Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Service, Tech on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
This is a few months old now, but exciting nevertheless: the cell phone company Nokia along with the University of Cambridge (UK) have come up with a pliable cell phone. The Nokia Morph nanotechnology model is still in the concept stage, and, according to the LetsGoDigital article, it shows that nanotechnology might be able to [...]
Posted in Eh?, Future, Solutions, Tech on Monday, March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Emotiv has created a prototype of a headset that enables limited mind-control over digital objects. According to CNET News, they promise headsets on the market for Christmas. Clearly this technology is still in its baby shoes. Still, it’s intriguing. Who knows, maybe it will take off. After all, only two years ago I would’ve laughed [...]
Posted in Future, Searching, Solutions, Tech on Friday, February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
According to Read Write Web, the news organization Reuters has stepped into the semantic web arena with Open Calais. The application will perform semantic markup on unstructured HTML, extracts people, places, companies, and events, and annotates the metadata. RWW predicts better searching among other outcomes.
Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Solutions on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
A report in Campus Technology recaps the 2008 Horizon Report [pdf] of six key technology areas that will likely have a major influence on education:
“Mobile broadband, collaborative Web technologies, and mashups will all significantly impact education over the next five years, along with “grassroots” video, collective intelligence, and “social operating systems.””
Via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian.
Many [...]
Posted in Clever, Future, Solutions, Tech, tagged RFID on Saturday, January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
The Take_a_seat project by Jelte van Geest looks like science fiction: a smart card / RFID activated chair that follows you around in the stacks, then returns automatically to its recharging station when you leave the library.
[video ca. 2 min]
A quick search revealed multiple news blogs citing the project as concept, nothing more. [...]
Posted in Conferences, Future on Friday, January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The Central New York Library Resources Council (et al.) are bringing a library camp to Syracuse in March. On the agenda are the future of libraries and collection development. Check out the camp wiki.
Via Digital Reference.
Posted in Conferences, Future, Library 2.0, Tech, Web 2.0 on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 | No Comments »
LibrarianInBlack links to the handy guide for conference bloggers by Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani. (I certainly could’ve used this at the IL2007!)
Ten things that will change your future lists technologies that are likely to be influential. I was aware of the Seti@home project, microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku etc.), and One laptop per child; the others [...]
Posted in Future, Studies on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
I just applied for graduation with Pratt’s learning management system. After the hoops I had to jump through to get accepted into the program, this application procedure was a minor letdown. I had to check a box for my program, check that my name and address were correct, and click the Submit button. I did [...]
Posted in Future, Reading, Tech on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 | No Comments »
Newsweek reports on the latests electronic reader, the Amazon Kindle. The device has some tempting features: you can search the text and change the font size. It holds about 200 books, more if you get a memory card. It connects to the store: browsing, and reading and posting reviews can be done without a computer. [...]
Posted in Copyright, Digital rights, Future on Saturday, November 17, 2007 | No Comments »
A TED video of Lessig’s speech (ca. 20 min) found via the Information Research blog. As the TED site puts it,
The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property [...]
