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You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
SteVe C, AJ Batac :), Brent and 254 other people liked this
You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Mark: http://friendfeed.com/bret...
- Casey Muller
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret
- Ahsan Ali
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
Cool
- Nimaa
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
FWIW this isn't working for me any longer. Perhaps that has something to do with my Gmail settings though.
- Mark J
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I still get them.
- AJ Batac :)
I get these every day.
- NotdaBOTTurlokin4
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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inarli, ffctvhd1, JoeCamel and 237 other people liked this
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali
This is awesome!
- Christopher Chung
with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive!
- michael sean wright
:O
- Josh Haley
Amazing, thanks for that!
- dkb
According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :)
- Bret Taylor
Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?)
- Kathy Fitch
very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action?
- berchman
Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross
- goutham
Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on
- Shane
That's priceless. Great job, guys.
- John Craft
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
Great project!
- Anne Bouey
AWESOME!
- Kevin Fox
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That is so awesome
- Glenn Slaven
happy-making!
- Felicia Yue
I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :)
- Arvind
Wow!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
Excellent!!
- Kol Tregaskes
That's great!
- Devon Govett
Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury
- Benedetto Vacca
неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет?
- atner
Lots of handshaking I see :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
hahaha very nice stop motion and music!
- Alex Huinchucleffy
BUMP
- Roberto Bonini
FULL OF WIN
- Jac Falcon
Improve FriendFeed for your friends by recommending subscriptions - FriendFeed Blog - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Laura (goldie), dgw, Mitchell Tsai and 170 other people liked this
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Nice! Friends, please send me recommendations :)
- joey
Excellent feature, gooood idea!
- Susan Beebe
Very cool =)
- FFing Enigma
Cool stuff.
- Mike Bracco
gr8
- حاج مهدی ©
Uh, it tells me that Scoble, among others, could use the recommendations. WTF? Perhaps I have too few subscriptions for this to work.
- Fred Yankowski
more good stuff
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Finally a better recommendation
- directeur
I'd still love an "e-mail this item" feature, similar to Google Reader.
- Jesse Stay
great idea!
- Edwin Khodabakchian
Cool! Beats the heck out of #followfriday!!
- Larry Hawes
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
User-driven...I like.
- Josh Haley
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
Definitely better than #followfriday.
- Bernie Goldbach
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
fatma küfür istiyor
- Joan Miro
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
Kishore Balakrishnan, Tanath, Nir Ben Yona and 68 other people liked this
Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thank you ff very good :)
- Nimaa
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
؛ patrick to ؛'s feed, Persian Geeks, FriendFeed API, FriendFeed Feedback, FriendFeed Hacks, FriendFeed Talk
JaFFa (Java FriendFeed App/Tools) ver_1.1.4 has been released. You may download the executable file from: https://github.com/patrick...
پاتکیر, گمنامیان GOMNAMIAN, Kenny and 52 other people liked this
12/12/2011 - Version 1.1.3 - Added Spam Cleaner || 13/12/2011 - Version 1.1.4 - Added ability to delete comments from blocked users
- ؛ patrick
For instructions please see readme.txt: https://github.com/patrick...
- ؛ patrick
Well this looks interesting... Is there any documentation on what it is/does??
- Lindsay
Please see "readme.txt". I sent the URL earlier. It basically gets a backup of your FF Feeds plus their files (images, mp3's, etc.)
- ؛ patrick
linux platform: even if I specify my own directory (/home/marco/backupff) in config.properties, JaFFA still tries to read files from /backup/ff. Message error is: "java.io.FileNotFoundException: /backup/ff/machms/..."
- Marco [machms]
@Marco, thanks for reporting it. I fixed it and uploaded the new version
- ؛ patrick
Change Log: 11/08/2010 - Version 1.1.1 - Fixed the issue with reading backup_dir setting
- ؛ patrick
دوستان اگر سوالی دارید بپرسید، جواب میدم
- ؛ patrick
خسته نباشی!
