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Steven Pinker’s History of Violence in Decline : The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/arts...
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"In the weeks following Anders Behring Breivik’s shooting spree in Norway, commentators on both sides of the Atlantic struggled to make sense of what had happened. Many used the occasion to warn of the dangers of homegrown terrorism. Others argued that the shootings revealed the growing menace of nativist rhetoric. Still others maintained that the problem was peculiarly Norwegian, a combination of inept policing and misguided pacifism. “How long would the Norway gunman have lasted in Texas, or any state where concealed-carry laws are on the books?” Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan’s oldest son, asked in a widely reprinted opinion piece. He continued, “There’s a lot of truth in the old adage that, if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will carry guns.” Another possible take on Utøya—admittedly not a popular one—is that the whole incident was blown way out of proportion. In “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” Steven Pinker didn’t get a chance to comment on the Utøya shootings, since the volume...
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- Eivind
from Bookmarklet
"Pinker, a Harvard psychology professor and best-selling science writer, wants to correct what he sees as a basic misperception. Fed on a steady diet of gruesome news—terrorist bombings, schoolyard shootings, deadly riots—people have come to think of life in modern, industrialized societies as dangerous, when just the opposite is true. Western Europe is not only the safest place to live in the world today; it is probably the safest, most peaceful place in the history of humankind."
- Eivind
I wish public libraries opted to close on Mondays instead of Sundays
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Mine is closed on Fridays :(
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
my branch is closed on both :)
- marthalib
closing on Sunday and Monday is pretty common for smaller branches, or for rural libraries.
- DJF
I would be fine with them being closed in the mornings if they would be open later at night.
- Christina Pikas
Ugh. Just discovered mine is closed Friday *and* Sunday. I'm never going to get my holds!
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
I worked for a public library that was closed on Wednesdays...
- Mark Kille
College students’ use of Kindle DX points to e-reader’s role in academia — University of Washington - washington.edu - http://www.washington.edu/news...
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3M Mobile Physician App Allows Doctors More Time to Focus on Patients - http://www.medgadget.com/archive...
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What researchers want (PDF) - http://www.surffoundation.nl/nl...
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In October 2010, the Dutch universities explored possible projects in the area of research data. One of the outcomes of this discussion was the decision to first investigate what researchers need with respect to storing and accessing research data. The present literature study is the result of that investigation. Fifteen sources were studied, consisting of reports from 2008-2010 covering the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia and Europe. All the stakeholders (funding agencies, data producers, data consumers, data centres) agree for various reasons that something needs to be done to improve research data storage.
- Just Joe
CNI Spring 2011 Membership Meeting Speaker List - http://www.cni.org/tfms...
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Oldwhatshername and I are on this list, did I miss any other LSW troublemakers?
- Mr. Gunn
from Bookmarklet
congrats, Mr. Gunn! The list of sessions looks excellent.
- Elizabeth Brown
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Ah...here's one for all be the last http://www.library.wisc.edu/citatio...
- Hedgehog
martin fenner's chart is pretty useful
- Christina Pikas
Simultaneously more and less than is helpful, but still interesting: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...
- Meg VMeg
This might not help, but here's what a co-worker of mine shares with her students: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...
- lris
I'm collecting these for a libguide - very handy.
- Elizabeth Brown
THE LIBGUIDE TO RULE THEM ALL. Seriously, though, shouldn't we just need one set of libguides at this point? It feels so ridiculous for me to create yet another list of chemistry databases with descriptions of what they include and how to use them. Databases just need DOI's and we'd be set. You could set your libguide preferences to whatever institution you were at, and then only see the stuff you had access to. Can someone tell Blake to get started on this? plskthx.
- Meg VMeg
You should write a libguide that points to just the best libguides....
- Just Joe
doesn't LibGuides already have one of those?
- ~Courtney F.
Ummm... What if librarians collaborated on LibGuide content for generics in a big way to stop duplicating work??? Is this an example of the same professional tendency that led to so many libraries re-cataloguing works instead of accepting "good enough" and using the energy and labour on other areas?? (about to have things thrown at me I fear....)
- Kathryn says love n peace
http://bit.ly/refman <- Fenner's chart Most of those linked above don't include Mendeley. If anyone would like to put a word in with the responsible parties, it would be much appreciated. I can in turn provide info about the relative usage of Mendeley at the campus featuring the guide.
