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Wednesday, June 30, 2004
IE Havok
Internet Explorer Is Too Dangerous to Keep Using
In the few days that the sites provided the Trojan horses, hundreds of thousands or millions of users could have had their credit-card, stock-brokerage and bank-account numbers and passwords stolen.
Let me repeat myself: Millions of you may have every bit of your browser-driven online financial security information stolen.
Emphasis mine.
Now that’s a reason to switch. IE is simply not safe, and since it’s essentially dead for at least another 3 years, it won’t be getting better.
Computing News — laura
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Librarian Blog List
Librarian Blogs and Sites Internet Directory lists a ton of personal websites for librarians. It’s a great place to start for web-surfing.
Blogging — laura
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
DRM talk
This talk was originally given to Microsoft’s Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004.
Really well done.
Copyright — laura
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Branding
Whether marketing a corporate brand or a branded product or service, success increasingly demands proactive brand management.
This site is dedicated to examining all issues relating to branding to assist you in this task.
And back to our regularly scheduled programming…
Libraries offer many useful and underutalized services. The key to improving our visibility and standing in our communities is to promote ourselves and our services. It shouldn’t take much, but we do have to remind them that we’re there and we are still useful today. Personaly, I’m waiting for the first library commercial.
Marketing — laura
Guilty!
Some good points. We can’t get so wrapped up in what we’re doing wrong that we forget what we’re doing right.
Often I hear the mantra that libraries should be more like businesses. While it is true that we can learn things from the public sector, they have much to learn from us. I wish my local Blockbuster worked as well as my local library. I wanted a DVD that was out. At the library I’d just place it on hold. I could have checked the status from home and have placed the hold from there. I had to go to the store to find it was out and then discover they have no method of placing me on a waiting list for the item. It is simply up to luck. I asked about another video and found it was only available for sale, not rent. There was no alternative. My local library can get any item via ILL. Blockbuster should be looking at how libraries operate for some ideas.
Library Links — laura
Thursday, June 17, 2004
RIAA Weasles
That means 71.2% of what they sent us is stuff currently sold in remainder bins. Dunno if the terms of the agreement said they couldn’t send cutouts or not, but if I know the record industry, they are following the letter but not the spirit of the settlement….
Are they really that incapable of admitting they were wrong and being gracious? At the very least the last thing they need right now is even more bad publicity
Copyright — laura
PINES
Georgia is creating an open-source ILS for it’s resource sharing collective, PINES.
this could easily be the biggest thing to happen with Open Source in the library community since linux was first used in a library setting. There have been many OSS success stories in libraries, but the ILS has never really been tackled for a large library system.
Open-Source Software — laura
Saturday, June 12, 2004
OA Starter Kit
basic open access web sites is a list of websites on the main issues of the Open Access movement.
Open Access — laura
Thursday, June 10, 2004
What is a Blog?
You’ve no doubt heard of them on your email lists, you may even have seen them in your favorite print publication. But what is a blog and why are they such a big deal?
Tutorials — laura
Wednesday, June 9, 2004
The educated blogger
[The educated blogger] explores the role of weblogs or “blogs” in classroom settings. Blogs, which resemble personal journals or diaries and provide an online venue where self%u2013expression and creativity is encouraged and online communities are built, provide an excellent opportunity for educators to advance literacy through storytelling and dialogue. This paper explores the importance of literacy and storytelling in learning, and then juxtaposes these concepts with the features of blogs. The paper also reviews examples of blogs in practice.
Blogs actually have an even greater potential than just what the paper discusses. The beauty of blogging software is that it makes publishing as easy as filling out a form. This clears the way for authors to concentrate on their content.
Education — laura
Wednesday, June 2, 2004
RSS Vs Atom
Syndication is the direction web information management is headed in. Just by starting my aggregator I can check over a hundred websites, including those for the intranet at my library, the news section at my school, several organizations I am member of, and my friends sites, to see if any changes have been made and get the latest information from those places.
When you start investigating syndication, you soon get mired in the various formats. Comparing RSS 2.0 and ATOM - For the Rest of Us! discusses the differences between 2 of the most popular ones.
Tutorials — laura
