although my presentation is still (very) relevant, if you are looking for the fix for the latest facebook live feed enhancement, start here. This presentation was done the week before the enhancement was launched so although I did talk about privacy issues (and setting your privacy settings) the feed enhancement is was not available at the time....and you can read all my posts

Prepping for presentation on facebook & privacy

2009-10-22T09:14:00.000-07:00

Oh, I think I may use this to wrap up my presentation on facebook. So funny (warning pg-13)

Semantic web, social web, and the progression of the web (presentation)

2009-10-21T11:01:00.000-07:00

Well, this is a pretty unwieldly subject to pack into a 1 hour presentation (and I didn't go very far into the details of the mechanics of the semantic web, at all)....

Evolution of the web (video) web 1.0>web 3.0

2009-10-20T12:54:00.000-07:00

Some of you have seen this (I am sure).

Question of the day: My "hand" tool is stuck in Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.?

2009-10-20T11:45:00.001-07:00

So, I had the dreaded stuck "hand" tool in MXFireworks 2004 (yeah, I know, way behind, I work for the govt....) where I absolutely could do nothing except move around using the hand tool.After much googling, here are the responses I came up with (and I now share in hopes of helping somebody else) :The first three are duhs, which didn't work for me ;-)Turn off conflicting software/clear

Bookmark in del.icio.us, send to twitter and, post to facebook

2009-10-19T09:49:00.000-07:00

There are probably multiple ways to do this (friendfeed, google reader, etc.) but I'm already posting from twitter to facebook. So, throwing in another tool that I use (and love -- but really only as a personal bookmark service) del.icio.us, I discovered that I can now bookmark in del.icio.us and then send to twitter. Using the post from twitter, I can then send it right on over to facebook (

backup for twitter

2009-10-15T09:25:00.000-07:00

Interesting idea -- an online backup service (mostly pay-to-play) but twitter backup is free.http://backupify.com/

COMO presentations

2009-10-12T14:24:00.000-07:00

Visit/join the official COMO Ning network. You can view resources shared by COMO presenters and participants; in addition, join in or start your own conversation about a conference session. Ning members may also post events such as meetups for specific groups of librarians or meetings that may be taking place during the conference.

Cataloging tools (research in progress)

2009-10-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

So, here is one thing I'm working on -- an article on cataloging tools. I'm not posting all of the research (needless to say) but you can see Beth Thornton & my presentation on our preliminary findings, here.

Orphan Works (unclear copyright)

2009-10-03T14:21:00.000-07:00

http://www.archivists.org/standards/OWBP-V4.pdf From the introduction:"'Orphan works' is a term used to describe the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Proposed orphan works legislation, such as the Orphan Works Act of 2008 (H.R. 5889) and the

Ebook readers of the future?

2009-10-01T10:48:00.000-07:00

I like the idea of ebooks and ereaders (I do, I really do) but...I want full color, lcd which automatically adjusts to ambient light, readable font (higher dpi to mimic the typeface on paper) , support for all digital media formats, and crossplatform formats for ebooks. Oh, and it should be lightweight, waterproof, dustproof, and freezeproof.this is a start...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vBb3_