- Mr. Gunn
I think working on a shared set of guides is really the only thing that makes any sense for situations like the above. Specific campuses may have additional information specific to their campus, but couldn't you just include that on a page linking to the communal guide?
- Mr. Gunn
Word. (not that I'm in an academic lib right now, so we don't have any databases, but duplication of effort is inherently EVIL.)
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
I like the collaborative libguide idea - is there a way to easily do that? For lists of pro/con and features lists it would save so much time. For stats purposes I'm assuming each individual campus could keep track of hits and usage.
- Elizabeth Brown
You can copy guides from any other LibGuides system into your own LibGuides system...just ask permission from the guide owner before copying it in. ;) If it's on the Best of site, no need to ask, just copy! So, collaboration/less wheel reinvention is built in. Search the community site to find guides - and there are already lots of database "how to" guides out there: http://libguides.com. :)
- Anna Burke
Also, did you know ProQuest has a site & they have guides you can copy into your systems (including how-tos)? They're going to be adding more & more info, but have almost 100 guides in there already. http://proquest.libguides.com
- Anna Burke
Anna, I think the point raised is more in the maintenance end than the creation. A comparison between these 4 tools, for example could be broadened into 5 or more (or reduced to less) as the market and availability changes -- could there be a way to (either) have the changes to the original propagate down as alerts to the "child" Libguides and changes to the child guides propagate back up to the original? (or) maybe just have one big huge central guide which anyone can edit? (which might get unwieldy fast)
- awd
Ahhh...good point! You can't link guides, but you *can* link to pages - meaning that your guide can display a page that originates elsewhere. When that original page is updated, your page will automagically update too. And you can link to pages outside of your site. SO, Add/Edit Pages > Reuse Existing Page, Create a linked page. If the page is in your LG site, choose guide/page from...
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- Anna Burke
Aw man! Why's there always gotta be somethin? ;) Good point, obviously...forgot about that whole proxy business in my excitement of sharing cool functionality...I'm going to ponder this for a little while folks...I'll be back.
- Anna Burke
But it seems like that ought to be doable since proxy is set on a per-site basis. Surely the system could be set up so that when you copy a guide/page to your own system, it could switch the proxy to the local system? #notaprogrammer #soundsplausible
- Jason P
Yeah, that's why I was wanting DOI's for them #doesntknowifthatwouldactuallyhelpatall
- Meg VMeg
Research Trends - Elsevier and Scopus - http://www.researchtrends.com/
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Research Trends is a bi-monthly publication providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis. Worldwide, there has been increasing demand for quality research performance measurement and trend-related information by deans, faculty heads, researchers, funding bodies and ranking agencies.
- Just Joe
Isn't hype fa... I mean impact factor enough?
- Pawel Szczesny
from iPhone
You can never have too many factors.
- Just Joe
:)
- Pawel Szczesny
Gedye: Publishers should adopt #NISO standard "Journal Article Versions" terminology to allow for rollout of Journal Usage Factor #chsconf10
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NFAIS - Assessing The Usage and Value of Scholarly and Scientific Output http://www.nfais.org/page... Nov 10, 2010
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Friendfeed is coming to Seesmic Desktop and web, says Loic (see comments)
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This may get me switched back to using Seesmic but will @loic release a iPhone app?
- Vinko
Vinko: yes. Loic told me he's working on iPhone app too.
- Robert Scoble
Now if only socialscope would put it in their client for Blackberry's.
- Sheryl
Here's another vote for a Seesmic iPhone app!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I still haven't met a FF application I could stand to use for more than a few minutes.
- Craig Eddy
I saw an early alpha of the iPhone app. Looked good. I also saw an early alpha of Seesmic web and the way it advanced between the alpha and launch was dramatic - so I expect the iPhone client will track the same way.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Robert that's really great. I definitely will consider switching back when the Seesmic iPhone app arrives.
- Vinko
Will get me,too, switched back to using Seesmic ;) Looking forward to hear from Loic soon
- Ali BULUT
hurray
- Thomas Power
This might just tempt me away from Tweetdeck...
