"Nokia, Samsung, and Siemens have teamed up with big names in
printers to ensure that printing from mobile phones becomes as easy as
desktop printing.
The Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium (MIPC) today announced
that mobile handset makers Nokia, Samsung, and Siemens have become
strategic members of the consortium. MIPC is an industry group founded
by Canon, Epson, and HP to drive solutions and implementation
guidelines for providing users with easy to use mobile printing of
pictures taken with camera phones.
MIPC expects to have their first set of printing guidelines
available during the second half of 2004. Existing connectivity
technology standards and solutions such as Bluetooth wireless
technology, printing from memory cards and PictBridge will be the
underlying connectivity platforms for the consortium's work. What if
any licensing conditions there will be for the consortium's guidelines
is unclear.
According to research firm InfoTrends, camera phone users will
print over five billion images in 2004. That number is expected to
grow to 37.2 billion printed pictures in 2008, when, InfoTrend
predicts, 85% of all mobile phones sold will include an embedded
camera." [infoSync
World]
Denver Public Library?s new online service is giving city
residents access to popular eBooks directly from their homes and
offices. The Library serves over a half-million residents and 80% of
the city?s population has a library card and access to the new
service. ?This is an exciting opportunity to provide eBooks to the
city,? said Michelle Jeske, Manager of Web Information Services. ?This
year, we saw a 24% increase in the number of online library
transactions. eBooks that can be downloaded from our website fit very
well with this kind of public demand,? she added.
Privacy issues with Google library search? Not!06/22/2005 02:06 AM This definitely goes under the category of Life on Other Planets.
Anyone who thinks that what Google is doing is inherently more evil
than what happens at any brick and mortar library must have been
watching ‘The Matrix’ a few too many times. The author,
Elinor Mills, seems to think that some horrific breach of privacy is
involved. No doubt she never visits real libraries, with their card
files full of personally identifiable customer lists…
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The CIO for Philadelphia, Dianah Neff, says
'It's a technology whose time is here.' Other cities have announced
similar plans but none as comprehensive as Philadelphia. Lev Gonick,
chief information officer at Case Western Reserve University, which is
spearheading a WiFi project in Cleveland said, 'We like to say it
should be like the air you breathe - free and available everywhere. We
look at this like PBS or NPR. It should be a public resource.' " [patrickWeb]
The
Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of
scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific
and medical literature a freely available public resource. The
internet and electronic publishing enable the creation of public
libraries of science containing the full text and data of any
published research article, available free of charge to anyone,
anywhere in the world.
Immediate unrestricted access to
scientific ideas, methods, results, and conclusions will speed the
progress of science and medicine, and will more directly bring the
benefits of research to the public. To realize this potential, a new
business model for scientific publishing is required that treats the
costs of publication as the final integral step of the funding of a
research project. To demonstrate that this publishing model will be
successful for the publication of the very best research, PLoS will
publish its own journals. PLoS Biology launched its first issue on
October 13, 2003, in print and online. PLoS Medicine will follow in
2004.
PLoS is working with scientists, their societies,
funding agencies, and other publishers to pursue our broader goal of
ensuring an open-access home for every published article and to
develop tools to make the literature useful to scientists and the
public. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
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R. Crumb at the New York Public Library
R. Crumb at the New York Public Library04/18/2005 06:24 PM David Pescovitz:
Comic artist extraordinaire R. Crumb's memoir was published his month.
His only US public appearance to promote the book was last week at the
New York Public Library. He was interviewed on stage by art critic
Robert Hughes who previously compared Crumb to Bruegel and Goya. I
can't wait to read The R. Crumb Handbook! From the New York
Times:
"I want everyone to love me," he said, half-mockingly, after
explaining that he was once shocked to learn that the racial
stereotypes and violence toward women he portrayed in his work were
hurtful to many people. "Please love me," Mr. Crumb added.
A woman in the audience then shouted, "We love you!," and Mr. Crumb
held up his hands, cringing, to stop the applause.
"O.K., you love me," he responded, laughing. "You're killing me, you
love me so much. You're choking me. Now back off."
There is a wealth of information available at the public library for
personal investors. Information comes in a variety of formats,
including reference books, circulating books, periodicals,
newsletters, loose-leaf services, CD-Roms, electronic databases, and
Internet sites. This has been added to Financial Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
New York Public Library Offers Free Wi-Fi
New York Public Library Offers Free Wi-Fi01/16/2004 11:01 AM Fifty-three libraries in the Bronx and Manhattan will offer free Wi-Fi
access: The libraries will provide filtered Internet access and
full-text searching on the database they've licensed. Alert librarian
Jenny Levine notes that the service filtered but the library's initial
disclosure is inadequate....
NYPL: Style Guide: Need to
come up with HTML and CSS coding standards for your company? You
could do a lot worse than this resource — a set of well-written,
easy-to-understand guides from the New
York Public Library.
For those in the New York area tonight, tune in to WFUV (90.7),
which is broadcast from Fordham University, at 9:30pm (Eastern Time)
for an an hour-long program examining how the race to get online
affects not only musicians, but music fans and the music business in
general.
The program will feature interviews with Creative
Commons own former Executive Director - Glenn Otis Brown - as well as
The New Yorker Pop Music Critic Sasha Frere-Jones, CDBaby.com Founder
Derek Sivers, Berklee School of Music Vice President David Kusek
among others.
Those of us not in the New York area can, of
course, still catch the show online on the WFUV website.
