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Focused on Cornell, but plenty of general applicability.

Six Questions and a Strategy for Campus-wide Information Competence. At Cornell University Library (CUL) a committee was established in 2005...

A brand new service aimed at web designers and devs that makes mobile conversion simple. Local too; lots of cool mobile stuff happening in my neck of the woods lately. (disclaimer: I am an advisor)

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v2.0 of Fictionwise/eReader’s iPhone/iPod Touch reader app has just hit the App Store. It includes a whole paragraph of new features, including autoscroll, color themes, book attribute display, user-defined categories and sorting by category, indicators to let you know what books are already on your device from your on-line bookshelves, percentage-read indicators on the on-device bookshelf, more font choices, margin and line spacing options, larger tap targets for link selection, and an action performed by task selection option. (Also, bug fixes.)

Six Questions and a Strategy for Campus-wide Information Competence. At Cornell University Library (CUL) a committee was established in 2005...

kokito writes "OSNews managing editor Thom Holwerda reviews Haiku, the open source successor of the Be operating system. According to the review, Haiku faithfully/successfully replicates the BeOS user experience and 'personality,' boasting very short boot times, the same recognizable but modernized GUI using antialiasing for fonts and all vector graphics as well as vector icons, a file system with support for metadata-based queries (OpenBFS) and support for the BeAPI, considered by some the cleanest programming API ever. The project has also recently released a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain, clearing the way for bringing up-to-date ports of multi-platform apps such as Firefox and VLC, and making it easier to work on Haiku ports in general." (More below.)

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Since I've been having serious problems with satellite all week, DeviceGuru's submission was really interesting to me. He says "Inspired by Roku's awesome Netflix video download box and impressed with Boxee's free A/V media center platform, it was merely a matter of time before DeviceGuru blogger Rick Lehrbaum would create the BoxeeBox, an Ubuntu-powered HTPC with Boxee serving as its primary media center UI. Based on a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, the BoxeeBox has the look and feel of consumer A/V equipment and packs 2GB RAM, 1TB HDD, CD/DVD drive, USB, Firewire, HDMI, DVI-D, RGB, and 8-channel surround sound audio."

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David Burnett recommends an eWeek article on the leading contenders to make an iPhone out of an iPod Touch. Of course your newly phone-capable iTouch needs no activation and no binding carrier contract, just Wi-Fi. One of the companies working in this space, JaJah, is bundling the software with back-end services such as billing, so that carriers — or anyone really — can offer free-calling iTouch phones.

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Mediabird is about learning together. Users can take notes on subjects they want to learn and discuss questions in the context they appear. Mediabird focuses on linking information about the learning process with the matter itself. This allows for later repetition of important thoughts that came up during the study process. The context also serves for linking problems with the study matter. This way, other students can identify the problems of their fellow students more easily and help out where necessary.

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License: GNU General Public License v3

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Massive UI and backend changes.

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Godfather quotes aside, this is an important development. News gets reported on Twitter, for better or worse, and gets out faster than anywhere else short of live radio/TV.

Matt Cutts: "The real-time web is not the threat. Google can index data in seconds.'

He's the head of webspam team at Google, and a man who, obviously, knows a lot about search.

That was 17 hours ago as I write this at almost 2AM, Twitter's real-time search has had a story, a few thousand night owls were up, in LA and around the world, and news was breaking, the kind of sensational prurient goop that Twitter loves, a LA car chase, covered by helicopter. As I write this, Twitter is about 1 hour ahead of Google, that is, Google's latest news is 1 hour behind Twitter's.

Here's a screen shot of a Google News search done at 1:50AM Pacific.

While looking over the slides for the Tools of Change presentation, I came across this fun presentation(PDF) by Bill Kasdorf to explain different versions of XML for publishing. The graphics are under the fold. (Also interesting: Michael Smith’s presentation about ebook business models (and especially this table).  Read also the latest TOC-tweets.

By the way, the presentation goes into more detail about these XML dialects that is shown below!

In The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change, sociology professors Michael Sauder (Iowa) and Wendy Nelson Espeland (Northwestern) contend that law schools' gaming US News rankings end up perpetuating a system they dislike. Here's the abstract:This article demonstrates...

Engadget is reporting that Amazon has announced the new Kindle 2 for release on February 24th at a price point of $359. Thinner than an iPhone and coming standard with "Read-to-me" text-to-speech capability, the new device also has seven times more storage, faster page turning, a 16-level e-ink display, longer battery life, and a new five-way joystick. Looks like life just got a lot more interesting for fans of the original device. Engadget also has live coverage from the Kindle 2 press conference.

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A list of legal scholarly repositories (institutional repositories and non-institutional) is now available here. The site, which lists only stand-alone repositories of legal materials, is intended for use by researchers studying legal information systems and by librarians building digital libraries...

"Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports,...

I've been quietly working with a small number of users on the next interation on the OPML Editor's instantOutline tool. I wrote about it in January, after Hutch Carpenter discovered its previous incarnations. I was getting a new version ready for a project I was working on in December, so it was pretty easy for me to get it ready for wider use, which I have now done.

The new tool has several prerequesites: 1. You must have the OPML Editor installed on your desktop computer, it's available either for Windows or the Macintosh. 2. You must be a member of FriendFeed and 3. You must be a member of the instant-outline-beta group on FriendFeed. I've built most of the back-end on the excellent realtime updating API in FriendFeed, that's why you have to be a member to use the I/O tool.