The Value of Non - Commercial Web Directories

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New Lyra Report Examines Acquisition
Fever in Commercial Printer Market: Lyra
Research Studies How Digital Imaging is
Transforming the Commercial Printing
Landscape

New Lyra Report Examines Acquisition
Fever in Commercial Printer Market: Lyra
Research Studies How Digital Imaging is
Transforming the Commercial Printing
Landscape 06/06/2005 12:14 AM
Lyra Research’s new report, "Commercial Printing: An Overview of Production and Wide-Format," is essential reading for vendors in the commercial printing market. The report focuses on key trends in commercial printing, including sharp increases in sales of eco-solvent or mild solvent wide-format printers, declining prices for wide-format devices, and inexpensive Chinese wide-format printer products entering the European and U.S. markets. On the narrow-format side, acquisitions by key players have taken center stage. [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

Historical Directories in the UK

Historical Directories in the UK 07/13/2004 08:19 AM
I'm not sure this is complete yet, but there's enough to be seen at the Digital Library of Historical Directories that you'll be browsing a while. It's available at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/...

Two New, Great RSS Directories in One
Day!

Two New, Great RSS Directories in One
Day! 06/08/2004 01:10 AM

• Really Simple Syndication: Directory of Aggregators
  "One of my goals in starting the Really Simple Syndication site was to develop a list of aggregators, and a process for keeping the list current. I'd like the vendors to participate, in several ways -- by keeping pricing and technical information about the products up to date, and to help us understand features supported by their product, and how they compare to competitive offerings. Of course, I'd like to have all the claims verified by users of the products." [Really Simple Syndication]

• Rich Site Services
  "RSS(sm): Rich Site Services is a categorized registry of library services that are delivered or provided through RSS/XML feeds. RSS is an initialism for RDF Site Summary / Rich Site Summary / Really Simple Syndication. For each entry, a hotlink is provided, when available, to a RSS (and/or XML) link for the item, or to an information page that provides a subsequent link.

  RSS(sm) is compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA 50011."

Both of these are immediate additions to my RSS class and presentations! Aggregator users, please contribute to Dave's directory of aggregators! Librarians, please be sure to register your RSS services with Gerry so that we can keep track of all of the activity in one place. [Although, an...um... RSS feed for new additions would be of great help, too!]

Directories Synchronizer

Directories Synchronizer 09/18/2004 12:50 PM
DirsSync-2.1 Release Candidate

Which directories would YOU pay to be
included in?

Which directories would YOU pay to be
included in? 01/06/2005 08:20 PM

O'Reilly: Using and Abusing Directories
in PHP

O'Reilly: Using and Abusing Directories
in PHP 01/10/2003 08:50 AM

RNC asks for parish directories

RNC asks for parish directories 07/23/2004 11:34 AM

Logon Point Directories

Logon Point Directories 05/27/2004 04:57 PM

Directories: Love 'em or Leave 'em

Directories: Love 'em or Leave 'em 04/08/2005 06:44 PM

SMS Directories on a Logon Point Server

SMS Directories on a Logon Point Server 05/17/2004 02:47 AM

Macromedia links Breeze to directories

Macromedia links Breeze to directories 05/11/2004 03:10 PM
Macromedia this week began shipping ?solution accelerators? for the Macromedia Breeze Web-based collaboration system, which feature sample code and documentation to integrate Breeze functionality with a user?s existing directory services, intranet applications, and portal pages.

Use different home directories for GUI
and shell access

Use different home directories for GUI
and shell access 01/03/2005 11:55 AM
If you're like me and you regularly log into an OS X system from a remote location using Terminal, you most likely have a bunch of tools and scripts you regularly use. However, you also log on to the system using the GUI. Whe...

iPod Mini Directories & Tools 1.0

iPod Mini Directories & Tools 1.0 04/07/2005 06:15 PM
New directories for the Blue, Green, Grey and Pink IPOD MINI.

