Library Futures Conference (The Speculist)

The Speculist: Conference Day 1

Workstation Ergonomics

HealthyComputing - Keyboard Setup and Usage

DLF and Wikipedia

Via LIS-News: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home » Wikipedia intrigues Peter Brantley, executive director of the Digital Library Federation

Against perpetual copyright - Lessig Wiki

From LISNews: Against perpetual copyright - Lessig Wiki

O'Reilly Radar

O'Reilly Radar
seems like excellent source for late-breaking IT news. Someone just posted here an announcement about a new feature of Google maps: Streetside View based ImmersiveMedia technology, where you can get a human-scale view of walking down the street as featured in a Google map̮

OPAC 2.0 discussion at Yale

I'm hoping to get a wider discussion going about functional requirements for Yale's "next generation OPAC". This discussion paper in Sakai might be a start. The requirements table in particular could lend itself to communal effort [but note that the deeplinks in classesV2 don't quite make it through all the way].

Google Gadgets, Cold Fusion, and Adam Brin

Mike Cunningham writes about "Getting Stuff into the OPAC", specifically by using ColdFusion, javascript, the MARC 970 field, and DOM. He credits Adam Brin at Bryn Mawr, i.e., the devloper of the "Search Triad" Google gadget, with providing some useful tips. Here's the Google Gadgets API.

Philly 2007 July

Here's a Google map with vectors and pushpins inserted

Everything is Miscellaneous

See my brief review at LibraryThing.

Steve Ettlinger Deconstructs the Twinki

Cited by LIS News, Steve Ettlinger interviewed by Moira Gunn at IT Conversations. Ettlinger is author of Twinkie, Deconstructed.

Google Notebook