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1.outreach = pitch. « info-mational (infomational.wordpress.com)
"a pro-bono nerd on retainer." love it.
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2.HOWTO: Read more books (www.aaronsw.com)
It's all about the library.
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4.Don't Forget About Us (lisnews.org)
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5.Re:Generations: Righteous Freedom Fighting (www.cla.ca)
Because I want to be one, too!
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6.An open letter to the library community (www.gale.cengage.com)
If you can't join 'em, beat 'em...
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7.Apple, Google, Bing, and Search (daringfireball.net)
The enemy of my enemy is my friend: Apple negotiates with Microsoft about using Bing as the default search engine on the iPhone, primarily because it needs to negotiate with Google from a position of strength.
Of course, there are rumors that Apple's also building its own search engine. The existence of these rumors makes sense. The near-term existence of an actual Apple-developed search engine... probably not.
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8.Blog U.: Obsolete Learning Technologies - Technology and Learning - Inside Higher Ed (www.insidehighered.com)
Whether you agree or not, this'll provoke some discussion...
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9.Please Scroll (www.thereisnopagefold.com)
Res ipsa loquitur
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10.Recommending books—and series (www.librarything.com)
This is another example of our continual effort to "unlearn" ecommerce, especially Amazon, conventions. Real people recommend series to each other—not to mention authors, genres, etc. Stores recommend discrete objects, because that's what they sell. LibraryThing, which strives be interesting and useful, not to sell things, can transcend these store limitations. We just need to realize they're there.
Yet another reason why LibraryThing would make a better library catalog than almost any catalog currently in use by a library.
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11.Add, edit, or remove search engines : Search - Google Chrome Help (www.google.com)
A way to mimic Firefox's SmartKeywords functionality on Chrome. The interface isn't yet as smooth: I had to enter several search engines manually, not that it was terribly difficult. If you aren't using SmartKeywords (or Chrome's equivalent) you're doing an awful lot of extra typing and page loading, and also wasting valuable screen space (once you start using SmartKeywords, you can get rid of Firefox's search engine box and use that space for other things).
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12.The Facts About Bottled Water / What's in your water? (www.onlineeducation.net)
An interesting graphic. Paired with the Environmental Working Group's drinking water database (searchable by zip code!), it makes for a nice way to talk about online research. Bonus points to anyone who does a Mr. Science-like drinking water demo in conjunction with a presentation on information literacy. Extra bonus points if you post a video of your presentation somewhere I can see it.
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13.Vincent van Gogh: The Letters (vangoghletters.org)
Beautifully designed website. I ddn't have to learn how to use the website, it just worked.
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14.How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care (www.newyorker.com)
My favorite type of article by one of my favorite writers: Gawande argues persuasively for the health care reform bills by demonstrating how properly collecting and intelligently analyzing data, and pairing those efforts with well run pilot projects, has worked successfully in the past. Specifically, he talks about agriculture and how the health care industry can learn from the U.S. government's effective collaboration with farmers over the last 100 years. He even works in a story about one of his pet themes, positive deviation, though he doesn't use the term in this article.
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15.How I Hire Programmers (www.aaronsw.com)
I want to use this technique. And, even more than that, I want someone to use this technique with me. It must be incredibly flattering to get hired after going through this process.
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16.A Survey of Collaborative Filtering Techniques (www.hindawi.com)
In everyday life, people rely on recommendations from other people by spoken words, reference letters, news reports from news media, general surveys, travel guides, and so forth. Recommender systems assist and augment this natural social process to help people sift through available books, articles, webpages, movies, music, restaurants, jokes, grocery products, and so forth to find the most interesting and valuable information for them.
Published in Advances in Artificial Intelligence. A tweet it is not, but this paper seems likely to reward a careful reading.
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17.A Nifty Analysis of Choose Your Own Adventure Books (samizdat.cc)
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18.The Art of Community Now Available For Free Download (www.artofcommunityonline.org)
By Jono Bacon of Canonical (Ubuntu)
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19.Comics studies: Resources for scholarly research (www.ala.org)
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20.A 10-best books list without women? Controversy about Publishers Weekly's year-end list has the Internet up in arms (Laura Miller) (www.salon.com)
My favorite quote: "I don't doubt that P.W.'s editors are entirely sincere when they say their list reflects their unvarnished preferences. Still, the fact that those preferences can't encompass one woman author among 10 books (fiction or nonfiction) picked from the 50,000-plus titles they claim to have sifted through suggests that their horizons might need a bit of deliberate widening."
Credit also for linking to http://www.harpers.org/archive/1998/06/0059591 ("Scent of a woman's ink: Are women writers really inferior? by Francine Prose) even thought Harper's keeps its archives firewalled.
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21.Makers » Donate (craphound.com)
"A word to professors, librarians, and people who want to donate money to me" from Cory Doctorow
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22.Readernaut (readernaut.com)
"Share your reading experience by writing notes, tracking progress, and meeting fellow readers." It's a side project by Nathan Borror, one of the geniuses behind LJWorld and Django.
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23.Leadership Code of Conduct (www.ubuntu.com)
Very useful for anyone who leads anything. I learned about it in Benjamin Mako Hill's recent blog post: http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20091020-00
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24.Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you (diveintomark.org)
Who's next? C'mon, you know you want to publish your book under the GNU Free Documentation License. Don't be shy! Step right up!
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25.Video on the Web (diveintohtml5.org)
It's the best resource I've found about using video on the web as well as one of the best pieces of technical writing I've ever read.
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