Looks like recent changes were not well received.
This is for the Golf Digest App. It was shared on Twitter here. The link from the tweet is here.
Commentary
Commentary – Seth’s Blog: The future of the library
Seth’s Blog: The future of the library:
“The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. Aided by a librarian who understands the Mesh, a librarian who can bring domain knowledge and people knowledge and access to information to bear.”
Great post by Seth. Not finished reading it, but even just the first few paragraphs got me to thinking about the future of libraries and the skilled Librarians that work there.
See this as a way of focusing on the WHAT, rather than the HOW. Too many people want the HOW to stay the same. The HOW can be done cheaper and more effectively as technology and ideas enable new methods to come to fruition. The WHAT stays the same, regardless of the HOW. Learning, Ideas, Value, Trade, Exchange, these are the WHAT that people want and need, Not the HOW.
Falling Prices – New Pricing Expectations
That’s quite a price drop in less than a year. Down $103,000 in less than 8 months.
Microsoft + Skype = Business & Technology News of the Day
Evernote Intallation – Odd Error
This was an unexpected error that appeared while attempting to install an updated version of Evernote.
Time Value Of YOUR Capability
It’s often hard to get quantifiable data to show (demonstrate) your value. Or rather, the incremental value you create at work. Do find a way to measure and record the results you create over time. This may take some time to find. Talk with people outside your field and ask them how they would measure success at what you do. Perhaps they will provide an imagination spark that leads to a process for highlighting your results.
What Services Are Supported on Memolane?
Memolane Supported Services
Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picassa, Last fm, Foursquare, Instagram, Tripit, YouTube, MySpace, Vimeo, and RSS feed are ways to aggregate your data into Memolane. Looks like Gowalla is not yet supported. Went in to my Gowalla account to see if there was a way to export data via and RSS URL. Didn’t find one. Did send a tweet to @Gowalla to about this. If I receive a reply, I’ll add it to the bottom of the post or int eh comments.
Long Pre-order Lead Time
The lead time for this pre-order seems a bit long. 2014 is a long way off.
Free Coffee From Starbucks – True
Free coffee at Starbucks on Earth Day, April 22. Travel mug for the win.
Note:
Ad was on The Wall Street Journal website earlier today. 4/18/2011
Ebooks in Education – Amazon Kindle
Below is a screenshot of a webpage Amazon.com has for a finance book that presumably is used in colleges and universities.
There are more sections of highlighted text on the page that are not shown in the screenshot. The Public Notes section has no notes. The readers, students, could write in notes for a section of text and their notes would be easy to see on their own Notes page on the Amazon site. Notes they make public would presumably appear in this text box.
What would be interesting is if it would be possible to join a group, think class or book club, to read and share notes with. This could engage students and readers more. If half the class highlighted some text it would probably be worth talking about in class. The notes people write would enable a better discussion because reader recall would presumably be faster when text the person wrote was presented. The internal database of the mind would be faster for searching and synthesizing the thoughts and ideas of the book and passages.
Notes:
Link to the page for the book screenshot above. Perhaps more passages will be highlighted by the time you visit.
D.L. Damore 