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meta: 4 year blogiversary in charts
A series of charts from various stats services, as today is this blog's 4 year anniversary ("blogiversary").(This is not my first blog, my oldest blog will be 8 years old next May.)This is my 2047th post. Thanks for reading.Coming up...
SPARC 2008 on the web
SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008 - November 17-18, 2008 A few channels for you to follow the meeting: Twitter hashtag #sparc08 I made a FriendFeed room sparc2008 that includes the RSS feed from the Twitter hashtag (anyone is welcome to...
SPARC 2008 liveblog experiment
Just an experiment with CoverItLive - may fail totally, we'll see.
in which I meet Lincoln Stein
Arrived at Baltimore Airport for SPARC Digital Repositories.Stood at under two large green signs reading "Taxi Stand".Waited. Waited.Looked way down at the opposite end of the terminal, where all the taxis appeared to be congregating, and wondered...
Photos and videos from the China trip
I finally put some of my photos on Flickr and my videos on YouTube. Here are the links:China food set of photos, photos of markets in China, video of the street food, video of morning exercise in Shanghai, and video of eating hot pot in Shanghai....
City of Ottawa connects to citizens using Web 2.0
I had never really thought about it, but it does make sense for our local government to draw upon the highly talented tech workforce in the area. And for that tech workforce to create systems to help citizens who are...
billions of photos
Facebook sayswe've added 20% more photo servers and 50% more upload servers to process this year's Halloween traffic. We've also packed in 40 terabytes of additional storage (that's 40,000,000,000,000 bytes). By comparison, the words of all 20 mil...
blogging matures
A couple recent items on the changes to blogging.Once you strip the hype away, they both basically say that blogging is a part of the commodity infrastructure of the Internet now, it's just one communication option. This is not too...
Nature launches blogs aggregator
Like a butterfly emerging from the code cocoon of Postgenomic, behold: http://blogs.nature.com/ When I saw it appear in my FriendFeed I of course thought, ooh, I want to be on there, but then I saw # composed mostly of original...
NRCan uses Web 2.0 to improve collaboration
In his posting Canadian Government Launches Internal Wiki, Library Boy points to an interesting article in a magazine I had never heard of, Networked Government .caChallenges of change Breaking down barriers to create an open and collaborative wor...
Government of Canada launches official wiki for federal employees
The Government of Canada has launched an official wiki for its employees.You probably won't be able to access it if you're outside the gc.ca domain.They are inviting people to participate as wiki "gnomes". The url is http://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/ Via ...
Shopping in Shanghai
Who knew shopping was so great in Shanghai? Certainly not me! We have been on the power shopping tour since we got back from Jingdezhen. We went to the fabric market where they sell yard goods plus all kinds of clothes imaginable. They can also...
Noodle Man
One of the best places to eat in Food Alley in Jindezhen is at the Noodle Man's place. This gentle noodle maker, his wife and two beautiful little girls run this little restaurant. He makes the BEST noodles. He makes them all from scratch. You...
Traditional pot trimming, China
Jingdezhen is all about ceramics. There is a wonderful ceramics museum with kilns, pottery makers of all kinds, shops, and on and on. I managed to get some video of one of the artists trimming a pot. For those who don't know about ceramic proce...
Ottawa crime map
They're using a third-party service, CrimeReports.com , for the mapping. I'll give you a direct link so you can skip the giant disclaimer they present on the OttawaPolice.ca site http://www.crimereports.com/map?search=Ottawa+Ontario Looks like the...
One-way bridges and interim solutions
In my previous post about QR codes I made a couple of points which, after receiving some interesting comments, I’d like to expand on. “I see them [QR codes] occasionally on blogs/web-pages but I just don’t much see the point of that...
The Holiday Hotel
Our hotel here in Jingdezhen is called the Holiday Hotel....not to be mistaken with the Holiday Inn. It is brand new. In fact last June when Joe was here it wasn't even started. I would not exactly call it finished. The room where we are stay...
Eating in Jingdezhen
We are here in Jingdezhen, China after having traveled from Lexington to Cincinnati to San Francisco to Hong Kong to Shanghai to Jingdezhen. Whew, a long trip. Thankfully it wasn't all at once! This morning we went in search of breakfast and fo...
Quite Resourceful?
I spent half an hour this morning experimenting with QR barcodes, prompted by Andy Ramsden who is running a small test/survey. I used various iPhone clients to try to decode and make use of three QR codes printed on a sheet of paper. Each of the t...
Why I suppose I ought to become a Daily Mail reader
It’s Sunday evening…. Brian Kelly recently resurrected the debate about Facebook and its use in an HE context. I know he’s on the road at the moment so I suspect he dipped into his blog post ‘reserve’ for this one ;-)...
“Any any any old data”
Over on ZDNet, Paul Miller has blogged some thoughts about what he calls the ‘Data Cloud’. He points out that in the evolution of the ‘cloud computing’ paradigm, the: …emphasis for much of this wider discussion remain...
bold new programming opportunities for... public libraries?
When I listened to this talk from Mark Ramsey about public radio, it made me think about the challenges that public libraries and libraries in general have in finding their audiences. It works best if you (manually) combine listening to...
EDUCAUSE signs letter calling for appointment of US Science Advisor
In a letter sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association of American Universities, EDUCAUSE joins others in urging the two presidential candidates to appoint a science advisor by the time they are sworn ...
Geolocation: 7 things you should know
The latest in the EDUCAUSE "7 Things You Should Know" is the topic of geolocation.Geolocation, also called geotagging, is the practice of associating a digital resource with a physical location. Location information is typically given in terms of ...
I voted with pride!
