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Thursday, February 28, 2002 |
I'm doing another demo of Radio and blogging for the Tech Summit.
Does anybody know of any special libraries that are blogging?
3:18:32 PM Permanent link here
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Definitely download: IE Booster. It's Windows and IE5+ only, but free and it gives you all of the following:
Show all forms and applets of a web page (Unique!) (screenshot)
Show page source (screenshot) or show partial source (screenshot)
Show all hyperlinks (screenshot)
Show all images (screenshot)
Show style sheets (screenshot)
Show detailed information of an image (screenshot)
Open current frame in the same or in a new window
Resize the browser window to various screen formats
Copy page title as "<a href=url>Title</a>" to clipboard
Copy link target as "<a href=url>Caption</a>" to clipboard
Open selected text as URL in a new browser window
Copy selection as plain text
Copy image source path to clipboard
For ZOPE-Users: Manage page or parent folder and restart server
Thanks Chris via Meryl!
9:12:53 AM Permanent link here
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One to read later after I finish up my presentation for today. Frontline investigates The Monster that Ate Hollywood. In Chicago, it will be on WTTW at 8:00 p.m. tonight. You can find out when it will be on in your area.
"It's a scary story that could only have been conceived in Hollywood. It has 'giant predators' (i.e., multinational conglomerates), 'greedy villains' (studio executives), 'huge explosions' (in marketing budgets), 'futuristic technology' (broadband), and 'heroic underdogs' (struggling independents). It even has a giant, bloodthirsty shark (albeit a mechanical one).
But it's not a movie -- it's a FRONTLINE documentary. It's called 'The Monster That Ate Hollywood.'
Whether the story has a happy ending remains to be seen -- and depends less on the creative people who make movies, the filmmakers and producers, than on business decisions made by huge, vertically integrated media companies. How those giant conglomerates have changed the culture of Hollywood -- and the nature of the movies we see -- is the subject of this FRONTLINE report."
9:07:50 AM Permanent link here
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Somehow I missed Nat Hentoff's second piece about the Patriot Act, the one that discussed libraries. Big John Wants Your Reading List outlines the slippery slope librarians have been warning against.
"As I often do when Americans' freedom to read is imperiled, I called Judith Krug, director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. I've covered, as a reporter, many cases of library censorship, and almost invariably, the beleaguered librarians have already been on the phone to Judy Krug. She is the very incarnation of the author of the First Amendment, James Madison.
As she has often said, "How can anyone involved with libraries stand up and say, 'We are going to solve problems by withholding information'?"
I called to talk with her about the FBI's new power to force libraries to disclose the titles of books that certain people are reading—and she, of course, knew all about this part of the USA Patriot Act. And the rest of it, for that matter.
Accordingly, the press ought to awaken the citizenry not only to the FBI's harvesting lists of what "suspect" Americans read, but also to the judicial silencing of bookstores and libraries that are being compelled to betray the privacy and First Amendment rights of readers."
Judith continues to fight the good fight - more power to her. Thanks to Library Juice for pointing this one out.
8:52:49 AM Permanent link here
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I blew it yesterday by not quoting the following paragraphy from Dave Berry's essay about Radio.
"One of the features about Radio that grabbed me was that I could quickly add a new item to my Weblog and have it available on the web with very little effort on my part. There have been many times, when answering FrontPage support questions, that I've thought to myself how often a particular question has been asked and that maybe I should add it to my list of FAQs or Tips on my web site but I just never get around to it. There's always something more pressing going on and I don't have the time to open the site, make a new page, add the content and then add that page to my menu of topics."
I was trying to express this very thought to a reporter the other day. It's the biggest difference between my old Librarians' Site du Jour and The Shifted Librarian. Sometimes I just didn't have the energy to open an editor and type the content and format it and check it and then FTP it. With Radio, it's one-click.
If you saw the article about 9-second attention spans thanks to the Web (Web 'turns people into goldfish'), then you can see how this might apply to blogging. Part of my definition of blogging is that you are posting what you think is important at this very moment... what you are passioinate enough about right now to commmit to forever bytes with your name attached. I could narrow that down further and say that it's what is important to you in the current 9 seconds, but that would be taking away from the wonderful insights I've been reading by bloggers who obviously spent more than 9 seconds on them.
7:57:38 AM Permanent link here
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Music Fans Must Rebel Against Greedy Record Industry
"When you watch the Grammy Awards on Wednesday, you might want to tape it — and not just because Jon Stewart will be a swell host. The record industry has squandered the faith of its artists and its customers. We all grew up hearing music for free on the radio and teevee and now we can save it via the Internet. When we like something, we'll pay to have our own copy — or to see the artist play live. Few will weep when the Record Industry collapses." [via Daypop Top 40]
Pretty strong words from Ken Layne via the new FoxNews Weblog.
7:42:55 AM Permanent link here
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Totally back to normal after getting a most excellent email from Mo that includes the following:
"But I love your message, and am now looking at my local librarian in a completely different way."
A respone to Mo tonight in email, but a public thank you for making my day. And it's only 7:30 am!
7:33:37 AM Permanent link here
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