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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Author and editor Johnson (The Dead Beat) is here to reverse that notion with This Book Is Overdue!: Illuminating the state of the modern librarian with humor and authority, Johnson showcases librarians working on the cutting edge of virtual reality simulations, guarding the Constitution, and redefining information services-as well as working hard to serve and satisfy readers, making this volume a bit guilty of long-form reader flattery. Tags: Uncategorized book Books education In an information age full of Google-powered searches, free-by-BitTorrent media downloads, and Wiki-powered knowledge databases, the librarian may seem like an antiquated concept.
Lockergnome Blog Network
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Here Is Where I Grew Up...
If you look at the porch to the left (it's out of sight, you can only see the edge of the eave) you'll see a hollow in one of the steps created by a rocket I built and launched there. It was a tiny library and I read a good proportion of its collection, including my first science fiction books, including John Christopher's series, The White Mountains , and Arthur C. Inspired by Dough Peterson's My Childhood Community , I have collected some Google Street view images from my old home town. Here is where I grew up, the small town of Metcalfe, Ontario, about a half hour south of
Half an Hour
- Monday, March 15, 2010
ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 13 March 2010
An incubator of cutting-edge technologies, the SXSW Interactive Festival offers five days of captivating keynote presentations, panel sessions, book readings, Salons and Core Conversations that provide hands-on training as well as big-picture analysis. PubCon South will include cutting-edge panel sessions exploring tracks dedicated to search, social media and affiliate marketing, an intensive professional search and social media training program, and some of the world's top keynote speakers. It's SXSW weekend so you may be pretty burnt out on conferences - or just sick and tired of hearing about them - but if you're in New York City this week, don't miss what's sure to be a profound and fascinating conversation between Chinese digital activist and artist Ai Weiwei, Twitter co-founder and chairman Jack Dorsey, and ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus.
ReadWriteWeb
- Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Innovation on the Edge
I’ve played on the edge throughout most of my professional career, whether it was doing deals in the Sultanate of Oman back in the 1970s, building a start-up around a new technology called the microprocessor in 1980, building a new Internet-focused practice for McKinsey in 1993 or spending more time in places like Bangalore, Shenzhen and Shanghai in the early part of this decade (my first visit to Shenzhen was actually in 1982 when I led a major manufacturing offshoring initiative there).
Instinctively, I have been drawn to various edges because of the opportunity and challenge they
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Bring Power to the Edge
The four fundamental principles of the agile, "edge-based" organization are situational awareness, skills, values, and decision rights.
This thinking has been articulately documented in many places including the excellent book Power to the Edge by David Alberts & Richard Hayes.
What we need is a modular, self-synchronizing system to deal with crises at the edges — as they happen. For instance, special forces teams are able to deal effectively with the most complex and dynamic situations because they have been designed to be able to be extremely agile.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
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Reinventing the Book in the Age of the Web
But simply putting books onto electronic devices is only the beginning. Why should books be any different? (Aside: our work at O'Reilly as authors and publishers, we've long been interested in exploring how the online medium changes the presentation, narrative and structure of the book, not just its price or format.
A sample from my latest experiment, The Twitter There's a lot of excitement about ebooks these days, and rightly so. While Amazon doesn't release sales figures for the Kindle, there's no question that it represents a turning point in the public perception
OReilly Radar
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks
Electronic books are portable, searchable, and more affordable than print books. The web has accustomed readers to having the latest information at their fingertips; we all ask why books should be any less available "on demand."
Recent releases of O'Reilly ebooks as iPhone applications have even outsold the same books in print . There has been a lot of attention paid to ebooks lately, and for good reason. Amazon’s Kindle has received the most mainstream attention (with new entries like Barnes & Noble's Nook making dedicated ebook readers into the latest competitive
OReilly Radar
- Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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Twitter’s Real Edge: It’s not Scary
When I was writing my last book , I used to go run at the gym for about an hour every morning to clear my head. The TVs were always set on ABC, so I’d zone out to either “Live with Regis & Kelly” or “The View”–two shows I’d never watched before.
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TechCrunch
- Saturday, April 25, 2009
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Hidden Book-Edge Map Maintains Your Cred [Travel Tip]
When you fold the notebook length-wise (when the spine practically touches the long edge of the back cover), the fore-edge of the pages fan out. This is due to the fact that the map is printed on the edge while the notebook is positioned like this. Ever needed to take a quick look at a subway map but don't want to out yourself as a tourist who doesn't know his way around? This brilliant Moleskine map hack demonstrates how to check your map but keep your street cred.
Lifehacker
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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Bits of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 2
In part 1 of this series , we looked at the three big waves crashing down on the traditional book publishing business: Google Search, the Kindle and e-books, and print on demand. In this second part, we'll try to wipe the muck from our crystal ball and see how this could play out in the future, specifically for the major players of book publishing: readers, authors, printers, publishers, retailers, and e-book device vendors.
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ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Your bank may have no claim to your home's title - Good news for you - Bad news for them
mortgages off their books. effect got this mortgage so far off the books that it no longer had
title. those off balance sheet assets are going to move back onto Citi’s books. Tags: Econolypse Banking Counterpunch Foreclosures FTMC Nathan's Economic Edge Pam Marten There has been a breathtaking judgment in favor of a homeowner in
foreclosure. foreclosure.
Robert Paterson's Weblog
- Monday, October 26, 2009
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Make a Swanky Bookcase from Old Drawers [DIY]
Take a few minutes to sand down any rough edges, take off the drawer pulls, fill the in holes with wood putty, and slap on a couple layers of paint. Tags: DIY Bookcases Books Furniture Househol Then next time you're getting ready to kick a beat-up clothes dresser to the curb, take a minute to remove the drawers. With a little paint and decorative paper, you'll have yourself a brand-new modular bookcase.
Lifehacker
- Thursday, December 24, 2009
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How to Build a DIY Dorm-Legal A/C [Back To School]
If you need to cut your copper tubing, don't forget to sand the edges before you start working with the tubing. Tags: Back To School Air Conditioner Clips DIY Hit the Books Household How To Students Summer To Ed. note: We've covered the homemade air conditioner territory before on Lifehacker, but HackCollege's Kelly Sutton offers this awesome video guide to the DIY, dorm-legal air conditioner to help students (or anyone trying to save a few bucks) stay cool. Many campuses have strict policies regarding portable air-conditioners.
Lifehacker
- Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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