A script for compressing and encrypting
directories

A script for compressing and encrypting
directories 11/13/2003 12:31 PM
I've been frustrated with the encryption options in OS X, especially when the application I'd been using ("Crypt," I believe) started acting buggy after the upgrade to Jaguar. One feature I really wanted was to encrypt/decry...

MS Office and Network Home Directories

MS Office and Network Home Directories 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
As already noted in this forum MS Office crashes when the user has a network home directory. This is because of the existance of the file "Office Registration Cache X". The existing hint only helps if you have your home on a ...

How To Select The Best Category When
Submitting To Web Directories

How To Select The Best Category When
Submitting To Web Directories 10/08/2002 07:10 AM
Stickysauce Oct 3 2002 3:32PM ET

Overture to supply results to AOL
directories

Overture to supply results to AOL
directories 02/05/2003 01:20 PM
The two companies reworked their overall supply agreement in May last year, with AOL swapping Overture for Google as its provider in the US. ...

Common Windows Directories in SMS
Installer

Common Windows Directories in SMS
Installer 06/26/2004 02:38 AM

Make the locate command ignore certain
directories

Make the locate command ignore certain
directories 11/14/2003 11:22 AM
I currently have a backup Jaguar partition on a separate drive and a "Previous Systems" directory from the Archive and Install of Panther that I'm not ready to get rid of yet. I use the command line tool locate often and was ...

Directories management bypassing in
Goahead webserver <= 2.1.8

Directories management bypassing in
Goahead webserver <= 2.1.8 01/19/2004 03:07 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Jan 19 2004)

Use CDPATH to access frequent
directories in bash

Use CDPATH to access frequent
directories in bash 03/22/2005 03:39 PM
I often find myself wanting to cd to the various directories beneath my home directory (i.e. ~/Library, ~/Music, etc.), but being lazy, I find it painful to have to type the ~/ if I'm not in my home directory already. Enter C...

New Site Catalogues Hundreds of Niche
Directories

New Site Catalogues Hundreds of Niche
Directories 04/19/2005 11:19 AM
The new IncomingLinks.com Directory of Directories catalogues over 500 niche directories that publicly state their willingness to receive new link submissions from relevant sites. The site catalogues each directory by theme, and gives information on the most appropriate way to submit a link request.

Libraries, directories, short lists, and
glue

Libraries, directories, short lists, and
glue 06/05/2005 11:36 PM
This morning I spoke with Richard Wallis, who is the technical development manager for Talis, one of the OPAC (online public access catalog) vendors whose clients' libraries are accessible using LibraryLookup< /a>. Talis is one of a handful of OPACs for which I'd built static lists of bookmarklets, based on information I'd gathered from libdex.com. Maintaining those long lists was problematic, though, as maintaining long lists always is. So last month I deprecated them in favor of the bookmarklet generator. ...

Google Tests Aggregating Hotspot
Directories

Google Tests Aggregating Hotspot
Directories 02/18/2004 01:17 PM
Google Lab's new Search by Location service lets you aggregate results for hotspots: This is nifty idea which aggregates the address information that Google is parsing from its results (any time it sees anything that looks like an address) and tying it to keywords. It's particularly useful for Wi-Fi aggregation, because you're finding locations that not only my business partner JiWire lists or libraries that Bill Drew has assembled, but you're seeing even individual locations like coffeeshops that mention they have Wi-Fi, community wireless pages, and other randomly related content. I've pumped in my office Zip code in the link above, but try other combinations. Note that JiWire's listings are prominent because of how they structured their site. As a group of former Cnet.com'ers, they know that if you expose URLs that are permanent and look like "good" URLs (not full of argument junk after a question mark) then search engines will well index their hierarchy. This is hardly a secret, but many sites still haven't discovered it. [link via Jim Thompson, Doc Searls]...

Using Internet Directories as a Link
Building Tool

Using Internet Directories as a Link
Building Tool 09/09/2004 08:41 PM
Source: SEO Chat - By looking beyond the obvious single link and search capabilities of an Internet directory, a website owner has a wealth of potential link partners, waiting to be added. They are easily found in the leading Internet...

