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Bookseller Blogging

Posted on July 23, 2007
The Bookseller has announced the launch of a series of Bookseller blogs. Neill Denny, editor-in-chief: Finally we are blogging! As well as twice daily news updates, we want the improved site to reflect the depth of knowledge and diversity of opinions on The Bookseller and in the trade more widely - and blogging is at the [...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on July 22, 2007
Bookmarked this week: Velvet Puffin - multi IM client and more. 40+ Firefox add-ons for high speed blogging - collection from Mashable. 4shared - free file sharing and storage, 1 GB free. Quite a nice interface, making managing your files clear and easy...

Your Parole is Dependent on &

Posted on July 21, 2007
This is very off topic, but it is probably one of the freakiest things I have seen so I had to post it. 1500 prison inmates reenacting Michael Jacksons Thriller video. Visually pretty crazy, I dont think this was intended as a form of punishment, but then I suppose that is dependent on you views [...

Arial the Helvetica Wannabe

Posted on July 21, 2007
Mark Simonson Studio has a very interesting article on the history of Arial, the title of the article : The Scourge of Arial, makes the authors feelings towards the common font pretty clear. Still, very informative and worth a read. Arials ubiquity is not due to its beauty...

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FaceBook Twitter

Posted on July 21, 2007
Both FaceBook and Twitter are the kinds of sites that are either loved or totally snubbed, I suppose there is a slither of middle ground, especially where Twitter is concerned, but more often than not people tend to pick a side. So if you are completely addicted to your CrackBook, as Library etc...

Web Trend Map

Posted on July 20, 2007
Now this is a clever thing. Information Architects Inc. has created a tube map of web trends, revealing how all these familiar names are related. Browsing their site I see that this is not the only web map they have designed. Lots of interesting and visually impressive stuff...

A Book Shaped Tin of Beans*

Posted on July 19, 2007
Potter is upon us. The boy wizard is released for his seventh and final adventure on Saturday. And dont we know it! Potter price wars, Asda-gate, internet spoilers and a lot of general hoo-ha has plagued us all week. [Note to self - do not look at the Bookseller next week, Borders, Waterstones etc...

Sweet and Maxwell and E-Book Readers

Posted on July 19, 2007
According to this weeks Law Societys Gazette, Sweet and Maxwell have been testing an e-book reader under cover of darkness. The Iliad by iRex (pictured) has been used in the pilot and tested on a group of international commercial arbitrators. Sweet and Maxwell say they areintending to assess the impact of electronic paper display technology [...

I Would Start Using CDs Again If ...

Posted on July 18, 2007
& I could have some of these! From StrapYa Found via Plastic Bamboo Bookmark to:

iGoogle Makeover

Posted on July 18, 2007
Google Blogoscoped has a couple of posts linking to new Google gadgets which let you customise your iGoogle a little bit more. As much as Im in love with the little guy from the Tea House theme, I am still quite impressed with these. iGoogle custom skins has a number of new designs and allows [...

Periodic Tables and Haiku

Posted on July 17, 2007
Periodic Table of the Internet from Wellington Grey .net. Love it, love it, love it. Whilst browsing his site I came across something else thats also pretty interesting - Twitterku - like Haiku but made of tweets, or unintentional poetry pulled from the Twitter public stream...

What You Reading For?

Posted on July 16, 2007
Research conducted by the University of Manchester has found that we are spending more time reading (hooray!). Britons spent an average of 3 minutes a day reading in 1975, but 7 minutes in 2000 (7 minutes? Boo!). According to Dr Dale Southerton, a member of the University of Manchester research team, people now have more time [...

Human Rights Online Exhibition

Posted on July 16, 2007
The National Archives has launched an online exhibition covering 800 years of human rights in the United Kingdom. From the Magna Carta to the Welfare State, users are presented with background information, timelines and related scanned documents with translations and transcriptions where appropriate...

Now What Was the Title of This Post?

Posted on July 15, 2007
Todays Telegraph reports the findings of a study that suggests we are a little bit dumber thanks to technology. 'Professor Ian Robertson, a neuropsychology expert based at Trinity College Dublin who carried out the study, said: People have more to remember these days, and they are relying on technology for their memory...

This Weeks Useful Tools

Posted on July 14, 2007
Stuff discovered this week & Site Volume - lets you see how frequently keywords appear on social sites such as Digg, Flickr, Twitter and MySpace. Type in your chosen terms and results are displayed in a bar chart format. Top 10 Twitter Apps - post from Read/Write Web, includes Twitticious which imports your Tweets to your del...