- apar(اپر)
مرسی اپر جان
- ؛ patrick
کسی اینو تست کرد؟
- ؛ patrick
Eclipse project files come with the source. Download/install eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/downloa...). Then use Import -> General -> Existing Projects into Workspace - and it will compile it for you. Shoot questions if you have any problem
- ؛ patrick
مرسی گل آقای عزیز
- ؛ patrick
nice!
- .LAG liked that
Thanks. Did you get a chance to test it?
- ؛ patrick
@ ؛ patrick: not yet, but will import it into Eclipse when I get a chance
- .LAG liked that
...works as advertised. i now have a folder full of XML
- .LAG liked that
very nice. glad to hear that!
- ؛ patrick
پانته آ جان اجازه بدید من فردا نگاهی به کد بندازم ببینم چه کاری میتونم انجام بدم که یک سری فیلتر بشه براش تعریف کرد
- ؛ patrick
خوب من به برنامه فیلتر اضافه کردم ولی مطمئن نیستم این چیزی هست که می خواستی. مساله اینجاست که اگر برای لینکی لایک نزده باشی یا کامنتی ننوشته باشی، در لیست مای دیسکاشنز ظاهر نمیشه و در نتیجه دانلود هم نمیشه
- ؛ patrick
بله حالا ورژن جدیده. فرصت بشه این قسمتش رو هم درست می کنم
- ؛ patrick
any mac version? :D
- نیک
شرمنده نیک جان. من مک در اختیار ندارم. اگر زحمتی نیست اون بچ-فایل رو یه نگاهی بکن ببین چطور میشه تبدیلش کرد به اسکریپت برای مک. اگر کار کرد که زحمت بکش به من هم یک کپی بده. اگر هم سوالی داری بپرس که جواب بدم
- ؛ patrick
12/12/2011 - Version 1.1.3 - Added Spam Cleaner
- ؛ patrick
13/12/2011 - Version 1.1.4 - Added ability to delete comments from blocked users
- ؛ patrick
برای کسانی که می خوان اسپم ها رو پاک کنن، من یک قسمت جدید به برنامه اضافه کردم که میتونید لیست افرادی که اسپم می کنند را به فایل کانفیگ اضافه کنید و برنامه رو اجرا کنید. خود به خود تمام کامنت های این افراد را در هر جایی که زیر لینک های شما باشه پاک می کنه حتی اگر اونها را بلاک کرده باشید. ولی شرطش اینه که پابلیک باشید. مثلن اگر پرایوت هستید، میتونید قبل از اجرای برنامه برای چند لحظه پابلیک بشید و وقتی برنامه تمام شد دوباره پرایوت کنید
- ؛ patrick
پاتریک، این چه قابلیتها و ویژگیهایی داره؟
- فرخزاد
ورژن قدیمیش که میتونه از فیدتون بک آپ بگیره. حالا هم یک برنامه بهش اضافه کردم که میتونه کامنت های اسپمر ها رو از تمام لینک هاتون پاک کنه
- ؛ patrick
برنامه سراغ نداری که لیست کسانی را که بلاک کردهایم یا ما را بلاک کردهاند را نشان بدهد؟
- فرخزاد
ای جاوا کار .... ای حرفه ای ... ای خدای جاوا :**
- Pesare khoob
;-)
- ؛ patrick
it's a batch file. they don't need eclipse for it
- ؛ patrick
it's okay :))
- ؛ patrick
دانلودش کن، به درد می خوره ;-)
- ؛ patrick
اون دو تا بچ فایل رو باز کن، کامندش اونجا هست. شرمنده فرصت نشد برای لینوکس هم اسکریپتش رو بنویسم
- ؛ patrick
مرسی. اگر ساکس رو اضافه کردی کدش رو به من هم بده اضافه ش کنم. یا اگر می خوای میتونم اضافه ت کنم به پروژه خودت تغییرات رو کامیت کنی
- ؛ patrick
گفتم که من اینو دنلود کردم اما نمیدونم اصن چیه و باهاش چیکارباید بکنم
- سارا
دو نوع فایل اونجا هست. یک سری فایل سورس هست (اس-آر-سی) و یک سری فایل باینری (بی-آی-ان). باید اون فایل باینری رو دانلود کنید. بعد توی یک فولدر آن-زیپ ش کنید. بعد یک فایل داره به اسم رید-می (مرا بخوانید) که همه چیز توش نوشته شده
- ؛ patrick
مرسی ولی اگه نمیگفتی رید می ینی چی، گه گیجه میگرفتم:)))...من باز اگه سر درنیاوردم ازت میپرسم
- سارا
بهتره به جای هارد کد کردن مقادیر تغییر پذیر از کانفیگ فایل استفاده بشه
- mlee
پاتریک جان اینجا هم ببینید فکر کنم اگر چند نفر با هم دیگه کار کنن جالب باشه https://friendfeed.com/ffarchi...
