Last week some Film & Media Culture students working on an independent project this term filmed the second episode of their internet comedy “Legacies” in Davis Family Library. You may watch “Up All Night” at go/legacies or here. http://www.funnyordie.com/legaciestheseries
Artist Guy Laramee carves books. http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/previous-projects/the-great-wall/ and http://www.guylaramee.com/index.php?/biblios/text-1/
Cracking open the scientific process – “Journal tradition compared to Web collaboration”, a New York Times article
What if the library went black? “College students everywhere are lucky [the SOPA/PIPA blackout was] not during prime paper-writing season or else they might be forced to actually use their library’s website.”
The Rise And Fall Of Personal Computing – an overview of personal computing platforms from 1975 to the present day (asymco.com)
Unusual library guide
One library used a graphic novel approach to introduce students to their library (pretty weird but it’s different enough to catch interest). See Library of the Living Dead. (This was added to PRIMO – Peer-Reviewed Instructional Materials Online Database)
A Top 10 List In Favor Of Censoring The Internet – The MPAA has been sending around a sort of “top 10 list” to folks in Congress about why they should vote to censor the internet via PROTECT IP (PIPA). Of course, the ten reasons don’t make much sense, and we figured that it might be helpful to shine a little of that reality light on the claims. (From TechDirt)
Little Printer from BERG (discussed on the Scholarly Kitchen)
ICYMI: Napster’s dead!
“Still Loading: AV Spotlight on Streaming Video” (Library Journal) – nice overview of the current state of the market
The costs of print, or, are we (finally?) seeing the end of the print STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) journal?
Art exhibit of the day – In an effort to illustrate just how many photos are posted to the web each and every day, Erik Kessels put together an exhibition that consists of every single photo posted on Flickr within a 24-hour period. The result? A ceiling-high stack of over 1 million photos that required multiple rooms to hold. By comparison, Facebook users post 25 times as many photos, every day.
OccuPrint – Posters from the #Occupy movement
20 iPad apps librarians should download – Just getting started with your new iPad and wondering what to download? Here are 20 popular apps to get you going in the areas of News, Reference & Education, e-Book Readers, Productivity Tools, and Social Tools.
Solid 3D Projection That You Can Touch – Are we getting closer to really effective volumetric 3D display technology? A new display technology uses cold fog and a laser projector to create a volumetric 3D image. See it in action in these videos.
Awful Library Books – Adventures in weeding collections. They also accept submissions.
Great idea until Microsoft acquires it – TEDx Brussels – John Bohannon & Black Label Movement – Dance Your PhD
E-book lending in public libraries – story in USA Today
“Ban” physical books on college campuses? “… But I suggest that it’s time to go much further: to actually ban nonelectronic books on campus. … It could involve a pledge similar to the one that language students and instructors at Middlebury Language Schools take to speak only the foreign languages in which they are immersed during the study program. …”
Some error messages to amuse you, such as “Error: Report failed. Can not obtain error message” or ” An Un-named File Contains an Invalid Path.”
Unfrozen Caveman CIO at Google Atmosphere: “So ‘Cloud’ is Gmail, Right?”
“What’s not often recognized is that Microsoft Office is also a communications network that runs on top of the Internet at the app layer, and specifically it runs on top of the email layer.”
The internet can be touched – the internet IS physical. Also, note a link below the video points out that “the weight of a full Kindle exceeds that of an empty Kindle.”
Four Easy Tips for Preserving Your Digital Photographs – tips on personal digital photo preservation from the experts at the Library of Congress (from LC’s The Signal digital preservation blog)
Mission Possible: An Easy Way to Add Descriptions to Digital Photos – a related discussion on adding descriptions (“metadata”) to digital photos (also from LC’s The Signal digital preservation blog)
Wikipedia is the go-to site for college plagiarists – An analysis published by Turnintin shows that Wikipedia and Yahoo! Answers are popular sources for copy-and-paste paper-writers.
How cellphones shape the lives of college students (infographic) – Students text more often than they call. Among smartphone users, iPhones and Androids are equally popular.
The myth of the tech-savvy student from The Chronicle of Higher Ed
Can amazon and Apple coexist? Probably. But as for Google ... ” … Rather than seeing Amazon’s recent announcements as an attack on Apple’s hold on the tablet market, the two devices may peacefully coexist. The real challenge offered by Amazon, and by Apple’s latest iPhone announcement, is to Google. The companies each fired a broadside at Google’s search empire — Amazon via their Silk browser and Apple through their Siri “digital assistant”. …”
What students (at Ohio State) want in their mobile application.
Notes from Mark Zelis of College Communications on Social Media sessions at the #HigherEdWeb conference this fall.
The Mozilla Foundation launched Popcorn.js, a framework for making interactive, annotated video projects. There are demos on the site that you can view. There’s also a very early version of a user interface for making these video mashups that doesn’t require you to know any code.