Michael Stephens has followed last year’s Library Technology Reports — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software — with another — Web 2.0 & Libraries: Trends and Technologies. According to Stephens:
. . . we’ll revisit some of the social tools presented in Web 2.0 & Libraries: Best Practices for Social Software, address [...]
Version 7 of Internet Explorer is now available to all who run Windows XP. It no longer requires Windows Genuine Advantage validation before download and installation.
In addition, IE7 has made some minor changes to the software itself:
Menu bar is now visible by default
New MSI installer that should simplify installation for IT departments.
[from IE Blog]
The World Wide Web Consortium has renewed the work of the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group. Their charge is to . . . “produce guidelines, checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of the Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices.” They have already published three documents:
Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 [...]
After trying many products that claim to stop snoring, a German scientist has created a pillow that does just that. Daryoush Bazargani, a computer science professor, has created a pillow that is attached to a computer that can sit on your night stand. The computer monitors your noise level. The pillow has compartments that will [...]
The Winnipeg Public Library is charging patrons for use of the wireless access to the Internet. There is no charge for access to the library resources like the catalog or databases. However, access to the Internet is $3 Canadian per hour. This is to help pay for the installation of the Internet, which was $23,000.
At [...]
One of the reasons Dublin Core was created was to provide a set of access points that would work across any object. The result was a list of 15 access points, all of which are optional and repeatable. I didn’t think we could reduce this number.
The Kernel Metadata and Electronic Resource Citations scheme [...]
Instead of using hand-controlled joysticks for gaming, researchers are working with brain-controlled joysticks. Brain-Controlled Interfaces (BCI) allow you to control things with your mind. Some gaming companies are set to release BCI-controlled games in the next year.
Although this sounds great, other scientists worry that the way you must train your brain for gaming might cross [...]
Talk about a mash-up. Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne took flight data from the Federal Aviation Administration and plotted it visually over time using Adobe After Effects and Maya. The result is a group of QuickTime videos showing flight patterns over the United States for March 19, 20o5.
We’ve been using email for a very long time. It seems as if we should have gotten the art of writing an email message down to a fine art. However, Wired Magazine has some good reminders for those of us that need quick responses:
Brevity — The shorter it is, the more likely it will be [...]
Although done in an unorthodox way, Microsoft is providing a large discount for college students that would like to purchase Office Ultimate 2007. If you have an email address with the domain “edu” from a US educational institution and are actively enrolled with at least .5 credit hours (and can prove it), you can [...]
