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OK, so who has a working FriendFeed backup running? Anyone?
Peter Murray, Mar₭ Liŋdŋer, vicster is... and 3 other people liked this
i started writing one a while back, but never finished it.
- Roberto Bonini
I had some limited success with this, from user lmorchard: http://github.com/lmorcha... "Limited" at least partly by very scanty understanding of PHP, and perhaps by unrealistic expectations.
- s t e v e
Here's what I want backed up: My posts with all comments. Complete threads that I have commented on. Ability to specify multiple public streams (so my own, a group/room, etc.). Data in XML/JSON or something else reasonably portable. Backups back to day one, going forward with new backups daily.
- s t e v e
Feds Uncover Secret Santa Ring - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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BLOOMINGTON, IN--The FBI arrested 34 people and seized $157 in small, tasteful presents Monday in what is believed to be the largest bust of a Secret Santa ring in U.S. history.
- The Onion
Vatican Employees Unable To Relax At Holiday Party With Pope Around - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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VATICAN CITY—According to various cardinals and nuns attending the Vatican's holiday party last night, festivities were made awkward by the...
- The Onion
Happy Solstice! - http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2009...
marthalib, Pete and Peter Murray liked this
"Only in silence, the word; only in dark, the light; only in dying, life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky" May the turn of the year bring a turn of good fortune :)
- Pete
The Festive Library 2009 - a set on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Spidra Webster, Numan Arda Çebi, Rob Haas and 57 other people liked this
"National Union Catalog Christmas Tree. " -- So Awesome!!
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
that's great!
- Anna Haro
hey, look, that's my library!
- Marie likes mistletoe
I totally want to do this next year, but our NUC is bound in all kinds of ugly colors: red, yellow, brown, gray. Rats!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Fantastic!
- Galadriel C.
Merry NUCmas!
- Liam Sullivan
Patron: I need to look at the volume that is bottom center. I need to see more info about that book by J. Aardsmann...
- Joe
i'm doing this on monday. there are 2 librarians who swear that they use the NUC daily (BALONEY) so we'll see what happens. heh.
- jambina
Our NUC is in boxes in our high density storage facility.
- DJF
Catherine, just explain to people that your tree is dying. That's all.
- Miriella
not dying! those colors are the ornaments!
- ~Courtney F.
Everyone at my library loved this. Maybe we'll even do it next year.
- barbara fister
We ain't got a NUC. Maybe an ice-blue DLB tree?
- s t e v e
i'd love to see a tree constructed of chunks of discarded looseleaf in a law library.
- Marie likes mistletoe
Tips and Tricks: Making the Most of Google Reader - http://webworkerdaily.com/2009...
Peter Murray liked this
Google Wave invites: The AOL CD's of Web 2.0.
valalalala lala la la, John Dupuis, Richard Akerman and 6 other people liked this
Heh. Walt Crawford said this exact thing yesterday.
- josh neff, geek at large
Great minds run in the same gutter.
- Walt Crawford
No, I'm just a copycat.
- Liam Sullivan
Fwd: excellent piece in the LA Times on the reaction to the Wired vaccines article: http://www.latimes.com/enterta... (via http://friendfeed.com/mlrethl...)
Peter Murray liked this
Why is it in the "entertainment" section, though?
- DJF
Well, it was media-related, so that doesn't surprise me. Another instance of definitional problems: "Information" doesn't necessarily mean factual or meaningful data.
- Walt Crawford
Well put, Walt!
- David Rothman (☤)
Google Tool to Check How Much of a Page Appears in Typical Browsers - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
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Nice -- although I'm from the web design camp that believes fluid designs are much better than fixed-width ones.
- Peter Murray
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worldcat The presentation secrets of Steve Jobs : how to be insanely great in front of any audience: The presentati... http://www.worldcat.org/oclc...
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if you reserve ur #alamw10 hotel room thru ALA, you can get a free airport shuttle ticket from the CC to Logan on 1/18 http://ala.org/ala...
Jenny Levine and Peter Murray liked this
Sigh. My comment now seems mean-spirited. Nice touch for those who haven't already booked cheap Tuesday flights. I should try to be as positive as possible about ALA's actions. Really I should.
- Walt Crawford
WOW RT @bobduffy: Watch this commercial, http://www.youtube.com/watch... made from an iPhone, then watch how they made it http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Gleebox: it's like command-line surfing in Firefox or Chrome, but more awesome - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...
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Right hands and left hands: I have two Google Alerts egofeeds set up, one for my name, one for Cites & Insights. This morning, Gmail decided that the Google Alert for my name was spam. There's corporate cooperation for you...
Peter Murray, John Dupuis and lris' ghost liked this
Dear Ask MetaFilter question askers. "Help." is not a question, it's more of a command. "Help?" *is* a question but not a very good one.