OctetString releases SQL Directory
Browser for LDAP-enabled directories

OctetString releases SQL Directory
Browser for LDAP-enabled directories 02/01/2005 08:21 PM
Clayton Donley and OctetString have been getting second billing in this space the last couple of weeks (with Thor Technology's Alberto Yépez getting the star treatment), but before moving on to other topics I'd be remiss if I didn't point out one of the good, selfless acts that OctetString completed recently.

Linking for Traffic: The Shift from Link
Directories to Hyper-Targeted Linking

Linking for Traffic: The Shift from Link
Directories to Hyper-Targeted Linking 07/04/2004 06:57 PM
WebDevInfo Jul 4 2004 11:27PM GMT

Rentals, Rentals Everywhere, but Not a
Spam In Sight: Internet Rental
Directories

Rentals, Rentals Everywhere, but Not a
Spam In Sight: Internet Rental
Directories 07/02/2004 04:53 AM
Frommers.com - Fri Jul 2, 09:24 am GMT

Google Tutor & Advisor » Blog
Archive » Voyeur Heaven: finding
interesting video, sound and image files
in unprotected directories

Google Tutor & Advisor » Blog
Archive » Voyeur Heaven: finding
interesting video, sound and image files
in unprotected directories 04/17/2005 01:09 AM
Finding interesting video, sound and image files on Google

googletutor.com/2005/04/15/voyeur-heaven
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the best commercial ever

the best commercial ever 05/31/2004 08:39 AM
Vanilla Coke Commercial

myenjoyzone.com/vanillacoke/tvc.htm
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Commercial Symbol?

Commercial Symbol? 04/21/2004 07:40 PM
I heard there was a symbol to tag a hotspot as commercial, is that true? and if so where what does it look like and where can I geat a list of all the symbols. I've looked all over this site and haven't found but 3.

Commercial PHP Implementation

Commercial PHP Implementation 07/02/2004 02:51 PM

No More Commercial Radio... Ever!

No More Commercial Radio... Ever! 02/13/2004 12:46 AM

Today I listened to Radio Paradise on my ride home from work. I lost the signal once but was able to immediately log back into it. Yesterday I listened to The Beat Basement on the ride home, and I didn't lose the signal once. How? Through PocketTunes on my Treo 600, which was plugged into the cassette adapter so it sounded great coming through my car's speakers.

How incredibly fantabulous and perwonderfect is it to be able to listen to internet radio streams in the car? I can't make up enough words to describe it! I guess I don't have to worry about getting satellite radio anymore....

(I will, however, add my voice to the chorus asking for Live365 support in PTunes!)

Why free for commercial use?

Why free for commercial use? 06/27/2004 07:38 PM

When writing my last entry, I remembered a question that some people ask me. Why choose the Creative Commons license that allows people to use content free for commercial use? I think people have some sort of instinctive reaction toward the notion that someone could "exploit" their work to make money. One question to ask is, will you make less money because of it or more? They have to give you attribution so more people will know about you and your work. I would rather have people copy and quote my blog without worrying about asking for permission. I would love to appear in commercial magazines, books, websites and newspapers. Yes, fair use allows these people to quote me without asking permission, but fair use must be defended in court and some countries don't even have fair use. As a practical matter, fair use really only gets you the right to hire a lawyer. The CC license allows people to use stuff from my blog without fear because they know my intention and it is clear legally as well.

The next question is, then why not make it completely free? A good way to understand this is to look at the differences between the GNU Free Document License that Wikipedia uses and the by-sa (attribution share-alike) Creative Commons license Wikitravel uses. There is some overlap and lots of nuances, but generally speaking the GNU license is more about creating an ever growing body of work which must remain free and allows commercial reprinting with limitations basically in order to allow people to charge for reprinting the document. The Wikipedia copyright page says:

Wikipedia

The goal of Wikipedia is to create an information source in an encyclopedia format that is freely available. The license we use grants free access to our content in the same sense as free software is licensed freely. This principle is known as copyleft. That is to say, Wikipedia content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors of the Wikipedia article used (a direct link back to the article satisfies our author credit requirement). Wikipedia articles therefore will remain free forever and can be used by anybody subject to certain restrictions, most of which serve to ensure that freedom.