- Andrew Terry
If they add friendfeed to the web app, I'll maybe use it instead of PeopleBrowsr. But then again, peoplebrowsr has implemented friendfeed in a very good way already.
- Svartling
Great News !
- Jean-Charles
You gotta keep an eye on Yahoo homepage. They have FB integration and someday may integrate Twitter (they have the 'what are you doing now'). Seesmic is way ahead, but Yahoo has mainstream adoption
- Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremiah, I agree. The new Yahoo homepage is impressive.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Im not sure it's impressive, as it's evolutionary, not revolutionary. When Wave comes out, it could dash the shine that Yahoo has.
- Jeremiah Owyang
I like ff's web design
- kang
Android app, please? :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Where do I sign up! I'm praying your web app will make my life of FF, FB, Twitter ETC more manageable!!!!! W/out crashing my puters AND still let me see my Home feeds!
- Arleen Boyd
I'm thinking that this is the type of post that would be good reason for FriendFeed to have a "Love" click option next to the "Like" click option so that we can register better levels of our emotion towards news we read in others' streams!
- Chris Aldrich
good news!
- Jeroen De Miranda
I have been using Seesmic from the beginning this is GREAT news!
- Robyn Hawk
Great news. Been looking for a good Friendfeed app
- Barry Howell
I'm quite excited for Seesmic's FriendFeed iPhone app.
- wiredgnome
yes yes yes
- Loic Le Meur
Don't forget Android when developing mobile apps!
- Travis B. Hartwell
I agree with Vinko; this would be a good reason to switch back to Seesmic
- Anne Mai Bertelsen
Might be late... but how is the Facebook acquisition going to effect this? I can't stand the way that app takes over Friendfeed.
- Arleen Boyd
Bloggership, or Is Publishing a Blog Scholarship? A survey of academic librarians, Emerald | Library Hi Tech - http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journal...
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Design/methodology/approach - As blogging becomes more popular, the question arises as to whether it should count as scholarship or a creative activity in academic promotion and tenure. To find out, the author sent a link to a questionnaire to several email lists, inviting academic librarians to answer a short survey.
- Just Joe
Something to think about.
- Jill O'Neill
There probably haven't been earlier surveys because those who've worked on the issue *assumed* (correctly) that damn few institutions would current accept blogging as scholarly effort, and are working on changing that perception. I'm surprised it's only 54% that wouldn't count it--I'd expect much higher.
- Walt Crawford
Elsevier Enriches Articles With Research Data Sets - via Tim Sherratt ANDS http://www.ands.org.au/ - http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest...
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RT @journalologist Google Waves goodbye to real-time collaboration tool http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol... [Wave drove me nuts but it was getting better]
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Send Them Back!! - http://hyperorg.com/misc...
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(this is a spoof) We knew stealing that music was wrong. Stealing is never OK. But, it was just too easy. So we told ourselves we were just "sharing" the music, because everyone knows that sharing is a good thing. But then we learned what we were really doing. We heard our favorite recording artists telling us that our "sharing" is really shoplifting and piracy. We were stealing from the musicians and singers we love! That was when we looked at each other and said: "No more! It's time to make it right by giving back what we stole!" And that's just what we did! We sent back all the MP3's we'd illegally downloaded. Everyone one of them! Won't you join us in sending them back? Send them back! Right back to the Recording Industry of America Association, the industry association that helps our favorite artists keep on making the music we love. Send them back! We did...and we feel great! It's Easy! Here's How!!
- Howard Rheingold
These are all done in Pencil.
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Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Neya
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rah-PM 2012
I'm with Rah
- Shey
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris Charabaruk
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- The Real sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- Sullivan
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
Has anyone ever corrected the record and pointed out, with the exception of the Charlize Theron drawing, that these are indeed photos by Alexander Von Reiswitz?
- erik weisz
Erik, thank you for bringing this up again, but I think I already mentioned something about this in my prior comment. However, since it appears that you only signed up to friendfeed to leave a single comment, (ok, why?) I will try to summarize what I wrote previously. In brief, I learned after doing a little research that all photo-realistic drawings like the ones that I shared here,...
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- Michael Fidler
Awesome
- الکامپ
I can assure you that what are claimed to be drawings of animals, in your post here, are photos. I used a website to that allows you to do an comparison of the Von Reiswitz photos and the images you have posted here. There are no differences. Every hair matches up. As a pencil artist myself I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to get that kind of accuracy and have it look...
