Parade Rider Cited for Roping Man (AP)

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Malaysian Police Not Roping Longhorn
Rustlers

Malaysian Police Not Roping Longhorn
Rustlers 12/02/2003 12:27 AM
Slashdot Dec 1 2003 2:34PM ET

CD Rider

CD Rider 11/18/2003 06:59 AM
CD Rider 2.1 Alpha 1 released

Chernobyl Rider

Chernobyl Rider 04/09/2004 03:58 PM
She's utterly amazing. From Joi Ito.

'red' Rider

'red' Rider 05/13/2004 02:04 PM
Chicago Tribune May 13 2004 5:19PM GMT

I'm "Adam Rider"

I'm "Adam Rider" 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
It's official. I have a pr0n name, thanks to MyPornName.com - another sillyservice(tm) from Jason "We're Having Mexican - Get Over It" DeFillippo. He caught me in the act earlier this afternoon. Showing off gadgetry... not... doing something naughty with my naughty bits. In this particular picture, I'm demonstrating the proper usage of the "O" key. See, you're not supposed to tap it without sounding it out first. That's hell for Canadians, let me tell ya. Can you guess who's fingers those are... in the lower right-hand corner? Hint: they're not Sprocket's. Oops, I mean: Chaz Rage's....

Steve Rider Interview

Steve Rider Interview 06/17/2005 05:44 PM
James Proud has done another great interview, this time with Steve Rider, Lead Developer of start.com. Find how the vision of Start.com came to be and what the future holds for this new endeavour from Microsoft's MSN Division.

Easy Rider at 9 miles per hour

Easy Rider at 9 miles per hour 11/16/2003 01:27 AM
US News Nov 16 2003 0:01AM ET

Rider dies in horror fall

Rider dies in horror fall 09/04/2004 04:00 PM
British three-day eventer Caroline Pratt is killed after falling at Burghley.

Rider killed at Ulster Grand Prix

Rider killed at Ulster Grand Prix 08/21/2004 07:45 AM
A Scottish rider is killed and another person is injured at the Ulster Grand Prix meeting in County Antrim.

Military Mistakes Attack Chopper for
Low-Rider, Eaglarity Ensues

Military Mistakes Attack Chopper for
Low-Rider, Eaglarity Ensues 07/03/2004 11:36 AM

Now I don't know how or why American troops in Afghanistan would be repainting a Russian gunship, but however or whoever, this Mi-24 (the infamous 'HIND') is impressive. Awful, garish, and painful, but impressive. It's good to know that the out-of-work Hasbro G.I. Joe designers found gainful employ somewhere.
R ead - Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3 Imminent? [USAAttacked via Dotish]

Knight Industry Two Thousand (K.I.T.T.)
car from Knight Rider is up for auction
at eBay

Knight Industry Two Thousand (K.I.T.T.)
car from Knight Rider is up for auction
at eBay 07/23/2004 03:07 AM
Why wasn't eBay around when I was eight?

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More SCO Misrepresentations Cited

More SCO Misrepresentations Cited 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
Infoworld reports that two companies SCO claims as Linux licensees are denying it, or else saying SCO is misrepresenting the circumstances. Since one the companies, Computer Associates, has its own history of somewhat sleazy financial dealings, I don't take for granted the accuracy of its statements. But SCO's consistent unfamiliarity with ethics gives no one the slightest confidence that it's telling the truth this time.

Short-Cited Insights about RSS

Short-Cited Insights about RSS 02/07/2005 01:41 AM

On 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.

Search Paper Fun: Most Cited

Search Paper Fun: Most Cited 12/19/2004 03:37 PM

IT Role Cited in Blackout

IT Role Cited in Blackout 04/19/2004 12:32 PM
The worst electric power failure in U.S. history could have been avoided in part through better business continuity planning and IT management.

Eco-Terror Cited as Top Threat

Eco-Terror Cited as Top Threat 06/16/2004 05:13 AM
Wired News Jun 16 2004 9:39AM GMT

Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002

Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002 11/03/2003 02:32 PM
Most-Cited Researchers, 1983-2002
http://www.sciencewatch.com/sept-oct2003/sw_sept-oct2003_page2.htm

A very interesting page from ScienceWatch listing the top 25 most-cited researchers from 1983 - 2002. The Number one spot goes to Ber t Vogelstein of HHMI/Johns Hopkins in the field of Molecular Biology & Genetics with 361 papers and 106,401 citations!

Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't
Authenticate Papers

Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't
Authenticate Papers 09/14/2004 10:37 AM
The Washington Post .. obvious

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Oracle v. DOJ: Outsourcing competition
cited

Oracle v. DOJ: Outsourcing competition
cited 06/24/2004 06:12 PM
special coverage Oracle witnesses say smaller outsourcing firms would offer key competition after a PeopleSoft acquisition.

Four civilian contractors cited in abuse

Four civilian contractors cited in abuse 06/02/2004 06:26 PM

U.N. Officials Cited in Oil-For-Food
Case (AP)

U.N. Officials Cited in Oil-For-Food
Case (AP) 04/15/2005 02:59 AM
AP - Two high-ranking U.N. officials have been cited in a U.S. criminal complaint against a South Korean businessman who was at the center of a 1970s congressional corruption scandal and is now accused of accepting millions of dollars from Iraq related to the U.N. oil-for-food program.

