The Shifted Librarian has a fascinating post about exploring the place of video games in libraries. The post links to a webpage dedicated to Gaming Libraries. There is also a newly created section of Meredith’s wiki that allows a space for libraries that are integrating gaming into their services to describe them in [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Radio Scan from night John Lennon was shot
Published by March 21st, 2006 in Uncategorized. 2 CommentsA post on WFMU (published back in December 2005) features a radio dial scan recorded shortly after John Lennon’s murder. This file captures the public air waves response to his death, enframing the cultural/media history of such an event in a truly amazing manner. Link. Discovered via digg.com.
We are not digitizing in a vacuum but, rather, a cylinder!
Published by March 20th, 2006 in Uncategorized. 1 CommentAn article in yesterday’s New York Times titled “How Pop Sounded before it Popped” discusses the unbelievable collection of cylinder recordings that have been digitized and made available on the web thanks to the Donald C. Davidson Library’s Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project at UCSB. While I can’t pretend to know much about [...]
I was reading an article on edugadget posted back in October, and it had a great link to a site called techcrunch which is keeping track of all the new and cool software being distributed under the Web 2.0 banner. After following the link, the site did not disappoint. They are featuring a new software, [...]
A couple of weeks back (March 1st, to be exact) boingboing posted about a new multi-user blogging service called Lyceum (developed by ibiblio.org). I just got around to downloading the nightly build and reading the FAQ, and I have to say if it delivers on what it promises this could be a welcome alternative to the [...]
Why should you buy a PC? Having read the late-breaking news that the MAC intels can, indeed, run Windows XP flawlessly – I can’t think of one …
Insidehighered.com quotes a recent study (conducted by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness) that finds Universities are not ready for open source! Interesting read for thinking about precisely why this might be the case …
In my efforts to find an easy, versatile, and professional looking solution for presenting images as a slideshow online, I came across SlideShowPro – an extension for Macromedia’s newer Flash authoring programs, such as Flash MX Professional or Flash 8. And while this solution is not a freebie (the cost of the Flash software [...]
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