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- erik weisz
but... it has to be real, i saw it on the internet
- Iphigenie
Eric, it doesn't matter to me if you just joined, and I apologize if I made you think otherwise. If you have any questions regarding friendfeed, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them. At this point, I would be happy if we could find someone who is an image analysis expert, and finally point this thing to rest. Every time that I look into this, all I find is a...
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- Michael Fidler
the site spammed above must all be done in pencil too, right, thats why you posted it?
- Iphigenie
I'm amazed that people are still posting these photographs of animals and calling them pencil drawings. This is at least the third case I can remember (and there are probably more) of this happening. The myth about them being drawings was debunked long ago. It's also funny that whenever they get posted the person posting them doesn't make it clear that they aren't the artist, exactly as you have done.
- canadianmaple09
@canadianmaple09 I posted these back in March, 2009 when I was beginning to use FF regularly. I ran them through TinEye hoping to find their source, but it returned no results. When I ran through again yesterday, TinEye returned over four pages of results. If I had it to do over again, would I? Yes
- Michael Fidler
The people you refer do don't join "just to slam" someone, they are concerned members of the online art community that want to see real art appreciated and fake art or photos being passed off as drawings revealed for what they really are. Artists such as Brian Duey, Armin Mersmann, Paul Lung, Zindy Nielsen,and many others do not receive the appreciation they deserve because of scams like this.
- canadianmaple09
canadianmaple09, the worthiness of your motives notwithstanding (and they are worthy, definitely) you could definitely have approached Michael completely differently by say, giving him the benefit of the doubt rather than attacking in a highly accusatory tone.
- Chieze Okoye
When you've seen these same pictures posted multiple times by people that just find them on the internet and claim they are pencil drawings, when it has already been established on multiple occasions that they are not, the "benefit of the doubt" approach seems a little too generous. People post these images and claim they're drawings to get views for their own site or blog or page or whatever it is they post it on. It's wrong and it needs to be stopped.
- canadianmaple09
I can understand that, but you should also keep in mind that everyone is not as well-versed in the issue as you are. All I'm saying is that you would probably be more effective in this case if you weren't setting this up as a us-vs.-them, "must destroy with the validity my argument!" attitude when talking to a guy who's been actively having a discussion on the issue in what seems to me (having been around when he first posted the images and the follow up thread and what not) to be good faith.
- Chieze Okoye
Look at his first comment here. People clearly thought he drew them. He doesn't set the record straight. He also claims that they "are actually pencil drawings" and that "I have more drawings too." Later he claims that you need to look at them closer to see they are drawings and that he will "post the originals". Once again, this makes it sound like they are his. This follows the same...
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- canadianmaple09
Greg and Chieze, thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. @canadianmaoles09, for what it’s worth, I share your concerns about giving proper attribution when sharing also. However, I admit that I'm more conscious of it now than I was at the time of this post. Nevertheless, I have never taken credit for anybody's work here other than my own!
- Michael Fidler
BTW, I didn't realize it before, but I just noticed that you're new here too. I hope you like it so far and spend more time here. IMO, friendfeed is still the best thing around!
- Michael Fidler
I would probably qualify as an image analysis expert, but there's no way to prove that online. One thing we can do is look at color. Even though the images are black and white,they're actually RGB images, meaning they contain cyan magenta and yellow. If you look at the image of the rhino you have posted then look at the photo of the rhino at the photographer's site you can see they both...
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- erik weisz
A writing prof on Using Library Experts Wisely: http://www.insidehighered.com/advice...
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Love this line! "Students generally begin research projects with great enthusiasm, but their first impulse is to cruise the Internet to assemble the sort of anecdote-laden rhetorical argument that’s become the white noise of American discourse."
- Mickey Schafer
Yeah, it's a great article. It's almost the perfect example of librarian/faculty collaboration. Unfortunately for me, most of the faculty I collaborate with are doing classes of 100-300+ students, so the "Hey, everybody just email me!" doesn't scale so well.
- John Dupuis
From the sounds of the article, the assignment was part of a writing class of the "research writing" variety, meaning between 20-30 students -- much more manageable than such a project in a big content class.