- uɐſʃɐʌ uɐſ
Galadriel C., Lillian Chow, Peter Murray and 3 other people liked this
As you may know, for the past eighteen months, we have been indexing in Primo Central a number of the EBSCO databases. EBSCO has now changed their strategy and will no longer permit third-party discovery services to load and index their content. Therefore, starting 1st January 2011 we will cease hosting of the EBSCO content in the Primo Central Index. EBSCO will, however, permit our use of a specialized API to search the EBSCO content ‘just-in-time’.
- Kirsten
Since our initial agreement with EBSCO in June 2009, we have made significant progress in working directly with many publishers and other aggregators to dramatically increase the content in the Primo Central Index. In addition we recently reached agreement with Gale whereby their databases in Primo Central will now be available to all, regardless of subscription. Since there is a...
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- Kirsten
Based on a recent analysis of the Primo Central content, we cover, through other channels, over 90% of the data provided by the current EBSCO content loaded in the Primo Central Index. Furthermore, of the small number of titles exclusively available from EBSCO, none of these appears on the list of the 5,000 most used journals, based on SFX logs, and only three appear on the list of the 10,000 most used journals.
- Kirsten
We are currently finalizing the details of the new arrangement with EBSCO for ‘just-in-time’ search and will update you as we progress on this. However, we believe that EBSCO’s decision to withdraw their content from the Primo Central Index does not best serve your user’s interests. We therefore strongly encourage you to add your voices directly to those of the ELUNA and IGELU steering committees in requesting that EBSCO reverse their decision and enable their data for indexing.
- Kirsten
Ah, ok. That doesn't affect 360 Search, because it's a pure federated search product with no harvesting. But this means that Summon is going to be cut off too.
- DJF
holeeeee crap.
- jambina
Yeah, the EBSCO databases are still available through MetaLib (EL's federated search). But not being in the discover layer may well do a number on use stats, and if those are bad enough then the state-wide agreements will start to matter less.
- Kirsten
my comment on this has disappeared? basically mentioning summon and Ebsco being the new evil empire
- Christina Pikas
Could someone offer a TL:DR version? The reference desk is poppin' this morning.
- Andy
PRIMO harvests database content into it's central index. EBSCO has cut them off, but it still allows federated searching in realtime. (considering how EBSCO has been cutting off other vendors from hosting content, this doesn't actually surprise me.)
- DJF
Christina: You commented on the one in my feed; I reposted to LSW. Apologies for the confusion.
- Kirsten
Craptastic. Seriously. We just got 360 Search and are considering Summon. It seems that vendors like EBSCO will defend their damned information silos to the bitter end. Let's all send EBSCO email that say, "Save the time of the user", shall we?
