The year's lowlights and highlights in technology

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New Year's Technology Resolutions for
Public Libraries

New Year's Technology Resolutions for
Public Libraries 01/06/2004 03:21 AM

For 2004:

1. Start a blog for your web site, and concentrate most of your news there. If possible, put the blog posts on your home page (either make it a blog or display headlines using RSS) so that your new information gets maximum exposure. I'm not just hyping blogs - it truly will make it easier for you to keep your site more current and dynamic, and there are ways to do this at no additional cost.
    
2. Provide remote access to as many of your databases as possible, preferably using the patron's library barcode number as the autho key rather than some inane autho/password combination required by the vendor. A standing offer for SLS libraries: we'll implement scripts to help you with this - just email me.
    
3. Start investigating wireless networks because you need to offer wireless access for the public to use with their own devices. Even if you don't think you will implement it this year, you need to understand what's involved because you will offer it at some point in the future and it's best to be prepared when that time comes. I know some people will argue that not all public libraries need to offer this service, or at least not any time soon, but you can only make an informed decision if you understand what's involved.

   Example: a couple of weeks ago I was interviewed for a forthcoming article in the Chicago Sun-Times about technology in libraries. The paper sent a photographer to get a picture of me for the article, and we met at the Thomas Ford Memorial Library to do this. The photographer was a gadget guy, so he was particularly interested in hearing about ListenIllinois and wireless access. He was thrilled to learn that the TFML offered free WiFi, and he was even knowledgeable enough to ask why there were no signs highlighting the service, specifically any warchalking symbols. In fact, he said he was willing to sit in his car in the parking lot when the Library is closed to use it because it would save him a trip downtown. TFML isn't his home library, but it hadn't occurred to him to go to public libraries for this service instead of Starbucks. Now, he'll try us first and Starbucks second.

   Is this guy on the leading edge of the bell curve? Sure. But that just means that the larger number of people that make up the camel's hump of the bell curve are on the horizon. You don't have to provide wireless access today (although you really will have patrons that use it, just like TFML does, even without any marketing), but you do need to start thinking about it.

4. In the same vein, you need to start thinking about online, real-time reference. In Illinois, there are consortia you can join to make the strain on your resources easier, and this is increasingly true in other states as well. Insta nt messaging and chatting are moving beyond Generation Y and are becoming a norm, making this a valid channel for library reference here and now. To again use the Thomas Ford Library as an example (I like using them because they are a relatively small library surrounded by larger libraries), while I was waiting for the photographer to show up, Rick was "on" the virtual reference desk for MyWebLibrarian, and he received two help requests within about a half hour. This was a little before lunchtime on a weekday when school was out of session.

   Again, think bell curve. You don't have to implement it tomorrow, but you do have to understand what your options are, even if you just throw up an AOL Instant Messenger link for specific hours each week, just to get your feet wet. (In fact, this is exactly what TFML did before they joined MWL.)

If your library is already doing all of these things, congratulations! Of course, you can't rest on your laurels, but those would be resolutions for another day....

Silicon Valley technology highlights of
the year

Silicon Valley technology highlights of
the year 12/29/2004 08:07 AM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 29 2004 11:23AM GMT

Old Year's Quiz

Old Year's Quiz 01/05/2004 10:58 AM
Old Year's Quiz. Another chance to feel un-informed and clueless, or smug and well-informed, depending. Answers next week... or "when we have time to make them up."

Happy New Year's Eve!

Happy New Year's Eve! 12/31/2004 10:14 AM
No new hints today. Enjoy a safe and fun New Year's Eve, and we'll see you all back here on Monday morning! -rob.

New Year's Resolutions

New Year's Resolutions 01/07/2004 02:47 PM

New Year's Resolutions:

Make worry-free sampling and re-creativity mainstream.

Make 25 country-specific sets of iCommons licenses available.

Explore Science Commons.

Version licenses.

Begin Save-a-Book campaign, revive out-of-print books.

Debut metadata search engine prototype.

Unveil CC-Mixter -- Friendster for musicians.

Launch "Anatomy of a Film" project.

Build licenses into at least two applications per medium: photography, audio, film, text. (Adobe XMP plug-in to debut soon.)

Make "some rights reserved" household phrase.

SEM New Year's Resolutions

SEM New Year's Resolutions 01/03/2005 02:09 PM

Next year's awards

Next year's awards 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Be assured, there will be some. So, everybody, you can already start jogging for positions now.

My personal favourite for "The Funniest Conversation of 2004" is currently occurring on the comment section of Ihmissuhteet (Finnish only). It's simply hilarious.

New Year's News

New Year's News 01/02/2004 02:22 AM
Enough time off. It's back to work news hounds! Hope you had a good holiday even if you didn't get that aircraft carrier you wanted. Begin the year with tech predictions. Forbes's editors, Jon Fortt in the San Jose Mercury-News...