- Mickey Schafer
I'm doing our annual report just now, so I have the numbers handy. In my branch we reached 6531 students in 113 sessions. We're four librarians.
- John Dupuis
My paper with @k8lin, "How and why scholars cite on Twitter," accepted to ASIST 2010; online in August. Many thanks to interviewees!
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40% Increase in Copyright Risk Management Concerns over Last Year - http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010...
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PepsiCo Food Frontiers blog did not have to be a #sbFAIL http://scienceblogs.com/terrasi...
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The etiquette of cosy crime writing - http://sallyquilfordblog.co.uk/2010...
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Thank you for sharing the link, Tim.
- Dorte Jakobsen
McGee’s Musings : Managing the visibility of knowledge work - http://www.mcgeesmusings.net/2010...
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EVIDENCE-BASED SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE EMPOWERING INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS TO UNLOCK TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FOR OUR COMMUNITIES - https://repository.unm.edu/dspace...
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PDF document.
- Just Joe
ProQuest Document View - The differences in information seeking behavior between distance and residential doctoral students - http://gradworks.umi.com/33...
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Librarians have historically been responsible for the organization and management of the stores of human knowledge, and for ensuring information literacy among researchers. In recent years, however, librarians have become disintermediated (Boyd-Byrnes & Rosenthal,2005) or, removed from, researchers and the research process for a variety of reasons. The problem that was addressed in this study is that librarians do not have sufficient information about the research practices and preferences of doctoral students enrolled in distance programs.
- Just Joe
I just put up a fairly long post that I may regret...but I think I'm going to leave it up. (I take on Stephen Abram and the whole "every librarian must be an expert on every web tool" concept pretty directly...) Should show up here soon. [Or not, in which case:...
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Sigh: Link, in case it doesn't show up: http://walt.lishost.org/2010...
- Walt Crawford
So far, he's the only one I've seen suggesting unemployability as a suitable fate for librarians who aren't up on every web tool. That may have been the tack that pushed me into doing this post.
- Walt Crawford
So, I take it he's an expert in every single web tool out there. If not, well, I guess he would fire himself.
- Katy S
heh. i would think in many industries - like pharma or defense - they would be happier if you didn't use facebook even though they can't prevent you from doing it at home. he's so full of crap.
- Christina Pikas
What I find curious is that as far as I can tell, there were no significant numbers of librarians who quit Fb yesterday. Was there a big librarian Fb bail movement that I missed? He was looking too hard for a "librarians just don't get it" moment, couldn't find it, and then had to make one up.
- John Dupuis
Excellent post Walt, and thank you for writing it. I was trying to figure out how to respond to his post and couldn't come up with the right words and still sound civil.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Walt, minor quibble. "Info pros" did not lose at SLA. "Knowledge pros" did.
- Georgie Bestie
I think I get the key point in his entry - that it's easier to fight/change things from within than from without - but it's hard to read charitably when the first sentence reads, "I wonder how many info pros will announce to the world they don’t have the information skills to manage privacy by leaving Facebook today" which seems to imply, then, that we are the "dummies" in the entry title.
- Laura H.
Kendra: Oops. Good point. Laura: And if he'd written a post saying that (re changing from within), I would not have objected--but suggesting you should be unemployable if you're not on Twitter and Facebook is one heck of a secondary point! John: No, I don't think there was such a movement, or if there was I missed it.
- Walt Crawford
Walt: Right on. (That said, I *do* maintain a list of links on Facebook and privacy for the library--but I do that, not everyone).
- laura x
laura: and that's a worthwhile service for the library to provide (as opposed to each individual librarian knowing all this by heart).
- Walt Crawford
Yes. If I ever blog again, I think I might have something to say about this in a post I will entitle "It's Complicated."
- Your Neighbor Steve
I tend to favour distributed expertise for most things. It's just handy to be able to say, "this person knows SciFinder structure searching really well and that person knows SPSS the best." We really like to hire people with subject expertise -- I have a CS degree, for example, and do liaison for CS & engineering. On the other hand, for stuff like blogs/twitter/Fb etc, we have some...