- marthalib
Martha, EBSCO's current dick move shouldn't affect 360 Search, because 360 doesn't harvest. I'm seeing HUGE problems with Search 360 that have nothing to do with EBSCO. I suspect soembody at Serials Solutions spilled their coffee on a computer or soemthing.
- DJF
Yes, I wasn't being clear in my carping. I'm thinking about how this EBSCO effects everyone with Summon or who might get Summon (in addition to everyone with Primo).
- marthalib
Are any other libraries reporting problems with 360 Search?
- marthalib
Wait, does anyone have Primo Central yet? This is a fraction of Primo users, no? We have Primo for discovery, but still use Metalib for federated search, so this doesn't affect us.
- Meg VMeg
We have it Meg, but I don't know how many libraries are using it. It's still fairly new, I think--our timing was such that we implemented Primo and Primo Central at the same time. Metalib is still in there too, so we do still have access to EBSCO databases. But Metalib is so much slower than Primo Central, I'm worried about how this is going to play out here. People were just getting used to our new interface.
- Kirsten
liking so I can bookmark this. We are a completely ex libris shop now so this will definitely affect us.
- Elizabeth Brown
It won't affect Summon users as the content harvested direct from the publisher not the indexer, e.g. EBSCO. Summon has around 97% of 'EBSCO' ft content but has never harvested EBSCO
- Graham Stone
Meg, we're in the process of setting up Primo Central. We got an email from Ex Libris explaining that we can activate a whole bunch of databases that we don't subscribe to that cover the EBSCO holdings. Then SFX kicks in to locate the article in EBSCO. It's an awkward workaround until the APIs are available.
- Zamms
Interesting!
- Meg VMeg
Is "just in time" federated search?
- María Milagros Fernández
I just want to echo Graham Stone, above. Summon (and ExLibris) are already doing end-around work bypassing the "ease" of importing EBSCO indexing. I think this will ultimately backfire in EBSCO's face as their products get marginalized and their locked-in EDS customers become their only customers.
- awd
If EBSCO/ProQuest/ExLibris start making exclusive indexing deals with major academic publishers, then you can worry. For now, it's just one dog marking a tree that every other dog has marked as well.
- anna
saw an EBSCO demo for their EDS product last week and the way that the VP was talking they have a few exclusive deals with vendors and publishers that no one else does. He said one going to be announced at some big engineering conference in a few weeks.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I'm with Aaron and Anna on this one - the workarounds are there, so until they have exclusive indexing deals, well....They do tout their indexing as superior, of course, but still.
- ~Courtney F.
I think when publishers start seeing libraries cancel subscriptions because the titles aren't in their discovery systems, they might reconsider the exclusive deals that seemed so tantalizing now.
- anna
No use = dropped subscriptions at MPOW... If it isn't indexed in a discovery system there won't be any use. Of course, I'm still working on selling the priority of a unified index as a discovery layer.
- awd
So glad we don't have Primo. The UMN does, but not us.
- marthalib
getting some nice mentions for my blog post about Google+ http://scilib.typepad.com/science... ; added some new info today #yam #in
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Universities MUST address their unhealthy dependence on businesses with a 36% profit margin http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs... http://www.economist.com/node...
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Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj... What every librarian should know about @HathiTrust
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Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket - http://radar.oreilly.com/2011...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of REST APIs http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011... via @oreillymedia.
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Emerald adopts EPUB to enhance mobile access to research - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/about...
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"It is expected that the availability of the EPUB format will facilitate the access and dissemination of research worldwide. As part of the publisher’s continuous Online Platform Development Programme, this development answers the needs for users who access and download content via mobile devices. "
- DJF
from Bookmarklet
The hell with downloading via mobile devices. This means that researchers can download papers and sync them to their ereading devices rather than printing them or staring at the computer screen.
- DJF
Reading Diary: Open Access: What You Need to Know Now by Walt Crawford - http://scienceblogs.com/confess...
