offers a broad ranging set of insights
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A fascinating and broad-ranging piece by
Christopher Caldwell
A fascinating and broad-ranging piece by
Christopher Caldwell
02/16/2004 05:35 AMChristopher Caldwell On: With Friends Like These In Europe ..
in-depth, must-read article .. SURVEY OF
ANTI-AMERICANISM
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MIT Offers new Insights into Vision
MIT Offers new Insights into Vision
04/13/2004 09:10 PMPawan Sinha and
other MIT
researchers have combined MRI scans, René Magritte paintings, and a
study of
individuals who are born blind but later gain some vision to offer new
insights into how the human brain recognizes objects and, in
particular,
faces. Humans are much better at recognizing faces than the best
machine vision, even when the faces are extremely blurred. Humans use
contextual clues that are not available to most machine vision
systems. Up until now, machine vision developers have intentionally
removed or cleaned-up images by isolating the object of
interest (which precludes consideration of contextual clues). An MIT
News
story summarizes the research. For more see the Sinha Lab Vision
Research webpage.
'Laser vision' offers new insights
'Laser vision' offers new insights
04/26/2004 08:30 PMA system that projects light beams directly onto the eye's retina
could change the way we view the world.
Float offers insights into Google
Float offers insights into Google
04/30/2004 10:29 AMThe financial documents filed by Google offer a fascinating insight
into the search engine powerhouse.
Book offers insights into Web privacy
with P3P
Book offers insights into Web privacy
with P3P
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Laser Vision Offers New Insights
Laser Vision Offers New Insights
04/27/2004 09:00 AM"
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04/30/2004 03:43 AMBBC NEWS | Technology | 'Laser vision'
offers new insights
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Laser vision'
offers new insights
04/27/2004 08:09 PMBBC NEWS Technology 'Laser vision' offers new insights .. projects
lasers onto the retina .. this BBCNews
article
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Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging
Copyright Bill
Sen. Hatch to Introduce Wide-ranging
Copyright Bill
06/18/2004 12:37 PMwashingtonpost.com: Attacks Force
Retreat From Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq
washingtonpost.com: Attacks Force
Retreat From Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq
12/28/2003 03:00 PMThreats Force Retreat From Wide-Ranging
Plans for Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
Threats Force Retreat From Wide-Ranging
Plans for Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
12/29/2003 06:06 AMnone to back away
from
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PAPER: Threats Force Retreat From
Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq
PAPER: Threats Force Retreat From
Wide-Ranging Plans for Iraq
12/28/2003 05:24 AMNew toy not as fun as they thought ..
cut-and-run
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Site uses the Internet to make real-life
meetings on topics ranging from knitting
to politics
Site uses the Internet to make real-life
meetings on topics ranging from knitting
to politics
11/07/2003 06:34 AMAP via New Jersey Online Nov 7 2003 5:39AM ET
FC Now: Off-Site Insights
FC Now: Off-Site Insights
09/25/2004 05:22 AMFor the last two days, the Fast Company team has been sequestered in a
country home built during the 1830's in the Delaware Valley. The...
Cites & Insights
Cites & Insights
12/23/2003 09:16 PMCites & Insightshttp://cites.boisestate.
edu/civ4i1.pdfCites & Insights: Crawford at Large 4:1
(January 2004) is now available for downloading at the above URL. This
26 page issue, PDF as usual includes the following:
*Bibs &
Blather (looking forward & back, plus weblog blather
*First
Have Something to Say: 15: Breaks and Blocks (the third and final free
chapter)
*Scholarly Article Access (PLoS publicity and
feedback; other OA notes; and why this is the final Scholarly Article
Access)
*Following Up (Martin Luther King, Jr. library; DVD
compatibility; Amazon's Search in the Book and swamping)
*Ebooks, Etext and PoD (the ebook biz, elibraries, devices)
*Copyright Currents (DMCA exemptions, the SunnComm follies, more
music stuff, SCO and Linux)
*A Scholarly Access
Perspective: Tipping Point for the Big Deal? (Elsevier, ScienceDirect,
Cell Press, and academia)
Insights on how obesity kills
Insights on how obesity kills
05/09/2004 06:30 PMStraits Times May 9 2004 11:12PM GMT
Internet Security Insights
Internet Security Insights
03/29/2005 11:26 AMHostReview.com Mar 29 2005 2:43PM GMT
Short-Cited Insights about RSS
Short-Cited Insights about RSS
02/07/2005 01:41 AMOn page six of the February
issue (PDF) of Cites
& Insights (“Rss hub-bub”), Walt Crawford
pooh-poohs the idea of ILS vendors providing native RSS feeds out of
the catalog. It’s a difficult assertion to challenge because
nowhere in his comments does Walt use the word “because,”
thereby directly stating his objection(s). There are implications,
though, so let’s examine them since they are all we have to
go on.