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YouTube - Stress at Carleton College - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Andy Woodworth, Jàson Puçkett, Mr. Gunn and 10 other people liked this
"A 3 minute documentary on stress at Carleton College and the Silence Dance Party which takes place in the library the night before finals"
- lris' ghost
from Bookmarklet
Student: "You lose, like, all the social structures, like... you gotta look good or... not be sweating in the library."
- lris' ghost
*looks for Iris*
- Derrick
I'm incognito as the guy with the beard and the unzipped unitard.
- lris' ghost
I just sent the link to this to my sister's sister-in-law, who went to Carleton in the pre-iPod era.
- Catherine Pellegrino
This is awesome!
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. THE LIBRARY EXTENDED HOURS SIGN IS IN COMIC SANS.
- s t e v e
The self-check machines in Cody are in Comic Sans. It's an epidemic.
- laura x
++ s t e v e! Silent dance party sounds awesome. At my college we just had 15min allocated each day during finals where you were allowed to make lots of noise. But the associated property damage would probably be too much for most schools.
- Lo
http://www.youtube.com/watch... Not-silent library party.
- Mr. Gunn
I claim innocence. I have nothing to do with the creation of the extended hours sign. :-)
- lris' ghost
Sister's sister-in-law reports that she went to school with Ann Zawistoski. And she doesn't remember any such tradition during her years, but that was before iPods, so...
- Catherine Pellegrino
The tradition is a new one and started since I arrived. But that's really cool about going to school with Ann! Ann's office is two down from mine.
- lris' ghost
Tell her hi from Rebecca Swank, then!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Citemine - http://citemine.com/
Pawel Szczesny, Dan Hagon, Steve Koch and 4 other people liked this
An interesting attempt to establish a virtual market associated to scientific publications.
- Michael Nielsen
timbray: Tag cloud peril: http://i.imgur.com/JRz36.png (snicker) - http://twitter.com/timbray...
Peter Murray, Jenny Levine and Laura Norvig liked this
Folksonomies gone bad ...
- Laura Norvig
President Obamas Afghanistan Plan in 4 Minutes - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Webcast of Herbert Van de Sompel's Distinguished Seminar Series Presentation, "Memento: Time Travel for the Web," Now Available - http://www.oclc.org/researc...
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YouTube - davidrothman.net: On AL and Library 101 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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RudĩϐЯaЯïan, Joan, Michael Habib and 18 other people liked this
This is how it is done. Rothman at his best, I'd say.
- s t e v e
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ahaha, that's fantastic
- Fiona Bradley
I left a comment...I'm curious about the connection he draws between disagreeing with LJ's promotion of the AL, and the use of Movers & Shakers to promote oneself. David?
- Jason Griffey
I'll be curious to hear what David says about that. I think that there would be a bit of a disconnect if the same person is saying "LJ editorial standards are crap because they publish the AL" and "I am proud to have the LJ editors' seal of approval as a Mover and Shaker."
- s t e v e
Erm. If LJ editorial standards are crap, I'm in trouble, 'long of how I've been published there and all.
- D0r0th34
I don't think I'd say that LJ's editorial standards are crap...even though I DO disagree with them publishing the AL. But that said, I really see M&S as an award from my peers...someone had to nominate me (probably several someones). But maybe that's me over-parsing my personal part of it. Plus, what Dorothea said...
- Jason Griffey
Well, note that I said "*if* someone is saying that." I'm not personally concerned about it, but that's what I think David is saying. He also says that LJ publishes lots of stuff that reflects badly on librarians.
- s t e v e
Wonderful. I keep thinking whether I should try to say something about this whole event, and David's done such a fine job here that I probably won't. Doubt that I'll do any vlogs, but I sure liked this one. (And I've commented at David's blog, to close the circle.)
- Walt Crawford
Well, and I quibble with the idea that LJ is a library-propaganda arm constrained to publish only "rah-rah libraries!" stuff. Some of the stuff librarians do is bogus. If LJ reports that, more power to LJ.
- D0r0th34
And this is the answer? Yup. Right on David!
- ɥsıuɐʎɹ
Weak editorial standards can still allow in good stuff- and there *is* good stuff in LJ. There's also a lot of crap.
- David Rothman (☤)
Barbara Fister. Andrew Albanese (before he moved to PW, sigh). Peter Jaczo. They publish better stuff than American Libraries at present.
- D0r0th34
Wondering if AL will be nominated or receive M&S for 2010...would be kind of like when Time was going to give Man of the Year to Osama bin Laden. Time's comment: "He is not a larger than life figure with broad historical sweep...he is smaller than life, a garden-variety terrorist whose evil plan succeeded beyond his highest hopes."
