Monthly Archives: November 2007

People Make Scriblio Better

November 29, 2007 – 11:09 am

It’s way cool to see Lichen’s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and give us some criticism (and praise!). But I’m positively ecstatic to see Robin Hastings’ post on installing Scriblio (it’s not easy on Windows, apparently).
Part of it is pride [...]

By Casey | Posted in Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information | Comments (2)



Roadside Attractions Fading Away?

November 28, 2007 – 4:42 am

Roadside Attractions Fading from Landscape:
A staple of the American road trip could be slowly disappearing from the nation’s interstates and byways. Owners of some roadside attractions are deciding that interest is waning

By Casey | Posted in Blink, Travel | Comments (32)

bSuite 3 Released

November 26, 2007 – 12:45 pm

Contents:

Features
CMS enabling goodies
Hacking goodies
Widgets
Recognition

I started bStat in 2005 when I ported my blog from pMachine to WordPress and needed to bring over the tools I’d built to identify popular stories and recent comments. I renamed it bSuite when I added tagging and other features to it. Now it’s bSuite 3.
Get it here. Get installation details [...]

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My iPhone Commercial (or, The Night We Almost Died On A Mountain)

November 25, 2007 – 10:55 pm

It was cold. The air carried no scent, ice squeaked under our boots, and every little leaf and twig crinkled and snapped as we walked over it. But this was louder than that. Much louder. Neither Jon nor I saw it actually happen, but when I found Will he was mostly upside down between a [...]

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Tabbed Chatting In iChat

November 24, 2007 – 9:31 pm

Among the missing features I hear the most complaints about regarding iChat is the lack of tabbed chatting. Today I discovered it’s part of Leopard. Simply go to the iChat prefs, click on the messages pane, and selected ?Collect chats into a single window? and you’re set.

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A Nation Marketing Itself

November 23, 2007 – 11:28 am

Japan’s The Ministry of Foreign Affairs English-language Web Japan is a bottomless trove of in-flight magazine-quality stories like ANTIBACTERIAL EPIDEMIC and J-culture-hyping love-fests like Honoring The World’s Manga Artists.
If American propaganda efforts are this bad, why do foreign governments even bother blocking them?

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Is This Really Worth Protesting?

November 23, 2007 – 7:25 am

It can only be taken as evidence of our wealth and privilege that two years after Macy’s bought Marshall Field’s people are planning a Black Friday rally and holiday boycott to protest the name change.

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How Expensive Does Commercial Software Need To Get Before We Consider Open Source?

November 21, 2007 – 12:17 pm

Open source software of the free as in free beer and free as in free speech variety has matured to the point that there are now strong contenders in nearly every category, though that doesn’t make them easy choices. It’s often revealing when people criticize OSS as being free as in free kittens, which is [...]

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Themes I Like

November 21, 2007 – 8:07 am

Matt has updated his site with a less blog-like front page and I just discovered Unsleepable, which is very bloggy, but seems like a good start for what I want to do next.

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Remix Remix Remix: The Tracey Fragments

November 20, 2007 – 5:14 am

I guess the criticism is that it’s one thing for somebody to open up their music for remixing, but an entirely different thing to do the same with a movie. Or is it? Is it (click re-fragmented)?

By Casey | Posted in Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Dispatches | Comments (0)

[Insert Word Here] Is Hurting Your Network

November 19, 2007 – 11:24 am

Corporate networks are defenseless against the growing threat from instant messaging, and the government warns WiFi is insecure and easily sniffed.
Experts suggest we take precautions against the growing risk of p2p software that’s exposing sensitive documents and threatening national security.
Businesses blame security problems on their employees, their mobile devices, and other consumer technologies.
And now we [...]

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Tidens Hotteste IT-Trends

November 16, 2007 – 1:44 am

My presentation for today’s hottest IT trends is nearly completely new, though it draws a number of pieces from my building web 2.0-native library services and remixability presentations. What it adds is an (even more) intense focus on the people that make up the web.
Denmark is among the most wired countries of Europe, and it’s [...]

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Remember The Good Old Days?

November 15, 2007 – 11:30 am

The first article database I remember using was Dialog, sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. Today I found myself amused that we used to call such things ?interactive.? That is, you poked the command line interface with questions and it usually beeped a syntax error, all while they charge $4 per minute, plus [...]

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European Internet Usage Statistics

November 15, 2007 – 5:00 am

Eurostat 2006: Internet usage in the EU25: ?Nearly half of individuals in the EU25 used the internet at least once a week in 2006 and a third of households and three-quarters of enterprises had broadband internet access.? Statistics Denmark 2007: Access to the Internet: 78% of population has home internet access.

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Going Global With My iPhone

November 14, 2007 – 12:22 pm

I can use my iPhone pretty much anywhere, but ATT is going to charge me $1.30 a minute for calls, $.50 per text, and $.02 per KB for data while in Denmark.
ATT requires international activation but they do offer some tips for international roamers. I bought an international iPhone data plan (20MB for $25), but [...]

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