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TTOTD | DUR? | do you remember?
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TTOTD | AX | across
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LEV2 - Leyland Experimental Vehicle 2
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“Brin did meet with Senators John McCain and Barack Obama, and they spoke about “network neutrality”—an effort that Google and other companies are making to insure that the telephone and cable companies that provide high-speed access to the Internet
Archive for March, 2008
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March 30, 2008-
“This book is the first to bring together scientific studies into the values that texting provides, examining both cultural variation in countries as different as the Philippines and Germany, as well as the differences between SMS and other communications
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“# Social communities can be identified through attention metadata, for example, based on the tags people provide and accesses to similar material.
# There is an emerging business activity around attention metadata.
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“11 July Ken Kahn gave a talk at Microsoft Research in Redmond Washington about component-based programming for non-experts that included the BehaviourComposer. see a video recording of the talk.”
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” * Simon from yeepage.com shares his Tips on how to use del.icio.us
* Simonne explains why she likes del.icio.us so much in her article They Used To Call It Social Bookmarking
* Karen goes as far as claiming that Del.icio.us Is The Best, so
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March 29, 2008-
“”It appears from a research of telegraph histories that in 1859 the telegraph people held a convention, and one of its features was a discussion as to the saving of ‘line time’. A committee was appointed to devise a code to reduce standard expressions to
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“Prior to elaborating detailed cataloging rules for libraries, we need to decide whether the user will view a general bibliographic tool that connects users and information resources no matter their origin, or continue to view a library inventory, that re
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“There has been a steady progression in the formulation of cataloguing
rules since the one-person codes of the 19th century created by the giants
Panizzi and Cutter, though the subsequent committee codes and the seminal
work of the 20th century giant L -
““Librarians
and archivists know that a good collection, like a good book, is made in the
editing” (Marcum, 1998). Otherwise, we are really out to prove that “some
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International standard bibliographic description (ISBD) / recommended by the ISBD Review Group ; approved by the Standing Committee of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. — Preliminary consolidated ed. — München : K.G. Saur, 2007. — 1 vol. (loose-leaf) ;
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“These are rules to design a catalog. A catalog presupposes human intellectual effort, not raw computer indexing of an undifferentiated mass of keywords. Human intellectual effort is expensive, so it should be used as efficiently as possible to identify
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“at his best deconstructing Web failures like Wikitorial, the Los Angeles Times’s attempt to facilitate group op-ed writing. Readers will appreciate the Gladwellesque lucidity of his assessments on what makes or breaks group efforts online: Every story in
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“We help you catalog bestsellers, audiovisuals and more with MARC records, barcode labels, spine label sets, MARC Record Enrichment, Accelerated Reader and Lexile‽ data.”
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“Follows on what we have learned from the commercial Web search model
Mines metadata already available via MARC record, local class number, ILS item categories, circ status, and date stamping
Required massive clean-up of 6xx subdivisions
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TTOTD | 73 | best regards
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“12 of the best CSS Frameworks
1.Elements CSS Frameworks (Source: Project Designs)
2.WYMstyle: a CSS framework (Source: Daniel Reszka)
3.YAML CSS Framework (Source: High Resolution)
4.YUI Grids CSS (Source: Yahoo)
5.Boilerplate CSS Framewor
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same author as When Nietzsche Wept
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March 25, 2008-
TTOTD | E-ME | email me
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TTOTD | UOK | are you OK?
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TTOTD | 3dom | freedom
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March 24, 2008-
“I wrote the popular evolt.org tutorial PHP Login Script with Remember Me Feature mainly as an introduction to user sessions and cookies in PHP. Since it was created as a learning tool, many advanced features were left out of the script. By popular demand
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InfoQ: Hypermedia in RESTful applications
save thisgreat explanation of hateoas (REST constraint) for noobs
by aehso to hateoas rest architecture … saved by 67 other people … on march 02
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“The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming, based on Buchan’s classic thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps. The 21 Steps is told through narrative bubbles that pop up as the story picks its way across a Google Earth-like satellite map, and describes the experience of a m
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“They are essentially whole books on the desired topic, because cataloging works on the assumption of “scope-match” coverage–that is, the assigned LC headings strive to indicate the contents of the book as a whole….In focusing on these books immediate
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“Just like the MediaWiki example, this can be done RESTfully and we’ll construct just such a mechanism for AtomPub, and it should be obvious by the time we’re done on how you can also do this for JSON.
