The Twitter hashtag #FailShare is accumulating instances of failed library projects, so that we can learn from them, and also, I imagine, to take the sting out of failure (on the grounds that sting-y failure makes for stingy ideas).
And, a brand new wiki page has gone up on the same topic.
From an email, for those who are going to be around Boston on October 29: Boston University Libraries are pleased to announce the 2010 Fall Lecture on Open Access.
Read more of "Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Friday, October 29, 2010, 3-5pm"Apps are everywhere. E-books are shifting from e-readers to apps as the platform of choice. Google’s Android Market has surpassed 100,000 apps despite a problematic payment structure. And Apple, with its upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion, is moving apps from the device to the desktop.
Read more of "To app or not to app"Hacker News
Folks at the Lab have heard me talk about Hacker News. I love it. You may already know about it. If not, it’s a social news bulletin board: news.ycombinator.com
Read more of "Hacker News, Hack Monthly, Hacker Books"Creative Commons just released its Public Domain Mark—http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Nice…..
Stephen Ramsay has blogged a terrific talk he gave at Emory University about ending the relatively recent separation between librarians and scholars (and students). The talk reflects Stephen’s thinking about Emory’s Digital Scholarly Commons project.
Barnes & Noble has launched PubIt, a service for authors who want to publish directly to readers—well, directly through B&N. Create a B&N user account and upload some files, and PubIt will convert them to ePub, list your book on its site, collect money from sales, and about 60 days later will send you your money.
Read more of "Who isn't a book publisher these days?"On our home page and on the main blog page we run a list on the right of “Stuff we’re looking at.” These are various postings on the Web that one of us has founding interesting enough to share. We tag ‘em and run the feed.
At some point, we’ll start tweeting as well, and will probably automatically tweet what we’re tagging. Unless you think that’s a bad idea, in which case just forget we ever brought it up. So, WDYT?
I feel waves of evilness from big tech companies.
I’ve never felt evilness from a library. Never even occurred to me. They’ve been nothing but good to me. Welcoming, safe—yes. Evil? No.
Read more of "The words library and evil in the same sentence."So “Future of the Book” was just put out by IDEO.
Read more of "The Future of the Book -> but what about libraries?"