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Pull quote: "Because, yes, this book is essentially an argument. The argument being that libraries and librarians should be at the forefront of promoting Open Access in the scholarly community and beyond. And, thanks to Crawford, we have the arguments for, 'Here's why!' gathered together in a convenient librarian-friendly package."
- Stephen Francoeur
West Wing Week: Go to #Joplin, Poland, Arlington & the Situation Room w/ President Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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How not to deliver a video lecture. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Warning: don't be drinking anything, especially carbonated beverages, when you watch this. You're welcome.
- Catherine Pellegrino
One of the things I love about it is that, hilarity aside, it really is an AWFUL video lecture.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Yeah, I kept wondering why he'd film it with the camera pointed up his nose.
- Kirsten
Hey, Dorothea's featured here! Important reading, too. http://chronicle.com/article...
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"What's at stake in the Georgia State copyright case" - Dorothea, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Kevin Smith, Brandon Butler, some other people...
- N. Ansi
When is the decision going to come out? I know they started deliberations a week or two ago.
- Just Joe
Yeah, I haven't read it yet but she's in good company. Also fun that I hear about you in the Chron from Dorothea's Twitter, and about her in the Chron from you on FF. :D
- Your Neighbor Steve
They aren't deliberating yet. They started the _trial_ a week and a bit ago. Arguments, etc. come first. Then some kind of ruling. Probably quite a bit later. Then appeals...
- N. Ansi
They apparently had a quick chat with the judge, agreed it was complicated, and decided to get back together in July. This will take a while.
- barbara fister
Really, it is complicated?
- Just Joe
D'oh! Mixing up my enormously important lawsuits.
- barbara fister
I took a class in that - not.
- barbara fister
No updates from our director yet.
- Jason P
My wife just won the Outstanding Graduate Associate teaching award at the Ohio State University School of Music!
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In the future, all reference questions will be answered in lolcat format.
- Andy
Cataloging will be outsourced to monkeys in Nepal.
- Andy
All libraries will schedule staff development days to coincide with eclipses and solar flare activity.
- Andy
In the future, after the Great Technology Crash, all information will be recorded on parchment.
- Katy S
"Oversized" books will be renamed "Big Spined" so as to avoid hurting the book's feelings.
- Andy
Library will start collecting fees in non-traditional ways: indentured servitude, plasma, and organ harvesting.
- Andy
All future ALA resolutions will end with phrase "IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHESY"
- Andy
Academic librarians will start dressing and acting like Morpheus from The Matrix.
- Andy
Libraries will get rid of their cats and install manatees in buildings.
- Katy S
There will be new library services based entirely on smell.
- Andy
The PhDs replacing the McMaster librarians will be replaced by specially raised clones of Michael Gorman.
- Andy
I really like that ALA resolution forecast... I'll have to try that :)
- awd
And if you decide to run instead of paying your fee in organs, plasma, or indentured servitude, the library will send out their Repo Men (a la novel The Repossession Mambo, a la film "Repo Men") to collect.
- Angel R. Rivera
Within five years....Science librarians will take over the world!
- John Dupuis
Within five years.....all library services will only be offered via Twitter. Librarians not on twitter will be retrained, reassigned or fired.
- John Dupuis
Within five years.....all library services will only be offered via Quora. Librarians not on Quora will be retrained, reassigned or fired.
- John Dupuis
Within five years.....all library services will only be offered via some web platform that will be invented in 4.9 years. Librarians not on whatever that platform ends up being will be retrained, reassigned or fired.
- John Dupuis
Web Platform 9 3/4?
- LB shining
Every single book will run on it's own separate DRM e-book platform, access to which will cost $$$ each.
- Hedgehog
Within 5 years, the top-heavy, administration-centric library will be gone like the Dodo. The administrators will have retired and the librarians will finally be able to resume what they do best: help researchers with their questions.
- awd
In five years, ALA will announce the "Be Excellent to Each Other" program. Librarians are forced to use the excellent literary references (and only those references) from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure to promote literacy and social justice.
