April 17 is my last day as a data architect in IST-Data Services. I’m stepping down to make more time to finish my book Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services , which will be published this fall. I’m sad to leave the close working relationships that I’ve developed over the 8-1/2 years […]
This afternoon, some of us IST architects are meeting to take up the “SOAP vs REST” question. Some resources that have been put forth as supporting references are: Nelson’s Weblog: tech / bad / whySoapSucks Resource-oriented vs. activity-oriented Web services Pragmatics enunciate I found Don Box’s Pragmatics helpful — short and insightful.
Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic – New York Times is making me think twice about having my email window open on my desktop most of the time: In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports […]
The single greatest challenge for UC Berkeley is retaining its pre-eminence as a world-famous university in the face of not only such traditional competitors as Stanford and Harvard but also the myriad distributed groups of individuals and organizations that use the Web to produce and disseminate information. A big lesson of Web 2.0 is the […]
I identify three trends in IT that will have a large impact on the university: increasingly inexpensive storage, network, and computation power for individuals For $25/year, I am promised unlimited storage and bandwidth for all my photos by Flickr. I can upload all my videos to YouTube or Google Video for free. For $16/month, I […]
Shel Waggener, the CIO of the campus, announced last week the appointment of the new CTA: I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Hébert DÃaz-Flores as the campus’s first Chief Technology Architect (CTA). Reporting to me as manager of the Technology Standards, Practices, and Architecture unit, Dr. DÃaz-Flores will be the lead architect […]
On my reading list: ALA Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries and Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data Meeting – Meetings – (Library of Congress) On my viewing list: videos from code4lib 2007 Open Content: The searchable indexes below expose public domain ebooks, open access digital repositories, Wikipedia articles, and miscellaneous human-cataloged Internet resources.
Sites such as Gliffy.com – Create and share diagrams online makes it easier to work with others online. ACM Transactions on Information Systems has a call for papers for a special issue on “Keeping, Re-finding, and Sharing Personal Information” (due June 15, 2007) I recently installed the Firebug extension and want to show it to […]
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the folks behind Zotero, is hiring. They are doing wonderful work — check out the following list if you have any interest in the intersection of history and digital technology You can find the listings at http://chnm.gmu.edu/news/archives/job_openings_postdoc_.php which I quote here: February 08, 2007 […]