NYC to Use Copters During New Year's Eve

NYC to Use Copters During New Year's Eve 12/30/2003 01:36 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 30 2003 0:39AM ET

FC Now: New Year's Revolution

FC Now: New Year's Revolution 01/04/2005 07:14 AM
On Jan. 1, Vincent Wright sent his Linked In contacts an email outlining what he dubbed his Perfect 10 business resolutions: Planning A planned year is better than an unplanned one. Elation Elation is the height of relationships. My "Elationships"...

"New Year's Eve in Times Square"

"New Year's Eve in Times Square" 01/03/2004 07:07 PM

are you making any new year's
resolutions?

are you making any new year's
resolutions? 01/03/2004 05:56 AM

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Pictures from this year's hunt.

Pictures from this year's hunt. 09/12/2004 08:33 AM
Jarle has published pictures from this year’s wild goose chase....

PlayStation 3 to be shown at next year's
E3

PlayStation 3 to be shown at next year's
E3 07/12/2004 10:36 PM
Slated to be the second of the next-generation game consoles to ship, the Sony PlayStation 3 will be unveiled at next year's E3 videogame conference.

New Year's Eve security is especially
tight

New Year's Eve security is especially
tight 01/01/2004 06:49 AM
verhoogde staat van paraatheid .. protect

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New Year's Eve in Times Square

New Year's Eve in Times Square 01/01/2004 05:42 AM
New Year's Eve in Times Square .. that damn ball to drop .. there

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Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten

Weird and wonderful - the year's top ten 01/06/2005 09:48 PM
Manchester Online Jan 7 2005 1:48AM GMT

Nude Year's Resolution.

Nude Year's Resolution. 12/31/2003 12:01 PM
Nude Year's Resolution. SFW. Nude travel makes the pages of USA Weekend (a USA Today magazine). Will it become mainstream? And will the message of "body acceptance" ever have a noticeable impact on industries which prey on our fears of inadequacy?

Five New Year's Resolutions for Managers

Five New Year's Resolutions for Managers 12/24/2004 12:27 PM
Columnist Esther Derby says that when you invest in your own effectiveness, you'll be better able to support the people who are counting on you at work.

MSN: Spend New Year's Online With Us

MSN: Spend New Year's Online With Us 12/28/2004 01:23 PM
New Year's revelers will have one more way to watch the ball drop this New Year's Eve thanks to MSN. The online service has struck an exclusive deal with New York City to become the "official" online provider for the event. But like television, the webcast will break periodically to allow advertisements.

My 2005 New Year's Resolution

My 2005 New Year's Resolution 01/01/2005 06:33 PM
Get your resolution here

resolution.geek-foo.net
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New year's resolutions for Microsoft

New year's resolutions for Microsoft 12/24/2004 12:40 PM
ZDNet Dec 23 2004 7:34PM GMT

Fool Year's Resolutions

Fool Year's Resolutions 12/24/2004 12:15 PM
Start 2005 richer and thinner. We can help with that first one.

Year's PC Shipments Declining

Year's PC Shipments Declining 03/25/2005 04:56 PM
Internet News Mar 25 2005 9:21PM GMT

Net Tax Moratorium to Expire by Year's
End

Net Tax Moratorium to Expire by Year's
End 12/08/2003 04:50 PM
BeSpacific Dec 8 2003 2:28PM ET

New Year's Day RC Plane Extravaganza

New Year's Day RC Plane Extravaganza 01/06/2005 11:39 AM

The remote controlled plane photography dudes went nuts on New Year's Day, and they've just compiled their aerial photographs from the US, Europe, and Australia. Seemingly none of them got arrested for being Al Qaeda cells or something.

We wonder where this will lead: every gadget finds its ideal application, and we're pretty much thinking the ideal application of RC photo-planes will be buzzing the Playboy mansion for overhead views of nekkid, partying Playmates.
The World From an RC Plane [RC World]

Highlights

Highlights 12/30/2004 09:57 PM

PDC Highlights - Day One

PDC Highlights - Day One 10/29/2003 11:30 PM
Check out some of the activities of the first day of the PDC. Attendees talk about what they are learning and excited about and Robert Hess interviews Jim Allchin about what he's most excited about with Longhorn.

PDC Highlights Day Two

PDC Highlights Day Two 10/31/2003 12:37 AM
Eric Rudder talks about how developers can prepare for WinFX, and Gordon Mangione discusses important features in Yukon.

PDC Highlights Day Three

PDC Highlights Day Three 10/31/2003 12:37 AM
PDC attendees talk about what areas they'd like to see Microsoft researching, and Rick Rashid shares his thoughts on the advances in traditional and non-traditional computer systems.