Because we will be returning from China on election day (we will be watching returns in a hotel in San Francisco) we went yesterday and voted absentee at the Clark County courthouse. We had to hurry because they were scheduled to close at 4:00. ...
butterfly show at Carleton until Oct 13 2008
The Carleton Biology Department is proud to once again present our annual Butterfly Show. Dates: October 4 to 13, 2008 Times: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily Place: Nesbitt Biology Building, Carleton Universityhttp://www.carleton.ca/biology/butterfly/ vi...
femtosecond measurements and quantum labs - upcoming lectures
A Passion for Precision Femtosecond laser optical frequency comb synthesizers have become the established tool for measuring the frequency of light with extreme precision. By permitting phase-coherent comparisons of optical and microwave frequenci...
Singapore 2025 science - and novel presentation
This showed up in my FriendFeeda map of predictions about global science and innovation created at a recent IFTF workshop in Singapore (the interface is a novel service for online presentation called ZuiPreziFuture of Science on the (ZuiPrezi) map...
COPAC gets RESTful
Just a quick pointer to the really encouraging announcement from the COPAC development blog that COPAC individual COPAC records are now addressed with a persistent, and RESTful(ish) URL. The example given is: …the work “China tide : t...
Research Libraries - No Brief Candle
I want to highly recommend the CLIR Report No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century It's available for free PDF download.It got quite a wide readership and positive reaction at my organisation.It does a great job of...
semantic library - planning the training
In the model of Five Weeks to a Social Library, I see in my FriendFeed today a posting from Fiona Bradley about putting together a Semantic Library training program online. It's still in the initial planning stages, you can have...
library support for open science
A nice overview of the challenges and opportunities for academic libraries as we plan to support 2020 science. The Future of Research (Science and Technology)View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: library research) Some calls out ...
Talk Science at BL and in SL - Wednesday 24 September 2008
TalkScience@bl.uk is a series of events hosted by the British Library, providing opportunities to inform, engage, debate and network with scientists and all those who use scientific information. Wednesday 24 September 2008 Is Web2.0 all about atti...
Globe on social networking
The Globe and Mail had a multi-part series on social networking, here are the articles: Part 1: Faceless no more Part 2: When widgets attack Spammers, phishers and hackers seek personal information that social networks pledge to keep safe Part...
Books for Kids
I posted this video to the meta blog this morning, but it is worth posting here because it relates not just to transformation of content, but also to ubiquitous access to words and sounds for everyone. Say what you will about Brewster Kahle's Int...
Web 2.0 in government? Yes.
Michel-Adrien Sheppard, reference librarian at the Supreme Court of Canada gives the update on the latest meeting of the Federal Government Librarians Web 2.0 Interest Group. Some highlights:# The Industry Canada library has launched an internal w...
enabling IR compliance by pre-populating
I wanted to highlight some great work by Mark Leggott and his team at UPEI in building a system that demonstrates how you can connect a bunch of services and technologies together using a good platform, in order to get...
don't predict the future, create it
Give me a lever and the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.- ArchimedesSee Wikiquote - Archimedes for the Greek and the actual phrase. In trying to plan for the future, to perform the strategic planning that is...
a cloud of copyrights?
It seems to me this copyright situation is a tricky thing. For example at the bottom of Cameron Neylon's presentation Science In The Open: or How I learned to stop worrying and love my blog, which he has made CC-BY...
iTunes and classical music
CBC radio says that their show In Tune (Saturday 5:00 p.m.) will be looking at iTunes and its impact on classical music this Saturday (September 13, 2008). iTunes will be 8 years old this coming January 2009.
Air Canada: wifi yes, cellphone no
Travellers will be able to click their way onto Air Canada's new WiFi service next spring as the carrier teams with Aircell LLC to install a mobile network. The Montreal-based airline will start with two 120-seat Airbus A319s, charging $12.95...
National Science & Technology Week 2008
October 17 to 26, 2008 The main site at science.gc.ca - National Science and Technology Week There will be a variety of events in the National Capital Region, includingTitle: Research Lab ToursLocation: National Research Council Canada, Montreal R...
the 2008 Canadian Web 2.0 toolkit
I'm not going to comment about the Canadian election here, but I do think it is useful to survey the web tools they're using, I think we can see a bit of a "2008 consensus" among the parties, not on...
Canada S&T Museum - Cafe scientifique, Iron Science
Should Doping Be Tolerated in Competitive Sports? Experts say that some drugs used by athletes are undetectable at present. Also, some performance enhancement techniques are already accepted by sports organizations. Is it worth the effort to keep ...
Canada S&T sub-priorities
When Dr. Alper was at IFLA Science Portals he said STIC had identified sub-priorities but they weren't approved yet, now they have been* S&T priority: Environmental science and technologies Sub-priorities: Water (health, energy, security); cleaner...
crowdsourced travel magazine - Everywhere
Everywhere magazine looks like any other travel magazine - glossy photos of beautiful locales, written guides to particular locations. But how it works behind the scenes is quite different: See the world Document your trip Peer Review (yes, this i...
Canada S&T Museum asks: what would you exhibit?
Fraser McDonald wrote on Aug 21, 2008 at 7:32 PMIf you could develop an exhibition for one of our three Museums, what would it be? and why?You can answer them in Facebook.
Science 21 video and presentations
I have been following the Science in the 21st Century conference via the FriendFeed room http://beta.friendfeed.com/rooms/science21 and via that room I see that the first day's presentations and video are already up on the Perimeter Institute's ar...
IFLA Science Portals presentations up
The presentations from IFLA Science Portals 2008 are up http://lib.tkk.fi/ifla/IFLA_Science_Portals/ which reminds me I haven't managed to blog my conference notes yet (too much microblogging these days). Topics included The Role of Librarians in ...