Muslim Mistreatment Cited at U.S. Prison
(AP)

Muslim Mistreatment Cited at U.S. Prison
(AP) 03/14/2005 04:51 PM

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Lucent, Nine Employees Cited for Fraud
by SEC

Lucent, Nine Employees Cited for Fraud
by SEC 05/17/2004 02:55 PM
TheStreet.com May 17 2004 6:19PM GMT

Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda
Interrogations

Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda
Interrogations 05/12/2004 11:24 PM
The C.I.A. has used coercive interrogation methods against a select group of high-level leaders and operatives of Al Qaeda.

Security Gaffes Cited in Courthouse
Spree (AP)

Security Gaffes Cited in Courthouse
Spree (AP) 03/14/2005 05:35 PM
AP - The deputy, a 51-year-old woman just 5 feet tall, was simply no match for the inmate she was escorting to the courtroom, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound former college linebacker on trial for rape. Authorities say Brian Nichols overpowered deputy Cynthia Hall, took her gun, and easily gained access to the courtroom, where he went on to kill the judge and a court reporter. Security cameras captured images of him overpowering the deputy, but no one, it turned out, was watching the screens.

Disability Cited in Roller Coaster Death
(AP)

Disability Cited in Roller Coaster Death
(AP) 05/02/2004 07:33 PM
AP - A 55-year-old man who died after falling out of a roller coaster shouldn't have been allowed on the ride because he was heavy and had cerebral palsy, his mother said Sunday.

Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't
Authenticate Papers (washingtonpost.com)

Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't
Authenticate Papers (washingtonpost.com) 09/14/2004 02:34 PM

Firefighter error cited in Chicago
deaths

Firefighter error cited in Chicago
deaths 07/01/2004 08:38 PM

CIA personnel, civilians cited in abuse
(USATODAY.com)

CIA personnel, civilians cited in abuse
(USATODAY.com) 08/20/2004 08:54 AM
USATODAY.com - More than two dozen U.S. military intelligence personnel and at least five civilian contractors will be implicated in the Army's latest investigation of prisoner abuse in Iraq. Among the allegations against some of those individuals will be what military officials described as the most serious cases of sexual abuse and sodomy yet made public.

Metrofuser's Operations Manager Cited
for Top Award

Metrofuser's Operations Manager Cited
for Top Award 12/24/2004 12:43 PM
Mark Makuch, Operations Manager for Metrofuser, an HP parts remanufacturer and distributor, has received the Founder's Merit Award. The award was presented by The Company’s Vice President of Sales Todd Katz at a ceremony in its production facility in Roselle, New Jersey. [PRWEB Dec 22, 2004]

New Prior Art Cited In 2nd Eolas Patent
Rejection

New Prior Art Cited In 2nd Eolas Patent
Rejection 08/29/2004 02:28 PM
Slashdot Aug 29 2004 6:29PM GMT

Groups Say They Cited Iraq Prison Abuse
(AP)

Groups Say They Cited Iraq Prison Abuse
(AP) 05/06/2004 03:55 PM
AP - Iraq's oldest human rights group and the international Red Cross said Thursday that they complained repeatedly last year about mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, long before the U.S. Army began investigating abuse allegations.

Toxins Cited in Farmed Salmon
(washingtonpost.com)

Toxins Cited in Farmed Salmon
(washingtonpost.com) 01/09/2004 09:53 PM
washingtonpost.com - Farm-raised salmon, a growing staple of American diets, contains significantly higher concentrations of PCBs, dioxin and other cancer-causing contaminants than salmon caught in the wild, and should be eaten infrequently, according to a new study of commercial fish sold in North America, South America and Europe.

"Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda
Interrogations"

"Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda
Interrogations" 05/14/2004 10:39 AM

"Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger
Mission"

"Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger
Mission" 07/11/2004 04:41 AM

Conflicts Cited in Iraq Oil Program
(washingtonpost.com)

Conflicts Cited in Iraq Oil Program
(washingtonpost.com) 02/05/2005 10:15 PM
washingtonpost.com - UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 3 -- The former director of the U.N. oil-for-food program had serious conflicts of interest that violated the integrity of the world body and helped undermine economic sanctions against Iraq, U.N.-appointed investigators reported Thursday.

Veterans in D-Day parade

Veterans in D-Day parade 06/05/2004 07:37 AM
World War II veterans take part in a parade in County Down to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day.

one less idiot on parade

one less idiot on parade 01/16/2004 11:31 AM
Last month, I wrote about The awesome generosity of Penny Arcade readers, and the lack of media coverage of that story. Well, today there is a fantastic follow-up to that story. The author of the story that prompted the guys at PA to launch Child's Play celebrated, and apologized to Penny Arcade and its readers.

Retailers On Parade

Retailers On Parade 02/17/2004 11:49 AM
This week will bring some notable retailers up to the earnings podium.
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