Posts from — April 2008

So, how did the librarian get the word out? By regularly reporting to the library board that no NSL had been issued to any of the city’s 10 branches, which was perfectly legal. Everyone knew that if the chief librarian failed to report that nothing had happened, then indeed an NSL had been served.
[From Privacy Work-Around]

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Sometimes the brilliance of the common sense of librarians is amazing. Given tight legal restrictions, they read the law, and found a solution that was compatible and in the end worked for their library

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this is cool

Mini reviews of 19 Ruby template engines

[From Mini reviews of 19 Ruby template engines]

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handy reference to some of the possible template engines.

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They forgot to mention the cat’s use of recreational drugs and reliance on fibrous grass.

Out but not quite about
April 9, 2008 in Future

[From Doc Searls Weblog · Out but not quite about]

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We almost lost a great one:0

but Doc is feeling better now. Let this be a lesson to us all, sometimes small pains can be big.

The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central (http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/). The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance science and improve human health.

[From Public Access Homepage]

overall, this will be an interesting thing to watch and track, as it will hit certain publishers, likely the smaller and middling medical publishers, more than others and thus drive market consolidation and prices for journals up. at least that is my expectation.

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Brent and I have “Chapter 11: The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy” in the above book.

Exploring Virtuality within and beyond Organizations (0230201288) PANTELI – Palgrave Macmillan]

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Nike Panteli and Mike Chiasson invited me to submit a chapter to this book ages ago. It took us a while to get it together and get out, but it looks like a great book.

Today… I went for a short walk around Chicago. Gmaps says i walked over 9 miles and burned around 1500 calories, that were somewhat displaced by my visit to Wow Bao for lunch, a java chip frap at starbucks and then i had a beer and chop salad (which i couldn’t finish) at beer bistro. I have some pictures on flickr.

Where do computer files go when you die?

[From The Walrus » Technology » The Big Log Off » Online Memorial]

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hopefully they get sent to an archive… who can look at the close to 2.5 billion words on this computer and wonder what the heck i was thinking.