tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102632902024-03-10T22:57:58.499-04:00Repurposing -- Scrapple StuffScrapple no longer meets so this blog has become my own way to keep things that interest me: articles about research libraries providing access to scholarly output, things that happen in my day, stuff I might use in a class some day, things I don't want to forget, you know.Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-47763808462780058832016-05-05T22:29:00.000-04:002017-01-02T16:36:21.281-05:00So what does that mean?
WHAT THEY WROTE:
"... one in four UK academic publishers were already seeing 10 percent of their total book revenue coming from e-books in 2011, ....."
WHAT THEY MEANT:
Three out of 4 publishers get less than 10% of their revenue from e-books.
Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-66957589802230727112011-03-25T11:27:00.000-04:002011-03-25T11:27:52.966-04:002012 to be revenue tipping point for e-books, says Publishing Technology report - 24 Mar 2011Latest news on the stm publishing industry from scope e knowledge center pvt ltd"It showed that one in four UK academic publishers were already seeing 10 percent of their total book revenue coming from e-books in 2011, with double that predicting this would be the case in 2012." That means that 3 out of 4 get less than 10% of their revenue from e-books.Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-761598026888950372011-02-28T16:49:00.000-05:002011-02-28T16:49:57.843-05:00The Horizon report for 2011
"The internationally recognized series of Horizon Reports is part of the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Project, a comprehensive research venture established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years on a variety of sectors around the globe. This volume, the 2011 Horizon Report, examines emerging technologies for their Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-85819983925433586702011-02-28T16:46:00.000-05:002011-02-28T16:46:05.530-05:00Beware of the cloudThe Golden Mean warns against cloud computing because it robs us of our ability to innovate in our own interest (plus a few other issues are discussed)Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-50882283585691795732011-02-25T06:59:00.000-05:002011-02-25T06:59:10.165-05:00HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event MarketingHOW TO: Use QR Codes for Event MarketingWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-2682604333067833562011-02-25T06:51:00.000-05:002011-02-25T06:51:12.275-05:00http://nnlm.gov/sea/newsletter/2011/02/recording-of-february-16-beyondthesea-presentation-pubmed-for-handhelds-is-now-available/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nnlm%2Fseacurrents+%28SEA+Currents%29&utm_content=My+Yahoohttp://nnlm.gov/sea/newsletter/2011/02/recording-of-february-16-beyondthesea-presentation-pubmed-for-handhelds-is-now-available/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nnlm%2Fseacurrents+%28SEA+Currents%29&utm_content=My+YahooWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-46355630942258376592011-02-24T20:38:00.000-05:002011-02-24T20:38:23.703-05:00Thunderbolt: Everything You Need To KnowThunderbolt: Everything You Need To KnowWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-20401750425834778372011-01-04T16:25:00.000-05:002011-01-04T16:25:28.408-05:00a tryDoes this thing work? It should link to Mike's ID.
Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-88954460765064967992010-08-05T14:50:00.000-04:002018-07-24T19:50:16.852-04:00What does it mean to be an Associate Director?
Today we had an evacuation drill. This is different from a mere fire drill. The evacuation drill involves clusters of men in suits standing on the sidewalk watching the event. Guards stop traffic so we can cross the street to our staging point and people run around with clipboards checking off names. These drills are practice to see what happens when we try to evacuate the building if Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-69117664424020531532010-05-02T10:10:00.000-04:002010-05-02T10:10:19.052-04:00Go To Hellman: What IS a Library, Anyway?Go To Hellman: What IS a Library, Anyway?Liz, for class to read?Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-54852660092012279302009-09-22T15:15:00.001-04:002009-09-22T15:18:30.706-04:00Good lecture online from BerkeleySept 17, 2007 What People Think About When Searching - Dr. Daniel Russell: Google
He was a guest lecturer in the Berkeley course INFO 141 Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. He talked about some of the challenges to figuring out what people want from their searches in Google. For example
when a person is on the Google home page and types in google as a search term, what do they Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-27719607448057658862009-09-21T17:01:00.000-04:002009-09-21T17:01:37.673-04:00New forms of publishingQR writing breaks the link between a sign and it's meaning; it breaks the contract that written language is based on: viz a stable, shared understanding of a collection of signs and their associated meanings.
Of course signs can be creatively adapted but that creativity is by necessity based on shared understanding. otherwise we're all the crazy people on the subway who talk to themselves.
Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-89492635525775584522009-09-21T16:27:00.000-04:002009-09-21T16:27:19.066-04:00Google and Print-on-Demand"Google has agreed to provide On Demand Books, LLC (ODB; www.ondemandbooks.com), the maker of the Espresso Book Machine (EBM), with immediate access to more than 2 million public domain titles in the Google digital files....."