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- John Dupuis
Steve: I'd love to see that post. If you want to keep See Also... inactive, I'd be happy to run it as a guest post on Walt at Random, for what that's worth. (Add $1.50 and you can get a cup of coffee at some cheap restaurants.) John, Dorothea...yes, it's complicated. I don't doubt that. John: You mean you haven't canned the laggards who aren't on social networks? (No, I still don't use emoticons.)
- Walt Crawford
As tempting as it may be...just kidding! Anyways, what if the person that knows SciFinder is the one least interested in social networks? I can tell you that in a science & engineering library, it's unbelievably easy to figure out which one is more important.
- John Dupuis
Public services librarians - and anyone doing reference triage - should have some baseline knowledge about these things - at least to get someone to the right resource. We're not supposed to be able to DO the chemistry, just find the chemical information, right? If I had someone working for me in reference who absolutely refused to learn something new because it wasn't her job, and I...
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- Christina Pikas
Yeah--it is complicated--and it varies by library and library type and so on and so forth. I think it's *always* worth knowing more about things if you're a librarian, and I encourage people to explore things and learn more, and so on--but as to what the baseline requirement is, that's going to vary. A lot.
- laura x
On a related note, I like this post on minimal instructional technology for university profs: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
- John Dupuis
John: Let me guess--Twitter is infinitely more important than SciFinder, right? Christina: No argument here. Good discussion, all. Glad I did the post. [I wonder when I'll actually see the new & improved FB settings...haven't so far.]
- Walt Crawford
*wonders what Abram would have had to say about CB radio c. 1978*
- Your Neighbor Steve
Walt -- you need to keep your left arm straight through the swing.
- Just Joe
Joe: Actually, there's a retired librarian-cum-star-blogger in Livermore who I could probably get golfing advice from. First, though, I'd have to take up the game. [Thus informally traversing different FF threads...]
- Walt Crawford
I'm not sure any interaction with SA will get through to him. Keep in mind he also wrote that open source ILS thing late last year that was off-base too. I think he just wants the attention, even if it's bad PR.
- Elizabeth Brown
Abram makes me sad in the same way Gorman makes me sad.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Lawson, you're full of surprises.
- Georgie Bestie
I mean, both Abram and Gorman seem like people who it might be fun to really hash it out with if they could hear me over the sound of their own awesome.
- Your Neighbor Steve
If I was in a snarkier mood, I'd more publicly point out the fact that SA blogs using an account with the name "admin" -- an account that is probably fully privileged -- and knowing that is a big step towards breaking into his blog backend. It is basic information security after all that /all/ librarians should be aware of, right? And if I was in a mallicious mood, I'd be trying to guess his 'admin' account password.
- Peter Murray
from BuddyFeed
(some of us didn't have a choice about our admin login names)
- lris
In the immortal words of Rancid: ...And Out Come The Wolves.
- Georgie Bestie
Peter: If I was in a snarky mood, I'd mention that SA's blog--when viewed in Bloglines--comes up with the default "Just another Wordpress blog" tagline. But then, so do many others. (Also, what Iris sez. I'll have to see if I can fix that.)
- Walt Crawford
Peter! I am shocked!
- John Fink
If you can't fix the admin login issue, but you can still install plug-ins, then I highly recommend the "Login LockDown" to minimize your exposure (http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/login-l...)
- Peter Murray
Kendra, you think something unfair is going on here?
- Your Neighbor Steve
Kendra, I'd also be interested in an expansion. SA is a high-profile self-proclaimed expert who speaks at a *lot* of library conferences and has a huge following and is fond of lecturing librarians on what you must do--and he writes enough, formally and informally, that he should know how to say what he means. If it's inappropriate to criticize him, is there anyone who can be criticized?
- Walt Crawford
My comment was about Peter's comment on the "admin" hack. The criticism here of SA is pretty much standard (and actually quite tame for most of you). I know everybody needs to let it out sometimes when really we need hugs.
- Georgie Bestie
Eh, I think Peter's comment was fair enough. It is a valid analogy to FB privacy settings. (And it also helped me realize that I had a security hole in my own blog.) So you think Abram's post is fair and rational?
- Your Neighbor Steve
No. I don't think I ever actually said anything about that. I think there have been some excellent criticisms of Abram's blog post here, but I also think there is a fair amount of the typical complaints about Abram's ego and arrogance, which is not entirely germane to the argument, and really, you guys need some more material.
