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I like the idea of ebooks and ereaders (I do, I really do) but...I want full color, lcd which automatically adjusts to ambient light, readable font (higher dpi to mimic the typeface on paper) , support for all digital media formats, and crossplatform formats for ebooks. Oh, and it should be lightweight, waterproof, dustproof, and freezeproof.this is a start...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vBb3_

Another example of what a mashup can be in this case a map depicting the location and shoe style ordered from the online shoe store, zappos...http://www.zappos.com/map/

Question of the day: Has anyone seen the following error when you try to open a pdf file:There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.My answer (I have lots of experience with bad PDF files... long story .. not my fault, though, I was just an innocent bystander... lol):a few likely reasons:If the PDF is on the web: The upload process could have hung up,

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Yes, I did write anti wifi paint.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stmHumans are amazingly inventive, are we not?

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Looking for a Mentor? Want to Be a Mentor?http://www.students.ala.org/studentmemberblog/?p=344ALA has launched MentorConnect (http://connect.ala.org/mentorconnect-help ) in ALA Connect (http://connect.ala.org/ ) so you can find or become a mentor.MentorConnect ( http://connect.ala.org/node/82872 ) (*MC*) allowsALA members to create mentoring profiles that highlight their expertise and experience.

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Since my calendar thingie is not working so well, here is what I have on my schedule for upcoming talks/presentations:Sept. 19, Digital Initiatives w/ Tim Daniels, GPLS Director's Meeting,Current and emerging trends in library technology -- is my partOct. 22 Semantic web. vs. Social Media, Master of Internet Technology Program, Gwinnett Campus: What REALLY is the semantic web and is it at odds

Very interesting.This morning, the Official Google Blog announced that the search giant has acquired reCAPTCHA. The company provides a service that combines two things that Google would be very interested in: it verifies that information provided to a server has been entered by a human and, in the process, helps identify difficult-to-decipher text from book digitization projects. As such, it's a

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112856557Google stands to be the single repository for millions of the world's books. Advocates applaud the organization and the access a digital library can afford. But critics worry about monopoly and profit motives, and what it means for readers' privacy. Very interesting....

A painful truth:Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for

My presentation [Geoff Nunberg @ Language Log] focussed on GB's metadata — a feature absolutely necessary to doing most serious scholarly work with the corpus. It's well and good to use the corpus [fulltext/body] just for finding information on a topic — entering some key words and barrelling in sideways. (That's what "googling" means, isn't it?) But for scholars looking for a particular edition

League of Librarian Trading Cards -- a little humor for your day http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlsonlibrary/sets/72157622006503335/show/with/3853097266/

The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century. I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence. There are several means by which science may achieve this breakthrough (and this is

interesting, even though I'm not sure the general person needs to know the difference between a browser and a search engine, especially, as companies like google and microsoft offer both. One is just how you get there and the other is what you use to search. I certainly am not going to uncollapse my category of search engines/browsers here ;-)

This post will cover 2 things: how to disconnect your facebook status from twitter and how to set up selective tweeting to facebook.Selective tweetingIn facebook, there is a great application called selective twitter status, which gives you control over which of your tweets go to facebook. Once you add selective twitter to your facebook account and link your twitter and facebook accounts together

I won't list them all here, but backlight looks cool and lots of fun.I am already using Networked Blogs, which is a social network and blog listing service. It also allows blogs to be pulled into facebook. I've had some problems with it truncating my posts from contentdivergent and dropping out embedded video, so I may need to look at my settings... or maybe not. It just may work that way...

Three cheers for this ted talk.