The Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watson found some previously unknown documents related to the Kennedy assassination in his office. They were originally compiled by Henry Wade, the district attorney at the time of the assassination, but were not made public.
Watson has scanned these documents and the Dallas Morning News has made them public. In [...]
It’s coming! In other countries, television programs and videos are already streamed to cell phones. However, here in the United States, it’s a little different.
NBC Universal and News Corp. have banded together to provide Hulu, a free Internet service which provides television shows and movies over the web. Some of their partners [...]
Google has introduced a set of protocols, Google Book Search API, that allow libraries’ automation systems to include Google’s scanned books into patron searches. Basically, if a library owns a title, they can provide a link to the full-text or to the preview, depending on its copyright restrictions. The University of Texas [...]
Apparently, the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation had acquired the domain name www.GeorgeWBushLibrary.com for the upcoming library at Southern Methodist University, but inadvertently did not renew it. It, and others like it, are now owned by others. The Foundation is now looking at alternatives.
[from LibraryJournal.com]
Google is opening an engineering center in the middle of Austin — 6th Street and Congress. The Austin-American Statesman provides more details. They’re hiring engineers and software developers . . . no librarians.
[from CNET News.com]
Time Warner is testing metered use of the broadband Internet. There are Internet users that transfer a lot of data, which causes slower service for everyone else. Providers like Time Warner are trying to find a way to make this work for everyone.
Beaumont is hosting a trial of their new metered service, with the packages [...]
For the second year, the Congressional Management Foundation has reported on the web sites created by members of Congress and their staff. Called the 2007 Gold Mouse Report, the report itself is well written, with insights into what makes a good congressional website, e.g., easy to use and navigate, Section 508 compliance, information on how [...]
In January, MySpace and 49 attorneys general agreed to several changes aimed at protecting children and teenager users of their service. The agreement states:
MySpace and the attorneys general will:
share the goal of designing and implementing technologies and features that will make MySpace safer.
meet regularly to discuss improvements relevant to minors’ safety on MySpace.
support initiatives for [...]
The Technology Consultant position at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission is open. If you’re looking for a change and the opportunity to work with a great bunch of people, check it out!
If you haven’t found it yet, most of the presentations from the 2007 Internet Librarian conference are now available. There were a number of presenters from Texas:
Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries — co-presented AJAX for Libraries & Screencasting & E-Learning on a Shoestring
Michelle Boule, University of Houston Libraries — co-presented Academic Library 2.0 [...]