- Just Joe
this is relevant to my interests
- W!cKeD Underpants Captain
Fourscore and... seven minutes ago... we, your forefathers, were brought forth upon a most excellent adventure conceived by our new friends, Bill... and Ted. These two great gentlemen are dedicated to a proposition which was true in my time, just as it's true today. Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
- awd
In the next fifty years, summer reading programs will be 20 weeks long due to global warming.
- Andy
In five years, librarian business wear will include ascots, pirate style shirts, and assless chaps.
- Andy
With the discovery of alien life, Library Society of the World will be required to change its name to Intergalactic Library Society of the Universe. The mascot will be a space cod.
- Andy
In the future, public libraries will reclaim the title "The People's University" and start charging ivy league tuition rates.
- Katy S
In the future, public libraries will be lending zoo animals to the general public.
- Andy
In 5 years, libraries will be drab places where people sit in silence; therefore we shall employ wild animals as librarians... or maybe as administrators (less damage that way, you see)
- awd
In 5 years, card catalogs will return. But the cards will be sentient computer beings capable of arranging themselves.
- Andy
(SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!) In 5 years, book retrieval will be done through a series of survivor-style elimination challenges, reducing childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes rates to record lows.
- ellbeecee
In 5 years, all the books will glow, like in Attack of the Clones, but the librarians will not be such closed-minded, bun-wearing, rule-driven bitches as were portrayed in that film. (The glowing books are more likely).
- Louise Alcorn
We will be going entirely back to the card catalog system. Librarians should report for handwriting training starting in September
- Hedgehog
All cataloging will be done solely with 10-key entry, to save money. Anyone unable to keep up the lightning pace will lose a hand, TBD by HR.
- Louise Alcorn
Frequest requests for directions to the bathroom will be assumed as cries for help. A prostate exam will be administered on-site.
- Louise Alcorn
In fewer than 5 years...StOryTYMe, brought to you by General Foods, featuring Sugared Cereal AudioBooks!
- Louise Alcorn
Within 5 years, it will be 2015.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Hover Book Carts. (rock on!)
- Louise Alcorn
Now I'm singing "Hold that Taiga! Hold that Taiga!"
- Your Neighbor Steve
Direct neural input reference. From my brain to yours.
- Louise Alcorn
Same answer I just gave elsewhere: Library trend (back) to community meeting place + information portal + sanctuary from the madness.
- Louise Alcorn
do we get to have wingback chairs in the newspaper reading room too? ;-)
- DJF
I would insist on them. But that's me.
- Louise Alcorn
A library run entirely by puppets. Library Q.
- Louise Alcorn
Lending jetpacks. Jetaways (tm).
- Louise Alcorn
Within 5 years librarians will figure out flying cars, but it will never get out of committee.
- Andy
Hello to the LJ readers of the world!
- Just Joe
Weezy, make those singing puppets and I'm totally down with it
- marthalib
LJ? Wut?
- marthalib
I totally want to like this one, can we make it true?? "Same answer I just gave elsewhere: Library trend (back) to community meeting place + information portal + sanctuary from the madness."
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
lost 1h20min of my afternoon to "What Next for Google Books?" http://bit.ly/kiIhKVwas was worth it though; via @DataG
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» A Comparison of RefWorks, Zotero & Mendeley 2011 The Search Principle blog - http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean...
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Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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"Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way. (Historical note: This was the very first 3-minute audience talk given from the TED stage, in 2005.)"
- lris
from Bookmarklet
I, too, have been tying my shoes wrong my whole life. Who knew? (Actually, J got a book from the library that teaches you how to tie your shoes using a completely different method that looks much easier, especially for small fingers. I feel cheated, somehow.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Future of the Academic Library Symposium: Service To Continue, but in What Form? - http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj...
