In a crowded midtown, Macy's, believe on Twitpic..posted by juliaroy...
With all the controversy still swirling around Google Books and its post-settlement offerings, an alternative route to the millions of digitized books and journals supplied by leading Google Book Search library partners has arrived. The HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org) is a collaboration of 25 research libraries already participating in Google Book Search to produce a shared digital repository for preservation and access to a curated collection. By mid-November, the HathiTrust Digital Library will have a full-featured, full-text search service for 4.3-5 million items. The searches will retrieve bibliographic citations and page references, including those for in-copyright books. Content will extend beyond the digitized copies of books returned to early library partners by Google. HathiTrust is pushing to acquire other digitized special collections from its members, as well as making arrangements for opening access to university press books.
via www.time.com
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, bending to pressure from City Council members, on Wednesday restored about $910,000 in cuts from the city's library system in the proposed 2010 budget.
The additional library funding will allow the Byers branch, 675 Santa Fe Drive, to remain open for another year. Hickenlooper originally had said that library drew low attendance and that its patrons could go to nearby branches.
Some good news.. and shows that not all first decisions in these hard times for libraries and budget cuts stay.. citizen voices can sway things, can make a difference...
via www.pcworld.com
"There are also some interesting deals being offered by stores in the U.S. Best Buy is offering what it calls a "PC home makeover" package, which bundles a desktop, netbook, laptop, monitor and networking equipment for US$1,199."
The above quote caught my eye.. that's an incredible computing deal.. if the equipment is modern and robust, this might be too good to pass up.. they are just opening a new Best Buy in my neighborhood.. DrWeb feels computer upgrade lust building...
From the article..
"The Station Fire ranks about 15th in size in state history, according to government records and could get a lot bigger, Boucher said."
"Giant California fires in the past few years include the Witch Fire in October 2007 in San Diego County, which consumed 197,990 acres. The largest recorded in state history is the Cedar Fire in San Diego County, which burned 273,246 acres in October 2003."
August 31, 2009
After going a full six weeks without reading my blog aggregator, I have to wonder what's up. What's up, I can tell you, is that if it isn't hot with my Twitter peeps, I may not see it. Now I'm the first to admit that this is simply weird. I mean, Twitter is not supposed to take the place of RSS, but in my little corner of the universe it has.
I posted this for Roy...
September 1, 2009
In response to: Twitter Is the New RSS
DrWeb commented:
You're seeing the movement for early alerting, but I see the RSS as longer term, more stability. After that vacation for a week, can you review Twitter like you can RSS or Reader results?
Say, how about sharing some of the Twitter folks you are following? :)
UPDATE: Roy did respond, thanks!
September 1, 2009
In response to:
Twitter Is the New RSS
Roy Tennant commented:
DrWeb, right, like I believe I said above Twitter and blogging (RSS) are complimentary. As for who I'm following you can see that at twitter.com/rtennant/following -- just don't read too much into it. I'm less systematic in my following than I perhaps should be.