- Lori Reed
*dead* over the Mister Muggles cameo.
- cecily
Mister Muggles was played (with unusual patience) by my kitty, Shelby....who felt it was a good stretch to play a male cat.
- David Rothman (☤)
Very well done, David. I tried to stay out of this fray as much as I could because it devolved into name calling/dogpiling on both sides, but your video is a voice of reason (hopefully just one among many).
- cecily
Best thing I've watched online in ages! :) I honestly can't say that I disagree with anything you said there. I totally wrote off M&S after they honored a certain master of sock-puppetry (though I probably should have sooner).
- Meredith
In addition to praising the content (with which I can't find fault), I also want to say that I've never quite gotten the point of videos that are just a talking head...why not just write down what you have to say? Except, now I get it. Bravo.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Ditto Catherine! I've never been much of a video person. This is everything a video blog post should be, but usually isn't.
- Meredith
Catherine, I had the same reaction. Usually I feel like, "I just want to read your words at my own pace. Please no video." This piece convinced me that sometimes it's worth it to hit Play. :)
- Rachel Walden
It was so helpful to have all of David's inflections and mannerisms the occasional silly face. It would have come across quite differently in print, I think.
- marthalib
What Rachel, Catherine, Marthalib and Meredith just said. Damn, there are a lot of smart female librarians on FF. (Maybe that's because there are a lot of smart...oh, never mind.)
- Walt Crawford
Yeah, it transmits all of those non-verbal cues quite nicely that we wouldn't have gotten with just the text. Plus, I made it through David's entire video without wanting to stop it. That wasn't a bad way to spend roughly 7 minutes.
- Peter Murray
David, I wish there was a non-award that I could "nominate" you for. 'Cause that was your greatest video ever.
- Greg Schwartz
Finally got to watch this. Completely brilliant. Thank you
- laura x
David got it absolutely right.
- Pete
Mr. Rothman provides a fine model for avoiding ad hominem attacks while being constructively critical. Bravo.
- Evil Librarian
Y'all are very kind- thanks for all the feedback. :)
- David Rothman (☤)
This was great. Part of me wonders, though, how honest and forthright some folks (maybe not you) would be with criticism of Library 101 if the AL hadn't been so snarky about it in the first place. But that doesn't detract from how much I enjoyed this. Thanks, David.
- Joan
I think that if AL hadn't been so snarky then ppl who found the video lame would probably have looked at the *intention* of the project - to work together to discuss essential skills for librarians given the technological/social climate- and put their energy there instead of discussing whether low blows and rudeness are appropriate professional skills.
- Kathryn says love n peace
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Whatever your views, you have to realize that DR wants to suppress certain forms of expression, while LJ tries to find things to publish. Surely librarians believe in the LJ way. Ad Hominem comment is not new to librarianship. I remember when the gret Jesse Shera said the great Lawrence Clark Powell acted like "a butterfly in heat."
- John Berry
HAH! That's pretty funny, Mr. Berry. No, I don't want to suppress anything. Shera's comments were ATTRIBUTED TO HIM. I think you make your trade mag look even worse than it is by publishing nasty remarks from an unidentified author, that's all. Thanks, though, for trying to cast me as pro-censorship! That'll give a lot of people I know a really good chuckle. :)
- David Rothman (☤)
I just noticed something, John (may I call you John?): Did you seriously sign up for FriendFeed just to leave that one silly comment? http://friendfeed.com/johnber...
- David Rothman (☤)
One last thought. John Berry wrote that "LJ tries to find things to publish." Try harder, dude. There's LOTS of great writing you could've decided to publish- but in order to get as many clicks as possible, you went for the lowest common denominator: pseudonymous nastiness.
- David Rothman (☤)
Is that really John Berry? Or is there a sock puppet among us?
- Katy S
Katy++. JBerry isn't the hit-and-run type, I don't think; he ought to know better by now.
- D0r0th34
I'd like to think that the real John Barry recognizes the difference between solid criticism & suppression. I mean, that's a college freshman-level argument.
- josh neff, geek at large
Hehehe. Trying to find Berry's columns in the Wayback Machine or Google Cache on the "annoying librarian" from 2007, but it's all midget porn comments now.
- s t e v e
Semantic Bookmarking Service Faviki Finally Usable Thanks to Delicious Import - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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I wish Twine had this feature that Faviki does now: everything you bookmark in Faviki also gets added to your Delicious account. That way, if you are a dedicated Delicious user, you can still try out Faviki and keep your Delicious account going at the same time.
- Stephen Francoeur
I like the idea of posting things in two places. I think I'm going to try this out...
