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Stephen Francoeur
Information services librarian @ Baruch College (New York, NY). Interested in digital reference, information literacy, open access, semantic web, & linked data.
HathiTrust offers full-text search of millions of digitized books and journals - http://xrefer.blogspot.com/2009...
Putting Linked Data Boilerplate in a Box - http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009...
Evaluation Wiki – MLA – The Evaluation of Digital Work - http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2009...
Dangers of nitrogen - Les dangers de l'azote - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Calypso serves science - La Calypso au service de la science - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Searching for a shipwreck - A la recherche d'une épave - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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The Silent World dazzles - Le Monde du silence fait un tabac. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Thumbnail History of the Internet - http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/idealab...
What types of data do social networks have? See Schneier’s Taxonomy. - http://jodischneider.com/blog...
Edwards, Elizabeth Marie. "Examining the Preparation For Reference-Based Instruction Among Academic Librarians." Diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009. IDEALS @ Illinois. - https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle...
Excerpt of author's abstract: This study examines how the education and training of academic librarians prepares them for the teaching expectations of reference work. The professional experiences of librarians at a research university are considered in the context of the current curricular focus of American Library Association-accredited degree-granting institutions, as well as of the training curriculum provided at the institution where they are currently employed. The results of this study indicate that while academic librarians are keenly aware of the instructional expectations inherent in their reference work, they are poorly prepared to meet these expectations by both their pre-service education and on-the-job training. The results of this study have implications for both library and information science educators and for the libraries that hire new librarians.
- Stephen Francoeur
Why It's a Bad Idea to Send Huge Files by Email - http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_br...
Must share this post with my family, who haven't yet discovered file storage sites yet.
- Stephen Francoeur
Waiting to see what the Twitter Times service does with the URLs mentioned by the folks I follow in Twitter: http://twittertim.es/s_franc...
10 hours later and I am still waiting for the Twitter Times service to process my account. This message has been pasted on my account page since 6:30 am ET, "Processing... Your newspaper will be ready in about half an hour. Refresh your page."
- Stephen Francoeur
Yeah, mine still says it'll be ready in about an hour, too. So one thing we know so far is that it doesn't understand time.
- lris
Maybe its watch is broken. That can happen to anyone, really.
- Stephen Francoeur
Hey, it finally works now. Would be cool if there was a comparable service for FriendFeed. Also interesting to compare to the experimental Google Social Search service: http://www.google.com/support...
- Stephen Francoeur
Just set up Backtype account so I can track where I've made blog comments elsewhere. I've plugged in here in FriendFeed the RSS feed for my comments. Curious to see how it shows up and if it confusing. http://www.backtype.com/url...
Sir Shuping liked this
I did the same thing. What I've found, though, is that Backtype is so far behind that by the time it posts things here that it is almost a day in the past and the comments don't show up on the first few of my FriendFeed screens.
- Peter Murray
Yikes, that's not helpful. Maybe I'll figure out how to embed Backtype links at the end blog posts, which I just noticed here: http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
- Stephen Francoeur
Peter, were you using the my comments elsewhere or the connect plugin? Unfortunately we did not create, nor do we maintain the my comments elsewhere plugin (it just uses our API). I'd be happy to help you hack it so it picks comments up more frequently.
- Mike Montano
Buzz Episode 01 Segment 01 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Reel 2 Real – I Like To Move It (Radio Mix) - http://www.last.fm/music...
Reel 2 Real – I Like To Move It (Erick 'More' Club Mix) - http://www.last.fm/music...
Messina, Chris. "The Death of the URL." FactoryCity, 16 November 2009. - http://factoryjoe.com/blog...
Argues that freedom and possibilities of the web are being curtailed by services and apps that distance us from the world of visible URLs in address bars.
- Stephen Francoeur
I think the idea behind the new blog Digital Humanities Now is genius: follow the Twitter streams of a number of people in the humanities and allied fields, use some gee whiz technology to mine the URLs that are most frequently being mentioned in tweets, and then publish those URLs in a blog. This is a new wrinkle in social discovery.
Mickey Schafer and Sir Shuping liked this
Would be interesting to do the same with Twitter from LIS folks. It would be even better if it wasn't just URLs in tweets, though, but also URLs in FriendFeed you could analyze and filter.
- Stephen Francoeur
I continue to have difficulty with the concept that most tweeted about automatically means most important. But that's just me (heck, I question whether the winner of American Idol is automatically the best new singer in America...or that Sarah Palin is currently the most important author, since she's #1 in "nonfiction.")
- Walt Crawford
I suppose much depends on who you follow in Twitter.
- Stephen Francoeur
If an "article" in this online journal (Digital Humanities Now) consists solely of retweeted notifications of another article placed/published elsewhere, is it really a new form of publication? It's crowd-sourced certainly which means that you'll know what people are *talking* about, but I can't help but wonder if it won't end up being hampered by those Twitter types who retweet without...
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- Jill O'Neill
Having just checked into the DHN page, on the third "article" down, I found a Higher Chronicle article that was fun (about "twecklers" at conferences -- I wonder if people sit around and search for social app titles that can easily be made into community-relevant names...) -- didn't care much about the "authors" of tweets (I'm not on twitter), but did appreciate the immediate link to the HC article.
- Mickey Schafer
Revised Google Book Search Settlement from a Library Perspective - http://dltj.org/article...
Jill O'Neill liked this
A great overview of the amended agreement.
- Stephen Francoeur
Trying to figure out how to use Growl for Windows on my laptop. Wondering if it might be something to go on staff PCs in library so we can use it to notify each other (such as a message from an overwhelmed librarian at the ref desk who is sending out a plea for backup to deal with the lines).
3 “Must Have” Bookmarklets - http://www.profhacker.com/2009...
Agreed!
- Peter Murray
Growl for Windows Updates to 2.0 [Downloads] - http://lifehacker.com/5407820...
Tools for Remote Collaboration and Interaction - http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpre...
Goodnight, Keith Moon - http://daddytypes.com/2009...
Greg Schwartz, tinypants - Hagitha of FF and T. Brent, technopeasant liked this
Wonder if my 2yo son would prefer this version to Margaret Wise Brown's, which he grew tired of a long time ago.
- Stephen Francoeur
I NEED THIS!
- Mary Carmen
This. Is. Necessary.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
from twhirl
Wonder if there's a Goodnight, Rev. Moon as well?
- Stephen Francoeur
Olin & Uris Libraries, Cornell University. "Critically Analyzing Information Sources." September 2009. - http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuri...
Catherine Pellegrino, Kendra K and Pete liked this
Nice overview of how to evaluate sources (not just web sources).
- Stephen Francoeur
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