tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106303432009-12-03T14:45:59.913-08:00blog about new technologies, web stuff, widgets, my projects, the works from a web junkie, artist & librarian.robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02475205435808073017georgiawebgurl@gmail.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10630343.post-63282362393631105092009-12-03T14:13:00.000-08:002009-12-03T14:14:07.314-08:00

http://www.robinfay.net

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Just a test. fb is dropping my links.

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I'm always leery of statistics as I have a hard time believing they are ever accurate... but whoa is this kind of cool:You can read more about it here, including where the numbers come from.

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In case you didn't hear, AT&T (iphone, among others) dropped the lawsuit against Verizon's ad campaign (playing on the " an app for that" by comparing the 3G coverage of AT&T to Verizon with a visual map). Read more at mashable and elsewhere.I thought it was a really clever and hardhitting ad campaign, which is saying alot in the sea of ads we all see everyday.

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The Drupal community is eagerly anticipating the unwrapping of its newest version 7 release. While there is speculation on when the official release date will happen, the end result will be a number of significant enhancements. The underlying focus has been on improving usability. In fact, an internationally renowned design firm was engaged to spearhead the efforts and facilitate community based

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To me, true accessibility is building one site that works for everybody, disabled or not, and whatever user agent or operating system they prefer. And that is the web I want to build and use.Yup. A good post on web standards and accessibility.

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Just passing along an interesting post about usability.

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Touch screens aren't the only way of doing this. Shillito is leading a team that has developed software that allows artists to receive physical feedback when designing virtual 3D objects.The team's approach uses a haptic device called Falcon, which vibrates and moves to allow users to "feel" virtual objects. Originally developed for 3D gaming, Falcon is a cross between a joystick and a mouse. As

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http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/ yslow from yahoo is a great site, as is some of the firebug stuff.

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“RDA is being developed as a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world.” A webinar/presentation about RDA, which the cataloging world has been abuzz about is located here http://tinyurl.com/yexxlynAlso, a couple of demos out (just demos, not product):A small demo example for what "open development" could do:http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/wtr/content.htmVery

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Pretty cool....http://dvice.com/archives/2009/11/humble-webcam-t.php

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http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/11/w3c_cheatsheet_for_developers.html"This cheatsheet aims at providing in a very compact and mobile-friendly format a compilation of useful knowledge extracted from W3C specifications — at this time, CSS, HTML, SVG and XPath —, completed by summaries of guidelines developed at W3C, in particular the WCAG2 accessibility guidelines, the Mobile Web Best Practices, and a

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Well, this would seem to be a match made in heaven for the goals of the semantic web -- because regardless of the schema and mapping, I think there is going to have be some kind of established form/identity.... and considering my cataloger tendencies (lol), well, I can't help but love this project.... ---------------The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has moved to beta phase and is

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Interesting little post about wolfram alpha and plans for the future:But Alpha may yet confound the sceptics. Last month, Wolfram released an application programming interface, or API, that allows anybody to build software or websites that use Alpha's abilities. "Alpha is a technology platform that allows one to inject computable knowledge into any application or computer system," says

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Well, this is interesting... some thoughts on a new tool in the google webmaster's toolbox.... Just goes to show that mining content doesn't always tell you relevance. Sometimes controlled vocabularies (subject headings) and taxonomies (categories) are a GOOD thing... Sigh...Here is what Google says the keyword significance list is for: Below are the most common keywords Google found when

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Arches @ noon. Nov. 30.The 3rd annual Blue Beanie Day will be celebrated on Monday, November 30th, 2009see http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136079874938On Monday, November 30, 2009 thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support for accessible, semantic web content.Join the fun!The 2009 event page is here:http://www.facebook.com/

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Hola! I'm chairing the ATHDrupal group and for now, I am just "helping" the EEATH group (I hope a Chair rises organically in the group).ATHDrupal is a new regional Drupal group (forming out of the ashes of UGA Drupal Group). We would like to invite anyone interested in Drupal to join us. We hope to have some f2f meetings -- perhaps, semesterly (and also, to connect up with DrupalAtlanta at some

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Some of you probably know about this project....------------"Mendeley offers a secure online database for scientists, academics and researchers to store their research papers in the ‘cloud’, making it easier to share those documents with their peers but there’s an important ’social’ element too (if that’s the right word)."..............."[UK] London-based Mendeley, which calls itself “the Last.fm

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As the Chair of the Emerging Technologies Group for the Libraries, I sometimes struggle with what the group members (including me) should be doing -- are we a "thinking" body or a "doing" body? Do we just do research and make recommendations? Or do we try to implement/move forward our recommendations, and to what degree? How do we facilitate innovation? How do we facilitate new technology? Do we

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My Group (Emerging Technologies Group) is taking the survey today.--------------Please forward this survey to library colleagues, state library association listservs, or others who may be interested.Thank you for taking time to respond to this survey on American libraries using Social Media tools for PR/Marketing. It should only take 10-15 minutes to complete. It is a follow up to a survey of the

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Sigh, I will never agree to do anything on Monday again -- it's just too difficult. Anyhow, I will post the ppt to the cataloging tools presentation shortly.Considering how much training I've done over the years (some by choice, some not), I know a few things about teaching and training:You can't train the untrainable -- We all meet people who are disengaged and stuck (in a class, in a job, in a.

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I wonder how many more lawsuits are out there pending against facebook? And to answer my question, this is actually a followup to earlier legal action.This one accuses Facebook of "conspir[ing] with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records."According to the article the previous law suit (which resulted in a settlement on Facebook's part), "some 44

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Didn't know that there were more templates beyond what is listed in google docs (and didn't notice that 'search templates' link in google docs?) Well, now you do. You can also get 'em here.... and here is how to create your own (well, sort of).

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Interesting article about the fallout over Zynga (Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc., which all have huge communities on facebook) and its scam ads. Hmm, yet another reason to pay attention to what you click on and ALWAYS read the TOS. ;-)"Zynga insists they are serious about cleaning up the industry. And today Pincus has announced that the company will remove all offer advertising from their games.This

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I'm sure you have noticed people twittering during conferences that you have attended. This is an interesting article comparing google wave to twitter, in terms of how can be used to record and participate in a conference.

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