Saturday, February 14, 2004

The anti-Janet-Jackson picture. Note: This funny photo is all over the web with no attribution, but absolute props to whoever came up with it! [Betsy Devine: Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar?] 5:08:18 PM  comment []  Trackback []     At the end of my talk, Shira Silberman, a Waggenerette, came up and asked for a feature. She said -- "You know how, when you're looking at a book on Amazon, they say 'People who read this book also read these books.' How about doing that for RSS?" I thought about it for a second and realized we could do it with the data we're accumulating on Share Your OPML. So I dialed up Andrew on my cell, passed the phone to Shira, and asked her to tell him what she wanted. Today, we have the feature. Demo: People who subscribe to Scobleizer also subscribe to. [Scripting News] 5:05:02 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Bookmobile. Brewster Kahle's Bookmobile doesn't seem like a replacement for public libraries. The distinction between "a book on demand" and "any book printed on demand" is not that slight. But the bookmobile does converge with the larger future of the print book sustained by digital access. [future of the book news] 5:02:24 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Scientists Advance Hydrogen Tech. University of Minnesota researchers make hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor that is small enough to generate power for homes and cars. It could help bring renewable hydrogen to the mass market. [Wired News] 4:33:27 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Personal Voices: A Hysterical Librarian. At AlterNet, Kim Antieau, a public librarian from Washington state, reflects on the library commitment to civil liberties and the freedom to read, and how the USA Patriot Act affects those freedoms. From the essay: "I'm not saying libraries are safe places. They aren't now, and they never have been. They are filled with all kinds of revolutionary – and wrong – information. Everyone can find something in a public library to offend and outrage them. At the same time, it was a unique public space where people could get information and view it at their leisure without anyone keeping track of what they were viewing, researching, or reading. That was before the Patriot Act, of course." The piece is a strong, personal perspective on the library as an institution based on freedom of information and how the anti-terror legislation changes the relationship between libraries and their patrons. [commons-blog] 4:32:50 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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