First of all, Walt seems to think that someone has
advocated libraries replace their email alerts with RSS alerts.
That’s a statement Walt can’t back up, although I’m
sure he’ll note it if he has proof of *anyone* ever in the
history of the world using the word “replace” or a
synonym. If he backs off from that statement, I’ll be curious to
know why his first assumption was that the two can’t live
happily ever after together, side by side, especially since RSS would
be the driving force behind the new titles lists he claims will vanish
into the olden days of yesteryear.
In reality, the only
time I’ve ever received an email from my catalog is when I had a
book that was really, really, really, really, really overdue and I
think they were about to send Guido after me.
That they’ll email me about. But the
convenience notice when it’s a couple of days overdue (or even a
couple of weeks or months)? Fuggedaboutit. So SWAN libraries, consider this me
begging for email alerts! Oh, and I
guarantee you that none of my libraries went to Innovative (or before that
GEAC) asking for email alerts. It’s just something
that made a lot of sense, the vendor understood what was happening in
the outside world, and the code was relatively easy to implement.
Just like RSS.
Next, Walt seems to advocate that libraries
shouldn’t offer a service for what he asserts is 1% or less of
your population. I’m not challenging the mathematical figure,
but I can think of lots of services that libraries provide for users
that comprise less than 1% of our patrons. Let’s use my
home library as an example. They serve a population of about 30,000
people right now. One percent of the current population would be 300
people, and 1% of actual users would probably be closer to 150.
So what services do they offer that only 149 or fewer people use?
Here’s a list just to name a few:
- Homebound service
(even though we have a lot of senior housing in our
area);
- Sign language translators for patrons who are deaf
and might attend their programs;
- Night Owl telephone reference
service;
- A form for challenging “offensive”
titles in the collection.
- A web site that is accessible
to blind users.
- The ability to use a USB flash drive with the
library’s computers (I’m sure that figure is rising,
but I don’t see tons of patrons picketing libraries over this
one and yet a lot of libraries are now offering this).
I
don’t think Walt would quibble that these are all valuable, even
essential, services, but then he’d probably be basing those
decisions on factors other than how many people are using the
service. Nowhere in his comments does Walt use any other criterion for
RSS, so why the double standard?
In addition, far less than 1%
of 1% of a library’s RSS users actually go to the trouble of
programming for themselves services the library’s catalog
doesn’t offer. However, I can name three off the top of my head
(from across North America), the most obvious example being Peter Rukavina who rolled his own RSS but is [rightly]
too busy to help the rest of us who would like to provide that service
but aren’t programmers. If his home library wanted to, they
could download his script and start displaying the list of their new
DVDs on their own web site, but they can’t get it natively from
their own ILS. What’s wrong with that picture?
Of
course, you could also flip this example and argue that you really
should be providing a service that your users want badly enough that
they resort to hacking your catalog and then noting it on their
very public blog. There are at least three examples of users who
are running scripts against catalogs, and there are a lot more who
have signed up with Library
ELF, probably without their librarys’ knowledge. Disclaimer:
I love ELF, and I use it myself. I’m willing to give my personal
data to a guy in Canada in order to get the email and RSS alerts my
catalog refuses to give me. I can’t imagine that Walt thinks
that a non-programmer like myself should be forced to do that just to
get an RSS feed of what I have checked out, but he also doesn’t
seem to care about RSS in the context of patron data. I assure
you there is no one at MLS or
at a SWAN library that can code this themselves to offer it to
patrons, which means we’d be forced to have someone else do
this. Why shouldn’t that be the vendor?
