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....
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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."
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.
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.
Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week
Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week04/19/2004 06:55 AM xrefer has announced that they're offering free access tot heir
xreferplus ready reference service during National Library Week (April
18-24.) This is access for libraries only; you can get more...
Dubai's eGovernment, in partnership with National Bank of Dubai, offers public free eCitizen computer courses
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.
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.
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]
New York Times Public RSS Feeds Launched07/14/2004 05:09 PM This is most excellent. If you look at the bottom of just about any
New York Times page or story, you'll see the little orange XML icon.
They're in the RSS game for real now. Oh, and there's a special My
Yahoo page that makes it easy to add the feeds to you My Yahoo RSS
module too. Congrats to the NYTimes.com folks for the new feeds and
thanks for mentioning My Yahoo on your RSS page. Now, about that...
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.
The Next Best Thing to Visiting the New Seattle Public Library
"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]
New York Times Public RSS Feeds Launched (Jeremy Zawodny's bl0g)
jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002225.html track this
site | 4 links
1-877-YELLOWPAGES is filing to go public in order to raise money and provide a free service competing against 411 Directory Services. Founder Bobby Khalili, a 28 year old millionaire entrepreneur from Los Angeles is promising to provide a free alternative to 411.
New York Offers Perks for GOP Protesters (AP)08/18/2004 10:41 AM AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg turned down requests to allow an anti-war
demonstration in Central Park on the eve of the Republican National
Convention, but he offered protesters something else: cheap tickets to
a Broadway show.
New York Times offers Hirschfeld Collection
New York Times offers Hirschfeld Collection04/09/2004 04:12 PM Yeah yeah, I know it's all about relaunching the theater section and
there are archived reviews and news and all that but what I REALLY
want you to know is...
Microsoft offers Indigo, Avalon to the public
Microsoft offers Indigo, Avalon to the public03/25/2005 05:23 PM Blog: Well, a public beta of Longhorn still is not around, but those
eager to play around with the next generation of Windows can get...
MSN Offers Public Peek into Search Engine
MSN Offers Public Peek into Search Engine07/01/2004 12:26 AM Microsoft's Internet division launches a technology preview of its
much-anticipated search technology as it also overhauls its MSN Search
site.
MGM offers corporate PowerPoints in public web directory
MGM offers corporate PowerPoints in public web directory04/02/2005 11:36 AM Xeni Jardin:
Now that's corporate transparency! Following up on
yesterday's post about a directory of browseable DVD cover art on
the MGM.com servers, reader Martin Borus says, "Did you see that you
can go up the structure and then down again to see the corporate
directory with PowerPoint slides like this one (alternate
link), proving that profit margin on DVD is double that of VHS?"
The slide Martin refers to came from a 2002 MGM corporate PowerPoint
report. The report is offered in entirety for public viewing by way of
individual jpeg slides in a directory which also contains earlier and
later versions of that same report from as far back as 2000, and as
recently as 2004: Link.
Here's the Feb. 2004 report, located in a subfolder of that same
publicly browseable directory: Li
nk.
BB reader Bart P says, "If you don't want to click through all those
images, you can use the OpenDirViewer. Then just input
the url for the directory you want, select the 'thumbnails' option,
and however many you wish to show per page and it makes it all so much
easier to find what you want."
Using OpenDirViewer, one can browse all slides in the 2004 MGM
corporate presentation (or any other year's edition in this directory)
in full, sequential order, like this: Link.
New York Times Offers Article Archives from 1851-1995
New York Times Offers Article Archives from 1851-199512/15/2003 03:33 AM The New York Times is now offering a complete article archive from
September 1851 to December 1995. That's more than fifteen million
articles. You can start your search at
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html . Searching is
free. You can search the full text,...
At this web page, BRB provides a core group of links
to FREE government searchable public records sites along with some
important non-government sites. You will not find superfluous sites or
multiple listings of the same link. We have indicated if a site is not
searchable by name. The links list is updated weekly. This has been
added to Finding People
Subject Tracer™ Informatiuon Blog. This has also been added to
Business Intelligence
Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be
added to Business
Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides.
GarageGames offers developers Torque Network Library04/20/2004 03:25 PM Independent game publisher GarageGames Inc. on Tuesday announced that
it has released its network gaming code as a standalone cross-platform
library, dubbed Torque Network Library (TNL). Like GarageGames' Torque
Game Engine, TNL is covered under GarageGames' "indie" license and a
full commercial license. It's also being distributed under a GPL Open
Source license.
Library of Russia Offers Views of Saint Pitersburg
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]
Coral -- a free DHT-based web CDN -- in public beta
Coral -- a free DHT-based web CDN -- in public beta08/28/2004 06:30 PM Via the p2p-hackers list, Michael J. Freedman writes: We'd like
to publicly announce the availability of CoralCDN, an open
peer-to-peer content distribution network, beta-deployed on PlanetLab
since March 2004: http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/coral/ To take
advantage of CoralCDN, a content publisher, user, or some third party
posting to a high-traffic portal, simply appends .nyud.net:8090 to
the hostname in a URL. For example: http://news.google.com/ -->
http://news.google.com.nyud.net:8090/ Read on for more...
Lavigne to Play Free New York Show on Monday (Reuters)
Lavigne to Play Free New York Show on Monday (Reuters)05/19/2004 08:54 PM Reuters - Pop singer Avril Lavigne, who
releases the follow-up to her multi-platinum debut album in the
United States next Tuesday, will play a free concert the night
before in New York, according to sponsor AOL Broadband.
Lemonade Tycoon 2: New York Edition: Sim Game Offers Trump-Style Challenge
The game's graphics engine certainly won't set the world on fire.
But the game itself is a satisfying challenge that will appeal to
casual gamers. By Peter Cohen, Macworld
Reelhouse announces free video library giveaway
Reelhouse announces free video library giveaway08/03/2004 03:45 AM Reelhouse, a royalty-free footage and video FX producer, announced
today the free giveaway of one of its most popular video libraries as
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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.
Now that's corporate transparency! Following up on 