- Georgie Bestie
To decode my snark a little bit, what I had in mind when I brought up the "admin" issue was "What your email address says about your computer skills" (http://theoatmeal.com/comics...). In this case, what does it say about your social networking skills when you blog under the name "admin" and, as Walt pointed out, your tagline is the "Just another Wordpress blog" default. Is...
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- Peter Murray
It has been suggested (elsewhere, and not by SA) that this conversation has probably run its course, at least as far as anything related to the original topic is concerned. As the starting point, I concur. Feel free to start new threads elsewhere [now that, ahem, a librarian has told me how to close comments here!]
- Walt Crawford
RT @BioinfoTools To link or not to link: mainstream media and no links at all. http://sciblogs.co.nz/code-fo...
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Arguing Against Links: Are They Distracting, Counterproductive, and Anti-Intellectual? http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010...
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Why the web of data needs to be social - http://cameronneylon.net/blog...
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If you’ve been around either myself or Deepak Singh you will almost certainly have heard the Jeff Jonas/Jon Udell soundbite: ‘Data finds data. Then people find people’. The naïve analysis of the success of consumer social networks and the weaknesses of science communication has lead to efforts that almost precisely invert the Jonas/Udell concept. In the case of most of these “Facebooks for Scientists” the idea is that people find people, and then they connect with data through those people. But what if we built social networks for data, where they could interact, find neighbours, and play games amongst themselves?
- Cameron Neylon
"Like" button insufficient. Need "this post makes me want to have Cameron's babies" button.
- Bill Hooker
@Bill, hey, I'm trying to work here... :)
- Egon Willighagen
@Bill LOL
- Graham Steel
Focussing on data instead of people will also help with privacy (something I thought about this weekend). I have much less problems sharing my data and connecting them to other data, than with personal connections.
- Martin Fenner
That's an interesting illustration of my point. Can you expand on why one is more comfortable on the other?
- Cameron Neylon
There are (at least) two aspects to privacy: a) personal information about yourself (including but not limited to date of birth, contact information and personal interests) and b) information from a research project that you don't want to be public (because the data are unpublished, you want to patent this, etc.). I personally place a higher value on the privacy I described in a).
- Martin Fenner
You have clearly articulated how current social networking for scientists is a failure and identified the way to make it work: social data. Excellent.
- Greg Tyrelle
Martin, so its more about the types of information? I was wondering whether there might be an underlying sense of not wanting to be bothered or feeling uncomfortable when the transaction is about you, rather than it being something that just happens to the data anyway rather than it being particularly about the DOB or phone number. I certainly feel somewhat more inclined to "pure" data interactions rather then personal ones. That of course may just be a personality defect on my part :-)
- Cameron Neylon
D, can you point me in the direction of refs for those categorisations. I haven't really seen much of this. Would be interesting if my thoughts lined up with those categories, and indeed interesting if not.
- Cameron Neylon
the the 'round people vs 'round things wasn't boyd but it was blogged by boyd.. I know I read that, too. The outing thing - i don't think i read the paper, but maybe a NY times article about it? hmmm.
- Christina Pikas
Great article, Dorothea -- the concept of object-oriented social linking does seem the strategy behind google's "social" search option -- user enters term of interest, and can choose to re-cast search in terms of social contacts (or timeline or wonder wheel which both generate objects that lead to new results) -- or is that too narrow a view of "object"? Also, do we need a new scholarly...
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- Mickey Schafer
an article about the social graph and de-anonymizing (more tech/process than social) is: "De-anonymizing social networks" on arxiv (pdf at: http://arxiv.org/PS_cach... ) from the 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2009
- Christina Pikas
Here's the story on "Project Gaydar" aka determining sexual orientation via Facebook contacts: http://www.boston.com/bostong... It was a group at MIT that did it.
- Mr. Gunn
OMG, @Bill, *snief*, that was funny, and @Cameron, what can I say, you are a genius ... and I sooo agree!
- joergkurtwegner
I should probably point out that I don't much like children so someone promising _not_ to have them is much more appealing personally :-)
- Cameron Neylon
Next Monday there will be an interesting workshop related to the topic: Second Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web, Heraklion, Greece http://spot.semanticweb.org/2010...
- Martin Fenner
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