Sept 17, 2009
So here's my question: is it an exclusive contract or will Google license their files to other ODB companies.
Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-81807989753691396462009-08-11T09:37:00.002-04:002009-08-11T09:37:19.543-04:00titlehere's how hard it is to enter a new postWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-78648342810884736102008-08-19T06:21:00.003-04:002008-08-19T06:41:09.708-04:00Many hands make light workThose great folks at Carnegie Mellon have re-worked CAPTCHA into reCAPTCHApage and, on any site that uses it, every time you retype the text correctly you are correcting an OCR problem in an Internet Archives file. If you want to just contribute to the effort you can go to this site. Why not go in and do a couple today?Of course this is not really so new but seeing the numbers is pretty amazing.Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-21553464605953281632008-08-07T09:36:00.000-04:002008-08-07T10:31:47.463-04:00New flexible displays for "pocket ereader"Readius is a new (not yet available in US) e-book reading device that will be extremely portable. It's not quite there but they are getting real close.
There's a NYT article for general description but you need to look at Readius web site to see it held in a person's hand and get a sense of how small it is. Of course there are demos on YouTube. Holds 22 lines of text and does 16 shade grey Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-70702274664566792682008-08-03T11:55:00.004-04:002008-08-03T12:58:14.710-04:00The smartest man in the known world...Apologies to those of you (if there are any) who read this for Scrapple-esque material. This is probably not something we'd talk about at a Scrapple lunch. (But the truth is I also use this blog as kind of bookmark list and I very much want to be able to get back to this.)
If you're interested in ideas like the Semantic Web and books like "Thinking on the Web : Berners-Lee, Gödel, and Turing" Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-77003740969621409512008-07-19T23:17:00.002-04:002008-07-19T23:21:28.200-04:00Dr. HorribleDr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long BlogCheck it out now -- while it's still free.Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-11992932125915543402008-06-26T19:06:00.002-04:002008-06-26T19:14:36.638-04:00Getting warmer....A NewScientist blog announces a prototype (by whom???) that is meant to simulate the ergonomics of reading an actual book. They hinge together two more-or-less-kindle-sized screens."The two leaves can be opened and closed to simulate turning pages, or even separated to pass round or compare documents. When the two leaves are folded back, the device shows one display on each side. Simply turning Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-63164145847229911962008-06-20T16:20:00.003-04:002008-06-20T16:26:08.354-04:00If you want to search Oxford Music Online...Here's a box for searching Search Oxford Music Online I can't seem to figure out how to put code up here so if you want the code you can look in the source code for this page.Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-31313110432471068002008-05-10T10:16:00.006-04:002008-05-10T10:21:21.156-04:00Add ASP's free music link to your pageWell, I tried to add it here but Blogger's right column is too narrow. And it can't go into the heading because the heading only takes 500 characters. So I'm just putting it here as a post. sigh.↑ Grab this Headline AnimatorWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-85186836181716099942008-04-27T08:42:00.005-04:002008-04-27T09:35:29.698-04:00Takin' Names and Checkin' FactsCQ has joined forces with St. Petersburg Times to create Politifact.com, web site whose mission is "just gimme the truth." They check out claims made in political campaigns and give them ratings like True, Barely True, Mostly True and, my favorite, Pants on Fire.Put a widget on your site to include an RSS feed from their Truth-O-Meter. That's what's generating the feed in the right-hand column onWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-69690311098051293832007-12-28T07:49:00.000-05:002007-12-28T08:00:00.944-05:00Be very angryIs it Scrapple? I don't know. It's the kind of thing you don't want to belive. You want to put it out of your head. But I heard this testimony on C-Span radio yesterday.Two years and no action from the State Dept or DoJ. Who are the guys covering this up? Do they not have mothers? sisters? wives? Where is Condoleezza Rice? Where is this country's moral compass?She has created the Jamie Leigh Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-38377278090453968252007-12-20T07:40:00.000-05:002007-12-20T07:53:22.352-05:00Right tool for the jobSee the free alphabetizing service online at http://alphabetizer.flap.tv/index.php.I know, I know. So, what. I can paste a list into Excel and sort fine. But this thing does more. It has tons of options.You can dump in text separate by:new linecommatabAs it alphabetizes you can have it:Strip HTMLIgnore CaseMake all lowercaseCapitalize first wordRemove Duplicates (cool)Reverse ListRandomizeIgnoreWoodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10263290.post-17077351267845483952007-12-18T08:18:00.000-05:002007-12-18T08:22:05.502-05:00An open source clustering engineThis morning I ran into Carrot2 , an "Open Source Search Results Clustering Engine."It has an interesting approach to displaying results from multiple sources. Being built in Poland. Give it a try.And it's open source. How great is that?!Woodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02290961173759212687noreply@blogger.com1