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Note: Author Lisa Moricoli-Latham (Harvard '86;) suggested that this weekly list be organized topically. While I'm partial to the element of surprise, it seemed worth a try.
Thanks, Lisa.
October 2, 2009
Internet Sites of the Week
Books/E-Books
The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far): An Introduction
(Source: About Contemporary Literature)
Compare and Contrast eBook Readers with the e-Book-Reader-Guide
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Emergence of new business models
(Source: Thomas, EUI, Florence)
In-Depth Reviews of Four Scholarly e-Book Services
(Source: ResourceShelf)
My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over
(Source: Randy Reichardt)
The Next Gen E-Book Reader
Why the Digital Revolution is Missing the Big Picture
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Computers and Internet
Cloud computing and the big rethink: Part 1
See also: Cloud Computing: A collection of working papers
(Source: DocuTicker)
See also: Mist computing, even more carefree than the cloud
(Source: jdysart)
EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
(Source: Lisa Carlucci)
Internet Speeds Are Often Slower Than What Consumers Pay For, FCC Finds
Interview With Stefan Weitz - Putting the Bling Into Bing
New IRS Scam E-mail Could Be Costly
A New Search Engine for Finding Similar Web Sites
See also: Even More Services To Help Discover Similar Web Sites
(Source: Om Malik)
Ten Useful Examples of the Real-Time Web in Action
(Source: Robert Scoble)
Top 10 Underhyped Webapps
(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)
Three ways to save some cash and repair or upgrade your iPod
Wanted: Home Computers to Join in Research on Artificial Life
(Source: Science in the News)
Wikipedia alternatives: nine other 'pedias'
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Education
Get it out in the open
(Source: libram)
HarvardNews
"All Harvard feeds, all the time"
(Source: Harvard)
See also: Should You Give to Harvard?
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
See also: The 'Veritas' About Harvard
See also :Undervaluing Undergraduate Education?
(Source: HarvardNews)
See also: Budget Plans Proceed Slowly
Mentoring, Texas-Style
MIT Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree
(Source: Matthew Fraser)
Google
Judge Adjourns Hearing on Settlement of Google Book Search Dispute
See also: The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing and What Are They Saying?
(Source: ALA TechSource)
See also: My book is mine, not Google's
See also: Save the Google Book Search Deal!
Google Scholar's Ghost Authors, Lost Authors, and Other Problems
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Google Wave Protocols: Clearing the Confusion
(Source: glambert)
History
African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
(Source: The Scout Report)
Libraries
After Losing Users in Catalogs, Libraries Find Better Search Software
See also: The Library-Catalog Wars: 'Chronicle' Readers Weigh In
Bars on books jar Harvard students
(interesting comments section)
(Source: Cassandra Eckhof)
The information society: does it need the information professions?
(Source: Library Web)
Margaret Hodge plans home delivery system to rival Amazon
(Source: Erika McNeil)
New scheme makes 'every library a local library'
"All libraries in UK are now public"
(Source: Erika McNeil)
What to Withdraw: Print Collections Management in the Wake of Digitization
(Source: LIBLICENSE-L)
10 Tips to Becoming an Effective Library Patron
(Source: LISNews)
Life, Work, Money, and Family
American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins
(Source: Bibliosoph)
Are you E-gnoring me?
Asking the better question
(Source: The 99 Percent)
The Best Approach for Avoiding Zombies
Boston ranks as 9th-largest economy in U.S.
The Death of Multitasking and Rebirth of Unitasking
(Source: NikKArlil)
See also:
Every Person in New York
(Source: Manhattan User's Guide)
How to Beat Information Overload
(Source: ResourceShelf)
How to Work a Conference
Looking beyond loans: Where to find financing now
Number of Top Rated Businesses for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Workers Jumps Despite Tough Economy
Older Workers: Employment and Retirement Trends
(Source: Sloan Work & Family Network)
Recognizing red flags: Signs of workplace stress
Religious life won't be the same after downturn
Run a Remote Meeting
Thinking Literally
(Source: Newswise)
Understanding the Anxious Mind
The Upside of Recessions
(Source: Science in the News)
Vacation v. Stress
(Source: Nature News)
40 Books About Sexuality That You Have to Read
Scholarly Publishing
Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity: Mistaking intent for action?
(Source: Stevan Harnad)
Data producers deserve citation credit
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)
Science
A brief guide to DNA sequencing
A Different Sort of Stimulus Plan at the NSF
Elsevier Unveils New Grant-Finding Service
Researchers unravel brain's wiring to understand memory
Science Education
Social tagging in the life sciences: characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics
Stay focused
(Source: dullhunk)
Why We Really Want to Go Back to the Moon
Winners of the 2009 Ig Nobel Awards
Social Networks
Available All The Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age
(Sources: Shirl Kennedy, Matthew Fraser)
Court order served over Twitter
Facebook: The New Classroom Commons?
Man's Facebook Status Given Book Deal
(Source: Rebecca Skloot)
My boss fired me, then 'friended' me
Social networks, blogs grab bigger share of Web
5 apps get you tweeting from the desktop
20 FaceBooks Tip/tricks
(Source: justsocial)
NEW BOOKS
Received September 26 - October 2, 2009
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th ed. |
Alberts, Bruce, et al, editors |
Garland Science, 2008) |
QH 581.2 .M64 2008 |
G. Eastman |
| The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom |
Farmelo, Graham |
(Basic Books, 2009) |
QC 16 .D57 F37 2009 |
G. Eastman |
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