Friday, January 29, 2010

friday finds

this week for you: raw urls ;)
(no, well, yes, but raw urls to cool stuff.)

http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/24/bigger-libraries-are-not-better-if-they-are-closed/

neither would be more libraries...

jessamyn at boingboing (1 week only)
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/24/welcome-guestblogger.html

ipad lust:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/
and ipad cons
http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad
and ipad opinions
http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/01/29/get-real-geeks-the-ipad-is-the-apple-for-mum-not-you/

and last, because I feel for you my friends:
http://closedstacks.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/tax-season-who-needs-it/

oh and yes, the smartest thing I read so far this year:
"Books should only be catalogued once. Currently the public purse pays for having the same book catalogued over and over again..."

-- Jens Vigen, Head of the CERN Library, who just made their entire catalog dataset available to anyone.


any comments? anyone?

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Friday, January 22, 2010

best of the week

fravorite links from the interwebs:

aaron on the user experience

5 things innovators do.
(thanks bobbi newman)

open source marketplace:PTFS acquire liblime

Rober B Parker dies
I am very sad. he was like a friend to me.
so many say: "he's one of the reasons I do what I do." I am part of that group also.

Just for fun: computer engineer barbie anyone?

Richard turned me on to this, then LifeHacker features:Firefox portable

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

getting caught up.

sorry this list goes on and on. many brilliant finds in the last few weeks.
start with my 3 absolute favorites:

what makes a person satisfied...
IT'S ABOUT PROGRESS...

-for those who think the internet is killing social interactions:
how the internet enables intimacy.


and taming the paper dragon (love lifehacker)


then there is so much more:

FUN: over the years, social networks have allowed me to meet with
library people with whom I share all kinds of common personnal interest.
be it dogs, tattoos, motorcycles and of course food...
geeky foodie


Have you heard the library 2.0 gang? here is a good one to listen to

literacy, what does it mean:


free holiday ebooks


oh, oh, let's try this:
5_universal_truths_all_librarians_can_agree_upon_right_now


10 new librarian blog
s for you to discover

... last but not least: I love mashable







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