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29 May 2006

Google's photo organizer, Picasa now for Linux


Picasa for Linux is being launched by Google as "Labs" version.

26 May 2006

Wisdom of Crowds



The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

Steps for offering video on demand



Playlist: How to create a vodcast

Next Best Thing to an MBA



The Library: Next Best Thing to an MBA
Across the country, public libraries are giving would-be entrepreneurs a helping hand with resources and expert guidance

Swoogle

Swoogle - Semantic Web Search Engine

dotReader

dotReader is a new open source e-book reader. It runs on multiple platforms including Windows, Macs, Linux, tablet PCs, and most PDAs can reads multiple document formats with the ability to add additional formats via plug-ins.

Solo Librarianship



LIScareer.com -- The Librarian & Information Professional's Career Development Center

Future OPAC: Web services that could be mixed and matched?



ALA TechSource | How OPACs Suck, Part 3: The Big Picture
The catalog of the future wouldn't be a catalog; it would be a series of standards-compliant Web services that could be mixed and matched.

Networks are about sharing now


BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Everybody’s a network
..Networks are about sharing now; they used to be about control. Networks are two-way; they used to be one-way. Networks are about aggregation more than distribution; they are about finding and being found..

25 May 2006

Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles


PLoS Biology: Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
Even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal.

Search/Retrieve via URL



SRU: Search and Retrieve via URL (Standards, Library of Congress)
SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing CQL (Common Query Language), a standard query syntax for representing queries. SRW (Search Retrieve Web Service) is a companion protocol to SRU. The Library of Congress serves as the maintenance agency for these standards.

Now a Bibliographic Searching Proposal



CQL Bibliographic Searching Proposal

learning difficult subjects quickly?


Six steps for learning difficult subjects quickly - Paul's tips

24 May 2006

Video interview on Open Access

Today I found a Video interview of Richard Poynder, a Freelance Journalist, with Open Access advocate Stevan Harnad. It is an excellent interview of about 30 minutes that can be viewed on a multi-media PC having a Windows Media Player installed. Apart from OA Publishing and Self-Arching, Prof Harnad also talk of role of librarians in OA Movement.

Here are the Broadband and Dial-up Links.

Lazybase


Lazybase allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like.