Thursday Threads: Data Management Plans, Better Q/A Sessions, App for Bird Identification
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Thursday Threads: Sakai Reverberations, Ada Initiative Fundraising, Cost of Bandwidth
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Thursday Threads: Developer Genders, Facebook Release Engineering, Alcohol Among Technologists
Why aren’t there more women in technology? Hmm, let’s see if Twitter can help us find out.
Thursday Threads: Website Accessibility Reporting Service and Remixes in Film
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads has just two pointers. First, a new ...
“We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”
May 30, 2008Peter Murrayproduct Review of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google Find it in your library 0.3</div> Towards ...
The Jester Joins Twitter
It was only a few months ago that I was teasing Dan Chudnov for joining Twitter. Now I've gone and done it myself. I don't expect to be using it much, but ...
Pointless E-mail Disclaimers
I’ve been collecting disclaimers that appear on the bottom of e-mail messages in a draft post on DLTJ for about a year now – every time I’d get a new one wit...
Advocates of the Balance Between the Rights of Intellectual Property Owners and the Rights of Information Users
The American Library Association Committee on Professional Ethics is proposing changes to the Code of Ethics. ((Do those outside the profession know that lib...
Two Lectures on Copyright and Fair Use Today
Spotted in the Chronicle of Higher Education Online this morning is mention of two lectures by Wendy Seltzer that will happen today on the topic of copyright...
More on Commercial Versus Not-For-Profit Open Access Publishing
DLTJ featured a discussion last month on what I saw as the outcomes of "clashing values" between the interest of businesses and that of not-for-profit higher...
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. But we can tell if you are a major news organization or corporation.
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank As the saying, now a part of Internet lore, goes: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're...
What Is BioMed Central?
My posting on Friday about the clashing values of academic institutions and businesses prompted a comment from Bill Hooker about linking to his blog posting ...
Educational Patents, Open Access Journals, and Clashing Values
This posting has two goals -- first, to introduce DLTJ readers to the notion of "Educational Patents" or "edupatents" and provide an update on events of this...
NPR’s Headquarters
NPR's Headquarters, looking east Side view of the triangular building, looking from Mt. Vernon Square. The DC Convention Center is just to the north of ...
SOLINET’s Collective Vision of the Future of Libraries
Library Journal reports on the results of discussions among SOLINET ((SOLINET is the Southeastern Library Network, Inc. -- a not-for-profit multi-type librar...
“Show Me The Code!!!” -or- It Isn’t Open Source Until We Can See the Source
There are days that I feel like Tom Cruise. No, I have no idea what it is like to be married to Nicole Kidman or Katie Holmes and I don't have the secrets...
Data Visualization: Depth, Breadth, and Malleable
In case you haven't run across Gapminder.org yet, I encourage you to carve out about 45 minutes of a day to do so. Even before going to the URL above, your ...
Demonstrating the Mouse’s Absurd Copyright Practices by Using the Mouse’s Work
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University demonstrates principles of fair use to give an overview of U.S. copyright principles in A Fair(y) Use Tale -- a 1...
Creating Participatory Digital Libraries
"Participatory Digital Libraries" is the name of a talk Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, gave this morning at OCLC's Kilgour Auditorium. Known as "The P...
Where Do I Fit? Pew Thinks I’m a “Connector”
So here is my role on the internet — a Connector: "Connectors combine a sense that information technology is good for social purposes with a clear rec...
“How can I Avoid Library Fines?” – Return Your Items!
A reader of DLTJ sent me a private comment this afternoon pointing me in the direction of a post on wisegeek with the title How can I Avoid Library Fines? T...
Stereotypical Vendors?
Recent posts by Richard Wallis and Paul Miller, both of Talis (a 40-year-old company in the U.K. specializing in information and metadata management), questi...