http://endlesshybrids.com Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:39:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brian over at the Ubiquitous Librarian has an excellent summary of a talk by Vinton Cerf given at Georgia Tech. A lot of bullet points there to stimulate your thinking about what might be ahead for this world when it comes to technology. At one point there's a mention of illegal ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/notes-on-the-future/ I've been experimenting with the new Adsense Video Units on a couple of my other blogs: Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance and El Sur: Travel Guide to South America. The Adsense video units are very easy to setup: 1. Login to your adsense account 2. From the setup panel of your ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/optimal-placing-of-adsense-video-units/ Okay, so it has been what, 9 months since I last posted on this blog? Perhaps it's time to return. Here's a topic that came across my mind today: Web-based incomes, global opportunities, & changing educational expectations. Some of you know that I left librarianship to be an expat in ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/web-based-incomes-global-opportunities-changing-educational-expectations/ A librarian I once supervised is now heading the systems and digital services department at a mid-size academic library. I've recently been e-mailing him some suggestions and things to keep in mind for managing technology in an academic library. Over a ten year period of managing library technology, I learned ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/advice-for-managing-library-technology/ When programming and developing for the Web I've always preferred a Linux box or, in the past few years, Mac OS X. Lately I'm finding myself on a Windows machine and before I go about installing Linux, I wanted to revisit the difficulty of setting up a development environment ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/xampp-web-development-environent-on-windows/ Working with technology can be fun when you're presented with a challenge and need to find a solution. One of my latest tasks is to figure out how to manage more than 100 Web sites, each with its own domain (not subdomain or subdirectory), in the most effective way ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/many-sites-many-domains-one-admin/ Trac is a Web-based issue tracking system that has many project management features as well as support for handling revisions to software code. Trac is written in Python and uses sqlite for its database. There's an option for using postgresql, and mysql support is available in the latest ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/project-management-with-trac/ I've been working with variations of unix since 1992, so I feel very comfortable with the command-line. Indeed, one of the things I've always liked about unix is how everything is treated as a file and can be manipulated from the command line rather than hidden behind a GUI. Somehow, ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/plesk-friend-or-foe/ My favorite Firefox extension these days is the Web Developer toolbar. I stumbled across it last week when I was looking for a way to clear the http authentication without having to close and restart my browser. The toolbar has a menu for that, plus dozens of more features. ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/web-developer-toolbar/ I mentioned in another posting that some headline items at online news sites are not current. Browsing through the ABC News: Nightline page I see a headline titled "Natalie Portman takes on terrorism." (Okay, maybe that really shouldn't even be a news headline but it got my attention). With the ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/out-of-date-headlines-and-a-video-tease/ This afternoon I spent some time evaluating the video-based services of online news sites, particularly from the perspective of someone living outside of North America. CNN - first I clicked on the button for paid premium service. Not what I want even at $2.95 a month, though I'm sure that price ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/video-capabilities-among-online-news-part-1/ A post over at Joe Wikert's blog talks about the decreasing relevance of online news resources, particularly those offered by newspapers. Living in Argentina, I'm very dependent upon online news sites for what's happening back in the U.S. But I don't find any of the new sites very useful. Out ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/online-news-it-can-be-more-useful/ In our advocacy of digital media we often say that one of the great benefits of digital text is that the book becomes a living object, that readers can respond with comments, authors can interact with readers, and togetehr the resulting dialogue will be richer than the stale pages of ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/does-the-author-always-want-to-engage-in-a-dialogue-with-readers/ I recently starting reading GAM3R 7H30RY, the innovative networked book by McKenzie Wark with the support of the Institute for the Future of the Book. I've not gotten far enough into the work to form a  conclusion about it but here are my initial observations. I like the way that the ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/gam3r-7h30ry-initial-observations/ In The End of Cyberspace Alex Soojung-Kim Pang raises questions about criticisms of computerized pedagogy: "many of these criticisms rest on an assumption that dealing with computers automatically divorces you from the real world; that the seductive universe of zeroes and ones pulls your attention away from the ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/i-fear-that-im-becoming-a-luddite/ In the last four months I've spent less time online than I have in the past fifteen years. Yet, these months away from the net have been the most intellectually stimulating period of my life since college. Part of the enjoyment of this period is becuase I've been spending more ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/its-not-the-reading-that-matters/ There are a few interesting discussions about Apple's iTunes U initiative are worth reading. Jon Udell stresses the limited accessibility of podcasts to non iPod/iTunes users. More importantly, he talks about the importance of doing more with the course feeds than just listening: linking, tagging, blogging, playlisting....That is the kind of ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/podcasting-courses-itunes-u-technology-planning/ In a CNI podcast David Seaman, Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation, talks about the concept of malleable content and that in the next generation of library services: “the content itself needs to behave in slightly more flexible ways…simply visiting content online is not the way to drive innovative ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/cni-podcast-with-david-seaman/ In another interesting CNI podcast interview Charles Henry, Vice Provost & University Librarian at Rice University, talks about the humanities cyberinfrastructure and that it’s not all about the technology: people with the requisite skills to work with faculty, to work with researchers, to create the kind of digital architecture where ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/cni-podcast-with-charles-henry/ In Combining the Old and the New history prof Mills Kelly writes about an interesting approach for introducing first-year college students to library resources: "for the rest of the semester, they proved much more willing to use the databases that our library spends so many hundreds of thousands of ... http://endlesshybrids.com/archives/first-year-students-library-resources/