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Thursday Threads: Google Scholar Coverage, Effective Meetings, Librarians as Obstacles, Cable TV
No, I am not composing this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads on the Thanksgiving holiday. This was written the day before and scheduled for posting on Thursday. With a significant run of weekly Thursday Threads postings, it seemed a shame to break the trend because of a holiday. So if …
Posted onand last updated November 25, 2010· 5 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: Gobs of Video, Memento Submitted, Everybody's Digital, and Cell Phone as Credit Card
Another slow Thursday Threads week due to higher priority work duties taking precedent over scanning for trends. This week has a look at the explosion of video content uploaded to YouTube (which dovetails nicely with the Thursday Threads report two weeks ago about the record amount of internet traffic attributed …
Posted onand last updated November 18, 2010· 4 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: Refining Data, Ebook Costs, Open Bibliographic Data, Copyright Infringement
It has been a long week, so for many of you this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads will actually be read on Friday. The spirit was willing, the topics were certainly out there in the past seven days, but the necessary distractions were numerous. Please enjoy this edition whenever you …
Posted onand last updated November 12, 2010· 4 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: RDA Revolt, Google Book Search Algorithm, Google Helps Improve Web Servers, Google's Internet Traffic Hugeness
This week is a mostly Google edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. Below is a high-level overview of Google's Book Search algorithm, how Google is helping web servers improve the speed at which content loads, and how Google's internet traffic is growing as a percentage of all internet traffic. But first …
Posted onand last updated November 04, 2010· 5 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: Unprotected Social Media Sites, Value of Free, and Real Life Net Neutrality
This week's Thursday Threads looks at a big hole in the security model of most internet sites that require you to log into them with a username and password plus a pair of stories about "big media" battles.
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Posted onand last updated October 28, 2010· 5 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: RDF, Digital Document Tampering, and Amazon's Mechanical Turk
This is definitely becoming a habit...welcome to the fourth edition of DLTJ's Thursday Threads. Feel free to send this newsletter to others you think might be interested in the topics. If you are not already subscribed to DLTJ's Thursday Threads, visit the sign-up page. If you would like …
Posted onand last updated October 21, 2010· 4 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: Disruption in Library Acquisitions, Publishing, and Remedial Education plus Checking Assumptions of Cloud Computing and a National Digital Library
If it is Thursday it must mean it is time for another in this series of Thursday Threads posts. This week there are an abundance of things that could fall into the category of "disruptive innovation" in libraries and higher education. If you find these interesting, you might want to …
Posted onand last updated October 14, 2010· 4 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads Bonus: Statistics (Election Polls) and Statistics (World Stats)
This is the second week of this Thursday Threads experiment and already we have a bonus edition. Two other items crossed my browser today that were just too good to pass up: how statistical techniques are improving the aggregation of political polling and a visual representation of lifespan versus income …
Posted onand last updated October 08, 2010· 3 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: Technical Debt, QR Codes in National Parks, WebP Image Format, and SSL Cautions
Week #2 of this new project to highlight interesting tidbits from the previous seven days. Well, things that were interesting to me that I hope will be interesting to DLTJ readers. Time will tell.
Technical Debt: A Perspective for Managers
What is Technical Debt? It’s all “those internal things …
Posted onand last updated October 07, 2010· 5 minutes reading time -
Thursday Threads: Print-on-Demand, Video Changing the World, Puzzling Out Public Domain, and more
I'm starting something new on DLTJ: Thursday Threads -- summaries and pointers of stories, services, and other stuff that I found interesting in the previous seven days. This is culled from entries that I post to my FriendFeed lifestream through various channels (Google Reader shared items, citations shared in Zotero, Twitter …
Posted onand last updated October 01, 2010· 5 minutes reading time