So here’s the goal: to be able to update and/or de
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Objects (goals), means and reasons
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March 23, 2008-
How to publish a del.icio.us list in book form?
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“covers a broad range of topics such as Sun’s interest in promoting Ruby, the case for JRuby in the enterprise, the areas Ruby needs to improve on, features that may be good extensions to the Rails framework, REST, HTTP Etags, caching in Rails, the Atom
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“grew out of a collection of children’s books that were donated in the 1930’s. It has expanded to include almost 2,000 items. In order for a book to be considered a ‘miniature’ it can be no taller than 4″ (10 mm); our collection includes several items tha
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March 22, 2008-
” Zero unnecessary overhead and complexity.
Pay no attention to the 191 MB of prerequisites behind the curtain. (51 MB Java SDK + 140 MB Eclipse SDK)
Zero barriers to success.
For some definition of “success” that precludes using more
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TTOTD | T+ | think positive
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“Use URIs to identify everything that merits being identifiable, ie. all of the “high-level” resources your application provides, whether they represent individual items, collections of items, virtual and physical objects, or computation results.”
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“…a URL is a type of URI that identifies a resource via a representation of its primary access mechanism (e.g., its network “location”), rather than by some other attributes it may have. Thus as we noted, “http:” is a URI scheme. An http URI is a URL. T
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“”I didn’t say I didn’t say it. I said I didn’t say I said it I want to make that very clear.” - George W Romney 1967″
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March 21, 2008-
“Some of the surprising results of this research related to emotion, forgetfulness, and the adaptability of the mental model. Emotions turned out to be a powerful control system because effects could be easily compared based on what emotions they caused,
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Tries to extract a summary topics from text.
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“Autodesk recently sat down with Dustin Osburn, a draftsman with Kansas-based Cobalt Boats, to talk about his recent experience working with the new software Autodesk Inventor LT. The software helps manufacturers create, share, and edit 3D part designs an
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TTOTD | GUDLUK | good luck
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“Alice->Bob: Authentication Request
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” * Give every “thing” an ID
* Link things together
* Use standard methods
* Resources with multiple representations
* Communicate statelessly
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March 20, 2008-
TTOTD | G9 | genius
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“Time (billable hours) and money (costs and revenues) must be taken into account at every point. It’s vital to stay on top of project life cycles, and groom business opportunities in various stages. The biggest drains on a consultant’s bottom line are thi
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“dedicated to saving the lives of millions of innocent animals that are euthanized every year in America. We hope to make a difference in the lives of these animals through supporting local non-profit animal shelters, informing the general public of the w
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“You can use the online version of DITA Storm on a free and unrestricted (including personal and corporate) basis as long as it is started from the DITA Storm website. To obtain a local copy of DITA Storm for use in different context please visit the Lice
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Trixster - appears to do a pretty good job of tricking people into giving them access to their address book. Even their name NetFlix+Flickr+Friendster
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March 19, 2008-
“Eliot Van Buskirk joins Fresh Air to discuss the new, digital landscape of music, and the resulting changes in the music industry.
Van Buskirk covers digital media for Wired.com on the blog, Listening Post. Formerly a senior editor for digital music a
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“the post offered him a bizarre (and sometimes banal) look at a business that had long since gone corporate — and was in the throes of a financial struggle.
“The sobering reality,” as Kennedy puts it on the book’s Web site, is that the record busines
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“My idea was to have the Pope lead a worldwide congregation of worshippers on five continents in the rosary, a devotional prayer, where he could alternate the first part of the prayer in one of several languages… and then cut live to that part of the wo
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TTOTD | WOT | what
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Joho:Much of what I’ve read so far points to the huge amount of information contained in the existing LC Subject Headings and their cross references, and how well they can convey to a scholar a lay of the land she is researching. (I don’t know why we