Clerk Speak

Posted on July 14, 2007
The Lawyer reports on the compilation of an important new legal text. The Institute of Barristers Clerks (IBC) is in the process of putting together a dictionary of slang phrases or Clerking speak. A small selection of terms below: Base Clerking - the most rudimentary form of clerking, often occurring when there are nine staff ill...

Google Phrases

Posted on July 13, 2007
Tech Juicer has a post on the Top 10 Google Phrases, courtesy of the always entertaining Urban Dictionary. I think my favourite is Google Seppuku: You use a Japanese text input tool and enter random Japanese characters into a google image search. Then you count how many pages until you find an image so disturbing that you [...

In Love With A Machine

Posted on July 13, 2007
Finally, belatedly, excitedly, I have gone over to the other side. I bought a little MacBook and I am in love. Let me tell you how it happened. We (me and Mr lo-fi) went to an Apple shop. Mr lo-fi knows a thing or two about computers, PCs that is, but the second we entered the [...

Top 10 Banned Books

Posted on July 12, 2007
Alternative Reel posts a list of the Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century. I would controversially be in favour of Ulysses being banned again (re-banned?), then I would have the ultimate excuse for not having read it, rather than its too difficult and too long and I dont understand these big words...

You Have Been Told!

Posted on July 11, 2007
Jakob Nielsen: Write articles, not blog postings. A couple of choice quotes below: Weblogs have their role in business, particularly as project blogs, as exemplified on several award-winning intranets. Blogs are also fine for websites that sell cheap products...

Google Custom Search Engines

Posted on July 11, 2007
Library Boy informs us of Googles structured search engine for searching popular Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs). Bit of a mouthful, but quite useful. Bookmark to:

An Interesting Thought

Posted on July 11, 2007
Freakonomics Blog ponders the question If public libraries didn't exist, could you start one today? '...if there was no such thing today as the public library and someone like Bill Gates proposed to establish them in cities and towns across the U.S. (much like Andrew Carnegie once did), what would happen? I am guessing there would be [...

Pownce Invites

Posted on July 09, 2007
Ive got 6 Pownce invites going begging. If you are interested leave a comment on this post. Bookmark to:

Shake Off That Shame, We Are Cool! NY Times Says its So

Posted on July 08, 2007
The New York Times explodes the myth that all librarians are bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons. In the article A Hipper Crowd of Shushers the NY Times meets young librarians, some are even men! They go to bars and gigs, some have dyed hair, one [...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on July 07, 2007
Bookmarks for this week: Web 2.0 badges - create fancy web 2.0 style badges. favicon.cc - favicon generator. l8r - prepare emails to be sent at a later date BOXSTr - file hosting, 5GB storage with free account. OneDump - image, text and audio hosting...

Kitty Likes Chitty, No?

Posted on July 07, 2007
Below is Denver Public Library's promotional video for their Summer Reading program. I suggested a similar marketing strategy for the library where I work, unfortunately they didnt go for it. Bookmark to:

The National Archives Shows its Stripes

Posted on July 06, 2007
... in the great ODF v. OOXML debate that is. The National Archives and Microsoft have announced a Memorandum of Understanding ensuring preservation of the nations digital records from the past, present and into the future. BBC News has the story, with video of Microsoft UKs managing director showcasing Virtual PC...

Pownce

Posted on July 02, 2007
I've been messing around with Pownce recently and I thought I'd share my first impressions. I'm not sure I really like the name all that much. It's easy to typo and Google obviously shares my views: Pownce is like Twitter in many ways, visually the influence is obvious (see below), although it is a little smarter and [...

This Week's Useful Tools

Posted on July 01, 2007
Lots for you this week: jagbox - upload and share big files (maximum 100MB). Jpeg Enhancer - got a bunch of dodgy JPEGs? This free download claims to be able to restore compressed JPEG images smartly. I havent tried this (all my JPEGs are super thanks to my new Fine Pix)...

Mister Wong

Posted on June 29, 2007
Mister Wong is a German social bookmarking service that has just come out over here (well, closed beta at the moment). Although Im a bit dubious about the name - I dont know who this Wong fellow is, but judging from the picture he is some kind of collector/archivist, the tagline proclaims he is master [...

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