Wikitravel has a page on why they didn't choose the GNU Free Document License.

Wikitravel

The GFDL was developed to support making Free Content versions of software manuals, textbooks, and other large references. Its requirements for what you have to distribute with a document under the GFDL -- such a copy of the GFDL and a changelog, as well as "transparent" (i.e. source) versions if you distribute over 100 copies -- aren't really all that onerous for large volumes of text.

But for Wikitravel, we really want to have each article redistributable on its own. Wikitravel articles can be as small as 1-2 printed pages. For such small documents, it just doesn't make sense to require people to pass out another 10 pages of legalese text, as well as floppy disks or CDs full of Wiki markup.

Consider these small "publishers" who would distribute stacks of photocopied printouts of Wikitravel articles:

• Local tourist offices
• Hotels or guesthouses
• Helpful travellers
• Teachers
• Exchange student programs
• Wedding or event planners

Burdening these publishers with restrictions meant for software documentation or textbooks would mean that they'd either ignore our license -- a bad precedent to set -- or, more likely, just not use our work.

We make our content Free so we can collaborate on this wiki, but also because we want it to be seen and used. We can't serve travellers with useful information if they can't get to that information in the first place.

A lightweight alternative

The license we've chosen, the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0, is much easier and more lightweight. We think that using the Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 license (by-sa) meets our goal of having copyleft protection on Wikitravel content, without putting an excessive burden on small publishers. All that needs to be included are copyright notices and the URL of the license; this can be done in a short paragraph at the end of the article.

The big downside of not using the GFDL is that GFDL content -- like Wikipedia articles -- cannot be included in Wikitravel articles. This is a restriction of the GFDL -- you're not allowed to change the license for the content, unless you're the original copyright holder. This is kind of a pain for contributors, but we figured it was better to make it easy for users and distributors to comply with our license.

Creative Commons is planning to issue a new revision of their suite of licenses some time in the winter of 2003-2004. Compatibility with other Free licenses is "a top priority", and we can expect that some time after that version change, articles created on Wikitravel can be distributed under the GFDL. So, even though we can't include GFDL work into Wikitravel, other Free Content authors can include Wikitravel content into their work.

In Wikipedia's case, the main use case is having it available online and I think for that the GFDL works best. In the case of Wikitravel where they would like to see their work expand into the physical world in small bits, I think the CC by-sa works well. I think they both picked the right licenses.

They point out one of the biggest problems with many of these copyleft licenses. They usually require the creator of a derivative work or the distributor to use the same license and even if the work can be tampered with, the license can not. This makes it hard if not impossible to mix with other licenses. The "share-alike" attribute in the CC license the Wikitravel uses serves this function and is similar to GPL and GFDL licenses in this regard. This is important in keeping the "spirit" of the original intent going and in the case of Wikipedia and Wikitravel which are group efforts, this is quite important. In my case, I would rather allow people who use my works to have maximum freedom so I have not included "share-alike" to my license. This allows people to mix my content with other types of licenses.

O2 Commercial 3G Launch

O2 Commercial 3G Launch 06/28/2004 05:01 AM
3G Jun 28 2004 8:53AM GMT

SFR launches commercial 3G

SFR launches commercial 3G 06/17/2004 06:48 AM
DMeurope.com Jun 17 2004 10:38AM GMT

New iPod Commercial

New iPod Commercial 05/03/2004 07:29 PM
A new iPod Commercial has cropped up on the .mac page of Jeff Garden. Anyone with any information regarding the source of this video or an opinion to express about it may do so in the comments below.

to fly Zero G in a commercial flight

to fly Zero G in a commercial flight 09/17/2004 12:58 AM

boingboing.net/2004/09/15/_xeni_flies_zero_g_1.html
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FC Now: Graffiti Goes Commercial

FC Now: Graffiti Goes Commercial 09/15/2004 11:25 AM
The New York Post reports that McDonald's has enlisted the legendary graffiti team Tats Cru to develop wall murals designed to appeal to urban Latino...
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