Archive for the ‘book’ Category
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Almost midway through reading Charles Stross' latest, Halting State, my heart went pit-a-pat as I came across the following sequence:
If you hadn't had a devkit buffer open before the extradimensional mugging, you wouldn't even have noticed the missing twelve thousand lines of code. [...]
"Who's got access to your version control system?" you ask Venkmann.
"Huh? What's that got to do with it?"
"Plenty, I think."
Version control! In a fun near-future novel (international ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I've used the tag "sustainability" (on Connotea) for close on to two years to organize and track articles about ecology, esources, and other matters concerning living on the earth in the future. A few days ago, without thinking about that, the phrase "sustainable development" popped into my head during a discussion of the future of OLPC. I like my use of that phrase, ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
I miss the technical book discussion group at my previous employer. I haven't found a similar technical book group near me out in the wild, but I have joined a fiction group at one of the libraries near me. I'm facilitating the discussion this month.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
... even if the XO mesh/wi-fi wasn't. At the peak of the get-together, there were 25-30 people talking with each other and looking at all the different laptops, tablets, e-book readers (and one step-powered portable emergency power generator). OLPC News write-up, pictures, and links to many more pictures will give you the ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I started using LibraryThing because I liked its tagging power (for browsing and searching). I also liked its less-commercial book pages, fondness for and willingness to work with libraries, and above-average books reviews from LT members, and book-based discussions (easy to find and see updates on discussions of ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I renewed a couple of library books online today, and discovered that my county library system is starting to get into social software more: an anonymous (not just pseudonymous) no-comments librarian blog (sigh), and RSS. I think it's nifty that one can subscribe to feeds of ...
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
I've been following the development of One Laptop Per Child with interest, even before I saw one up close in April. I like their Learning Vision, their open source approach to the hardware, software and content (freedom to tinker), and the hardware features (designed to be durable and useful ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
It turns out that the bookmarklet I made for one-click ISBN searches at my local library system also works1) from other bookseller sites in addition to Amazon.com (e.g., Barnes and Noble, but you have to search from one page higher, the 1st search results page, not the specific-edition book page). ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
legallypuzzled figured out the (nonstandard) MAGICNUMBER URL to do an ISBN search within my local (county) library system from LibraryThing entries, so I added my library to the LibraryThing book links. Say you're looking at the LT entry for Introduction to Knowledge Management: KM in Business. ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I had a great time at Penguicon. My talk and my panels went pretty well (more on them in future entries), I attended interesting talks, got to dance, and met some pretty cool people. There was a lot of neat stuff to be found just wandering the halls; ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
This weekend I attended Lunacon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state). The most interesting panel I attended was "Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction" -- panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer. The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the ...
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
I mentioned "my" book club in passing during my review of Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business. Since Jack Vinson sounded interested, I thought I'd explain a little more about the book club: it's one of my work group's weekly activities. We pick non-fiction books with applications to our work. We discuss a chapter ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Review: Introduction to Knowledge Management : KM in Business, Todd R. Groff and Thomas P. Jones
I read this book in the fall. I wanted to get a better grip on ideas in and application of the discipline, for my group's use of collaborative software. This book turned out to have some ...
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Now that a handheld trigger-scanner is coming my way, I've created a LibraryThing account for myself. So far, I've just manually added books I had at the office; the major imports will come when I get the scanner and a friend helps me whip through my bookcases at home. I'm ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
While attempting to hunt up free web presentation software options for a friend (anyone know of any?), I came across the article Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation. Claim: Knowledge is created through conversation (which can take place over time). Libraries can provide a service by facilitating conversations. Gives examples ...
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