But just
because Walt doesn’t do it, doesn’t mean I won’t
look at other criteria to discuss reasons to implement RSS.
In a previous post, I
noted that in my library system alone, we could conceivably
save 924 hours of actual librarian work each year if our vendor,
Innovative, provided native RSS
feeds out of the catalog. Let’s take it a step further
and come up with the number of potential saved work
hours for just half of the 3,700 libraries in Illinois.
Let’s say that only half of them might actually take
advantage of RSS feeds to change how they display new titles on
their web sites. If this saved just one hour per month for 1,850
libraries, native RSS feeds would save Illinois
librarians 22,200 hours in just one year.
So even
if there was never a single patron that subscribed to a single feed,
it would save Illinois librarians 22,200 hours, and let me
tell you something: other than funding, the biggest thing we could
really use more of is time (which can also be translated into
more staffing, but on a personal level, I feel very constrained
time-wise). So now we’ve freed up 22,200 hours of
librarians’ days, thanks to relatively easy programming on the
part of the major vendors. How awesome is that?! And if my vendor
can’t understand that kind of savings, then I have to question
them as my vendor. Sometimes you really can make a big difference with
just “a flip of the switch.”
Other ways I think
native RSS feeds would be used, furthering the benefit to
libraries:
- I think there are users who would display queues
(if we offered queues) or lists on their sites, just like they do now
with NetFlix and Amazon. I’m even willing to
bet my hat that some of them (yes, less than 1%) would display what
they have checked out at this moment, just like they do with NetFlix
and Amazon (“what I’m reading now”). While
you’re at it, throw music in there, too, since a lot of people
(less than 1%) like to post what they’re listening to as
they’re composing their blog posts.
- Library holdings
could be displayed on third-party web sites, like a school’s
site, an academic department’s site, or a community’s
site. In fact, libraries could partner with newspapers, area sports
clubs (a brilliant idea from Stephen Abrams), and other groups to more
easily display material on their web sites. The content
would update automatically, thereby keeping those librarian hours free
for other tasks.
And yet, Walt doesn’t think
it’s exciting that ILS vendors are starting to offer this type
of support to libraries. In fact, Walt doesn’t seem to think
that ILS vendors should be providing RSS feeds here and now at all. I
don’t see any of my member libraries clammoring for Z39.50
compliance with the Bath Profile, but that doesn’t mean
Innovative shouldn’t be compliant or working on it (number of
patrons who are requesting this or even know about Z39.50: zero). I
don’t hear about any of my member libraries doing anything with
Dublin Core metadata, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t
be (number of patrons who are requesting this or even know about DC:
zero). Should vendors offer only those services that are formally
requested by 50% of library users (the implication Walt makes by
noting that even in his high-tech community, less than half the
residents probably know about RSS)? What’s the magic number at
which Walt would consent to let ILS vendors start working on
providing RSS feeds? 40%? 25%? 10%? Hopefully
he will leave a comment so the vendors will know when to
start.
I don’t know if he was just lobbing a
softball over the plate in order to help prove the
point that native RSS feeds would be valuable right now or if
he truly believes the position he declines to actually support, but
either way, this one clearly demonstrates Walt’s bias against
RSS. That’s okay, because everyone has their biases. This time,
though, Walt’s just asking for trouble.
MMOG Subscription Analysis Provides New
Insights
MMOG Subscription Analysis Provides New
Insights
08/19/2004 03:15 PMGore's TV Seeks Northern Insights
Gore's TV Seeks Northern Insights
04/14/2005 07:00 AMAl Gore's new cable television network promises to update the boob
tube for the internet generation. An experimental Canadian TV show has
been doing just that for the last three years -- and it ain't easy. By
Niall McKay.
IS 2004 provides rare insights for CIOs
IS 2004 provides rare insights for CIOs
07/30/2004 08:31 AMExpress Computer India Jul 30 2004 12:37PM GMT
New technique provides insights into
gene regulation
New technique provides insights into
gene regulation
12/22/2004 01:25 AMMedical News Today Dec 22 2004 2:09AM GMT
Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights
Marketers Scan Blogs For Brand Insights
06/24/2005 05:44 PMSlashdot Jun 24 2005 8:56AM GMT
Naked News Reveals Insights in Britain
(AP)
Naked News Reveals Insights in Britain
(AP)
08/11/2004 05:42 PMAP - Stripped-down news anchors posed outside the Houses of Parliament
Wednesday to launch the latest addition to Britain's competitive news
media — Naked News.