XML highlights for PHP 5

XML highlights for PHP 5 12/20/2003 07:22 PM

XML in PHP5: An in-depth look into advanced XML features (via Keith) does exactly what it says on the tin. Here are the bits that caught my eye:

• HTML Support in ext/xml - PHP 5 can load in not well-formed HTML documents and create a DOM tree from them.
• XPath support - and it works with HTML loaded via the above.
• XML Validation, including support for RelaxNG! I wonder if they'll support compact syntax.
• Extending DOM Classes - this is really cool, and demonstrates how much more mature PHP 5's OOP support is.

Unforuntately, my biggest criticism of PHP remains: all of the above is supported using functions built in to the default namespace! The lack of a smart namespace system (like Python's modules) really gets in the way when you start trying to write reusable code or large applications.

Sony UX50 New Year's Easter Egg

Sony UX50 New Year's Easter Egg 01/02/2004 12:01 PM
Gareth Branwyn points us to this post by Nate on streettech.com:

Crazy little January 1st Easter egg appeared on my UX50 (thanks to a heads-up from mattyy at ClieSource): a little fiddling with the time and a soft-reset caused this man to appear in the Settings screen for a fleeting moment, holding what appears to be a driver's license or some sort of ID. Who is this guy? Street Tech swag to the first person to positively identify this man and post info in this blog item's Comments area.

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Last year's State of the Union? Forget
about it!

Last year's State of the Union? Forget
about it! 01/08/2004 08:26 PM
Tandja Mamadou, had text with inaccuracies so egregious, a senior IAEA official told The New Yorker, that "they could be spotted by someone using Google on the ...

Technorati: New Year's Resolutions 2005

Technorati: New Year's Resolutions 2005 12/31/2004 08:30 PM
Whats your New Years Resolution? .. Keep link whorage to a minimum .. New Year’s Resolutions .. Technorati .. list

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Some New Year's Resolutions for Ye Olde
eBiz

Some New Year's Resolutions for Ye Olde
eBiz 12/24/2003 01:23 PM
Internet.com Dec 24 2003 1:12PM ET

Google New Year's Logo 2005

Google New Year's Logo 2005 01/01/2005 10:30 AM
Addict3d.org Jan 1 2005 1:31PM GMT

Bulk of year's PC infections pinned to
one man

Bulk of year's PC infections pinned to
one man 07/28/2004 04:40 PM
Firm says German teen, self-confessed author of Netsky and Sasser viruses, to blame for 70 percent of infections.

New Year's Resolutions, 2004: How'd We
Do?

New Year's Resolutions, 2004: How'd We
Do? 12/17/2004 06:34 PM

At the turn of 2004, we laid out our New Year's Resolutions for Creative Commons. The year's not quite up, but I'm going offline soon, so I thought it would be a good time to check in on our progress. I'm happy to report that the state of the Commons is strong. (If I personally had accomplished this many of my own New Year's Resolutions this year, I'd be a rich, talented, patient, cancer-curing, movie star-dating, Pulitzer-winning upstanding citizen by now. As it is . . . there's always next year.)

Make worry-free sampling and re-creativity mainstream.

Sixteen sampling-friendly tunes -- including the Beastie Boys, David Byrne, Gilberto Gil, Chuck D and more -- on the cover of WIRED magazine is a good start, yes?

Make 25 country-specific sets of iCommons licenses available.

Right now we offer 11, and by the end of the January we'll offer 14. Another 12-15 are poised to go live very soon. Given that the 25-country figure was a little bit nuts (2 sets of licenses per month), iCommons progress has been a massive success and easily one of the most exciting things we've done. Hats off to Christiane, Roland, and all the iCommons volunteers worldwide.

Explore Science Commons.

Underway. Much more coming at the turn of 2005.

Version licenses.

Done, and thanks to you, a huge improvement.

Begin Save-a-Book campaign, revive out-of-print books.

This got shelved for the time being, though some planning has gotten underway.

Debut metadata search engine prototype.

Done. And it ships with the amazing Firefox browser. We are all indebted to Mike, Neeru, Matt, and Nutch.org.

Unveil CC-Mixter -- Friendster for musicians.

Done, and on the verge of some very cool applications -- watch this space this week.

Launch "Anatomy of a Film" project.

Done. More interesting uses of this approach soon.

Build licenses into at least two applications per medium: photography, audio, film, text. (Adobe XMP plug-in to debut soon.)

Let's see: Flickr, SnapGallery, Moveable Type, Squarespace, Manila, Archive.org, YMDI, Ticketstubs, WinkSite, plus DMusic, Soundclick, Garageband.com, and others I'm sure I've forgotten. Great progress thanks to the tech team and Neeru.

Make "some rights reserved" household phrase.

Not quite household, but 800,000 Google hits isn't too bad.

We'll put up our 2005 Resolutions just after the New Year.

New Year's texting breaks record

New Year's texting breaks record 01/05/2005 11:52 AM
A record 133m text message were set on New Year's Eve, bringing the total for 2004 to over 25bn.
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