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Pull quote from one of the 5 students from McMaster Univeristy on a panel who spoke about how they use the library: "'We come to libraries because we want to appreciate the seriousness of scholarly collections,' Jegatheeswaran said. 'Don't bombard me with messages, but target key things. It's about finding that balance. And targeting students when they're in the library is still the best approach.' 'What I really want is more of a librarian presence at the library,' Jegatheeswaran added.
- Stephen Francoeur
What ebook designers can learn from Bible-reading software - O'Reilly Radar http://radar.oreilly.com/2011...
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Pull quote: "Plenty of people open the Bible for inspiration. Today, I'm turning to this all-time bestseller for ideas on how to create better ebooks. I've been kicking the tires on two reading systems — Logos Bible Software and Glo Bible — both of which are packed with reader-friendly ebook features."
- Peter Murray
This makes a lot of sense. Of course, Logos has probably spent $millions over the years developing their software: They were producing superb religious-text CD-ROMs in that era. I have a lot of respect for that company.
- Walt Crawford
Thanks for the background, Walt -- this is the first time they popped up on my radar screen.
- Peter Murray
The University of Michigan Library Espresso Book Machine Experience: http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstre... - a nice description (PDF). #print-on-demand
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Netflix is the largest source of Internet traffic in North America http://www.techspot.com/news...
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Fwd: Working on visiting ALA HQ when in the States. If you could ask one question of them, what would it be? #ala #cilip (via http://friendfeed.com/prsmith)
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Where's the soda machine?
- rochelle rochelle
No, no, no, Rochelle, it's where's the BATHROOM?
- Catherine Pellegrino
Do you have a stapler I can borrow?
- Katy S
I'm looking for a book but I don't know the author or title. All I know is that there is something blue on the cover and it came out last year. I think.
- Andy
Can you waive my fines?
- Christa
Why does the Embassy Suites you (used to) use for joint Exec Committee meetings have the worst happy hour of any Embassy Suites? Hmm. Maybe that's a little in, and maybe it's changed in 15 years...
- Walt Crawford
In the basement in Miriam's. Bathrooms are on every floor. Yes. 3rd floor in the Library. Sure. Before my time.
- Jenny Levine
This, ladies and gentlemen, THIS is why I love Jenny Levine. :)
- Catherine Pellegrino
*applauds*
- Marianne
When will you stop talking about the coming librarian shortage?
- John Fink
I've had my differences with Ms. Levine in the past, but in her recent years at ALA...as with this thread: Bravo!
- Walt Crawford
How can hip hop be dead if Wu Tang is forever?
- Andy
If Satan is evil, why does he punish the wicked?
- Andy
Thanks, all. Round two! We talk about the librarian shortage a lot less than we used to, but this is something I'm going to try to respond to on the ALA Marginalia blog sometime soon. -10.5. Because there's no one person who speaks for ALA, including the President. No ghost but we do have a lot of bugs (bada bing!). Send me an email about the renew requests and I'll ask someone to look...
more...
- Jenny Levine
[Applause.]
- Walt Crawford
I'll add my applause to Walt's [Applause]. Nicely done, Jenny
- Webgoddess Needs A Drink
*intensifies his worship of Jenny from afar*
- awd
Jenny = awesome. I'm still wondering when they're going to give her an award
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Hooray!
- John Fink
The Hard Knock Life of an Internet Troll [Fun Graphic] - http://www.howtogeek.com/news...
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Mostly for Walt!
- Blake
Mike Rowe to Congress: “We need to change the way the country feels about work.” - http://blog.makezine.com/archive...
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I'm going to point to a long, long article (on a topic I normally wouldn't read a long article about) that's an excellent example of why I like & respect ars technica: http://arstechnica.com/apple...
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Specifically, a knowledgeable writer who's willing to look back at his work and admit that some of it was wrong or misguided--and who's been objective enough to inspire "hater" comments from both PC and Mac users. And, damn, ars technica gave the piece the length it needed...
- Walt Crawford
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