WSJ.com - Marketers Scan BlogsFor Brand
Insights
WSJ.com - Marketers Scan BlogsFor Brand
Insights
06/24/2005 06:07 PMPerfect evening reading .. Quote: ..
WSJ
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Personal Computing | Insights into
technology users
Personal Computing | Insights into
technology users
12/18/2003 04:36 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer Dec 18 2003 3:54AM ET
OGC book provides insights into
transforming the Government workplace
OGC book provides insights into
transforming the Government workplace
07/12/2004 02:32 AMPublicTechnology.net Jul 12 2004 7:13AM GMT
Broad expansion
Broad expansion
06/23/2004 05:31 PMUSA Today Jun 23 2004 9:50PM GMT
Science Blogs Offer Insights Into “Life
on the Lab Side”
Science Blogs Offer Insights Into “Life
on the Lab Side”
12/19/2004 03:16 PMThe Science Advisory Board’s Web site under went major renovations
this fall. Our redesigned Web site was officially launched on December
5, 2004. Enhancements include improved site navigation and
organization as well as a much friendlier user-interface. [PRWEB Dec
13, 2004]
Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights -
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights -
Thursday, April 22, 2004
04/25/2004 09:41 AMTechnorati Cosmos links for Radio ..
Matt
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Research at cellular level provides
insights into intricacies of physical
aging
Research at cellular level provides
insights into intricacies of physical
aging
08/02/2004 06:42 AMJewish World Review Aug 2 2004 11:13AM GMT
Bluetooth Broad Application Module
Bluetooth Broad Application Module
04/06/2005 09:24 AMECN Apr 6 2005 12:46PM GMT
Use Caution when Going Broad with
Overture and Google
Use Caution when Going Broad with
Overture and Google
06/23/2004 06:58 PMRunning a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign on Google and Overture can get
complicated, especially now that both networks offer different types
of keyword matching options when placing bids. Here's how to avoid
trouble and maximize your campaign's effectiveness.
Olympics to Have Broad Online Offering
(AP)
Olympics to Have Broad Online Offering
(AP)
08/06/2004 12:55 PMAP - The 100-meter dash and other cherished Olympic moments will for
the first time be beamed to computers and mobile phones during the
Athens Games. But while many Europeans will be able to see them live
on the Internet, Americans will have to settle for tape delay.
ClarkeTouts Broad Approach To IT
Security
ClarkeTouts Broad Approach To IT
Security
08/30/2004 08:07 AMExpand Beyond gets broad wireless patent
Expand Beyond gets broad wireless patent
09/03/2004 02:15 PMExpand Beyond Corp., which makes tools for remotely managing
databases, has been awarded a broad patent for technology used to
monitor and manage computer systems from a wireless device, the
company announced Friday.
High Court: Porn Law Too Broad
High Court: Porn Law Too Broad
06/30/2004 04:40 AMA divided Supreme Court upholds a lower-court ruling that a law
designed to protect children against sexually explicit material online
would also undermine free speech for adults.
Director of The Science Advisory Board
to Present Biodefense Research Insights
Director of The Science Advisory Board
to Present Biodefense Research Insights
03/17/2005 02:52 AMTamara Zemlo, Ph.D., MPH, Executive Director of The Science Advisory
Board, will be presenting a review of biodefense research
opportunities at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
Biodefense Meeting. The presentation, “Biodefense Research: Turning
Obstacles into Opportunities,” can be viewed at the Monday Poster
Session on March 21, 2005 from 8:30 AM – 7:00 PM, and Dr. Zemlo will
be available to answer any questions from 5:00 – 7:30 PM. The meeting
takes place at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, MD.
[PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]
Overture Shifting To Default Broad Match
Overture Shifting To Default Broad Match
09/02/2004 01:31 PMSource: ClickZ - Within the next few weeks, Overture will make a major
switch to matching terms on a broad basis, rather than the traditional
exact match default it has followed since the company's launch....
Grok Description matches for offers a broad ranging set of insights
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