I wasn’t able to make it to the Open Library Developers Meeting 2008 (Open Library) because I was in Los Angeles but I look forward to catching up on what happened that day.  I’m excited to see how far the OpenLibrary project will get in terms of making data about books freely available to the […]
Tagged openlibraryMashupAwards – best mashups on the web is a good list of mashups. As I learn Django, a Python web programming framework, I’m starting to think about alternative frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails and Symfony (for PHP5). Is Symfony something to recommend to my students?
Tagged mashup symfony DjangoIt’ll be fun to work through Visualizing Data — after I get through reading Programming Collective Intelligence . But instead of just reading books, I need to have some specific problems in mind — which I do. More soon on what those problems are.
Tagged booksI look forward to the starting up of the Buckland/Larson/Lynch seminar next week. I’m pleased to see the word “mash-up” used in an article about a Berkeley website: 01.16.2008 – New life for the New Deal: “I realized I couldn’t do it myself,” Brechin says. “It had to be people all over California working collaboratively,” […]
Experimenting with picnik Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee Picnik, the web-based photo editor, encourages me to experiment with my Flickr photos by its tight integration with Flickr. I can view my Flickr photos, edit any given one, and then send it back to Flickr — all within Picnik. (Compare this photo to the original.)
I’m giving a talk on Wednesday at the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh: SWeb Mashups, Recombinatory Data and the Academy: Yee will examine how, with relatively little effort, individuals are recombining digital content from the Web to create sophisticated mashups. The mashups often provide entirely new understandings of that content. This talk will […]
I wish I could attend the Educause Western Regional Conference happening the week after next in SF, whose speaker list includes a number of folks I know personally. It’s great to see more library catalogs with APIs, such as those documented in REST output from Huddersfield’s catalogue. Congratulations to Roy Tennant on his new position […]
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 […]
There is a call for proposals for what promises to be a highly intriguing future-of-the-library conference on the Berkeley campus: The LAUC-B 2007 Conference Planning Committee is seeking proposals for break-out sessions for the upcoming LAUC-B conference on the theme of “Academic Library 2.0”. The conference will be held November 2, 2007 at the Clark […]
I’m looking forward to reading Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in code : two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software. I remain optimistic about Chandler, a next-generation Personal Information Manager (PIM) integrating calendar, e-mail, contact management, task management, notes, and instant messaging, though it’s hard to do so after reading Joel […]