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Anti-open source document from SirsiDynix leaked

Lars Iselid — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:53:32 +0000

Awesome librarian Jessamyn West at Librarian.net is blogging about an anti-open source document from SirsiDynix corp. available from WikiLeaks. About the document: “This document was released...

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White House changes CMS to Drupal

Lars Iselid — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:03:48 +0000

Just read at AP (via Huffington Post) that the White House has changed CMS to Drupal and yes, I knew we did the right thing when choosing Drupal for our new library website at Umeå UB ;-) Joking...

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Screencast software Camtasia soon for Mac

Lars Iselid — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:37:07 +0000

I was checking for screencast software for Mac and discovered Camtasia will be available for Mac users at August 24th. I’ve been using Camtasia for making screencasts at my work for a couple of...

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Drupal-supporting Acquia with quadrupled customer base

Lars Iselid — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:56:02 +0000

Acquia, which business model is to support open source Drupal, has quadrupled their customer base in the last six months. For you who don’t know about Drupal it’s an open source CMS...

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Video from Drupalcamp in Stockholm Sweden May 29-30 2009

Lars Iselid — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:00:39 +0000

I attended the Drupalcamp in Stockholm, Sweden, last weekend and most funny was the Drupal puppy. Watch this Video ’cause it’s awesome: Update: You’ll also find it at...

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Launch prototype of Crunchpad lightweight web tablet

Lars Iselid — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:30:33 +0000

The launch prototype of the lightweight web tablet Crunchpad is now possible to get a view of at TechCrunch. The CrunchPad project started in July 2008 and was created by Michael Arrington at...

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Microblogs like Twitter in organizations and enterprises

Lars Iselid — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:01:55 +0000

I’m working with conferences and web in a Swedish organization for information specialists: SFIS.nu and it’s an emerging debate about using social media and especially microblogs for...

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Ubuntu 9.04 booting in 17.5 seconds, according to MattCutts

Lars Iselid — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:46:22 +0000

According to Matt Cutts at Google Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is booting in 17.5 seconds (from pressing power to Firefox excluding 5 seconds for BIOS display on a Thinkpad) with SSD hard-drive Intel...

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Lars Iselid — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:25:19 +0000

Today Daniel Forsman at Jönköping University Library is talking at the conference Computers in Libraries 2009 (abr. CIL 2009) in Arlington, Virginia, U.S. I just been looking up some documentation of...

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Tim Bernes-Lee about semantic web, raw data and linked data

Lars Iselid — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:56:24 +0000

I hope you haven’t missed Tim Berners-Lee prophetical talk at Ted.com about the semantic web, raw data and linked data. The title of his speech is: “The next Web of open, linked...

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The meaning of social network sites for libraries

Lars Iselid — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:58:51 +0000

I haven’t studied the literature about social network sites much and libraries but I stumbled on this article: Academic Libraries, Facebook and MySpace, and Student Outreach: A Survey of...

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OCLC and their future in Sweden

Lars Iselid — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:44:37 +0000

Actually, I’m quite new to what OCLC can offer libraries in Sweden. Though I think the step from LIBRIS Sweden to OCLC the world (or should I say U.S.?) has it’s possibilities. I’ve...

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Canonical link element solves duplicate content problem

Lars Iselid — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:51:39 +0000

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have all together launched a tag for solving problems with duplicate content. Instead of an ugly link something like this...

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The value of click-stream data derived from toolbars

Lars Iselid — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:19:09 +0000

Reading Greg Lindens blog is always pleasent if you want to dive deeper in the knowledge of search engines. In his last post he refers to an article by Jan O. Pedersen et al at Yahoo! called...

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Employer attitudes to social media

Lars Iselid — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:35:15 +0000

I often hear from library collegaues working at company libraries or some governmental libraries that: “we’re not allowed to use this or that web appplication because…” Yes,...

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