Wireless handset industry leaders join Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium to drive new consumer printing s
Printing Industry Commentator Dr. Joe Webb Starts New “Blog” at DrJoesBlog.com; Offers Observations About Trends in Printing, Publishing, and New Media
New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds
New York Public Library to Sell Major Artworks to Raise Funds04/10/2005 09:35 PM The New York Public Library has decided to sell 19 works of art from
its collection so that it can better compete in acquisitions of
important books and collections.
Most Popular Online Activity: Figuring Out A Way To Go Somewhere Else
Most Popular Online Activity: Figuring Out A Way To Go Somewhere Else08/11/2004 01:37 PM For all that fear that the internet was causing people to spend less
time actually seeing other people, it turns out that the number one
activity online appears to involve figuring out a way for someone to
get out of their home to go somewhere else. According to the latest
study from the folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project,
the number one activity
online is finding maps (this is based on the percentage of people
who use the internet for this activity, and not how often this is
being done, of course). Coming in at second is communicating with
others. In other words, it appears that there are people out there
who only use the internet for finding maps, but who never actually
send out any email or do any other form of internet-based
communication. The study also notes that many of the online map users
have now learned that it no longer makes sense to ask for directions
offline.
FinePrint 5 Earns 5-Star Review and Bityard Choice Award as "One of the Most Innovative Software Printing Drivers" - Reduces Paper Waste and Improves Printing Efficiency
Of Municipal Broadband, Astroturfing And Figuring Out What The Real Story Is
Of Municipal Broadband, Astroturfing And Figuring Out What The Real Story Is02/05/2005 09:49 PM It's been pretty fascinating to watch this story develop over the past
few days. Of course, it's nothing new to find out that supposedly
"objective" research was actually carried out to favor a specific
interest, but congratulations should go out to Glenn Fleishman for
focusing the attention on the real story here. The background is that
an organization called the New Millennium Research Council came out
with a report which seemed to suggest that all municipal broadband was
pure evil (well, not exactly, but that's how the pre-release info made
it sound). Glenn took it upon himself to pull back some of
the curtain on the folks who were behind the report. eWeek then
took
that a step further, and suddenly the "story" was no longer about
the evils of municipal broadband -- but the sketchy connections
between powerful telco interests who have been fighting as hard as
they can against any kind of competition and the group that wrote the
study. Glenn later gave a thorough review
of the actual report, where he notes it's not nearly as bad as it had
appeared from the initial leaks, and that it does raise some valid
points. However, the real story is the underhanded way in
which this report was written, with money being funnelled from a
group supported by the big telcos to what appears to be nothing more
than a front organization to write up reports that favor its funders.
Now, others are picking up on the astroturf attempt, rather than the
study itself.
Internet and Changes in Media and Promotion Mix Drive Printing Industry Shipments Down -$929 million Since January; Dr. Joe Webb Discusses Need for Printing Industry Change and Renewal
Primary Research Group has Released a New Study: Best Practices of Public Library Information Technology Directors, ISBN: 1-57440-073-8
Primary Research Group has Released a New Study: Best Practices of Public Library Information Technology Directors, ISBN: 1-57440-073-803/14/2005 04:40 PM This special report from Primary Research Group is based on exhaustive
interviews with information technology directors and other critical
staff involved in IT decision-making from the Princeton Public
Library, Minneapolis Public Library, Evansville Public Library, Santa
Monica Public Library, Boston Public Library, Columbus Metropolitan
Public Library, San Francisco Public Library, Seattle Public Library,
and the Denver Public Library. [PRWEB Mar 14, 2005]
Homeland Security figuring out how to suspend election in case of terrorist attack
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge warned last week
that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network may attack within the United
States to try to disrupt the election.
The magazine cited unnamed sources who told it that the Department
of Homeland Security asked the Justice Department last week to review
what legal steps would be needed to delay the election if an attack
occurred on the day before or the day of the election.
Chicago's public sculpture can't be photographed by the public
Chicago's public sculpture can't be photographed by the public02/07/2005 02:07 AM Cory Doctorow:
Chicago spent $270 million on its Millennium Park, placing a big
public sculpture by Anish Kapoor in the middle of it, bought with
public money. Woe betide any member of the public who tries to
photograph this sculpture, though: it's a copyrighted
sculpture and Chicago is spending even more money policing
Chicagoans who try to photograph it and make a record of what their
tax-dollars bought.
If I were them, I'd ask for my money back. What kind of jerk sculptor
sells the city a piece of public art for a public park and then
demands that no one take pictures of it? Christ, they should run this
guy out of town on a rail and melt the goddamned sculpture down for
scrap. Then they should fire the politician who signed a purchase
contract that reserved the photographic rights and run him out of town
on the same rail. Between the artist's greed and the procurement
officer's malfeasance, this is about the vilest display of human
venality I've heard of all day.
The copyrights for the enhancements in Millennium Park are owned by
the artist who created them. As such, anyone reproducing the works,
especially for commercial purposes, needs the permission of that
artist.
A Public Editor for an Internet Public01/07/2004 03:13 PM For the majority of readers, the New York Times is now an online
newspaper with a print edition. Suppose the new public editor began
with that fact. Something surprising--even radical--could emerge. Of
course it's all speculation...
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"I want everyone to love me," he said, half-mockingly, after
explaining that he was once shocked to learn that the racial
stereotypes and violence toward women he portrayed in his work were
hurtful to many people. "Please love me," Mr. Crumb added.