After the back and forth in the Wikipedia/Britannica debate, Britannica caves:
Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute [...]

Real Job Titles for Library and Information Science ProfessionalsJob titles used to be fairly simple: Librarian, Cataloger, Director. The following job titles have been found in job listings in American Libraries, College and Research Libraries News, or have been sent to me by employed "librarians."
SoundflavorMusic Videos | Online Music | Video Playlist | Friendster Playlist [...]

There is a discussion going on on the NGC4Lib List about using Google Books content in our OPACs. Today I read Tim’s post talking about the new Google terms of service for their Books API.
After some delay, Google has now posted–for the first time–a “Terms of Use” for the Google Book Search API (http://code.google.com/apis/books/terms.html). If [...]

Some employers think that IM can lead to a lack in productivity - but I’m here to tell you that that is not true! Right now I’m working virtually, so IM is necessary, but when I worked in the library I used IM to eliminate some of the silly interruptions that came from people [...]

This is pretty darn neat. You can now use PayPal on sites that don’t use PayPal.
PayPal provides a quick and easy way to pay for goods on eBay, Half.com, or other sites that accept the service. But what if you want to buy something from a store that doesn’t accept PayPal, but don’t feel [...]

Hi all! I’m looking for recommendations for the best RSS to Email tools out there. I still get people asking me how to get RSS updates via email so I want to offer them good suggestions and I haven’t played with any of these tools.
Comments are open for suggestions.

If you weren’t able to make it to the conference, you can still see all the great talks!! Check out the videos from the conference at Archive.org.
Also all slides and videos are linked from the conference schedule.
Technorati Tags: code4lib2008, code4libcon2008

I have to say that I love the power of the web! I have called companies and written emails and never gotten the response I get when I write here about those same companies. If February it was Comcast that contacted me personally after writing a post here about my service and last night [...]

Beyond BlogsThree years ago our cover story showcased the phenomenon. A lot has changed since then

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Adobe now has an online office suite. This from DownloadSquad:
Adobe has built a suite of online office applications to compliment Buzzword, the company’s online word processor. We’ve covered Buzzword in the past. It’s pretty, fast, and not really all that much more useful than similar products from Google or Zoho. Here’s a rundown of [...]

Business Week 6/2/08
Originally uploaded by Michael Casey
The other day, Michael Casey posted this photo. Like the others who commented on the photo, I wanted to find the article and read it - but I didn’t go to my local library (shame on me) or to my bookstore, I went straight to the BusinessWeek website. [...]

Today I watched another talk that touched on some of the issues I mentioned after watching Clay Shirky’s video. In Yochai Benkler talk entitled Open-source economics, he talks about how people who are passionate about topics and technologies are using the web to change the way we look at economics.
Once example [...]

Google Earth API - Google CodeThe Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages.
Reuters SpotlightProvides a non-commercial community platform to allow users to innovate and develop their ideas by harnessing the content Reuters publishes, which includes news, video, pictures and multimedia articles.
AllPlusUniversal [...]

I’m bit late to the game, but check out this video of Clay Shirky at the San Francisco Web 2.0 Expo.

My favorite part is when Clay is talking about his experience with the TV producer. She asks him, “Where do people find the time?” when he tells her about people editing the entry for [...]

Well, I can’t say it’s a surprise, but 8apps has closed down. I was pretty impressed with what I saw when it launched, but every time I checked back, there were still only 4 apps …
Today I visited, only to find a note saying that the site had closed because the creator was [...]

Keeping my LinkedIn Profile up to date is very important to me. This is why it’s so annoying that I can’t seem to search for groups on LinkedIn that I belong to - what is taking them so long?? Today I found a Google Custom Search that lets you search LinkedIn Groups!
There are [...]

Alice.orgAn educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment.
ElisaElisa is an open source cross-platform Media Center connecting the internet to your all-in-one media player.
British Library Direct - search and order journal articles onlineSearch across 20,000 journals for free from this site and order full text quickly and easily using your credit card
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