- Peter Murray
Obama Tells Nation He's Going Out For Cigarettes - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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WASHINGTON—Following the unexpected announcement, a solemn Obama reportedly grabbed his keys, hugged his two daughters for what witnesses called an extended period of time, kissed his wife on the forehead, and quietly whispered, "I love you."
- The Onion
Which type of chart should you use? Just follow this flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/YjWta.jpg
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Salvatore Loguercio, Ami Iida, Björn Brembs and 8 other people liked this
Reminds me of a similar table in one of my favorite books -- The Back of the Napkin (http://www.amazon.com/Back-Na...)
- Donnie Berkholz
Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever. - http://flowingdata.com/2009...
Jo Young, Rajarshi Guha, Lars Juhl Jensen and 4 other people liked this
ouch! That hurt!
- Björn Brembs
The stupid... it burns.
- Bill Hooker
general rule of thumb: demos & presentations are *always* better when the speaker has a canadian accent
jambina and Peter Murray liked this
Quirk: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog... (on native #iphone apps vs web apps. Warning: profanity laced.)
.LAG liked that, Peter Murray, Tim Jones and 4 other people liked this
this sounds like it could either be interesting or a waste of time... slight chance of humor
- Chris Heath
With no API access this doesn't make a lot of sense. And if apple wanted you to build web apps they would provide an equivalent experience.
- Todd Hoff
meh, i get the quirks guy's points, but that doesn't mean that the app store approval process isn't broken - if webapps were able to get into the appstore so that they can be "purchased" through the apple system AND without any approval process then webapps would be on a level playing field with native apps.
- Chris Heath
i think one of the biggest reasons to build a native app is to get into the appstore so you have the exposure... people can just search for you in their a lot easier than they can google for you (especially when they don't know they're looking for you in the first place)
- Chris Heath
on the flip side of things, if you were to develop a webapp (and wanted to make money from it) when you charged people for access to the webapp you get to keep all the money (which is a a lot better than giving 30% to apple) but then again you aren't getting the exposure that the appstore gets you
- Chris Heath
This part is exactly right: "The fundamental problem on the iPhone is not Apple’s App Store approval policies, but the iPhone developers’ arrogant disdain for Web technologies. That’s nothing new. Most X developers (for any non-Web value of X) live in mortal fear of the browser as a development platform. As a long-time browser researcher I can confirm that their fears are not entirely...
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- Chieze Okoye
I've started programming in WebOS, and I'm not a rockstar programmer or anything, but I can tell you based on me just poking around with js and stuff (and talking with my "hardcore" programming friends), that most of the BS talk about the web-tech programming is founded on ignorance and arrogance, just like this author asserts.
- Chieze Okoye
ChromeOS requires WebApps - No native apps at all. Is their process broken too?
- Cliff Gerrish
Cliff, ChromeOS sits on completely agnostic hardware. The iphone contains a panoply of sensors and service related data. To do most anything interesting that uses the capabilities of the iphone you need access to the APIs. This is said to be the reason Google doesn't want Android on Chrome OS, it makes things messy.
- Todd Hoff
To offer a counter-point, Palm has done a pretty good job making the hardware sensors and what-not accessible from Javascript with their WebOS APIs.
- Chieze Okoye
That Apple doesn't would seem to indicate something?
- Todd Hoff
From comments: "Desktop vs the web will be the battle of our time, methinks. At least for the next several years as desktop-based developers slowly realize that they're going to need to confront the perceived failings of the web rather than reject the web as an app platform in its entirety." http://www.quirksmode.org/blog...
- Micah Wittman
Hmmm. Interesting. There's a comment plugging a book http://www.quirksmode.org/blog... which leads one to labs.oreilly.com.
- Micah Wittman
Todd: so when netbooks get accelerometers, 3G connections, etc -- will we still call the hardware "agnostic?"
- Cliff Gerrish
I don't know Cliff. It seemed like they were pretty serious about keeping a separation. If they do get new capabilities the OS could use them but will they expose application level bindings? Hopefully not like ActiveX. They could safely offer it through a Chrome/Javascript sandbox, which would make sense for them. It just wouldn't be portable, which also seems a goal with the strict HTML 5 adherence.
- Todd Hoff
Is the point 'strict HTML5 adherence' or simply to move apps and files up into the cloud with multi-platform/browser compatibility?
- Cliff Gerrish
OK, Apple's still at fault for making the App store such an integral part of the phone. Otherwise the App store wouldn't be good visibility at all. As much as I have issues with webapps not quite being as good as desktop ones in some areas, I think the real issue was that Apple didn't want to depend on web visibility for their apps, probably because the notoriously paranoid Apple didn't want to have a weakness in case there was a handheld vs. desktop struggle they found themselves in.
- Mr. Gunn
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